Code of Virginia § 22.1-129.1. Transfer of assistive technology devices.
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A. For the purposes of this section:
"Assistive technology device" means any device, including equipment or a product system, which is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability. Assistive technology device shall not include surgically implanted medical devices, such as cochlear implants.
"Child with a disability" means the same as that term is defined in § 22.1-213 .
"Transfer" means the process by which a school division that has purchased an assistive technology device may sell, lease, donate, or loan the device pursuant to subsection B.
B. An assistive technology device may be transferred to
(i)the school division to which a child with a disability transfers from the school division that purchased the device;
(ii)a state agency, including the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, that provides services to a child with a disability following the child's graduation or when a school division ceases to provide special education services for the student; or
(iii)the parents of a child with a disability, or the child with a disability if the child with a disability is age 18 or older and has capacity to enter into a contract.
2012, c. 214 ; 2016, cc. 720 , 750 .