• HB 1443- Requires applicants for day care license to provide financial information
• Patron: O’Bannon
• Impact: Would require providers applying for day care licenses (among other licenses administered by DSS) to provide at least one credit reference when submitting their initial application for licensure.
• Status: Amended and passed both houses.

• HB 1582- Armed security allowed in  private schools or day care
• Patron: Cole
• Impact: In addition to allowing armed security in private schools, would forbid the Department of Social Services from creating a regulation that would ban armed security in day cares.
• Status: Amended and passed both houses.

• HB 1575- County Zoning Regulations for home based day care
• Patron: Webert
• Impact: Aligns county zoning regulations with the procedure in DSS family day care home regulations, that the caregivers own children or children residing in the home do not count towards the number of children allowed for license. Would have only impacted Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria.
• Status: As of 2/12/13, patron asked that bill be laid on the table for the year.

• HB 1640- Allows VDSS to receive information on child care background checks
• Patron: Greason
• Impact: Added technical language to allow the Department to receive information on the status of background checks. This clarifies that VDSS can now receive the information since payments for child care assistance are now coming directly from the Department rather than the localities.
• Status: Amended and passed both houses.

• HJ619- Study state supported preschool programs 
• Patron: Jones
• Impact: Would have conducted a research survey on state supported preschool programs, such as VPI.
• Status: Patron asked that the bill be laid on the table

 

• HB 1512- Created a tax credit for business that leased building space to public schools 
• Patron: Krupicka
• Impact: Would have created an incentive for businesses to lease space to schools to handle issues such as overcrowding or additional space for preschool classrooms.
• Status: Passed by for the year

• HB 2094 (Watson) Establishes a Longitudinal Data System
• SB 1069 (Carrico) Establishes a Longitudinal Data System
• Impact: Would create a data system in the Department of Education to track and examine student progress from early childhood to postsecondary.
• Status: Although the legislation did not move forward, additional funding to keep the data system was included in the budget.

• HJ 602 Right to early childhood education (constitutional amendment)
• Patron: Krupicka
• Impact: Would have put in the state constitution the guaranteed right to public early childhood education.
• Status: Subcommittee passed by indefinitely

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