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VAHB27Enroll
75%
Kinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB150Enroll
75%
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; applications. Prohibits the Board of Social Services from requiring persons applying to participate or renewing their participation in...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB893Enroll
75%
Standards for attorneys appointed to represent parents or guardians; child dependency cases; compensation; Virginia Parent Advocacy Commission established. Requires the Judicial Council of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar, beginni...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1366Enroll
75%
Local departments of social services; employee criminal background checks. Establishes a process for local departments of social services to conduct background checks for current or prospective employees and prohibits local departments from employing...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1542Enroll
75%
Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for whic...
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2024-03-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB472PassTANF; child care services; reporting; repeal. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Social Services (i) identify strategies for Virginia to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available for child care services for Temporary Assistance...
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2024-03-20
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 102 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB140PassAdoption; award of damages; death by wrongful act. Provides that, in a case for death by wrongful act, the child of a decedent who has been adopted after the death of such decedent shall be included in the class of beneficiaries entitled to an award ...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 69 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB783PassAdoption; parental placement and agency adoption; discharge of newborn infant. Authorizes a hospital to release a child to his prospective adoptive parents when the birth parent has executed a health care power of attorney. The bill contains technica...
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2024-03-14
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 90 (effective 7/1/24)
VAHB453Enroll
75%
Kinship foster care; barrier crimes. Allows local boards of social services or child-placing agencies to approve kinship foster care parent applicants who have been convicted of certain felony drug offenses if five years have elapsed since the date o...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1128Enroll
75%
Children's advocacy centers; definitions; investigations by local departments of social services. Replaces the term "child advocacy center" with "children's advocacy center" and defines such term. The bill provides that if it is determined during a h...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB777Enroll
75%
Enrollment of and provision of free public education for certain students; kinship care and foster care. Provides that in the event that a student in a kinship care arrangement moves into a different school division during the school year as a result...
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB1498Enroll
75%
Adult day care centers; name change. Renames "adult day care centers" as "adult day centers" throughout the Code of Virginia.
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2024-03-11
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
VAHB833VetoChild abuse and neglect; custody and visitation; possession or consumption of authorized substances. Provides that a child shall not be considered an abused or neglected child, and no person shall be denied custody or visitation of a child, based onl...
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2024-03-09
Passed by until Reconvene, Wednesday, April 17, 2024
VAHB550Engross
50%
Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his original birth certificate. Adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Grants any adoptee 18 years of age or older access to his o...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee
VAHB1263Engross
50%
Abolition of juvenile fines and fees; criminal offenses. Abolishes court costs, fines, and fees assessed to a juvenile or his parent or other persons responsible for his care in circuit court and juvenile and domestic relations court related to prose...
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2024-02-27
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
VAHB148Intro
25%
Department of Social Services; human trafficking services. Adds to the responsibilities of the Department of Social Services certain duties related to human trafficking prevention and victim support. The bill requires the Department, among other thin...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB401Intro
25%
Child abuse; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect employees of the Department of Labor and Industry whose duties include ensuring compliance with child labor laws.
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB537Intro
25%
Home Visiting Program established; report. Establishes the Home Visiting Program within the Department of Social Services to support pregnant people and parents with young children that face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal a...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB670Intro
25%
Sage's Law; minor students experiencing gender incongruence; parental notification of certain expressions and requests and parental permission for certain plans required; parental care. Requires each public elementary or secondary school principal or...
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2024-02-13
To House Education Committee
VAHB1313Intro
25%
Fostering Futures program; eligibility; age limit. Increases from 21 to 23 the age at which an individual may no longer participate in the Fostering Futures program.
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1426Intro
25%
Social services; Dynamic Benefit Adjustment System. Establishes a Dynamic Benefit Adjustment System that gradually reduces public assistance benefits in response to beneficiaries' earned income. The bill requires the Department of Social Services to ...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1476Intro
25%
Child abuse; mandatory reporters. Adds to the list of persons who are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect employees of the Department of Labor and Industry whose duties include ensuring compliance with child labor laws.
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB449Intro
25%
Child abuse and neglect; mandatory reporters; statute of limitations; penalties. Adds aggravated sexual battery of a child and attempted rape, sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or object sexual penetration of a child to the list of offenses for whic...
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2024-02-08
Incorporated by Health and Human Services
VAHB978Intro
25%
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of advanced practice registered nurses and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by t...
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2024-02-08
To House Health and Human Services Committee
VAHB112Intro
25%
Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes Adoption; parental placement and agency adoption. Makes various changes to statutes governing parental placement and agency adoptions. The bill authorizes a hospital to release a child to his ad...
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2024-01-26
Incorporated by Courts of Justice
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