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.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 23.1-616

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization

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