Study; continuing the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee on Coastal Flooding for two additional years, through the 2021 interim. This resolution is identical to HJ 102.
Commending Virginia REALTORS®.
Commending Robert W. Duncan.
Commending the Division of Capitol Police, theVirginia Department of State Police, the Richmond Police Department,the Department of General Services, and the many other support unitsof the Unified Command.
Celebrating the life of John W. Gerdelman.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable KossenGregory.
Commending Rita D. Bishop.
State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children in foster care. The bill sets forth eligibility criteria for the program, payment allowances to kinship guardians, and requirements for kinship guardianship assistance agreements. The bill also expands eligibility for the Federal-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they have been the foster parent. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
Virginia Retirement System; return to employment by certain retired employees. Provides that a political subdivision participating in the Virginia Retirement System may hire up to two retirees at a time to return to work in full-time positions. Such employees may receive their service retirement allowance during the subsequent period of employment provided that there was a bona fide break in service of one year between retirement and employment in the full-time position and that there was no prearrangement for reemployment. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
Adoption and foster care; persons authorized to conduct home studies. Allows home studies for purposes of adoption or foster care placements to be conducted by any person who has completed the home study training program established by regulations of the Board of Social Services. Under current law, such home studies must be conducted by a local board of social services or licensed child-placing agency.
