CHAPTER 120

An Act to amend and reenact § 20-63, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to support payments by counties, cities or the State to families
of prisoners sentenced to serve on the State convict road fore 399]
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: ,

1. That § 20-63, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 20-63. (a) It shall be the duty of the governing body of the county
or city within the boundaries of which any work is performed under the
provisions of this chapter to allow and order payment at the end of each
calendar month, out of the current funds of the county or city, to the
court which originally sentenced the prisoner for the support of his wife
or child or children, a sum not less than five nor more than fifteen dollars
for each week in the discretion of the court during any part of which any
work is so performed by such prisoner.

(b) If the prisoner be sentenced to the State convict road force the
sum or sums provided for in paragraph (a) shall be paid by the State *
Treasurer out of the funds appropriated for the payment of criminal
costs, and such payments shall begin when such prisoner is admitted to
the State convict road force; provided, however, if the person or persons
on whose behalf the sums specified in this paragraph are to be paid has
been, or should thereafter be, found eligible for public assistance under
any provision of Title 63 of this Code, * no such payment shall be made for
any month tn which the person or persons in whose behalf it was ordered
received a public assistance payment or payments. Notwithstanding any
other provision of law to the contrary, in determining the amount of
assistance to which any person provided for in this paragraph shall be
entitled, there shall be excluded from consideration any sums payable under
this paragraph