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2020 SESSION


CHAPTER 553
An Act to require the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services and law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth to make information about vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to certain law-enforcement officers.
[H 1025]
Approved March 31, 2020

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services shall make information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service can access such programs and services, available to law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth.

§ 2. That every law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth shall provide to every law-enforcement officer who separates from the agency due to a disability resulting from his service information regarding vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including information on the types of programs available and the process by which such law-enforcement officers may access such programs and services.