Title 2.2, Title 2.2. Administration of Government

The family assessment and planning team, in accordance with § 2.2-2648, shall assess the strengths and needs of troubled youths and families who are approved for referral to the team and identify and determine the complement of services required to meet these unique needs. Every …

The community policy and management team shall establish policies governing the referral of troubled youths and families to the family assessment and planning team or a collaborative, multidisciplinary team process approved by the Council. These policies shall include that all yo…

All public agencies that have served a family or treated a child referred to a family assessment and planning team shall cooperate with this team. The agency that refers a youth and family to the team shall be responsible for obtaining the consent required to share agency client …

A. There is established a state pool of funds to be allocated to community policy and management teams in accordance with the appropriation act and appropriate state regulations. These funds shall be expended for the provision of public or private nonresidential or residential se…

Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary or any practice or previous decision-making process of the state executive council, Office of Children's Services, state and local advisory team, any community policy and management team, any family assessment and plan…

A. A child, youth, or family with a child shall be eligible for funding through the state pool of funds if it is determined through the use of the uniform assessment instrument approved by the State Executive Council for Children's Services as provided for in subdivision D 11 of …

A. There is established a state trust fund with funds appropriated by the General Assembly. The purposes of this fund are to develop: 1. Early intervention services for young children and their families, which are defined to include: prevention efforts for individuals who are at-…

The rates paid for services purchased pursuant to this chapter shall be determined by competition of the market place and by a process sufficiently flexible to ensure that family assessment and planning teams and providers can meet the needs of individual children and families re…

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Council" means the Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council created pursuant to § 2.2-2664. "Early intervention services" means services provided through Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Educat…

The Secretaries of Health and Human Resources and Education shall work together in: 1. Promoting interagency consensus and facilitating complementary agency positions on issues relating to early intervention services; 2. Examining and evaluating the effectiveness of state agency …

The duties of the participating agencies shall include: 1. Establishing a statewide system of early intervention services in accordance with state and federal statutes and regulations; 2. Identifying and maximizing coordination of all available public and private resources for ea…

To facilitate the implementation of an early intervention services system and to ensure compliance with federal requirements, the Governor shall appoint a lead agency. The duties of the lead agency shall include: 1. Promulgating regulations and adopting the policies and procedure…

A. To facilitate implementation of local early intervention systems statewide, the state lead agency shall contract with local lead agencies selected by the local interagency coordinating council. If the local interagency coordinating council is unable to select a local lead agen…

A. The lead agency, in consultation with the Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council, shall establish local interagency coordinating councils on a statewide basis to advise and assist the local lead agencies and to enable early intervention service providers to establish workin…

Local public agencies represented on local interagency coordinating councils are responsible for: 1. Providing services as appropriate and agreed upon by members of the local interagency coordinating council; 2. Maintaining data and providing information as requested to their res…

Any federal funds made available through Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 1431 et seq.) and any state funds appropriated specifically for Part H services shall supplement overall funding for services currently provided under Part C of the Ind…

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 32.1-162.9, no person who provides early intervention services in accordance with this chapter shall be required to be licensed as a home care organization in order to provide these services in a child's home.

A. This chapter shall be known as the Community Action Act. B. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Community action agency" means a local subdivision of the Commonwealth, a combination of political subdivisions, a separate public agency or a…

The Secretary of Health and Human Resources shall designate an agency to administer the Community Action Act and to work with community action agencies and community action statewide organizations to develop social and economic opportunities for low-income persons.

The designated agency shall have the following powers and duties to: 1. Coordinate state activities designed to reduce poverty. 2. Cooperate with agencies of the Commonwealth and the federal government in reducing poverty and implementing community, social and economic programs. …

A. Each community action agency shall administer its community action program through a community action board consisting of no less than fifteen members who shall be selected as follows: 1. One-third of the members of the board shall be elected public officials or their designee…

If a community action agency places responsibility for major policy determination with respect to the character, funding, extent and administration of and budgeting for programs to be carried on in a particular geographic area within the community in a subsidiary board, council o…

Each community action agency shall consult neighborhood-based organizations composed of residents of the area it serves or members of the groups to be served to assist the agency in planning, conducting and evaluating components of the community action agency.

A. A community action statewide organization shall be a nonprofit corporation whose charter, articles of incorporation and bylaws permit the corporation to operate in all jurisdictions of the Commonwealth. B. A community action statewide organization shall be governed by a board.…

A. Each community action agency that has been designated by a unit of local government and funded pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-452) that was in operation on July 1, 1982, and is still in operation shall be deemed a community action agency for th…

The designated agency shall adopt regulations detailing the formula for the distribution of community action program budget funds. The regulations shall take into consideration the distribution of low-income persons residing in the service areas of the community action agencies, …

The purposes of this chapter are to establish a state regulatory scheme to ensure state participation in the federal Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology to protect human health and the environment and to stimulate the growth of the biotechnology industry wit…

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Affected localities" means the locality in which a regulated introduction is proposed to be made and any locality within a three-mile radius of the location where the regulated introduction is proposed to …

A. The Department may waive part or all of the requirements under this chapter for a specified regulated introduction if the Department determines that the satisfaction of that requirement is not necessary to protect the public health or the environment. B. The Department may exe…

Except as provided under § 2.2-5502, no person may commence a regulated introduction unless the person: 1. Provides to the Department all of the following information within seven days after the person submits or should have submitted the information specified in subdivisions 1 a…

Within fifteen days after receiving the information required under § 2.2-5503, the Department shall publish notice and a brief description of the proposed regulated introduction. Notice shall also be provided to any affected locality and to any person who has filed a written requ…

A. The Department and any affected locality may prepare formal comments on the regulated introduction for submission to the federal regulator for that regulated introduction. The comments shall be submitted within the time established by the federal regulator for that regulated i…

A. Except as provided in subsections B and C, the Department and any affected locality shall keep confidential any information received under this chapter if the person submitting the information notifies them that: 1. The federal regulator to whom the information has been submit…

The Department shall enforce the provisions of §§ 2.2-5503 and 2.2-5506. Actions to enforce this chapter by injunctive and any other relief appropriate for enforcement may be filed in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond or in any county or municipality where a violation occ…

A civil penalty of not more than $500 may be assessed by the Department against any person who violates any provision of this chapter. In determining the amount of the penalty, the Department shall consider the degree and extent of harm caused by the violation. No civil penalty m…

No locality shall enact any regulation or ordinance regulating or prohibiting (i) the planned introduction of genetically engineered organisms into the environment or (ii) biotechnology research activities; however, the siting of biotechnology research activities shall be subject…

As used in this chapter: "Commercial activity" means an activity performed by or for state government that is not an inherently governmental activity and that may feasibly be obtained from a commercial source at lower cost than the activity being performed by state employees. "Co…

A. The Governor shall cause to be conducted an examination of the commercial activities that are being performed by state employees at state agencies and institutions to ensure such activities are being accomplished in the most cost-efficient and effective manner. B. The examinat…

A. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Cybersecurity information" means information describing or relating to any security system or measure, whether manual or automated, that is used to control access to or use of information technology; se…

A. For the purposes of this section, unless the context requires a different meaning: "ByteDance Ltd." means the Chinese internet technology company founded by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo in 2012, and any successor company or entity owned by such company. "Public body" means the …

A. No agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 shall acquire or purchase (i) weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles; (ii) aircraft that are configured for combat or are combat-cod…

A. No agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers as defined in § 9.1-101 shall establish a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue …

A. For purposes of this section: "Audit trail" means all records of queries and responses in an automatic license plate recognition system, and all records of actions in which system data is accessed, entered, updated, shared, or disseminated, including the (i) date and time of a…