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HB66 (Toscana) - Allows a court to appoint a vocational expert to conduct an evaluation of a party in cases involving child support, spousal support, and separate maintenance where the earning capacity, unemployment, or underemployment of a party is in controversy.

Committee for Courts of Justice

Senate: Signed by President

03/03/2010

HB112 (Marshall) – Provides that persons, including unborn children at every stage of development, enjoy the inherent rights to the enjoyment of life, liberty guaranteed by Article I, Section I of the Constitution of Virginia, and the right to due process guaranteed in Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

HB227 (Watts)- Provides that for every adult who is prohibited from entering upon school or child day center property by reason of his status as a violent sex offender, the court may consider objections to his petition for entry onto school property made by the attorney for the Commonwealth and either the proprietor of the child day center, superintendent of public instruction of the school division, or chief administrator of the school, all of whom receive notice, under current law, of the petition/

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB227ER)

03/22/2010

HB248 (Kilgore) – Revises Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment of Minors Act in order to create a stand alone juvenile commitment act titled Psychiatric Treatment of Minors Act and to eliminate various cross reference to the adult commitment statues in Title 37.2. Includes provisions from the adult commitment statutes including those regarding the transportation of persons in commitment process, preparation and predmission screening reports, and the process for emergency custody and temporary detention orders. Revises appeals process reducing time to note an appeal from 30 to 10 days, consistent with other appeals from juvenile and domestic relations court.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB248ER)

03/22/2010

HB372 (Shuler)- Provides that a name change for a minor shall be presumed to be in the minor’s best interest if the change creates a hyphenated last name combining the surnames of the minor’s parents in order to help the minor identify with both parents.

Committee for Courts of Justice, Civil

House: continued to 2011 in Courts of Justice by voice vote

02/22/2010

HB334 (Marshall)- Requires information on the effects of abortion may have on future pregnancies to be included in the information required for informed consent.

Committee for Courts of Justice

Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (11-Y 4-N)

03/04/2010

HB411 (Oder) – Requires the Department of Social Services to develop information, presented in both print and audiovisual format, about shaken baby syndrome and its effects, and to make such information available to child day care providers, children’s residential facilities, group homes for children, foster parents, and adoptive parents. Health care providers are to be licensed by the Department of Social Services on shaken baby syndrome and its effects to patients receiving prenatal care, as well as to foster parents, and prospective adoptive parents before placed in home.

Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions

House: Assigned HWI sub: #1

House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (6-Y 0-N)

01/15/2010

01/25/2010

HB912 (Bell) – Provides that “residence” means, for any sex offender who declares himself homeless and has no permanent physical address, any single location described by him, which can be located with reasonable specificity, where he routinely spends the night.

Committee on for Courts of Justice

House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB912ER)

03/22/2010

HB919 (Bell) – Provides that every adult who is convicted of an offense prohibiting proximity to children, when the offense occurred on or after July 1, 2010, shall as part of his sentence be forever prohibited from going, for the purpose of having contact with children who are not in his custody, within 100 feet of the premises of any children’s museums.

Courts of Justice,

House: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

HB986 (Jones) – Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to, or causes to be taken by, a pregnant female any drug or other thing, or uses means with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage, and thus destroys such child or produces abortion or miscarriage is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Bill excepts medically approved contraceptives or legally prescribed medication as means of producing abortion or miscarriage. Current law does not specify f the pregnant female can be a possible perpetrator.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

HB1004 (Athey) – Prohibits an adult who is convicted of a offense requiring registration where the victim was a minor from residing within 500 feet of the premises of a child day center, public, private, parochial, or Christian primary, secondary, or high school. A violation is a Class 6 felony, but this section does not apply where the facility is established subsequent to the person’s conviction.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

HB1033 (Byron) – Provides that for the purposes of homicide and child abuse a human infant who has been born alive and is fully brought forth from the mother has achieved an independent and separate existence, regardless of whether umbilical cord has been cut or placenta detached.

Committee for on Education and Health

House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1033ER)

03/22/2010

HB1042 (Byron) – Requires that, as a part of informed consent to an abortion, to determine gestation age, every pregnant female shall undergo ultrasound imaging and be given an opportunity to view ultrasound image of her fetus prior to the abortion.

Committee for on Education and Health

Senate: Conferees appointed - Senators: Edwards, Whipple, McEachin, Newman, Hurt Delegates: Byron, Bell, Robert B., Watts

03/08/2010

HB1120 (Gilbert)- Provides that a juvenile age 14 or older shall, without more, be subject to a preliminary hearing in juvenile court, and transfer to a circuit court for trial as an adult if he is charge with any offense defined as an act of violence and has been previously adjudicated delinquent for such an offense.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

HB1133 (Keam) - Entrustment agreements. Clarifies requirements for court approval of an entrustment agreement terminating parental rights and authorizing a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency to consent to the adoption of a child. This bill also clarifies the requirement that a local board or child-placing agency provide information about adoption, its legal effects, and the alternatives to adoption the birth mother and, if reasonably available, the birth father of a child to be placed for adoption.

Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services

Senate: Signed by President

03/06/2010

HB1198 (Iaguinto) – Redefines “offense for which registration is required” in Title 9.1 to include an offense under another jurisdiction for which registration is required “regardless of whether adjudication was withheld”. The bill also provides that the Department shall give notice to a sex offender committed to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, prior to his release, of his requirement to register with the State Polices as a sex offender, and the Department give notice to the State Police within 12 hours if such an offender escapes from custody.

Committee for Courts of Justice

House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1198ER)

03/22/2010

SB300 (Miller)- Creates a new offense of driving under the influence with a passenger who is 18 years of age or younger, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a second offense with certain mandatory minimums. The bill also amends the DUI involuntary manslaughter statute to provide that the death of a person age 18 or younger is automatically aggravated manslaughter. If the conduct is already aggravated manslaughter and the victim is a person age 18 or younger, the minimum punishment is increased by one year. The bill also amends the DUI malicious wounding statute to increase the penalty from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony if the victim is age 18 years or younger.

Committee for Courts of Justice

Senate: Continued to 2011 in Finance (15-Y 0-N)

02/10/2010

SB356 (Obenshain) – Provides that the court may order that a parent who has a documented history of alcohol abuse, as a condition of visitation, have an ignition interlock system installed on each vehicle that the parent drives with the child as a passenger.

Committee for Courts of Justice

Senate: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

01/14/2010

SB436 (Edwards) - Appeals of emergency protective and removal orders.  Provides that a party shall file in circuit court, which shall hear and determine, any petition for a preliminary protective/removal order if (i) the party previously filed in juvenile and domestic relations district court a petition for an emergency protective/removal order; (ii) the juvenile and domestic relations district court issued such order for the emergency protection/removal of a child; (iii) a timely appeal of the order was filed by the parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis of the child; (iv) the circuit court set a hearing on the appeal for a date certain or on a motions docket to be heard within five days of the entry of the emergency protective/removal order; and (v) the purpose for which the party seeks a petition for a preliminary protective/removal order is for the protection/removal of the same child. The juvenile and domestic relations district courts shall be divested of the right to enter any preliminary protective/removal order that involves the same child if all of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) through (v) exist.

Committee for Courts of Justice

Senate: Left in Courts of Justice

02/16/2010

SB620 (Deeds) - Additional fee for Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.  Creates the Internet Crimes Against Children Fund to be administered by the Department of State Police. The fund consists of a $10 additional fee on each felony and misdemeanor conviction, any appropriations, gifts, grants, and federal moneys received under the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program.

(H) Committee on Appropriations

Senate: Signed by President

03/15/2010

HJ122 (Crockett-Stark) - Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of establishing statewide minimum standards for the oversight of supervised visitation with children.

Committee on Rules

House: Left in Rules

02/16/2010