Chap. 529.—An ACT to establish certain scholarships for nursing training, to
prescribe the terms and conditions thereof and to make an appropriation
therefor. {S 77]

Approved April 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. The governing board of the Medical College of
Virginia is hereby authorized and empowered to establish twenty
annual nursing scholarships, five of which shall be made available to
members of the Negro race, and the governing board of the University of
Virginia is hereby authorized and empowered to establish fifteen annual
nursing scholarships, which thirty-five scholarships hereby authorized
shall be of the annual value of one hundred dollars each, and shall be
awarded and paid subject to the conditions and restrictions set out in the
following sections:

Section 2. Each applicant for any such scholarship must be a bona
fide resident of the State of Virginia when such scholarship is awarded.
The awards shall be made upon such basis, competitive or otherwise, as
may be determined by the president or other proper officer of the school
with due regard to the scholastic attainments, character, and adapt-
ability of the applicant for the service contemplated in such award;
provided, that no award shall be made if the applicant fails to possess
the requisite qualifications.

Section 3. Before any such scholarship is awarded the applicant
shall sign a written contract under the terms of which she agrees to
pursue the nursing course of the school awarding the scholarship until
completion and thereupon to promptly begin and thereafter engage
continuously in nursing work in the State of Virginia, for a period of
years equal in number to the years that she has been or shall be a bene-
ficiary of any such scholarship or scholarships. The said contract shall
provide that if the applicant shall fail to comply with the provisions
thereof or any of them she shall repay to the school all amounts received
by her as a beneficiary of such awards, such repayment to be upon such
terms and conditions as may be determined by the school. Such contract
shall contain such other provisions as may be necessary, in the opinion
of the president or other proper officer of the school, to accomplish the
purposes of the scholarships.

Section 4. As further evidence of the promise of such recipient to
make such repayment, as to each scholarship awarded her in the event
she shall fail or refuse to fulfill the conditions and requirements herein
specified as to such scholarship, she shall, when such scholarship is
awarded, be required to execute and deliver to the school awarding the
scholarship a note in the principal sum of one hundred dollars, with
interest at not less than two nor more than four per centum, which
note shall be accepted by the school upon the condition that such note
and any other similar notes so given, shall be cancelled by the school
upon the basis of one note for each year in which she shall continuously
engage in nursing work in the State of Virginia; provided, however,
that no recipient of any such scholarship shall be permitted to plead the
statute of limitations or interpose a plea of infancy in the event of an
action being brought against her on any such note.

Section 5. Each recipient, when such scholarship is awarded,
shall be required to insure her life, for the benefit of the school awarding
the scholarship, in a sum equal at least to the value of each scholarship
awarded her, the insurance policy to contain a specific provision that the
school beneficiary shall not be changed without consent of said bene-
ficiary. Upon cancellation of each note executed by the recipient as
hereinbefore provided, the school beneficiary shall consent to such change
in the beneficiary of the corresponding insurance policy as may be
designated by the recipient. Upon the failure of the recipient to discharge
her obligations either by service or payment, as herein required, or by
reason of her death or any other cause, the policy or policies and any
and all proceeds derived therefrom shall become the property of the
school beneficiary. All premiums on the insurance policy or policies
shall be paid by the recipient of the scholarship.

Section 6. All money repaid by any such recipient, and all proceeds
derived by such school beneficiary from any such insurance policy, shall
be placed in a special fund which shall be used for nursing scholarships
in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Section 7. Each such scholarship shall be awarded for a single
year, but the same student shall, after making satisfactory progress
towards completion of her training in the school, receive such award for
any succeeding year or years, provided no student shall receive any
such scholarship for more than a total of three years.

Section 8. The funds making up each such scholarship shall be
paid to the recipient thereof, or applied to the payment of her expenses, at
such medical school, in such amounts and at such times during such
school year as may be determined by the president or other proper
officer of the school; provided, however, that no recipient shall receive
for any such scholarship less than one hundred dollars.

2. To provide funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this
act, there is hereby appropriated to the Medical College of Virginia the
sum of two thousand dollars, and to the University of Virginia the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars, out of any funds in the State treasury not
otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the
purpose, for each year of the biennium beginning July first, nineteen
hundred forty-eight. All payments out of this appropriation shall be
made by the Treasurer of Virginia on warrants of the Comptroller issued
on vouchers signed by the president or other authorized officer or officers
of the respective schools.