2006 Code of Virginia § 51.5-33 - Powers and duties

51.5-33. Powers and duties.

The Board shall have the following powers and duties:

1. To advise the Secretary of Health and Human Resources and Governor onissues and problems of interest to persons with disabilities and on suchother matters as either the Secretary or the Governor may request;

2. To submit biennially to the Governor, through the Secretary of Health andHuman Resources, an assessment of the needs of persons with disabilities inthe Commonwealth, the success in the preceding biennium of the state agenciesin meeting those needs, programmatic and fiscal recommendations for improvingthe delivery of services to persons with disabilities, and an assessment ofthe biennial economic cost and benefit to the Commonwealth of the servicesand rights afforded persons with disabilities as established in this title;

3. To initiate the development of the plan of cooperation required by 51.5-2;

4. To serve as the State Planning Council for the administration of certainfederal public health and welfare laws as provided in 6000 of Title 42 ofthe United States Code;

5. To perform all duties and exercise all powers designated by federal lawfor such state planning councils, including the responsibility for planningactivities on behalf of all developmentally disabled persons in theCommonwealth; for receiving, accounting for and disbursing federal funds; fordeveloping and approving the state plan; and for monitoring and evaluatingthe implementation of such plan for the provision of services and facilitiesfor persons with developmental disabilities;

6. To be responsible for obtaining information and data from within theCommonwealth, and from time to time, but not less than annually, to reviewand evaluate the state plan and submit such state plan, and revisionsthereto, to the Governor and to the U.S. Secretary of Health and HumanServices;

7. To appoint and supervise the Director of the Board and prescribe hisduties;

8. To hire such staff and obtain the service of such professional, technical,and clerical personnel necessary to carry out its powers and duties; and

9. To accept gifts and grants on behalf of the Commonwealth, in furtheranceof the purpose of this Board.

(1985, c. 421, 51.01-33; 1990, c. 458; 1992, c. 627; 1995, c. 34.)