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House committee reports several Senate bills on children’s services, WIC assistance and payee notices
Summary
A Virginia House committee voted to report multiple Senate bills to the full House, including changes to the Children’s Services Act, notice requirements for representative payees, and instructions for Department of Health support to food banks assisting WIC applicants; most measures advanced unanimously.
Members of a Virginia House committee on social services moved to report a set of Senate bills to the full House during a morning session, with most measures advancing unanimously.
The committee reported changes to the Children's Services Act (SB801), a new notice requirement where local departments acting as representative payees must inform family or guardians (SB818), a Department of Health directive to help food banks assist applicants for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) (SB1019), and a related WIC-access bill that was amended before reporting (SB1020). Committee member Delegate Joshua Tran presented the social services subcommittee recommendations.
The Children’s Services Act bill, SB801, was sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Favola and was recommended by the subcommittee by a 7–0 vote before the full committee reported it by voice/roll call as 13–0. The representative-payee…
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