Group homes and residential facilities; license applications. (SB340)
Introduced By
Sen. Toddy Puller (D-Mount Vernon)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
✗ |
Passed Committee |
☐ |
Passed House |
✓ |
Passed Senate |
☐ |
Signed by Governor |
☐ |
Became Law |
Description
Group homes of eight or fewer; public notice and hearing; smoke detectors. Allows a locality to require any party wishing to establish a certain type of residential facility for the aged, infirm, disabled, or those with mental illness to provide public notice and participate in a public hearing. The bill requires the operator of such a facility to install smoke detectors regardless of when the building was constructed and directs the Board of Housing and Community Development to adopt regulations establishing standards for requiring smoke detectors. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
Date | Action |
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01/07/2014 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102410D |
01/07/2014 | Referred to Committee on Local Government |
02/04/2014 | Impact statement from DPB (SB340) |
02/04/2014 | Reported from Local Government with substitute (15-Y 0-N) |
02/04/2014 | Committee substitute printed 14104830D-S1 |
02/06/2014 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/07/2014 | Read second time |
02/07/2014 | Reading of substitute waived |
02/07/2014 | Committee substitute agreed to 14104830D-S1 |
02/07/2014 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB340S1 |
02/10/2014 | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
02/12/2014 | Placed on Calendar |
02/12/2014 | Read first time |
02/12/2014 | Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions |
02/17/2014 | Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #3 |
02/27/2014 | Impact statement from DPB (SB340S1) |
03/04/2014 | Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions |
Comments
With regard to smoke detectors, of course this should be enacted. Please google Scott Schuett, who ran six dangerous, disgusting adult homes in the Hampton Roads area. On a single visit to a single facility, state inspectors found NINE missing or dead smoke detector batteries. NINE. Scott Schuett then argued, in writing, that these were not critical violations.
It took a year and a half, from March 5, 2012 to October 1, 2013, to shut down these hellholes. Meanwhile, clients of our public social services departments, public community services boards, and public guardianship programs continued to suffer, month after month. Ninety percent of Scott Schuett's victims received state-funded auxiliary grants. This is state-sponsored, state-funded abuse and neglect of these vulnerable adults.