| • |
| Add appropriation for epidemiology and laboratory capacity grants |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides appropriation for Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement grants, which are not funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act. This will reduce the number of mid-year administrative adjustments and increase budget transparency. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$150,756,011 |
|
| • |
| Provide required state match funding for drinking water infrastructure projects |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Increases the general fund appropriation used as match to draw down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's grant funds for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Increases the nongeneral fund appropriation as necessary to keep pace with the reimbursement and payment trends of drinking water grants. |
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| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$3,373,581 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$91,864,181 |
|
| • |
| Establish the Earn to Learn Nursing Education Acceleration program grant |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding to establish the Earn to Learn Nursing Education Acceleration program for partnerships between educational and health institutions to increaset he number of nursing graduates receiving necessary clinical training to achieve certification. Grantees must provide participating students employment opportunites consistent with their current certification level. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$30,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Enhance the Nurse Preceptor Incentive Program |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding to increase the awards provided through the Nursing Preceptor Incentive Program to $5,000 per semester (up from $1,000). Expands the eligibility of preceptor awards to include registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to encourage more clinicians to become preceptors. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$10,000,000 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
1.00 |
|
| • |
| Designate portion of opioid settlement funds for fentanyl response efforts |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding to support costs associated with a statewide fentanyl response strategy pursuant to legislation to be introduced in the 2023 General Assembly Session. The funding would come from the Commonwealth share of opioid settlement funds deposited to the Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation Fund. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$7,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Establish psychiatric nursing graduate education loan repayment program |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides loan repayments for psychiatric registered nurses and psychiatric nurse practitioners who work in Virginia over four years. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$5,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Enhance the Behavioral Health Loan Repayment Program |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Increases funding for the Behavioral Health Loan Repayment Program. Increases loan repayment awards from $30,000 to $50,000 for child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and psychiatrists. Allows psychiatrists in residency to apply and qualify for loan repayments. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$2,500,000 |
|
| • |
| Provide additional support to address increases in rent costs for local health departments |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Supports local health districts that are expecting significant cost increases due to moving to new facilities or rent increases in existing facilities by providing additional general and nongeneral fund appropriation. Health districts do not fully control the process for determining when and where their facilities will be located. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$943,856 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$0 |
$698,322 |
|
| • |
| Increase funding to support salary adjustments for Office of the Chief Medical Examiner staff |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding for salary adjustments for the Chief Medical Examiner, Assistant Chief Medical Examiners, and non-physician staff. This adjustment aligns salaries to be more competitive with other states. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$1,491,950 |
|
| • |
| Add funds to address a reversion of federal funding for the Office of Drinking Water |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides general fund resources to cover federal deferrals associated with payments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dating back to March of 2021. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$1,118,595 |
$0 |
|
| • |
| Provide additional support for the nursing scholarships and loan repayment program |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides additional support for the nursing scholarships and loan repayment programs to provide additional awards for licensed practical and registered nurses. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$1,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Provide funding for cybersecurity threat management position |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding to replace a contractor with a full-time cybersecurity analyst to protect and maintain the overall security of agency systems. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$163,918 |
| Positions |
0.00 |
1.00 |
|
| • |
| Add funding for sexual assault forensic examiner training for emergency department staff |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Funds sexual assault forensic examiner training for emergency department staff as required by the Code of Virginia. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$125,000 |
|
| • |
| Increase drug-susceptible tuberculosis funding |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Provides funding to account for an increase in tuberculosis medication costs and to provide treatment options to more individuals. |
| |
| |
FY 2023 |
FY 2024 |
| General Fund |
$0 |
$50,000 |
|
| • |
| Extend loan deadlines for COVID-19 pandemic response |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Extends the repayment term for any existing treasury loan authorized for the purpose of COVID-19 pandemic response activities to June 30, 2024, upon notification from the Department of Emergency Management to the Department of Accounts that federal reimbursement expected from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has not yet been received by the treasury loans’ existing planned repayment date. |
| • |
| Restrict abortion services |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Prevents expenditures from general or nongeneral fund sources to be used for providing abortion services, except as otherwise required by federal law. |
| • |
| Transfer State Office of Rural Health Grant matching funds to correct program area |
Decision Package |
|
| |
Transfers appropriation for the State Office of Rural Health Grant matching funds to correct program area. |
