Bill Text: VA HB664 | 2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Blind persons; repeals requirement that DBVI maintain registry of persons in Commonwealth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0572) [HB664 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2014-HB664-Chaptered.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §§51.5-72 and 51.5-75 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows: §51.5-72. Establishment of schools and manufacturing and service industries; expenditures. The Department may (i) establish, equip and maintain schools
for manufacturing and service industrial training for the employment of
suitable blind persons, (ii) pay its employees suitable wages and contribute
five percent of the creditable compensation of those employees who elect to
participate in a before-tax payroll deduction to a tax deferred retirement
savings plan established under the United States Internal Revenue Code for
nonprofit agencies, and (iii) devise means for the sale and distribution of the
products thereof. However, any expenditures made under §§51.5-63, 51.5-66 §51.5-75. Use of earnings of schools and workshops; record of receipts and expenditures. In furtherance of the purposes of §§51.5-63, 51.5-66 2. That §§51.5-68 and 51.5-69 of the Code of Virginia are repealed. |