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Such information shall be provided to every child welfare program required to be licensed by the Department at the time of initial licensure and upon request. The Department shall also make the information required in this section available to foster and adoptive parents and other persons, upon request.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1402127,"text":"The Department shall make information about shaken baby syndrome, its effects, and resources for help and support for caretakers in a printable format, and information about how to acquire information about shaken baby syndrome and its effects in an audiovisual format, available to the public on its website. Such information shall be provided to every child welfare program required to be licensed by the Department at the time of initial licensure and upon request. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?101+ful+CHAP0551\">551<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1497777,"object_type":"law","relational_id":375579,"identifier":"63.2-214.2","token":"63.2\/I\/2\/1\/63.2-214.2","url":"\/63.2-214.2\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/63.2-214.2\/","token":"63.2\/I\/2\/1\/63.2-214.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Information related to shaken baby syndrome","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 63.2-214.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall make information about shaken baby syndrome, its effects, and resources for help and support for caretakers in a printable format, and information about how to acquire information about shaken baby syndrome and its effects in an audiovisual format, available to the public on its website. Such information shall be provided to every <span class=\"dictionary\">child<\/span> welfare program required to be licensed by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> at the time of initial licensure and upon request. The <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall also make the information required in this section available to foster and adoptive parents and other persons, upon request.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINFORMATION RELATED TO SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME (\u00a7 63.2-214.2)\n\nThe Department shall make information about shaken baby syndrome, its effects,\nand resources for help and support for caretakers in a printable format, and\ninformation about how to acquire information about shaken baby syndrome and its\neffects in an audiovisual format, available to the public on its website. Such\ninformation shall be provided to every child welfare program required to be\nlicensed by the Department at the time of initial licensure and upon request.\nThe Department shall also make the information required in this section\navailable to foster and adoptive parents and other persons, upon request.\n\nHISTORY: 2010, c. 551.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}