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doing that, but they don’t have to.
The Senate last week took up another disaster-related bill: SB 730 would create an Office of Faith-Based Community Services in the Virginia Department of Social Services.
Sen. Mark R. Herring, D-Leesburg, who proposed the bill, said it would give the Department of Social Services the authority to “coordinate offers of assistance from faithbased organizations in times of disaster.”
Senators unanimously approved the bill, passing it on to the House,
On Friday, the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety unanimously endorsed the proposal, sending ‘it to the full House for a vote.
Also on Friday, the House Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety unanimously approved SB 363, by Sen. William C. Wampler Jr., R-Bristol.
It would make the Office of Commonwealth Preparedness permanent and allow the governor to appoint the office’s director for a five-year term.
The office, which was created in 2002, would work with “federal, state, and local officials, as well as the private sector, to develop a seamless, coordinated security and preparedness strategy” Wampler’s bill recewed unanimous approval from *the Senate on Feb. 8.
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