HB 595 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Disability Rights Advocacy, Special Assistant to the Governor for; position created, report.

Summary
Special Assistant to the Governor for DisabilityRights Advocacy; position created; report. Creates the positionof Special Assistant to the Governor for Disability Rights Advocacy (the Special Assistant) for the purpose of representing Virginianswith disabilities in a comprehensive and authoritative manner byensuring that all state agencies provide adequate services, resources,and accommodations to such persons. The bill directs the SpecialAssistant to submit an annual report to the Governor on or beforeDecember 1, through the Secretary of Health and Human Resources,that (i) outlines the key issues and problems discovered within stateagencies that impact people with disabilities; (ii) identifies thedetails of any plan of action implemented by the Special Assistantto address and remediate such issues and problems; (iii) provideslegislative recommendations that would improve processes and proceduresacross all state agencies with regard to the provision of services, resources, and accommodations to people with disabilities; and (iv)details such other matters as required by the Governor.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Jan 2022
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Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Last action Feb 10, 2022
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Feb 10, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023
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Feb 3, 2022
Committee
Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
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Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on General Laws
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Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102324D
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1 primary · 18 co-sponsors

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