| VA | SB48 | Pass | Commonwealth Council on Aging; reports. Requires the Commonwealth Council on Aging to submit to the Governor, General Assembly, and Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services by October 1 of each year an electronic report regarding the activiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533) |
| VA | SB124 | Pass | Misuse of power of attorney; financial exploitation; incapacitated adults; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for an agent under a power of attorney to knowingly or intentionally engage in financial exploitation of an incapacitated adult who is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0654) |
| VA | HB497 | Pass | Misuse of power of attorney; financial exploitation; incapacitated adults; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for an agent under a power of attorney to knowingly or intentionally engage in financial exploitation of an incapacitated adult who is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0397) |
| VA | HB678 | Pass | Person under a disability; parties unknown. Includes in the definition of "person under a disability" persons made defendants by the general description of "parties unknown" in suits involving real property. This bill is a recommendation of the Boyd-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0299) |
| VA | HB710 | Pass | Local government hiring; people with disabilities. Requires any locality to take into consideration or give preference to an individual's status as a person with a disability in its employment hiring policies and practices, provided that such person ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0306) |
| VA | HB917 | Pass | Aging services; allocation of resources; individuals with the greatest economic need. Provides that in allocating resources for aging services, the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (i) shall prioritize providing services to those with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0313) |
| VA | SB514 | Pass | Guardianship and conservatorship of incapacitated persons. Makes several changes to the provisions of adult guardianships and conservatorships, including (i) requiring a guardian ad litem appointed to represent a respondent to a guardianship proceedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0381) |
| VA | SB648 | Pass | Real property tax; exemption for the elderly and handicapped. Provides that any locality may by ordinance accept documentation establishing eligibility for the real property tax exemption for the elderly and handicapped on a rolling basis throughout ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631) |
| VA | HB659 | Pass | Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish a work group to study and make recommendations regarding appropriate investigations of the deaths of individuals who die while receiving services from a licensed program. Directs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0568) |
| VA | HB96 | Pass | Public guardian and conservator program; decennial review of staff-to-client ratios; report. Directs the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services (the Department) to decennially review the ideal range of staff-to-client ratios for local and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) |
| VA | SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; amend waivers providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities; greater financial flexibility for certain services; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services (the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB443 | Engross
Sine Die | Sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred and dismissed disposition or conviction by petition; defendant with a disorder or disability. Provides that a defendant with a disorder or disability, as defined in the bill, may file a petition that reques...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | HB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office. Directs the Commissioner of the Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services to establish a Public Guardianship and Conservator Ombudsman Office within the Department to (i) assist members of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Open captioning at movie theaters. Requires all movie theaters, including outdoor theaters such as drive-in theaters, that have four or more screens and are open to the general public to provide open captioning at least twice per week on any film tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Fair Labor Standards Act waiver; employees with disabilities. Removes the provision of the Code stating that any person who is paid pursuant to Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act is not considered an employee for the purposes of the Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Commerce and Energy Committee |
| VA | HB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Medical Assistance Services; amend waivers providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities; greater financial flexibility for certain services; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to (i) take...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Facilities for civilly committed sexually violent predators; reports to the Commonwealth's designated protection and advocacy system. Adds persons who are civilly committed sexually violent predators to the categories of persons for whom the Commonwe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; training; powers and duties of guardian; annual reports by guardians; information required. Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to develop and provide training for court-appoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | HB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Secretary of Administration; state agencies; telecommuting and alternative work schedules policy; application to otherwise qualified persons with a disability. Provides that the statewide telecommuting and alternative work schedule policy established...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HJR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Transportation; transit equity and engagement opportunities for people with disabilities; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study transit equity and modernization in the Commonwealth, with an emphasis on transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | HJR85 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Medical Assistance Services; feasibility of a spend down provision for the Community Living, Family and Individual Support, and Building Independence waivers; report. Requests the Department of Medical Assistance Services to stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-15
To House Rules Committee |
| VA | SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Deferred disposition; persons with autism or intellectual disabilities; offenses against minors. Provides that certain felony offenses, including child pornography, obscenity, electronic solicitation of a minor, indecent liberties with children, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Adult protective services; central registry. Creates a central registry of substantiated complaints of adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation to be maintained by the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services. The bill establishes (i) investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-08
To House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee |
| VA | SB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Misuse of power of attorney; financial exploitation; incapacitated adults; penalty. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney to knowingly or intentionally engage in financial exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-26
Incorporated by Judiciary |
