Family assessments; timeline. Increases from 45 days to 60 days the allowable time for completing a family assessment by a local department of social services and removes the local department's opportunity to request a 15-day extension. This bill is identical to SB 412.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; hardship exception. Requires the Department of Social Services to (i) keep records of the number of Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants who receive an exception to the time limitations on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits due to hardship and the specific circumstances relied upon to grant such exceptions and (ii) annually publish nonidentifying statistics regarding such information.
Human trafficking assessments by local departments. Changes the name of sex trafficking assessments to human trafficking assessments and allows local departments of social services conducting such human trafficking assessments to interview the alleged child victim or his siblings without the consent and outside the presence of such child's or siblings' parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis, or school personnel. This bill is a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to SB 706.
Home/electronic incarceration program; paymentto defray costs. Changes from mandatory to optional the currentrequirement that the director or administrator of a home/electronicincarceration program charge an offender or accused a fee for participatingin the program in order to pay for the cost of home/electronic incarcerationequipment.
Alcoholic beverage control; privileges of local special events licensees. Changes the provision limiting local special events licenses from 12 to 16 special events per year, and provides that the duration of any special event shall not exceed three consecutive days. This bill is identical to SB 689.
Legal custodian; parties to a pending custodyor visitation case; notice of adoption proceeding. Provides thata legal custodian of a child being placed for adoption, and any othernamed parties in pending cases in which the custody or visitationof such child is at issue, shall be entitled to proper notice of anyadoption proceeding and an opportunity to be heard.
Furloughs from local work release programs;approval by local sheriff and local chief law-enforcement official.Provides that any furlough permitted by the director of a workrelease program for an offender participating in the work releaseprogram shall be subject to approval by (i) the sheriff of the localjail where the offender is participating in a work release programand (ii) the chief of police, sheriff, or chief law-enforcement officialof the locality in which the prisoner will stay.
Conformity to Internal Revenue Code. Advances the date by which Virginia conforms to the Internal Revenue Code from December 31, 2018, to December 31, 2019. However, the bill deconforms from a provision of federal law that temporarily reduces the medical expense deduction floor from 10 percent to 7.5 percent. The bill includes an emergency clause and applies to taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2018. This bill is identical to HB 1413.
Approved by Governor-Chapter 854 (effective 5/2/19)
Makes a driver's failure to move into a nonadjacent lane on a highway with at least four lanes when approaching a stationary vehicle displaying flashing, blinking, or alternating blue, red, or amber lights, or, if changing lanes would be unreasonable or unsafe, to proceed with due caution and maintain a safe speed, reckless driving, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor. Under current law, a first such offense is a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $250, and a second such offense is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Directs the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to make referrals to any employment services organization that provides competitive or commensurate wages and is eligible to receive state-funded Long-Term Employment Support Services or Extended Employment Services. The bill also requires the Department to develop and implement a referral process for individuals who make an informed choice to pursue an employment outcome that is not considered a competitive integrated employment setting by the Department. The bill also establishes the Employment Service Organization Steering Committee as an advisory board in the executive branch of state government. The bill provides that the purpose of the Committee shall be to report to and advise the Commissioner for Aging and Rehabilitative Services on policy, funding, and the allocation of funds to employment services organizations for Long-Term Employment Support Services and Extended Employment Services. This bill is identical to
Authorizes the Department of Taxation to share certain specified tax information with the Department of Social Services as necessary to administer public assistance and social services benefits or child support services.
