| • |
| Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Increase salaries of community services board staff |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. These funds are for the annualized costs of a salary increase for community services boards staff beginning January 1, 2024. |
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FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$36,000,000 |
$36,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Provide funds for additional permanent supportive housing |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. These funds will provide permanent supportive housing for approximately 1800 individuals with serious mental illness. |
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FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$30,000,000 |
$30,000,000 |
|
| • |
| Adjust appropriation for centrally funded five percent salary increase for state-supported local employees |
Base Budget Adjustment |
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| |
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. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$22,987,081 |
$22,987,081 |
|
| • |
| Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Increase funding for System Transformation Excellence and Performance |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. These funds are for the annualized cost of increased reimbursement to community services boards for the first three "steps" of STEP-VA (Same-day access, outpatient, and primary care screening services) provided in Chapter 1. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$8,700,000 |
$8,700,000 |
|
| • |
| Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Provide funding for two percent salary increase |
Decision Package |
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| |
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. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$4,945,025 |
$4,945,025 |
|
| • |
| Continue Chapter 1 funding changes: Increase funding for children's mental health |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides for the ongoing impact of appropriation changes included in Chapter 1, 2023 Special Session I. These funds will be utilized for children's behavioral health services provided through community services boards. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$4,200,000 |
$4,200,000 |
|
| • |
| Fund crisis co-responder programs |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funds to support the ongoing costs of seven crisis co-responder programs established using grant funds in the current biennium. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$3,600,000 |
$4,200,000 |
|
| • |
| Fund peer wellness stay programs |
Decision Package |
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| |
Provides funds for the one-time costs of establishing two new additional peer wellness stay programs in the first year, in addition to providing ongoing support in the second year for the new programs and a peer wellness program established in the current biennium supported with federal grant funds through 2025. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$3,443,525 |
$3,302,053 |
|
| • |
| Utilize Crisis Call Center Fund balance to support crisis call center services |
Decision Package |
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| |
Utilizes one-time balances in the Crisis Call Center Fund to support the costs of dispatch staff in the crisis call centers. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
($2,697,020) |
$0 |
| Nongeneral Fund |
$2,697,020 |
$0 |
|
| • |
| Increase funding for Part C early intervention programs |
Decision Package |
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| |
Increases funding for early intervention services for infants and toddlers to meet federal participation requirements. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
$2,596,431 |
$2,596,431 |
|
| • |
| Reduce funding for Appalachian Telemental Health |
Decision Package |
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| |
Eliminates funding in the first year in anticipation of balances in 2024 that can be utilized to provide telehealth services pursuant to mandatory carryforward language for this item. |
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| |
FY 2025 |
FY 2026 |
| General Fund |
($1,100,000) |
$0 |
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