SD11 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Funding of the Transportation of Handicapped Children

  • Published: 1983
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying the Funding of the Transportation of Handicapped Children
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 68 (Regular Session, 1982)

Executive Summary:
The Joint Subcommittee Studying the Funding of the Transportation of Handicapped Children was authorized to conduct its study by Senate Joint Resolution No. 68 agreed to during the 1982 Session of the General Assembly. The resolution may be found in the appendices of this report.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 68, 1982 requested that the Joint Subcommittee:

1. Study the mechanism for reimbursement to school divisions for the transportation of handicapped children.

2. Study the equity of the reimbursements to rural and urban school divisions and alternative methods of reimbursement or of managing such transportation.

Appointed to serve on the Joint Subcommittee were: Stanley C. Walker of Norfolk, Chairman from the Senate Committee on Education and Health; Charles J. Colgan of Manassas and Dudley J. Emick, Jr., of Fincastle from the Senate Committee on Finance; George P. Beard, Jr., of Culpeper and V. Thomas Forehand, Jr., of Chesapeake from the House Committee on Education; anp Dorothy S. McDiarmid of Vienna, Vice-Chairman, Alan A. Diamonstein of Newport News and Robert E. Harris of Fairfax from the House Committee on Appropriations.