Child Welfare
Idaho 2013 Regular Session
Appropriates $89,958,400 to the divisions of Child Welfare and Developmentally Disabled Services in the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2014; limits the full-time equivalent positions for the two divisions to 759.19; provides legislative intent; and provides guidance for employee compensation. [HB-283]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Appropriates $89,958,400 to the divisions of Child Welfare and Developmentally Disabled Services in the Department of Health and Welfare for fiscal year 2014; limits the full-time equivalent positions for the two divisions to 759.19; provides legislative intent; and provides guidance for employee compensation.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Reported Signed By Governor On April 2, 2013 Session Law Chapter 226 Effective: 07/01/13 on 04/02/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating to parental notification of abortion on minor [SB-93]
[Reproductive Rights ]
[Healthcare ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill relates to parental involvement in a minors decision to obtain an abortion. The bill requires that the circuit and family court have concurrent jurisdiction. The bill provides that a physician may only perform a nonmedical emergency abortion if there is proof the woman is over eighteen, a court has issued an order authorizing the abortion or has parental consent if she is an unemancipated minor. The bill requires records be kept. The bill requires an affidavit be executed. The bill requires parental notification. The bill
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Beach
Filed For Introduction on 02/13/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Establishing criminal penalties for custodian's failure to report missing child [SB-73]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to criminalize the failure of a custodian to report to law-enforcement officials a missing child. The penalties vary based on age and circumstances with enhanced penalties for failure to report when the custodian knows the childs disappearance creates a risk of harm or death to the child, or when a custodian fails to report the missing child to conceal criminal conduct.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Beach
Filed For Introduction on 02/13/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Creating WV Feed to Achieve Act [SB-663]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
Creating WV Feed to Achieve Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Roman Prezioso
Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2013 on 05/15/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Creating TANF pilot program to promote educational achievement [SB-661]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Children and Youth ]
Creating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families pilot program to promote educational achievement
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Filed For Introduction on 03/25/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Eliminating requirement that schools input data into WVEIS [SB-66]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Eliminating requirement that schools input data into WVEIS
Sponsored by: Sen. Dave Sypolt
Filed For Introduction on 02/13/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Revising definition of "obscene matter" to contain specific matter harmful to minors [SB-640]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Revising definition of "obscene matter" to contain specific matter harmful to minors
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Filed For Introduction on 03/25/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Authorizing Supreme Court establish pilot program to appoint probation officers to address truancy [SB-628]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Requiring Supreme Court establish program to appoint probation officers to address truancy
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Committee Substitute Reported, But First To Finance on 03/28/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Adjusting penalties for willful failure to pay child support [SB-624]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to ensure persons who are willfully not paying child support be sentenced to home confinement, while either working, looking for work or getting job training from Workforce West Virginia, instead of being confined in jail for a first offense. It creates graduated sanctions for second, third and subsequent offenses.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Introduced In House on 04/03/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Implementing responsible parent program pilot project [SB-609]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize a responsible parent pilot project by the Division of Corrections. The bill sets forth requirements to participate in the program and program goals. The bill also requires a report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Filed For Introduction on 03/22/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating generally to juvenile offenders [SB-601]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement of sealing the records of a juvenile proceeding while still maintaining the confidentiality of the records.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Chapter 20, Acts, Regular Session, 2013 on 05/15/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Allowing certain expelled students participate in Juvenile Drug Court [SB-568]
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[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Allowing certain expelled students participate in Juvenile Drug Court
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Filed For Introduction on 03/19/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Expanding circuit court jurisdiction over certain juvenile status offenders [SB-559]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow circuit courts to retain jurisdiction over juvenile status offenders after they turn eighteen in certain situations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Filed For Introduction on 03/18/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Clarifying language in Special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth [SB-502]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
The purpose of this bill is to amend language in the code for accuracy and clarification concerning the special community-based pilot demonstration project.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Filed For Introduction on 03/12/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating to juvenile mental health treatment [SB-481]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the process for voluntary commitment and transport of juveniles in need of mental health or addiction treatment and provide for payment of juvenile mental health treatment when the individual is not covered by insurance.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Unger
Chapter 128, Acts, Regular Session, 2013 on 05/15/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating to procedures and protections for child witnesses in domestic relations proceedings [SB-461]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to procedures and protections for child witnesses in domestic relations, child abuse and neglect and criminal proceedings. The bill sets forth the rights of child witnesses. The bill establishes the procedure and safeguards to be used when taking testimony of a child witness. The bill permits a court in certain instances to permit a child witness to give testimony by closed-circuit television. The bill establishes the procedure to be used when taking testimony of a child witness by closed-circuit television. The bill
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Chapter 22, Acts, Regular Session, 2013 on 05/15/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating to multidisciplinary team meetings for juveniles in Division of Juvenile Services' custody [SB-415]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require multidisciplinary teams be convened quarterly to discuss children in the custody of the Division of Juvenile Services. This bill also provides that in cases where a child has been detained for more than sixty days without an active service plan, the director of the facility may call a multidisciplinary team meeting to discuss the child. Additionally, this bill requires that team members be notified that he or she may participate electronically.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Plymale
Reported Do Pass, But First To Government Organization on 03/27/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Establishing child support insurance match program [SB-411]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish a child support insurance match program that will assist the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement in determining whether a claimant has a child support obligation. The bill provides exemptions. The bill sets forth additional information insurance companies must provide. The bill sets forth the bureaus and the insurance companies respective obligations. The bill requires health insurance companies to participate in a data matching program with the bureau to assist in determining the availability of sources
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Filed For Introduction on 03/01/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Relating generally to child support orders [SB-407]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
The purpose of this bill is to require telephone companies and cellular telephone companies to provide the names, address, and telephone numbers of its customers to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement for purposes of establishing paternity, establishing or modifying support orders, for enforcing support orders or for distributing support.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Chapter 19, Acts, Regular Session, 2013 on 05/15/2013
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West Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Defining certain habitually absent student as neglected child [SB-404]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a child who is physically healthy and presumed safe is a neglected child if he or she is habitually absent from school without good cause. This bill provides an exemption for parents whose children are receiving home instruction.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Stollings
Referred To Finance On 2nd Reading on 03/22/2013