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VAHB27PassKinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0629)
VASB39PassKinship foster care; alternative living arrangements; Parental Child Safety Placement Program established. Establishes the Parental Child Safety Placement Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social ...
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2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)
VAHB453PassKinship foster care; barrier crimes. Allows local boards of social services or child-placing agencies to approve kinship foster care parent applicants who have been convicted of certain felony drug offenses if five years have elapsed since the date o...
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2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0529)
VAHB700PassCertain individuals in foster care, in the custody of the Department of Social Services, or considered a special needs adoption; parameters of higher education grants; point of contact for support and guidance. Expands to include each public institut...
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2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0449)
VAHB317PassOffice of the Children's Ombudsman; children's residential facility. Authorizes the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to request that the Department of Social Services, the local department of social services, a children's residential facility, or a...
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2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0280)
VASB40Engross

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Department of Social Services; task force; application for and use of foster care benefits; report. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a task force with relevant stakeholders to assess the feasibility of (i) requiring local depart...
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2024-02-28
Tabled in Appropriations (21-Y 1-N)
VAHB75Intro

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State Board of Social Services; regulations; application for and use of foster care benefits. Directs the State Board of Social Services to amend its regulations by January 1, 2025, to (i) require local departments of social services to apply for fed...
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2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VASB421Intro

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Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes Foster Child Scholarship Program; established. Establishes the Foster Child Scholarship Program (the Program), to be administered by the Department of Education, for the purpose of providing ...
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2024-01-25
Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
VASB162Intro

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Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program established. Establishes the Kinship as Foster Care Prevention Program to promote and support placements of children with relatives by local boards of social services in order to avoid foster care. The bill p...
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2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
VASB467Intro

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Foster care; diversionary placements; alternative living arrangements. Allows a birth parent to identify an ALA caregiver, defined in the bill, with whom the birth parent would like to place his child in an alternative living arrangement, defined in ...
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2024-01-19
Incorporated by Rehabilitation and Social Services
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