SD17 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Placement of Handicapped Children in Residential Facilities

  • Published: 1983
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying the Placement of Handicapped Children in Residential Facilities
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 43 (Regular Session, 1982)

Executive Summary:
During the 1982 Session of the General Assembly, two identical resolutions, senate Joint Resolution No. 43 and House Joint Resolution No. 74, focused on the problems in placing handicapped students in residential facilities, were introduced and passed. Prior to this time, the Education of the Handicapped study had been investigating special education issues including some of the problems noted in these two resolutions. Therefore, each of the resolutions contains a reference to the previous study, which indicates that the Joint Subcommittee appointed under their auspices should include the members of the Joint Subcommittee Studying Education of the Handicapped pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 36 of 1980.

The Subcommittee was composed of ten members, two from Senate Education and Health, one from senate Finance, one from senate Rehabilitation and Social services, three from House Education, two from House Health, Welfare and Institutions and one from House Appropriations. The Subcommittee members who were also on the Education of the Handicapped Subcommittee were: senators Thomas J. Michie, Jr., Chairman, Adelard L. Brault, John H. Chichester and Oive L. DuVal, 2d; Delegates Alan A. Diamonstein, Dorothy S. McDiarmid and Arthur R. Giesen, Jr. The other members were: Delegates Mary Sue Terry, Vice-Chairman, Benjamin J. Lambert, III, and Mary A. Marshall.