CHAPTER 700

An Act to create a commission to study, revise and report on the laws
relating to welfare, embracing Title 68 and other relevant portions
of the Code of Virginia and the organization and functioning of the
Department of Welfare and Institutions and related agencies; and to
appropriate funds. CHE 688)

Approved April 6, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. There is hereby created a commission to study, revise and
report on the laws relating to welfare, embracing Title 63 and other rele-
vant provisions of the Code of Virginia, and to consider the impact: of
federal legislation on the welfare laws of the Commonwealth in making
such study and report. All State agencies shall assist the commission in its
work and the commission shall complete its study and make its report,
accompanied by appropriate legislation, to the Governor and the General
Assembly not later than October one, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.

§ 2. The commission shall consist of nine members to be appointed
as follows: three by the Speaker of the House of Delegates from the mem-
bership of the House, two by the President of the Senate from the mem-
bership of the Senate and four by the Governor from the public at large.
The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for their
services but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred by them in per-
forming the work of the commission and shall be authorized to employ
such consultant, secretarial and other assistance as the commission
requires.

§ 3. In addition to the matters set forth above the commission shall
study the organization and functioning of the Department of Welfare and
Institutions and related agencies with a view of determining how the
same can be made more efficient and whether certain functions of the
Department and related agencies should be reorganized and possibly reallo-
cated to other or new agencies.

2. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State
treasury a sum not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars to carry out the
purposes of this act.