CHAPTER 666

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-105, 63-110, 68-115, 68-140.2:1, and
63-205, as severally amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to
local appropriations for certain welfare programs; allocation of ap-
propriated funds by State Board of Welfare and Institutions; eligibil-
ity for assistance under certain categories; and the definition of medi-
cal care or treatment.

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Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 63-105, 63-110, 63-115, 63-140.2:1 and 63-205, as severally
amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 63-105. Local Appropriation.—The board of supervisors or other
governing body of each county and the council or other governing body
of each city in the State shall each year appropriate such sum or sums of
money as shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of public assistance,
including cost of administration, under the provisions of this law within
such county or city. Such governing bodies may also appropriate such
sum or sums of money as shall be sufficient to provide for the full range
of welfare and social services for children and adults as may be required
by federal legislation for reimbursement thereunder. The respective gov-
erning bodies of the counties and cities * shall appropriate such sum or
sums of money as shall be sufficient to provide for the foster care of
children in the custody or under the supervision of the local boards of
public welfare.

§ 63-110. Allocations by State Board.—The State Board shall de-
termine what portion of the funds appropriated by the General Assembly
shall be used for each of the various public welfare and assistance pro-
grams * including costs of administration and shall allocate the funds
accordingly. The State Board may during any fiscal year make such
changes in such allocations as it shall deem proper. Provided. however,
that the original annual allocation of general relief funds to the several
counties and cities shall be on the basis of population as shown by the
last preceding United States Census or on the basis of population as shown
by the last preceding estimate published by the Institute of Government
of the University of Virginia, whichever ts most current. If the popula-
tion of any city has been, since the last preceding * estimate, or shall
hereafter be increased through the annexation of any territory, such in-
crease shall for the purpose of this law, be added to the population of
such city as shown by the last preceding * estimate, and a proper reduc-
tion made in the population of the county or counties from which the
annexed territory was or is acquired. In case any such general relief funds
are not required by any county or city, the State Board may, during the
fiscal year, make subsequent allocations to the localities on the basis of
need goithin the respective localities.
§ 63-115. Eligibility for assistance.—An aged person shall be eligi-
ble for assistance if he

(a) Has attained the age of sixty-five years;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for such assistance;

(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance * ;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, municipal,
state, or national institution at the time of receiving such assistance
(except as a patient in a public medical institution); such an inmate may
however make application for old age assistance, but such assistance, if
granted shall not begin until after he ceases to be such inmate; provided
that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or other appropriate
federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appropriated by Con-
gress to be used for assistance to aged persons who are inmates of public
institutions, then being an inmate of any such institution shall not dis-
qualify any such person for assistance;

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for old age assistance under this law at any time
within five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such assistance;

* * *

§ 63-140.2:1. Meaning of medical care or treatment.—Medical care
or treatment as used in this chapter shall mean and include inpatient hos-
pital care and treatment, outpatient hospital and clinical care and treat-
ment, nursing home care, services by a physician holding a license to
practice medicine, services, exclusive of making or providing new dentures,
of a person licensed to practice dentistry, services of a professional nurse
or registered practical nurse, as defined in Chapter 13 (§ 54-326 et seq.)
of Title 54 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, * pharmaceuticals fur-
nished on a written prescription and such other medical supplies and serv-
ices as may be defined by the State Board in conformance with federal
medical care programs.

63-205. Eligibility for relief—A person shall be eligible for gen-
eral relief if such person * is needy and is in need of public relief.