• |
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Adjusts appropriation for the changes in information technology costs budgeted in Central Appropriations, Items 468.M. and 470.B. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,259,227 |
$1,259,227 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,106,360 |
$2,106,360 |
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• |
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Moves savings budgeted centrally in Paragraph A, Item 471.10, Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly from Central Appropriations to the individual budgets of state agencies. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($3,225,307) |
($3,225,307) |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for changes in state employee retirement rates to 80 percent of the Virginia Retirement System Board certified rates budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.H. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. A companion adjustment provides funding to increase state employee retirement rates to 90 percent of the Virginia Retirement System Board certified rate. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$675,916 |
$675,916 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,344,714 |
$2,344,714 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for the two percent salary increase for state supported local employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.R. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$2,175,235 |
$2,175,235 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for the two percent salary increase for state employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.P. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$530,093 |
$530,093 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,552,277 |
$1,552,277 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for changes in employee retirement rates to 90 percent of the Virginia Retirement System Board certified rate budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.U. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$422,614 |
$422,614 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,218,634 |
$1,218,634 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for the compression pay adjustment for state employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.Q. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$389,982 |
$389,982 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,141,991 |
$1,141,991 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for the employer’s share of health insurance premiums budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.G. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$246,543 |
$246,543 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$991,161 |
$991,161 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation to agencies to offset increases in internal service fund costs due to the salary and benefit adjustments in Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$44,959 |
$44,959 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$75,204 |
$75,204 |
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• |
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Adjusts appropriation for changes in state employee other post employment benefit rates budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.K.3. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$26,504 |
$26,504 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$91,945 |
$91,945 |
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• |
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|
Adjusts appropriation for changes in state supported local employee other post employment benefit rates budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 467.K.4. of Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($22,627) |
($22,627) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($21,740) |
($21,740) |
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• |
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Adds funding for cover the cost of providing foster care and adoption subsidy payments. Based on recent expenditure trends and the impact of child welfare policy changes, this amendment adjusts appropriation to cover the necessary costs of providing payments to foster care and adoptive families. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$5,919,802 |
$5,919,802 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$10,775,980 |
$10,775,980 |
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• |
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Provides funding to meet projected VITA and other information systems costs resulting from the transition of the Virginia Case Management System (VaCMS) from development to full operational status. This request includes funding for eight positions scheduled to be removed in FY 2018. By FY 2018, there is an annual funding reduction of $19.9 million due to the removal of all VaCMS base development funding. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$3,452,065 |
($4,046,271) |
Nongeneral Fund |
$961,620 |
($15,844,295) |
Positions |
0.00 |
8.00 |
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• |
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|
Appropriates new federal grant funds awarded to the Department of Social Services (DSS) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). The goal of this federally funded program is to increase the number of SNAP work registrants who obtain unsubsidized employment, increase the earned income of work registrants, and reduce the reliance of work registrants on public assistance. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$8,354,023 |
$8,316,144 |
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• |
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|
Provides additional resources for local workers to handle a portion of the increased volume of applications associated with an expansion of Medicaid. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,402,388 |
$2,179,438 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$4,097,172 |
$6,367,376 |
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• |
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|
Increases funding for programs following the Healthy Families America home visiting model from $4.3 million in Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) funds to $11.55 million in TANF funds annually. |
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FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$6,750,000 |
$6,750,000 |
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• |
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|
Provides appropriation to cover the nongeneral fund cost of increasing employee benefits. Agencies were provided the general fund share of centrally budgeted items, such as the recent salary increase, health insurance premiums, employee retirement. This technical adjustment ensures that sufficient nongeneral fund appropriation is available to fund that portion of these expenses. |
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FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$6,284,710 |
$6,284,710 |
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• |
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|
Updates appropriation to properly account for the anticipated cost of providing mandated TANF benefits. Benefits include cash assistance payments, employment services and child care. The amendment also provides for a three percent caseload reserve. |
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FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
($5,048,477) |
($5,048,477) |
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• |
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|
Makes funding available to expand foster care and adoption subsidies to age 21 per federal Fostering Connections provision beginning in FY 2016. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,015,451 |
$2,925,954 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$999,050 |
$2,886,611 |
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• |
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|
Appropriates $2.8 million from the Child Care and Development Block Grant in FY 2017 and FY 2018 for child care information technology needs including maintenance and enhancements to the child care module of the Virginia Case Management System (VaCMS) and Electronic Payment Processing and Information Control (EPPIC) system and the EPPIC annual swipe card contract. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,800,000 |
$2,800,000 |
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• |
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|
Appropriates general fund for a mandated increase in child welfare services expenditures. Public Law (P.L.) 110-351 created a change in Title IV-E program eligibility criteria which allows some children, who previously were not IV-E eligible, to now qualify for IV-E which has a 50 percent federal financial participation rate. Currently these children are in the state adoption program, which is funded with 100 percent general fund. This change requires Title IV-E agencies to spend all savings generated from implementing the revised adoption assistance eligibility criteria on child welfare services that may be provided under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act. The estimated cost of the Department’s mandated increase in child welfare services expenditures is $1.4 million in FY 2017 and $2.1 million in FY 2018. These costs must be reinvested by the Department as required by law. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,417,846 |
$2,126,769 |
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• |
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|
Provides appropriation for the nongeneral fund increases needed to offset the general fund decreases as a result of the Department’s savings strategies. The requisite nongeneral fund appropriation for those strategies that supplanted general funds with federal funds was not provided in central appropriations adjustments. |
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FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,444,621 |
$1,444,621 |
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• |
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|
Raises maximum maintenance payments made to foster family homes on behalf of foster children by two percent. Appropriation Act language requires an automatic adjustment for inflation be applied to the maximum room and board rates paid to foster parents in the fiscal year following a state employee pay raise. As state employees and state supported local employees received, on average, the equivalent of a two percent raise in August 2015; this addendum provides a similar percent increase to foster care rates beginning in FY 2017. This increase is also assumed for adoption subsidy funding to ensure that adoption subsidies keep pace with foster family rates and to avoid any disincentives to adoption. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$826,419 |
$826,419 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$586,093 |
$586,093 |
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• |
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|
Provides additional general fund to cover 24 percent of the salary and compression increases that would otherwise be funded by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) retained collections. There are insufficient TANF retained collections to cover the portion of the salary increase for DCSE staff funded by retained collections. Additional general fund is needed to cover the TANF retained collections share of the salary and compression increases for DCSE employees, including to fund Attorney General salary realignments. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$537,220 |
$537,220 |
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• |
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|
Removes $0.5 million of general fund savings in the auxiliary grant (AG) program based on the latest spending projections. The auxiliary grant program is appropriated $22.4 million general fund. Due to fewer individuals participating in the auxiliary grant program, it is estimated that the program will only spend $21.9 million annually. This strategy will have no impact on clients or services. |
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|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($500,000) |
($500,000) |
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• |
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Reflects the agency's share of the costs of the new Cardinal accounting system. The Department of Accounts allocates the yearly cost of the system to agencies based upon the number of transactions the agency completed in the previous fiscal year. |
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|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$48,862 |
$51,648 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$197,529 |
$208,532 |
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• |
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|
Appropriates three positions and additional nongeneral funds to cover the costs of providing fingerprint background checks to childcare providers not identified in § 63.2-1721.1, Code of Virginia. The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 (CCDBG) mandates that states receiving block grant funds require national fingerprint background checks for all child care providers who are licensed, regulated, registered under state law or who receive CCDBG funds. Fingerprint check requirements in the Code address the federal fingerprint check mandate for licensed child day centers and licensed family day homes only. All costs will be funded by fee revenue generated from background checks. Fees for background checks will be adjusted as needed to recover costs. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$199,922 |
$184,433 |
Positions |
3.00 |
3.00 |
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• |
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|
Moves appropriation that is inappropriately allocated to the Department of Social Services (DSS) to the Office of Comprehensive Services for several central appropriations amendments included in Chapter 665, 2015 Acts of Assembly. The Office of Comprehensive Services was previously funded as a service area in DSS's administrative program. Because of the information used to calculate some of the central appropriations adjustments, the new funds were incorrectly assigned to DSS. This adjustment corrects the error for FY 2016. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($80,295) |
($80,295) |
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• |
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|
Removes Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding for Visions of Truth Community Development Corporation ($25,000 NGF) and Zion Innovative Opportunities Network ($25,000 NGF) in Item 341 of the 2015 Appropriation Act. The services provided do not relate directly to employment and training and therefore fall into the TANF category of "non-assistance" where few outcome based measures are possible. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
($50,000) |
($50,000) |
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• |
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|
Supports the agency's workers' compensation premiums based on the allocation of program costs provided by the Department of Human Resource Management. The allocation is based on the historical experience of the agency and reflects the current policy of providing agencies with 50 percent of any increased costs and allowing agencies to retain 50 percent of any reduced costs. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$10,600 |
$11,271 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$33,166 |
$36,789 |
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• |
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|
Moves appropriation between service areas to align the program budget with anticipated expenditures. The department recently reorganized its program support division to facilitate changes in business operations related to the implementation of the eligibility systems modernization project. This has resulted in the need to adjust agency appropriations between service areas in the budget. This action nets to zero. |
• |
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|
Moves appropriation between service areas to align the program budget with anticipated expenditures. The department received an appropriation in FY 2016 to implement legislation pertaining to the operation and oversight of family day homes and child day centers. This has resulted in the need to adjust agency appropriations between service areas in the budget. This action nets to zero. |
• |
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Moves appropriation between funds to align the program budget with anticipated expenditures. This action nets to zero. |
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Eliminates Appropriation Act language that requires annual reporting by the Department of Social Services (DSS) on the sliding fee scale and eligibility criteria for the Child Care Subsidy Program and Appropriation Act language that requires a prioritized list of funding requests to address the space needs of local departments of social services (LDSS). |
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This amendment eliminates $1.4 million the first year and $2.2 million the second year from the general fund and $4.1 million the first year and $6.4 million the second year from nongeneral funds for an expected increased in Medicaid eligibility processing by local departments of social services. A proposal to expand Medicaid pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contained in the introduced budget would have required additional eligibility processing of Medicaid applications. A companion amendment in Item 306 eliminates Medicaid expansion. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($1,402,388) |
($2,179,438) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($4,097,172) |
($6,367,376) |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment is technical and adjusts the appropriation for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program to accurately reflect the amount projected for TANF child care subsidies. In addition, language is modified to reflect the balance in the TANF program at the end of fiscal year 2016, 2017 and 2018 based on actions taken in companion amendments in Items 295, 342 and 348. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
($5,000,000) |
($5,000,000) |
|
• |
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|
This amendment provides $1.0 million each year from the general fund and $3.3 million each year from nongeneral funds for local departments of social services administrative operations for Medicaid application and renewal processing. Local departments have experienced an increased volume of applications for Medicaid as a result of open enrollment on the federal exchange and a subsequent increase in Medicaid applications. Consequently, local departments are struggling to complete Medicaid renewal applications. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,000,000 |
$1,000,000 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$3,250,000 |
$3,250,000 |
|
• |
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|
This amendment adds $4.8 million the second year from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant and language to require the Department of Social Services to provide TANF recipients with two or more children a monthly TANF supplemental payment equal to any child support payments received on their behalf up to $200. This amount would not be counted in determining eligibility for Medicaid. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$4,800,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment increases the cash benefit for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program by 2.5 percent on July 1, 2016. The current monthly TANF benefit averages $259 per month for a family. Since 1995 when TANF was created, there have only been two increases in the benefit, the most recent was 2.5 percent on January 1, 2016. The funding is from the federal TANF block grant. |
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FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,215,665 |
$2,437,332 |
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• |
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This amendment provides $2.3 million per year in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding for Community Action Agencies. This additional funding will assist the agencies in meeting the needs of low-income individuals and families and allow them to use Community Services Block Grant funding to comply with new federal organizational standards. These standards include critical financial and administrative requirements related to modernizing the agencies to provider higher quality programs and services to low-income individuals. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,250,000 |
$2,250,000 |
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• |
|
|
This amendment provides $2.0 million each year from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to provide job training at Virginia community colleges for TANF recipients. Currently, three community colleges offer this service. This funding would allow the services to be offered at five additional community colleges. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,000,000 |
$2,000,000 |
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• |
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This amendment reduces $2.0 million each year from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant for Healthy Families. The introduced budget increased TANF funding for Healthy Families from $4.3 million to $11.0 million. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
($2,000,000) |
($2,000,000) |
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• |
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This amendment provides an additional $1.0 million each year from federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) funds to expand services for victims of domestic violence. This brings the total annual amount budgeted for these services to $1.3 million from the general fund and $3.3 million in TANF funds. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,000,000 |
$1,000,000 |
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• |
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This amendment provides $1.0 million each year from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant for the Virginia Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs for prevention and mentoring programs for at-risk children who are eligible for TANF. |
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|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$1,000,000 |
$1,000,000 |
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• |
|
|
This amendment revises expenditures for the Unemployed Parent Program in the Department of Social Services. Caseloads are declining, consequently funding is reduced by $500,000 from the general fund each year. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($500,000) |
($500,000) |
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• |
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This amendment reduces $350,825 from the general fund and $504,843 from nongeneral funds for eight positions related to the eligibility modernization project. At the beginning of the project these staff were added to prevent existing staff from being overburdened with the project in addition of their normal duties. The original plan was to phase out these positions in fiscal year 2018. |
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|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$0 |
($350,825) |
Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
($504,843) |
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• |
|
|
This amendment provides $300,000 each year from the general fund for Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia to handle the increase in caseloads and coverage areas. |
|
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$300,000 |
$300,000 |
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• |
|
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This amendment provides $250,000 from the general fund each year to contract with Birmingham Green which provides residential services to a disproportionate number of low-income individuals with mental illness or an intellectual disability. |
|
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$250,000 |
$250,000 |
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• |
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This amendment provides $50,000 from the general fund and $450,000 from nongeneral fund the first year for the Department of Social Services to automate the verification of zero-income reported on Medicaid applications with available data sources. The funding is one-time to cover the costs of the change to the eligibility system. A companion amendment in Item 310 directs changes to improve the eligibility verification process. |
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FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$50,000 |
$0 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$450,000 |
$0 |
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• |
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This amendment provides additional authority to implement the Fostering Futures program. The introduced budget provided funding and limited language to implement the program. |
• |
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This amendment eliminates a report on the Department Social Services' efforts to increase adoptions of children from foster care. This report was added in the 2015 Session and required the report be submitted on November 1, 2015. However, in the introduced budget this reporting requirement was changed to be an annual report. Since that was not the intent, this amendment eliminates the report. |
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This amendment requires the Department of Social Services to conduct a pilot project on data collection and reporting for local departments of social services regarding facilitated care arrangements. The language directs the department to determine the best way to collect and report the data statewide. |
• |
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This amendment adds language directing the Department of Social Services to provide a report on the asset verification service on September 1, 2016 and develop a plan to incorporate searchable national real estate records as part of the service as soon as the data are available. |
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This amendment directs the Department of Social Services to work with Patrick Henry Family Services to implement a pilot program that provides short-term custody of minors to families involved with the pilot organization. The purpose of this pilot program is to evaluate a short-term model of temporary custody for families in crisis to help assist families from breaking up and children being moved into the foster care system. |