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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77185</law_id><section_number>23.1-705</section_number><catch_line>Board actions not a debt of Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="23.1">Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Students and Campus</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Commonwealth Savers Plan and Able Savings Trust Accounts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> As used in this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">current obligations of the Plan</span>&#x201D; means amounts required for the payment of <span class="dictionary">contract</span> benefits or other obligations of the Plan, the maintenance of the Plan, and operating expenses for the current biennium. <a id="paragraph-276876" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-705/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No act or undertaking of the <span class="dictionary">board</span> is a debt or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, and all such acts and undertakings are payable solely from the Plan. <a id="paragraph-276877" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-705/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection B, in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to ensure that the Plan is able to meet its current obligations, the Governor shall include in the budget bills submitted pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Budget Bill" href="/2.2-1509/">2.2-1509</a> a sum sufficient appropriation for the purpose of ensuring that the Plan can meet the <span class="dictionary">current obligations of the Plan</span>. Any sums appropriated by the General Assembly for such purpose shall be deposited into the Fund. All amounts paid into the Fund pursuant to this subsection shall constitute and be accounted for as advances by the Commonwealth to the Plan and, subject to the rights of the Plan&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">contract</span> holders, shall be repaid to the Commonwealth without interest from available operating revenue of the Plan in excess of amounts required for the payment of <span class="dictionary">current obligations of the Plan</span>. <a id="paragraph-276878" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/23.1-705/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1994, c. 661, &#xA7; 23-38.78; 1998, c. 373; 2000, cc. 382, 400; 2016, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
