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Bills We Support
| Summary |
Committee/ Sub-Committee |
Last Action | Date |
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| HB3 (Tata) - Creates voluntary registry for day care providers. Founded CPS cases will be posted on registry. | Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions |
Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended. Passed with amendments (40-Y 0-N) House: Senate amendments agreed to by House. VOTE: -- ADOPTION w/ amendments. (76-Y 14-N) |
02/27/2008 02/27/2008 |
| HB34 (Ingram) - Provides that a person 18 years of age who maintains a custodial or supervisory relationship over a child under the age of 18 is guilty of a Class 6 felony if he, with lascivious intent, knowingly and intentionally kisses such child on the mouth while attempting to penetrate the mouth of such child with their tongue. | Committee for Courts of Justice |
Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB34S1. Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) House: Placed on Calendar |
02/27/2008 02/28/2008 |
| HB274 (Toscano) - Allows a person whose parental rights have been terminated to appeal decision directly to the Court of Appeals. See HB750. | Committee for Courts of Justice | Stricken from docket by Courts of Justice by voice Veto | 01/21/2008 |
| HB573 (Watts) - If supervised visitation must be arranged to minimize harm to a child for which there is a cost, the non-custodial parent must pay it. | Committee for Courts of Justice | Senate: Assigned Courts Subcommittee: Civil | 02/14/2008 |
| HB574 (Watts) - Creates a number of new crimes labeled "indecent liberties with children" that mirror, and expand upon, existing offenses but with new victim age classifications and specific offender classifications. Requires offenders to receive maximum punishment with no suspensions. | Committee for Courts of Justice | House: Left in Appropriations | 02/12/2008 |
| HB750 (Toscano) - Establishes that a juvenile and domestic relations district court functions as a court of record in cases involving termination of residual parental rights allowing the appeal process to be handled by the Court of Appeals. See HB274. | Committee for Courts of Justice | The bill which was defeated in subcommittee was brought back to the full committee for re-consideration. The full committee voted to carry the bill over to next session rather than remaining defeated. | 02/08/2008 |
| HB953 (Iaquinto) - Allows a videotaped statement of an alleged victim to be admissible into evidence in a criminal proceeding for child abuse or neglect if the child is 12 years of age or younger at the time the statement is offered and a number of other conditions are met. | Committee for Courts of Justice | Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (14-Y 1-N) | 02/28/2008 |
| HB973 (Shannon) - What constitutes taking indecent liberties with children; penalty. Provides that if any person 18 years of age or over, who, with lascivious intent, knowingly and intentionally proposes that a child under the age of 15 years feel or fondle his own sexual or genital parts is guilty of taking indecent liberties with a child, a Class 5 felony. | Committee for Courts of Justice | House: Left in Courts of Justice | 02/12/2008 |
| HB1131 (Fralin) - Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and the provision of information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencies. | Committee on General Laws | House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1131ER) | 02/28/2008 |
HB1190 (Moran) - Code changes aimed at improving infant mortality rates.
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Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions | House: Left in Appropriations | 02/12/2008 |
| HB1242 (Bell) - Prohibits the employment of an applicant for employment requiring direct contact with students if such applicant is the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. Additionally, requires the dismissal of a teacher who while employed by a local school board, becomes the subject of a founded case of physical or sexual abuse of a child. This bill also requires the Department of Social Services to report any founded complaints of sexual abuse of a child to a school board, where the subject of the report is a full-time, part-time, permanent or temporary employee of a school board in the Commonwealth. | Committee on Education |
Senate: Passed Senate w/ amendments (40-Y 0-N) House: Senate amendments agreed to by House. VOTE: --- ADOPTION w/ amendments (89-Y 0-N) |
02/25/2008 02/27/2008 |
| SB27 (Miller) - If parents are VIEW recipients and child is placed with a relative because of CPS case, child can still receive TANF payments for a period of time. | Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 0-N) | 02/01/2008 |
| SB228 (McDougle) - Add Emergency Medical Service providers as mandated reporters of child abuse. | Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services |
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB228ER) House: Signed by Speaker |
02/25/2008 02/25/2008 |
| SB315 (Edwards) - Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and the provision of information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencies. | Committee on General Laws | House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) | 02/28/2008 |
| SB387 (Martin) - Requires any guardian ad litem who has been appointed by a court to represent a child to report suspected child abuse or neglect to a local department of social services or to the Department of Social Services. | Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice | 02/25/2008 |
| SB394 (Edwards) - Establishes that a juvenile and domestic relations district court functions as a court of record in cases involving termination of residual parental rights. The bill further provides that juvenile court decisions in such cases are appealed directly to the Court of Appeals. | Committee for Courts of Justice | Senate: Continued to 2009 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N) | 02/11/2008 |
| SB497 (Northam) - Removes language specifying that a decision by parents or another person with legal authority over a child to refuse a particular medical treatment for a child with a life-threatening condition shall not be deemed a refusal to provide necessary care if (i) such decision is made jointly by the parents or other person with legal authority for the child and the child; (ii) the child has reached 14 years of age and is sufficiently mature to have an informed opinion on the subject of his medical treatment; (iii) the parents or other person with legal authority and the child have considered alternative treatment options; and (iv) the parents or other person with legal authority and the child believe in good faith that such decision is in the child's best interest. | Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services | Stricken at request of Patron in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) | 01/25/2008 |
| Budget Bill Item 344#1h and Item 344 #12s - Funds to support the maintenance of Healthy Families sites: 5% increase year 1 and 10% increase year 2. | House Appropriations subcommittee on Health and Human Resources and Senate Finance subcommittee on Health and Human Resources | Budget Bill Items not included in either the House Appropriations or Senate Finance Sub-Committee recommendations to the full committees | 02/17/2008 |
| Budget Bill - Increased funds to subsidize Day Care - $7.15 million each of 4 years (nearly 11,000 children are currently on a waiting list). |
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Both the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees included the transfer of $12 million in TANF funds to subsidize day care | 02/17/2008 |
| Budget Bill - Funds to expand FAMIS to include prenatal care for pregnant women up to 200% of poverty. |
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The House Budget took out the money to expand eligibility to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. The Senate Budget includes funds to expand eligibility to 200% of FPL but not until July, 2010. | 02/17/2008 |