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All funds appropriated for such purpose and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds received on its behalf shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for the purposes of providing matching funds to localities or entities previously outlined in a local shelter plan to install, maintain, or repair infrastructure for backup energy generation for emergency shelters, including solar energy generators, and improve the hazard-specific structural integrity of shelter facilities owned by the locality or identified in the shelter plan of the locality. Expenditures and disbursements from the Fund shall be made by the State Treasurer on warrants issued by the Comptroller upon written request signed by the Director of Emergency Management or, if designated, the State Coordinator of Emergency Management.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1355319,"text":"There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund, referred to in this section as &#8220;the Fund.&#8221; The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All funds appropriated for such purpose and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds received on its behalf shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0819\">819<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d 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 \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2022, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0337\">337<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1449415,"object_type":"law","relational_id":363814,"identifier":"44-146.29:3","token":"44\/3.2\/44-146.29_3","url":"\/44-146.29_3\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/44-146.29_3\/","token":"44\/3.2\/44-146.29_3","dublin_core":{"Title":"Emergency Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 44-146.29:3","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the <span class=\"dictionary\">Emergency<\/span> Shelters Upgrade Assistance Grant Fund, referred to in this section as &#8220;the Fund.&#8221; The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. 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Interest earned on moneys\nin the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining\nin the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall\nnot revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Moneys in the Fund\nshall be used solely for the purposes of providing matching funds to localities\nor entities previously outlined in a local shelter plan to install, maintain, or\nrepair infrastructure for backup energy generation for emergency shelters,\nincluding solar energy generators, and improve the hazard-specific structural\nintegrity of shelter facilities owned by the locality or identified in the\nshelter plan of the locality. Expenditures and disbursements from the Fund shall\nbe made by the State Treasurer on warrants issued by the Comptroller upon\nwritten request signed by the Director of Emergency Management or, if\ndesignated, the State Coordinator of Emergency Management.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, c. 819; 2022, c. 337.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}