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CHAPTER 458 An Act to amend and reenact § 22.1-254.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to general educational development tests. [H 2379] Approved March 16, 1997

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-254.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-254.2. Eligibility of certain children to earn a high school equivalency certificate.

The Board of Education may establish a program of testing for general educational development through which children fifteen sixteen years of age or older who have been instructed by their parents in their home pursuant to § 22.1-254.1 for three consecutive years and who have completed such home school instruction or who have been excused from school attendance pursuant to subdivision A 2 subdivisions B 1 and 2 of § 22.1-257 may earn a high school equivalency certificate.