Virginia Senate Bill 1339 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 18 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-18 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Foster care omnibus. Makes numerous changes to the laws governing the provision of foster care services in the Commonwealth. Among other things, the bill (i) allows the Commissioner of Social Services to develop and implement a corrective action plan for or assume temporary control over the foster care services of a local board of social services upon determining that the local board (a) has failed to provide foster care services or make placement and removal decisions in accordance with applicable laws or regulations or (b) has taken any action that poses a substantial risk to the health, safety, or well-being of any child under its supervision and control; (ii) requires the Commissioner to create within the State Department of Social Services (the Department) a foster care health and safety director position; (iii) directs the Commissioner to establish and maintain a confidential hotline to receive reports and complaints from foster parents and other persons regarding violations of laws or regulations applicable to foster care and any other matters related to the health, safety, or well-being of children in foster care; (iv) directs the Department to develop and implement a more reliable, structured, and comprehensive case review and quality improvement process to monitor and improve foster care services provided by local boards and departments of social services; and (v) requires the Department to establish and update annually a caseload standard that limits the number of foster care cases that may be assigned to each foster care caseworker.

Foster care; numerous changes to laws governing provision of services in the Commonwealth.

Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]	Sen. George Barker [D]	Sen. Richard Black [R]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]
Sen. Charles Carrico [R]	Sen. Benton Chafin [R]	Sen. Amanda Chase [R]	Sen. John Cosgrove [R]
Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]	Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]	Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]	Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant [R]
Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. John Edwards [D]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Emmett Hanger [R]
Sen. Janet Howell [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]	Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Louise Lucas [D]
Sen. Dave Marsden [D]	Sen. Monty Mason [D]	Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Ryan McDougle [R]
Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]	Sen. Stephen Newman [R]	Sen. Thomas Norment [R]	Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]
Sen. Mark Peake [R]	Sen. John Petersen [D]	Sen. Frank Ruff [R]	Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]
Sen. Lionell Spruill [D]	Sen. William Stanley [R]	Sen. Richard Stuart [R]	Sen. Glen Sturtevant [R]
Sen. Scott Surovell [D]	Sen. Jill Vogel [R]	Sen. Frank Wagner [R]

2019-02-21 - Senate - Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-20 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-18 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-18 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-18		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0446)
2019-03-18		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 446 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-04		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
2019-03-04	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
2019-02-23	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-02-23	Senate	Signed by President
2019-02-23	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1339ER)
2019-02-23	Senate	Enrolled
2019-02-21	Senate	House amendment agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2019-02-20	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2019-02-20	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2019-02-20	House	Read third time
2019-02-19	House	Read second time
2019-02-18	House	Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
2019-02-06	House	Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
2019-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-02-06	House	Read first time
2019-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-31	Senate	Printed as engrossed 19102687D-E
2019-01-31	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1339E
2019-01-31	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2019-01-31	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2019-01-31	Senate	Read second time
2019-01-30	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2019-01-29	Senate	Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
2019-01-18	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2019-01-18	Senate	Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N)
2019-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
2019-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102687D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	2	209	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	900	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	900.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	904	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	904.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	904.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	906	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	907	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	2	913.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1339
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1339+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1339E+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1339ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0446+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S09V0016+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+S05V0146+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0248SB1339+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0278SB1339+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H02V0197+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+HV3122+SB1339
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+SV0933SB1339+SB1339