This amendment adds $4.5 million from the general fund each year to increase funding for STEP-VA. Of this amount, $1.2 million each year is to increase funding for outpatient mental health and substance use services and $3.3 million each year is to increase funding for six steps of STEP-VA to account for inflation in the cost to implement and deliver services that did not receive funding adjustments in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. This amendment would increase funding for outpatient mental health and substance use services, crisis services, military and veteran services, peer services, case management, psychiatric rehabilitation services, and care coordination services.