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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85064</law_id><section_number>22.1-93</section_number><catch_line>Approval of annual budget for school purposes</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-2506</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Public School Funds</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">State and Local Funds</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, including but not limited to Chapter 25 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Uniform fiscal year for all localities and school divisions" href="/15.2-2500/">15.2-2500</a> et seq.) of Title 15.2, the governing body of a county and the governing body of a municipality shall each prepare and approve an annual budget for educational purposes by May 15 or within 30 days of the receipt by the county or municipality of the estimates of state funds, whichever shall later occur. Upon approval, each local school division shall publish the approved annual budget in line item form, including the estimated required local match, on the division&#x2019;s website, and the document shall also be made available in hard copy as needed to citizens for inspection.
		The <span class="dictionary">Superintendent</span> of Public Instruction shall, no later than the fifteenth day following final adjournment of the Virginia General Assembly in each session, submit estimates to be used for budgetary purposes relative to the Basic School Aid Formula to each school division and to the <span class="dictionary">local governing body</span> of each county, city and town that operates a separate school division. Such estimates shall be for each year of the next biennium or for the then next fiscal year.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-127; 1956, Ex. Sess., c. 67; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 79, &#xA7; 1; 1968, c. 614; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 162; 1975, c. 443; 1978, c. 551; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 541; 2008, cc. 353, 404; 2009, c. 280; 2011, c. 216; 2015, cc. 143, 370, 371.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
