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HOUSE BILL NO. 1451 Offered January 11, 2017 Prefiled December 2, 2016 A BILL to direct the Department of Social Services to develop a survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care. ---------- Patron-- Farrell ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Department of Social Services shall, in coordination with the Commission on Youth, develop a process and standardized survey to gather feedback from children aging out of foster care. The survey shall include requests for information regarding the child's experience with and opinion of the Commonwealth's foster care services, recommendations for improvement of such services, the amount of time the child spent in the foster care system, and any other information deemed relevant by the Department of Social Services or the Commission on Youth.