Chap. 24.—-An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section
numbered 687-a, relating to adjustment for expenses of attendance in the public
free schools of certain children under certain circumstances. [H B 107]

Approved February 18, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new sec-
tion numbered six hundred eighty-seven-a, as follows:

Section 68/7-a. Adjustment for expense of attendance of certain
children in public free schools under certain circumstances.—The school
funds, to be distributed by the State to any county or city in which any
child not a resident of such county or city attends its public schools when
such child has been placed in foster or other such care in such county or
city by any state or local agency authorized so to do under the laws of
Virginia, shall be increased proportionately to reimburse such county or
city for the cost of attendance on the part of such child in the public
schools of the county or city in which so placed. This increase for such
reimbursement shall be made from school funds distributable to the
county or city of the residence of the child if it was a resident of this
State at time of such placement.

This reimbursement shall be computed and paid as follows: the
school authorities of the county or city in which any such child so placed
attends school shall keep an accurate record as to the child’s attendance
in any public school in such county or city, and at the end of the school
year such authorities shall certify, by July one, following, to the State
Board of Education (1) the number of days which such child attended
school, (2) the amount per child, exclusive of the children herein re-
ferred to, spent from local funds in educating children, (3) the county or
city of residence of such child if a resident of the State at time of place-
ment, or that it was not a resident of the state at time of placement if
such was the case, (4) the county or city from which such child was sent
and placed in the county or city in which he so attends school, (5) the
official or agency by whom or which the child was so placed. The State
Board of Education shall then, from State school funds available for the
succeeding year and not segregated by the Constitution, deduct from the
amount for distribution to the county or city of residence of such child
an amount necessary to reimburse the county or city in which the child
attended school for the cost to such locality of his attendance in such
public school.

Provided that when any such child so placed under authority of any
law of Virginia was not a resident of this State and the circumstances
were such that there was no obligation as to education of such child upon
any county or city in this State at the time it was so sent and placed in
the county or city where it so attends public school the county or city in
which the child was so placed and so attends public school shall be re-
imbursed by the State out of the general funds appropriated for the pur-
pose of public free school education and distributable to the localities, and
the State Board of Education is authorized to determine finally whether
this proviso or the principal provisions of this section shall be applied in
any case in which any question is raised.

Any amounts disbursed under any of the provisions of this section
shall be distributable in the same manner as in the case of other dis-
tributable school funds.

The provisions of this section shall apply to children heretofore so
placed as well as to those hereafter so placed.

2. This act shall take effect July one, nineteen hundred forty-six.