• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for the five percent salary increase for state-supported local employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 T. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$14,511,632 |
$14,511,632 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for the five percent salary increase for state employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 S. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$5,290,983 |
$5,290,983 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$6,674,412 |
$6,674,412 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for changes to information technology and telecommunications usage budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 C. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$3,058,949 |
$3,058,949 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$3,791,442 |
$3,791,442 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for property insurance premiums billed by the Department of the Treasury’s Division of Risk Management budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 J. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$802,614 |
$802,614 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$994,469 |
$994,469 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for the employer’s share of health insurance premiums budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 G. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$275,757 |
$275,757 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$577,544 |
$577,544 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for changes to Cardinal Financials System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 F. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$71,821 |
$71,821 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$251,036 |
$251,036 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for information technology auditors and information security officers budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 E. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$153,481 |
$153,481 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$108,157 |
$108,157 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for changes to Cardinal Human Capital Management System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 G. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$101,225 |
$101,225 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$127,613 |
$127,613 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for to increased charges to customer agencies for the Department of General Services to perform lease administration services. budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 485 K. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$30,605 |
$30,605 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$62,899 |
$62,899 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for changes to Performance Budgeting system internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 H. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($11,023) |
($11,023) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($53,756) |
($53,756) |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for Personnel Management Information System internal service fund charges budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 484 I. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($7,116) |
($7,116) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($14,959) |
($14,959) |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for workers’ compensation premiums budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 P. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($5,392) |
($5,392) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($6,444) |
($6,444) |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation to reflect the increase in the Virginia minimum wage effective January 1, 2023, and budgeted in Central Appropriations, Item 483 R. of Chapter 2, 2022 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. The amounts provided support the annualized general fund cost of increasing the Virginia minimum wage from $11.00 per hour to $12.00 per hour or the equivalent annual salary of $24,960. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$718 |
$718 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$906 |
$906 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides additional federal appropriation for the refugee resettlement program due to an increase in the federal award. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$46,500,000 |
$46,500,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Funds the nongeneral fund portion of the salary increases for state-supported local employees and increases the federal appropriation for pass through funding at local departments of social services. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$42,597,179 |
$42,597,179 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Increases the auxiliary grant rate for assisted living facilities from $1,609 per month to $2,055 per month. The state provides 80 percent of the funding for this program, with a 20 percent local match. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$14,500,000 |
$14,500,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Updates appropriation to properly account for the anticipated cost of providing mandated Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits. Benefits include cash assistance payments, employment services, and Virginia Initiative for Education and Work child care. This package also includes adjustments to the Unemployed Parents program. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($1,046,220) |
($2,642,374) |
Nongeneral Fund |
$10,628,003 |
$12,082,951 |
|
• |
|
|
Increases funding for the income verification for benefits contract to account for cost increases related to the contract renewal. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$5,957,200 |
$5,957,200 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$5,957,200 |
$5,957,200 |
|
• |
|
|
Corrects the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant annual shortfall in appropriation in 2025 and structural shortfall in 2026 and beyond. Moves funding for Early Impact to the general fund beginning in 2025 and for employment and training grants to the general fund beginning in 2026. There are corresponding packages at the Virginia Department of Health that move funding for the Families Forward and Resource Mothers to the general fund beginning in 2025 and Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives and other contraceptives to the general fund beginning in 2026. Also removes unused appropriation for Family Restoration Services in Hampton, Portsmouth Volunteers for the Homeless, and Menchville House. Removes funding in 2026 for the Two Family/Whole Generation pilot ending in 2025. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$600,000 |
$9,600,000 |
Nongeneral Fund |
($1,010,000) |
($11,135,000) |
|
• |
|
|
Reduces unspent appropriation for the implementation of the federal Family First Prevention Services Act. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($5,000,000) |
($5,000,000) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($5,000,000) |
($5,000,000) |
|
• |
|
|
Updates funding for the development of an updated child support information system. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$15,542,337 |
($4,091,339) |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts funding for 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 the appropriation for the necessary costs of providing payments to foster care and adoptive families. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,541,391 |
$1,653,727 |
Nongeneral Fund |
($6,448,755) |
($6,561,091) |
|
• |
|
|
Provides additional funding to sustain the relative maintenance payment program at current rates. Also provides funding for kinship and alternate living arrangement supports. There are corresponding packages at Virginia State Police and Office of Children's Services. One position is funded to provide staff assistance for relative maintenance payments means testing. Funds are also included to provide $250 bonus payments to local departments of social services for certain kinship foster care placements. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$8,125,922 |
$7,840,439 |
Positions |
1.00 |
1.00 |
|
• |
|
|
Raises maximum maintenance payments made to foster family homes on behalf of foster children by seven percent. 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 |
$3,486,235 |
$3,486,235 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$3,119,354 |
$3,119,354 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding for the administrative portion of the new permanent summer EBT program for children. This program was made permanent by the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$2,883,149 |
$2,545,649 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,883,149 |
$2,545,649 |
Positions |
1.00 |
1.00 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Raises the maximum payments for foster care families and adoption assistance by five percent. The Act requires that rates be increased in the year following a salary increase provided to state employees. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$2,287,785 |
$2,287,785 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$2,001,186 |
$2,001,186 |
|
• |
|
|
Adjusts appropriation for the two percent salary increase for state and state supported local employees budgeted in Central Appropriations, Paragraphs S, T, U, and V of Item 483, Chapter 1, 2023 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$4,259,978 |
$4,259,978 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding for a public media campaign to promote responsible and involved fatherhood and to develop and implement educational programming and support services for fathers. Educational materials will be developed and disseminated to local departments of social services and other applicable agencies. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,500,000 |
$2,500,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Funds an increase to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Electronic Benefit Transfer contract. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$590,889 |
$832,889 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$590,889 |
$832,889 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding to meet the terms of the settlement agreement with the federal government for benefits overissuance amounts from fall 2021. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,438,312 |
$1,338,312 |
|
• |
|
|
Recognizes savings from an annual rent reduction related to the agency's central office move. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($525,158) |
($525,158) |
Nongeneral Fund |
($787,737) |
($787,737) |
|
• |
|
|
Transfers funding from the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide housing supports to youth aging out of foster care. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$564,000 |
$564,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding for the Judge Swett Learning Center to promote vocational and educational classes for ex-offenders. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$500,000 |
$500,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding to address a rise in adult protective services calls to the hotline. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$246,548 |
$246,548 |
|
• |
|
|
Adds five full-time positions to convert part-time SNAP evaluation reviewer positions. This conversion will allow for more comprehensive monitoring of and compliance with the federal SNAP program. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$113,224 |
$113,224 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$113,224 |
$113,224 |
Positions |
5.00 |
5.00 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. Provides funding to support the Youth for Tomorrow organization. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides funding to background check all local departments of social services employees, contractors, and candidates for employment. Once all employees are background checked, the department can utilize the federal Income Eligibility Verification System during the determination of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program eligibility. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$72,215 |
$0 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$104,660 |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides one-time funding for the department to initiate a pilot program to send a text message to Medicaid recipients prior to renewal to determine if continued enrollment is desired. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$50,000 |
$0 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$50,000 |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
Provides flexibility to continue the systems build without additional potential delays stemming from requesting appropriation carryforward through the discretionary process or through the budget process. |
• |
|
|
Transfers funding and positions between programs due to agency reorganization. This will reduce the need for administrative adjustments during the budget year. |
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $3.5 million the first year and $350,000 the second year from both the general fund and nongeneral funds to replace the benefits eligibility system currently used by approximately 2.2 million Virginians to apply for Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Child Care Subsidy Program, and two Energy Assistance Programs. The current legacy systems would be replaced by a next-generation, low-code application platform supporting best practices in information technology architecture, human-centered design, testing, and training. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$3,500,000 |
$350,000 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$3,500,000 |
$350,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $844,524 the first year and $2.2 million the second year from the general fund and $663,554 the first year and $1.7 million the second year from nongeneral funds to establish a centralized training academy model to bring Virginia in line with best-in-class format used by states with similar local and state relationships in social services. Current initial training for local benefits and family services specialists, administrative professionals, and supervisors does not adequately prepare workers to handle complicated and demanding caseloads and is difficult to schedule and attend. This is a recommendation from the Virginia Commission on Youth. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$844,524 |
$2,225,540 |
Nongeneral Fund |
$663,554 |
$1,748,639 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $1.6 million the first year and $3.9 million the second year from the general fund to provide additional support to child advocacy centers. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,564,902 |
$3,912,256 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $2.0 million each year from the general fund for efforts to facilitate and improve language access. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$2,000,000 |
$2,000,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment repurposes $1.5 million the first year and $2.5 million the second year from the general fund included in the introduced budget for a public awareness campaign to promote responsible fatherhood for other priorities. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($1,500,000) |
($2,500,000) |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $2.0 million the first year from the general fund to Prince William County to support their CASA Program in launching a medical assistance workforce program. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$2,000,000 |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $1.0 million each year from the general fund to provide additional relative maintenance payments to relative or fictive care givers. This amendment also permits the Department of Social Services to distribute relative maintenance payments pursuant to legislation passed in the 2024 General Assembly upon passage of this act and before the regulatory process is complete in order to ensure timely payments. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$1,000,000 |
$1,000,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment redirects $1.8 million in Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant funding in the first year due to underspending in the grants. The second year funding level remains at $9.0 million from the general fund. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
($1,750,000) |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment reallocates $895,842 the first year and $715,679 the second year from the general fund that was included in the introduced budget to accompany legislation of the 2024 General Assembly to promote kinship as a prevention to foster care. Various initiatives were not included in the final legislation, such as background checks, system updates, and additional staff at Virginia Department of Social Services and local departments of social services, allowing funding for these initiatives to be reallocated for other priorities. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($895,842) |
($715,679) |
Positions |
(1.00) |
(1.00) |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $1.1 million from the nongeneral fund the second year from the the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant to maintain the current Two-Generation/Whole Family Pilot Project. The introduced budget level funds the first year with $1.1 million from TANF but ends the five-year pilot program in fiscal year 2025. Six agencies have participated in the pilot. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$1,125,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $450,000 each year from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant for the Virginia Community Action Partnership contract to manage the statewide 'Virginia CASH Campaign,' the state supported Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program providing outreach, education, and tax preparation services for Virginians who may be eligible for both the federal and new state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The proposed amendment would increase annual funding of $185,725 to a total of $635,725. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$450,000 |
$450,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $400,000 each year from the general fund to the nonprofit Buffalow Family and Friends, which is deemed as the 'Food Bank' of Chesapeake. They provide access to food, clothing, and basic living essentials at their food pantry and multipurpose center and to deliver food to senior independent living and disenfranchised communities in Chesapeake on a monthly basis. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$400,000 |
$400,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $310,000 each year from the general fund to support the development and implementation of a statewide driver's licensing program to support foster care youth in obtaining a driver's license. Evidence indicates that youth who leave foster care without their driver's licenses are less likely to make a successful transition to adulthood. This is a recommendation from the Virginia Commission on Youth. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$310,000 |
$310,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $310,000 each year from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant to the Lighthouse Community Center to support services to low-income families in Central Virginia. The Lighthouse Community Center is located in Lynchburg. The Center is a community-based, trauma-informed care service provider that provides services such as grab-and-go meals, clothing or vouchers for clothing, hygiene supplies, and a bike ministry. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
Nongeneral Fund |
$310,000 |
$310,000 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $257,240 the first year and $246,914 the second year from the general fund to add two Kin First Consultants to support the Department of Social Services in developing collaborative placement programs for children in kinship care. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$257,240 |
$246,914 |
Positions |
2.00 |
2.00 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $250,000 the first year for the Nepali Community Center in Prince William County. The Nepali Community Center is a nonprofit that preserves and promotes Nepali identity, culture, languages, values, norms and manners through the organization, as well as maintain and operate Nepali American Community Center to facilitate social, educational, cultural, spiritual, and sports activities and programs aimed at promoting multiculturalism in Northern Virginia. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$250,000 |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment provides $250,000 the first year from the general fund for the Tonsler League in the City of Charlottesville, which is a nonprofit that sponsors a summer basketball league and community engagement activities, such as the 'Circle of Brotherhood' developed in response to gun violence, and giveaways, such as bikes for youth and turkeys during Thanksgiving. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
$250,000 |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
This amendment repurposes $50,000 from the general and nongeneral funds for an advanced contact to Medicaid recipients pilot for other priorities. |
|
|
FY |
FY |
General Fund |
($50,000) |
$0 |
Nongeneral Fund |
($50,000) |
$0 |
|
• |
|
|
Moves appropriation to the correct fund group. |
• |
|
|
This amendment provides language that clarifies that nongeneral funds from the Percentage of Income Payment Program (PIPP) Fund shall be used to reimburse local Departments of Social Services for the administration of the PIPP program, consistent with § 56-585.6, Code of Virginia, and increases the maximum allowable reimbursement from the fund from $3.0 million to $5.5 million. |