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§ 23.1-616 Stephen J. Wright Scholars Program established

The Graduate Student Recruitment Program and the Southern Regional Education Board Minority Doctoral Program established in the general appropriation act are renamed and established as the Stephen J. Wright Scholars Program for the purpose of fostering scholarship among the Commonwealth’s graduate students and retaining the Commonwealth’s outstanding and promising young adults through awards based on scholarship and achievement.

History

This law was first created in 1997. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 713 and 746 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2016, chapter 588.

1997, cc. 713, 746, § 23-38.53:11; 2016, c. 588.

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