                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TRANSFER OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES (§ 22.1-129.1)

A. For the purposes of this section:
			&#8220;Assistive technology device&#8221; 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.
			&#8220;Child with a disability&#8221; means the same as that term is defined
in &#xA7; 22.1-213.
			&#8220;Transfer&#8221; 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&#8217;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.

HISTORY: 2012, c. 214; 2016, cc. 720, 750.