| VA | SB1321 | Enroll | Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparent adoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparent but has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petition for adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1957 | Enroll | Adult adoption; investigation and report. Removes the requirement that an investigation and report be conducted when a petition is filed for the adoption of a person 18 years of age or older on the basis of good cause shown and after a showing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1823 | Enroll | Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requires each building that was built before 2015 and that houses any public school classroom for students, licensed child day program, or other progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2018 | Enroll | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2065 | Enroll | Produce Rx Program established; report. Directs the Department of Social Services, in cooperation with the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to convene a work group to develop a plan for a three-year pilot Produce Rx Program to incentivize c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1328 | Enroll | State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1356 | Enroll | Hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, hospices, and assisted living facilities; visits by clergy; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2035 | Enroll | Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; Full Employment Program. Modifies the Full Employment Program (FEP) for Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants by (i) allowing FEP participants to continue receiving Temporary Assistance fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1462 | Engross | Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a pilot program to provide a fixed reimbursement for the costs of broadband services to households currently participating in the Supplemental Nut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB1316 | Enroll | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB2086 | Enroll | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-01
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | SB1261 | Engross | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
VOTE: Agreed To (54-Y 42-N) |
| VA | HB2055 | Engross | Child support obligations; party's incarceration not deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment. Provides that a party's incarceration alone for 180 or more consecutive days shall not ordinarily be deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-27
Conference report agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N) |
| VA | HB2191 | Engross | Local departments of social services; investigations and family assessments; disclosure of child's location. Requires local departments of social services, when conducting investigations or family assessments, to disclose to the child's parent or gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
VOTE: Adoption (99-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1297 | Enroll | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-26
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1855 | Engross | Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Renames the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy as the Department of Energy. Within the Department, the bill renames the Division of Mined Land Reclamation as the Division of Mined Land Repurposing and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) |
| VA | HB2002 | Enroll | Child support; health care coverage. Provides that in any case in which a petitioner is seeking to establish child support, the intake officer shall provide the petitioner information on the possible availability of medical assistance through the Fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1820 | Enroll | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; food stamp program; eligibility; postsecondary education. Adds participation in educational activities that lead to a post-secondary credential from an accredited institution of higher education or other posts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-25
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1962 | Enroll | Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive ki...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021 |
| VA | HB1932 | Engross | Child-placing agencies; conscience clause; repeal. Repeals provisions that allowed child-placing agencies to refuse to perform, assist with, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any child placements when the proposed placement wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-23
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee |
| VA | SB1321 | Engross
Sine Die | Confirmatory adoption. Expands the stepparent adoption provisions to allow a person who is not the child's stepparent but has a legitimate interest in the child to file a joint petition for adoption with the child's birth parent or parent by adoption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1316 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; background check portability; subsidy pilot program; report. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child care providers from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1261 | Engross
Sine Die | Court of Appeals; jurisdiction; number of judges. Expands the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals of Virginia by providing for an appeal of right in every civil case and provides that the granting of further appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| VA | SB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children. The bill se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1356 | Engross
Sine Die | Hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing facilities, hospices, and assisted living facilities; visits by clergy; public health emergency. Requires the Board of Health to include in regulations governing hospitals, nursing homes, certified nursing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote |
| VA | SB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Digital Equity Pilot Program and Fund. Requires the Department of Social Services to establish a pilot program to provide a fixed reimbursement for the costs of broadband services to households currently participating in the Supplemental Nut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
Continued to Special Session 1 in Communications, Technology and Innovation by voice vote |
| VA | HB1820 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; food stamp program; eligibility; postsecondary education. Adds participation in educational activities that lead to a post-secondary credential from an accredited institution of higher education or other posts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1823 | Engross
Sine Die | Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required. Requires each building that was built before 2015 and that houses any public school classroom for students, licensed child day program, or other progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1957 | Engross
Sine Die | Adult adoption; investigation and report. Removes the requirement that an investigation and report be conducted when a petition is filed for the adoption of a person 18 years of age or older on the basis of good cause shown and after a showing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2055 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support obligations; party's incarceration not deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment. Provides that a party's incarceration for 180 or more consecutive days shall not ordinarily be deemed voluntary unemployment or underemployment for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1855 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Renames the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy as the Department of Energy. Within the Department, the bill renames the Division of Mined Land Reclamation as the Division of Mined Land Repurposing and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1932 | Engross
Sine Die | Child-placing agencies; conscience clause; repeal. Repeals provisions that allowed child-placing agencies to refuse to perform, assist with, counsel, recommend, consent to, refer, or participate in any child placements when the proposed placement wou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB1962 | Engross
Sine Die | Foster care; termination of parental rights; relatives and fictive kin. Requires local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies to involve in the development of a child's foster care plan the child's relatives and fictive ki...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2035 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; Full Employment Program. Modifies the Full Employment Program (FEP) for Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants by (i) allowing FEP participants to continue receiving Temporary Assistance fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2002 | Engross
Sine Die | Child support; health care coverage. Provides that in any case in which a court enters an order directing the payment of spousal support in cases in which there are minor children that the parties have a mutual duty to support or any payment of child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2018 | Engross
Sine Die | Emergency order for adult protective services; acts of violence, force, or threat or financial exploitation; penalty. Allows the circuit court, upon a finding that an incapacitated adult has been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Judiciary (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2065 | Engross
Sine Die | Produce Rx Program established; report. Directs the Department of Social Services, in cooperation with the Department of Medical Assistance Services, to convene a work group to develop a plan for a three-year pilot Produce Rx program to incentivize c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2086 | Engross
Sine Die | Child care providers; background checks; portability. Exempts prospective employees and volunteers of certain child welfare agencies from statutory background check requirements where the individual completed a background check within the previous fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2191 | Engross
Sine Die | Local department of social services; location of child in local department's custody. Provides that a local department of social services shall, upon request of the legal guardian or custodian of a child, disclose to such legal guardian or custodian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) |
| VA | HB2303 | Intro
Sine Die | Possession of controlled substances; penalties. Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II Possession of controlled substances; penalties. Reduces the penalty for possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance from a Class 5 felo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB2242 | Intro
Sine Die | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; discrimination prohibited. Prohibits the State Health Commissioner and the Board of Health, the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, the Department of Health Professions and any reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
Tabled in Health, Welfare and Institutions (18-Y 3-N) |
| VA | SB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil commitment of sexually violent predators. Repeals sections of the Code of Virginia authorizing civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (12-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB1449 | Intro
Sine Die | COVID-19 immunization; prohibition on requirement; employment discrimination prohibited. Prohibits discrimination based on a person's vaccination status with respect to any COVID-19 vaccine in numerous employment contexts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (11-Y 1-N 1-A) |
| VA | SB1371 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe haven protections; newborn safety device. Provides an affirmative defense in certain criminal prosecutions and civil proceedings regarding child abuse or neglect to a parent who safely delivers his child within the first 14 days of the child's l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (13-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Cruelty to children; penalty. Increases the penalty from a Class 6 felony to a Class 4 felony for any person employing or having custody of a child to willfully cause or permit such child to be tortured physically or psychologically, tormented, mutil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| VA | HB1658 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of founded complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department of Social Services. The bill establishes (i) investigation requirements for loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
