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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 22.1-216 and 22.1-220 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-216. Use of public or private facilities and personnel under contract for special education.
A school board may provide special education for handicapped children
with disabilities either directly with its own facilities and
personnel or under contract with another school division or divisions or any
other public or private nonsectarian school, agency or institution approved
by the Board of Education. Special education for children below the
compulsory school attendance age may be provided in nonsectarian child-day
programs licensed in accordance with state law.
§ 22.1-220. Power of counties, cities and towns to appropriate and expend funds for education of children with disabilities.
The governing body of any county, city or town is hereby authorized and
empowered to appropriate and expend funds of the county, city or town in
furtherance of the education of handicapped children with
disabilities residing in such county, city or town who attend Woodrow
Wilson Rehabilitation Center or public or private, nonsectarian
schools, or public or private nonsectarian child-day programs for children
below the compulsory school attendance age, whether within or without the
county, city or town and whether within or without the Commonwealth.