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2020 SESSION

20107986D
HOUSE BILL NO. 659
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Appropriations
on February 7, 2020)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Hope)
A BILL to direct the Department of Corrections to create a workgroup to review guidelines and make recommendations to assist people with developmental disabilities.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Corrections (the Department) shall create a workgroup composed of disability advocates and other stakeholders to review current Department guidelines and develop recommendations that recognize and make accommodations for people with developmental disabilities, as defined in the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-402), including intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders.