HB 1025

            
2020 SESSION

20107016D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1025

AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE

(Proposed by the House Committee on Health, Welfare and
Institutions

on February 4, 2020)

(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Adams, L.R.)

A BILL to require the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative
Services and law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth to make information
about vocational rehabilitation programs and employment services available to
certain law-enforcement officers.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. � 1. That the Department for Aging and
Rehabilitative Services shall make information regarding vocational
rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former
law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service
with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including
information on the types of programs available and the process by which former
law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service can
access such programs and services, available to law-enforcement agencies in the
Commonwealth.

� 2. That every law-enforcement agency in the Commonwealth
shall provide to every law-enforcement officer who separates from the agency
due to a disability resulting from his service information regarding vocational
rehabilitation programs and employment services available to assist former
law-enforcement officers who have a disability as a result of their service
with preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining suitable employment, including
information on the types of programs available and the process by which such
law-enforcement officers may access such programs and services.