CHAPTER 93

An Act to amend and reenact § 32-292, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the allocation and payment of ‘funds to counties
and cities for hospitalization and treatment, including outpatients and
emergency room service, for indigent persons. tH

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Approved February 25, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 32-292, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 82-292. (a) The State Board of Welfare and Institutions shall
allocate semiannually to the counties and cities of the Commonwealth on
the basis of population as shown by the last preceding United States
census, such funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly for
this purpose, such funds for services so allocated to be used by such
counties and cities for meeting one-half of the cost to such localities of
hospitalization and treatment, * including outpatient and emergency room
service, at hospitals approved by the Board, of indigent persons residing
therein, provided that localities may expend out of their local funds at a
per diem hospital rate in excess of the maximum rate fixed by the State
Board, but no reimbursement of such excess shall be made from State
funds. Any funds for services allocated to a county or city which remain
unused at the end of any six-month period shall be added to and made a
part of the reserve fund as provided for in paragraph '(c) of this section.

(b) All payments to counties and cities out of funds appropriated to
the Department of Welfare and Institutions and duly allocated for use by
such localities or for matching their costs in excess of such allocations
under the terms of this chapter shall be made by the State Treasurer on
warrants of the Comptroller issued on vouchers duly executed by the
Director of the Department of Welfare and Institutions on satisfactory
proof of the amounts expended by the respective localities for hospitali-
zation and treatment of indigent persons, including outpatient and emer-
gency room service.

(c) In addition to the funds appropriated by the General Assembly
for allocation to the counties and cities of the Commonwealth as above
provided, the State Board of Welfare and Institutions shall establish from
funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the purpose, a reserve
fund to be expended as hereinafter provided. Such reserve fund shall be
expended in meeting one-half the cost incurred by counties and cities for
hospitalization and treatment * including outpatient and emergency room
service, at hospitals approved by the Board, of indigent persons residing
therein provided that such county or city seeking reimbursement from the
reserve fund has exhausted the allocation to it under paragraph (a) of

section.