Central Appropriations [995]
Secretarial Area: Central Appropriations
Operating Budget Summary
This table shows the Governor's proposed budget for the next two years and the agency's official budget for the previous six years.
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Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly $20,354,046 $119,423,439 $139,777,485
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly $335,254,972 $119,327,905 $454,582,877
2016-2018 2017 Chapter 1, 2018 Acts of Assembly $63,495,303 $119,327,905 $182,823,208
2016-2018 2018 Chapter 1, 2018 Acts of Assembly $368,377,588 $119,827,905 $488,205,493
2018-2020 2019 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly $87,776,606 $122,853,721 $210,630,327
2018-2020 2020 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly $344,190,723 $122,853,721 $467,044,444
2020-2022 2021 Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I ($9,023,428) $72,853,721 $63,830,293
2020-2022 2021 Previous Legislative Appropriation $139,937,585 $72,853,721 $212,791,306
2020-2022 2021 Governor's Amendments ($142,861,013) $0 ($142,861,013)
2020-2022 2021 General Assembly Adjustments ($6,100,000) $0 ($6,100,000)
2020-2022 2022 Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I $336,918,851 $72,853,721 $409,772,572
2020-2022 2022 Previous Legislative Appropriation $225,268,296 $72,853,721 $298,122,017
2020-2022 2022 Governor's Amendments ($18,751,935) $0 ($18,751,935)
2020-2022 2022 General Assembly Adjustments $130,402,490 $0 $130,402,490
Positions Budget Summary
Biennium Fiscal Year Source GF NGF Total
2014-2016 2015 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2014-2016 2016 Chapter 732, 2016 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2017 Chapter 1, 2018 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2016-2018 2018 Chapter 1, 2018 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2018-2020 2019 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2018-2020 2020 Chapter 1283, 2020 Acts of Assembly 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2021 Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2021 Previous Legislative Appropriation 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2021 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2021 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2022 Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2022 Previous Legislative Appropriation 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2022 Governor's Amendments 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020-2022 2022 General Assembly Adjustments 0.00 0.00 0.00
Operating Budget Addenda (in order of greatest impact)
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Convert agency unallotment actions to budget reductions Decision Package
  Converts certain Chapter 1289 operating budget unallotment actions to reductions to be transferred from applicable agency budgets. (Item 482.20)
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($754,015,992) ($1,335,540,477)
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Move reductions to agency budgets Decision Package
  Moves the reductions included in Item 482.20 of the 2020 Special Session Appropriation Act from Central Appropriations to agency budgets.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $562,104,917 $893,668,714
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Restore various reductions (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 482.20 #1c through #46c) Decision Package
  Restore funds for various initiatived originally unallotted in Chapter 1289 (2020) and subsequently reduced in the HB 5005 / SB 5015 introduced (2020 Special Session I). This restoration totlal is a combination of amounts found in the HB 5005 conference report for amendments 482.20 #1c through 482.20 #46c.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $66,856,873 $287,131,960
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Appropriate amounts for state and state supported local employee bonus Decision Package
  Provides funding for a $1,500 bonus for full-time state employees, a $750 bonus for adjunct faculty, and a one and one-half percent of salary bonus to state-supported local employees, effective September 1, 2021. A separate adjustment under Direct Aid to Public Education provides funding for a bonus payment to Standards of Quality-funded instructional and support positions.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $97,756,001
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Health Insurance Premium Holiday (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 477 #1c) Decision Package
  This amendment captures savings of $46.1 million from the general fund in the second year from a health insurance premium holiday covering two pay periods. The premium holiday is possible as a result of a significant increase in the health insurance fund's balances in recent years.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($46,111,165) $0
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Adjust funding for changes in agency information technology costs Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for the general fund share of information technology and telecommunications usage by state agencies. The funding reflects the latest utilization estimates provided by the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and proposed rates for 2022.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $6,082,306 $20,671,594
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Provide funding for marijuana expungement and related legislation Decision Package
  Provides funding for the potential cost of legislation related to expungements of criminal records, including but not limited to automatic expungement of misdemeanor marijuana records.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $5,000,000 $20,000,000
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Reduce Funding for Increase State Health Plan Premiums (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 477 #2c) Decision Package
  This amendment reduces by half the funding provided for the employer share of health insurance premium increases, due to sufficient Health Insurance Fund (HIF) balances. Chapter 1289, 2020 Acts of Assembly reflected a second year increase of 6.7 percent, based on actuarially projected growth in health care costs, enrollment updates, and actual 2019 health care claims expenditures. The HIF balance as of July 2020 was approximately $535.2 million.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($20,613,821)
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One-time Bonus for Law Enforcement Personnel (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 477 #3c) Decision Package
  This amendment provides funding of $10.9 million from the general fund the first year for a $500 one-time bonus payment, to be paid on December 1, 2020, for sworn state law-enforcement personnel of the Department of State Police, the Division of Capitol Police, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and all other state agencies and higher education institutions, as well as sworn state-supported local constitutional officers and their staffs, and regional jail superintendants and their staffs.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $10,949,082 $0
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Provide additional funding for Slavery and Freedom Heritage Site in Richmond Decision Package
  Provides funding available to the City of Richmond for the development of the Slavery and Freedom Heritage Site and improvements to the Slave Trail.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $9,000,000
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CJR Contingency (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 479 #3c) Decision Package
  This amendment provides $6.0 million over the biennium to fund costs associated with any criminal justice reform legislation enacted subsequent to the adoption of the Conference Report for House Bill 5005 and Senate Bill 5015.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $3,000,000 $3,000,000
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Provide funding for the cost of proposed legislation Decision Package
  Provides additional contingency funding to cover the cost of potential legislation enacted by the General Assembly but not directly funded elsewhere in the act.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $5,000,000
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Fund inauguration and transition for statewide elected offices Decision Package
  Funds transition offices and inauguration costs associated with 2021 elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $2,668,552
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Provide additional funding to repay line of credit for agencies' virtualization and cloud-readiness activities Decision Package
  Provides additional funding to repay the Virginia Information Technologies Agency's (VITA) line of credit for agencies' expected virtualization and cloud-readiness activities. The Appropriation Act authorized VITA to fund approved migration expenses on behalf of agencies on its line of credit to facilitate the migration out of the Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions Center (CESC).
 
  FY FY
General Fund $2,246,700 $0
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Funding and language to establish VMI Investigation Team (2020 Special Session Executive Amendment) Decision Package
  This amendment provides funding for an independent, third-party investigation of the culture, traditions, policies, and practices of the Virginia Military Institute.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $1,000,000 $0
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Adjust funding for agency health insurance premium costs Decision Package
  Reduces general fund appropriation provided for the employer share of health insurance premiums. The latest actuarial report projects health insurance costs will increase by approximately 6.4 percent, however, the state Health Insurance Fund is projected to support half of the increase due to lower participant utilization. The actuarially determined rates for the state's self-insured plans are slightly less than 3.2 percent, the rate increase assumed in Chapter 56, 2020 Special Session I, Virginia Acts of Assembly, resulting in savings. The rates for the state's two fully insured plans, Kaiser Permanente and Optima Health, are funded at the contractually determined rates.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($955,401)
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Adjust funding for Line of Duty Act (LODA) premiums based on current enrollment Decision Package
  Adjusts funding to reflect the LODA premiums charged to agencies based on the latest employee enrollment data provided by the Virginia Retirement System.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($413,986) ($413,986)
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Correct funding for Cardinal Financials system agency charge Decision Package
  Corrects funding for the general fund portion of internal service fund charges for the Cardinal Financials system.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $340,252 $328,305
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Adjust funding for agency workers' compensation premiums Decision Package
  Adjusts funding for workers' compensation premiums based on the latest actuarial report. Premiums include the scheduled payback of the working capital advance used to settle workers' compensation claims.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 ($453,376)
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Funding for the Virginia Emancipation and Freedom Monument Decision Package
  Provides funding for the cost of soil sampling associated with the construction of the Virginia Emancipation and Freedom Monument.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $100,000 $0
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Allocation of Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 479.10 #2c) Decision Package
  This amendment allocates remaining Coronavirus Relief Funds and makes technical changes to the authority previously provided related to federal relief funds.
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Amend Tech Talent language to clarify conflicting timelines Decision Package
  Makes a technical language change to clarify conflicting timelines and reporting dates.
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Employee Bonus in Second Year Contingent on Revenues (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 477 #4c) Decision Package
  This amendment provides language authorizing the use of $97.8 million from the general fund for a bonus for state employees and state supported local employees contingent on the final fiscal year 2021 revenues. This amendment also directs the Governor include a salary increase incentive for K-12 instructional and support positions during the second year in the amended budget to be introduced in December 2020, provided sufficient revenue is projected.
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Revert Unexpended Balances in State Covid Relief Fund (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 479 #2c) Decision Package
  This amendment reverts $38.5 million in unallocated general fund balances which were originally appropriated for the emergency response to the COVID pandemic. The funding is not needed due to the availability of federal COVID relief funds.
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Revert World War I and World War II Commemoration Commission Balances (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 479 #1c) Decision Package
  This amendment transfers balances for the World War I and World War II Commemoration Commission to the general fund.
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State COVID-19 Relief Fund (2020 Special Session General Assembly Action - 479.10 #1c) Decision Package
  This amendment provides an appropriation of up to $95.2 million the first year from the COVID-19 Relief Fund in Item 145 for COVID-19 Local Relief Payments to support the local costs of the Standards of Quality.
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Provide Salary Increases for State & State Supported Local Employees General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding and authorization to provide a 5.0 percent salary increase for state employees, adjunct faculty, and state supported local employees. The amendment provides an additional 3.0 percent salary adjustment and a compression adjustment of $100 per year of service for sworn officers of the State Police, and provides additional flexibility to higher education institutions in the provision of the salary increase to non-classified employees. The amendment redirects $97.8 million from the general fund included in the introduced budget for employee bonuses and adds $146.1 million from the general fund to fund the estimated total cost of the salary increases at $243.9 million.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $146,111,498
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Remove and Redirect Funding for Expungement-related and Other Legislation General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes and makes available $36 million included in House Bill 1800/Senate Bill 1100 for marijuana legalization, criminal records expungement and other legislation adopted during the 2020 Special Session I, the 2021 Regular Session, and the 2021 Special Session I of the General Assembly.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($8,000,000) ($28,000,000)
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Provide $1,000 Bonus for Correctional Officers in FY 2022 General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $7.5 million from the general fund in fiscal year 2022 to provide a $1,000 one-time bonus for correctional officers at DOC and DJJ.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $7,457,992
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Initial Funding for the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $3.5 million from the general fund in fiscal year 2022 for the initial operating costs for the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority created pursuant to House Bill 2312/Senate Bill 1406 of the 2021 Special Session I.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $3,500,000
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Provide funding for Workers Compensation and LODA premiums to reflect adopted legislation General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $2.0 million the first year and $76,000 the second year from the general fund pursuant to the passage of legislation during the 2021 General Assembly Session establishing a presumption that COVID-19 is a work related disease for first responders under the Workers' Compensation Act (House Bill 2207 and Senate Bill 1375) and legislation including giving localities the option of adding EMS workers to the workers' compensation presumption clause pursuant to hypertension or heart disease (House Bill 1818 and Senate Bill 1275). The amendment adjusted funding for the state employee workers' compensation premiums as well as the Line of Duty Act program, which is also impacted.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $2,000,000 $76,000
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Fund marijuana prevention and education General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides funding for the planning and implementation of marijuana prevention programs and public health campaigns.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $1,000,000
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HB 2208: Funding to Remove Harry F. Byrd Statue General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment provides $257,000 in the second year from the general fund to remove the statue of Harry F. Byrd from Capitol Square, pursuant to the provisions of House Bill 2208 of the 2021 General Assembly.
 
  FY FY
General Fund $0 $257,000
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Move Funding for Emancipation and Freedom Monument to MLK Commission General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment moves $100,000 in the first year from the general fund for the Emancipation and Freedom Monument to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission in the Legislative Department.
 
  FY FY
General Fund ($100,000) $0
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Additional uses of state COVID-19 Relief Funds General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment appropriates funds from the state COVID-19 Relief Fund, including $36.0 million the first year and $40.0 million the second year for No Loss Payments for school divisions, and $25.0 million for the Rebuild Virginia program. Revenues from games of skill machines are deposited into the COVID-19 Relief Fund.
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Adjustments to spending plan for federal CRF General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment adjusts the spending plan for various programs and uses of the Coronavirus Relief Fund.
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Amend Line of Duty Means Testing and Spouse Exception General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment removes the income testing provision of the Line-of-Duty Act for certain individuals who fall within the definition of disabled person, as defined in § 9.1-400, Code of Virginia and provides that a spouse as of the date of disability of certain disabled persons as defined in §9.1-400, will not lose health insurance coverage upon divorce or remarriage.
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Establish procedures for future federal assistance funds for COVID-19 General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment sets up a fund for receiving additional federal relief funds related to COVID-19 and provides that those funds would need to be appropriated in a general appropriation act before being expended.
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MOU Requirements for Tech Talent grants General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment clarifies proposed technical language regarding eligibility for 'Tech Talent' grants pursuant to the approved Memorandums of Understanding.
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Requirements for funding disbursement for the Slavery and Freedom Heritage Site General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment releases funding for the City of Richmond related to the planning and development of the Slave Trail, and makes any remaining funds for the planning and development of the Slavery and Freedom Heritage Site and Lumpkins Pavilion available after the City delivers planning information related to such projects to the Department of General Services.
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Update aspects of federal CRF language General Assembly Adjustment
  This amendment allows money for the utility assistance program funded with federal Coronavirus Relief Funds to be applied to a customer's account more than once. In addition, it updates the timing of certain actions related to unspent federal Coronavirus Relief Funds due to the recent extension of their use by Congress.


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