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1994 SESSION


CHAPTER 376
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 22.1-216 and 22.1-220 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain children with disabilities.
[S 463]
Approved April 6, 1994

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.