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1994 SESSION
LD5701733Be 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 by the appropriate state agency.
§ 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.