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2020 Uncodified Acts

2020 Virginia Uncodified Acts
12/4/2024

CHAPTER 395

An Act to direct the Department of Corrections to create a workgroup to review guidelines and make recommendations to assist people with developmental disabilities.

[H 659]

Approved March 23, 2020

 

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.