Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
Administration
Requires localities to replace direct-recording electronic voting
machines and any other non-qualifying voting equipment with
equipment approved by the State Board of Elections by Aug.
1, 2015. The equipment is to be certified for use in the
November 2015 general election. A separate amendment uses
$28 million in bond proceeds to pay for the equipment, which
will be placed in localities through a program run by the
Department of Elections, which will select the voting
equipment. The $28 million includes $1.6 million in FY16 to
reimburse localities that have replaced equipment prior to Jan.
1, 2015. The intent is that these localities will be reimbursed
for the purchases over a three-year period, with the $1.6
million paying for one-third of the costs. The amendment also
states that the funding is a one-time program to enable local
Department of
governments to make all voting equipment in compliance with
Elections-Voting
policies and procedures approved by the State Board of
machines/Item 83 H, Elections. House & Senate: Removed funded. Item 83 #1h;
Item C-46.30
Senate: Item 83 #5s; Item C-46.30 #1s
Adds funding and language for FY16 providing to increase the
base salary of deputy sheriffs to at least equal the maximum
gross income level for a family of four established by USDA
for SNAP (food stamps) eligibility. Also increases salaries of
grade 7 deputies with salaries below $31,009, and grade 8
deputies with salaries below $32,009, effective 7/1/15; also
provides that localities are to supplement salaries with local
funds for these deputies in the future to match future increases
in the SNAP maximum gross income level for a family of
four. None of these increases apply to regional jail officers.
House & Senate: Removes requirement that localities would
have to be solely responsible for salary increases due to
Compensation
changes in SNAP eligibility. Item 66 #1h, Item 66 #2s
Board/Item 66
$28,000,000
NGF
Removed
funding
Removed
funding
$1,573,462
Language
removed
Language
removed
H-FY16
S-FY16
Agency/Item
Number
Compensation
Board/Item 66
Compensation
Board/Item 66
Compensation
Board/Item 67
Compensation
Board/Item 70
Salary increases for
State supported
local employees
Item Description
Adds funding and 11 new positons to support staffing of the
first phase of a jail expansion at the Central Virginia Regional
Jail scheduled for opening on 11/1/15.
Revises the Sheriffs' career development plan to eliminate any
in-house certification alternatives to accreditation by
accrediting agencies, grandfathering the one office that
currently qualifies until the end of FY16; transfers certification
program administered by UVA to VCU.
Adds funds for the state share of jail per diem costs to house
local and state responsible inmates for the current fiscal year;
the Comp Board will soon update its forecast for this year. No
additional per diem funds are included for FY16. House (Item
67 #1h) and Senate (Item 67#2s) add funds in FY15 to cover
anticipated state shortfall.
Removes language from the 2014-approved budget that
limited treasurers and other local government entities from
collecting a contingent collection fee on delinquent court fines
and costs (including in-house commonwealth's attorney
collections), beginning 1/1/16. House (Item 70 #1h) and
Senate (Item 70 #1s) restores the language from 2014.
House & Senate set up contingency funds for salary increases
for state supported employees and constitutional officers.
House: Require a base salary increase of 2% effective Aug. 1,
2015. It is not clear if the language requires that the salary
increase be given even if a locality supplements salaries
beyond what they would be with the 2% increase. Item 467
#2h. Senate: Support the general fund portion of costs
associated with a 3% salary increase for state-supported local
employees and constitutional officers effective Sept. 1, 2015.
This language appears to give flexibility to localities who are
supplementing salaries beyond what they would be with the
2% increase. Item 467 #1s
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
$2,498,446
H-FY16
S-FY16
$34,660,271
$22,100,000
$206,723
language
language
$11,310,001
$0
$2,498,446
language
language
language
language
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
S-FY16
Economic Development
Economic
Development
Incentives/Item 101
Economic
Development
Incentives/Item 101
Increase funding for Governor's Opportunity Fund Item 101
#4s
Capitalize VA Tourism Growth Incentive Fund to attract
tourism, retail and lodging projects. Item 101 #2h and Item
101 #5s
$9,916,000
$10,750,000
No change
($4,419,000)
No change
No change
$0
$500,000
No change
No change
($500,000)
($250,000)
$500,000
$1,000,000
($500,000)
($500,000)
($1,000,000)
No change
Brownfields
Restoration
Housing &
Community
Development/Item
103
Building
Entrepreneurs
Economies
Housing &
Community
Development/Item
104
Housing &
Community
Development/Item
105
Provides loans or grants for site remediation Item 104 #2h
Item 101 #2s
Ft. Monroe
Authority/Item 119
Increase payments in lieu of taxes to City of Hampton Item
119 #1h Item 119 #1s
Research
Entrepreneurs
Center for
Advanced
Manufacturing
Center
Provides funding to link national security agency R&D with
entrepreneurs in Northern Virginia Item 120 #2h
--
--
--
--
Restore past spending reductions Item 120 #3h
--
--
$1,500,000
--
--
Promote rapid re-housing efforts to reduce homelessness Item
103 #1h Item 103 #1s
Defunds an expansion of a pilot project to build entrepreneurs
economies Item 104 #3h
Permit up to 2% of certain state agency grants for
administration
Reduce enterprise zone grants Item 471.10 #4s
--
$0
--
--
--
$1,000,000
and 1 FTE
--
--
--
language
language
No change
No change
No change
No change
($250,000)
($400,000)
No change
$250,000
No change
$400,000
$345,663
$345,663
($345,663)
($345,663)
($345,663)
($345,663)
$350,000
--
--
--
Agency/Item
Number
VA Economic
Development
Partnership/Item
120
Item Description
Provide state support for VA Coalfield Economic
Development Authority. This is tied to governor's tax
preferences legislation. Item 120 #1h Item 120 #3s
FY15
FY16
$0
$1,200,000
H-FY15
No change
S-FY15
No change
H-FY16
S-FY16
($1,200,000)
($1,200,000)
$55,017,912
$50,409,472
Public Education
Teacher salary
increases
Teacher salaries. House: provides state share of a 1.5% salary
increase for funded SOQ instructional and support positions in
FY16. Funding is based on a 1.5% increase effective Aug. 1,
2015 (11 months) but the required local match is based on
1.5% increase as of Jan. 1, 2016. Local match required.
Divisions must certify that the minimum 1.5 % raise will be
provided to employees by 1/1/16 to receive the state funding.
Item 136 #4h. Item 467 #2h Senate: State share of a 1.5% salary
increase for funded SOQ instructional and support positions,
calculated based on ten months, in either FY15 or FY16.
School divisions have the flexibility to determine the specific
effective date, no later than Jan. 1, 2016. Local match
required. School divisions must certify that salary increases of
at least 1.5% were given in either FY15 or FY16 by Jan. 1,
2016. Item 136 #1s
Public EducationVDOE Central
Office
House: establish High School Program Innovation grant
program (5 grants of $40,000 each) for planning
implementation of innovations. Item 128 #2h
Public EducationVDOE Central
Office
House: Assist local school divisions with establishing criteria
for the professional development of teachers and principals on
the subject of high-needs students. Item 128 #3h
Strengthen department staffing capacity in order to increase
service capacity for academically struggling schools, primarily
for School Improvement and Curricular Specialists. Senate:
encourages more options for lead turnaround partners.
Public EducationVDOE Central
Office/ Items 131,
134
Item 131 #1s
$200,000
$366,000
Language
$572,976
Agency/Item
Number
Public EducationVDOE Central
Office/Item 128 H
Public education
Extended school
year
Public education
teacher residency
program
Public EducationDirect Aid-Teacher
retirement
payment/Item 136 2
c
Item Description
Provide program for training of principals in low-performing
schools; funding covers training for 40 principals in schools
that have not met accreditation standards.
Provides additional funding in FY16 for an extended school
year incentive and to establish a predictable funding formula
to encourage those school divisions that may most benefit
from adding additional instructional days distributed
throughout the year to do so. Funding is based on start-up
grants of $300,000 per school for a three-year period to
establish extended school year programs in certain eligible
schools and the state's share of on-going funding beyond the
three-year initial period. The per school amounts may be up to
$400,000 in the case of schools that were Denied
Accreditation at the time of initial implementation as an
additional incentive amount. Item 135 #5s
Provides funding for planning grants to expand the teacher
residency partnership model between Virginia Commonwealth
University's School of Education and Richmond City Schools
to other Virginia universities' education schools and hard-tostaff urban school divisions, and to expand and enhance the
existing program. Item 135 #1s
Makes a one-time payment toward the ten-year deferred
contribution balance ($506.1 million) in the teacher retirement
fund. The lowered deferred contribution balance is reamortized over a six-year period. Reduces teacher retirement
rate from 14.50% to 14.15%. Funds are generated from the
sale of unclaimed stocks and bonds in the Literary Fund.
House: Increases payment by $40,000,000, which results in
lower teacher retirement contribution rate of 14.07%, saving
the state $2.4 million and saving localities about $5 million.
Senate: Increases payments by $37.2 million which results in
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
S-FY16
$713,000
$7,700,000
$1,000,000
$150,000,000
(NGF)
$40,000,000
NGF
(2,422,087)
$37,200,000
NGF
(2,422,083)
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
state savings of an additional $2.4 million (and savings to
localities of about $5 million). Item 136 #10s
Authorizes the Department of Education to offer up to $50
million in FY16 for school construction loans from the
Literary Fund; also provides up to $25 million in FY16 for an
interest rate subsidy program for projects on the First Priority
Public EducationWaiting List (39 projects totaling $192.5 million). Projects on
Direct Aid-School
the Second Priority Waiting List (three totaling $22.5 million)
Construction
may participate if moneys are available. House: Uses $25
Loans/Interest Rate
Subsidies/ Item 136, C million funding that governor intended for interest rate subsidy
11 b & c
program for teacher retirement instead. Item 136 #5h.
Authorizes the transfer of allocated preschool slots that have
not been used by school divisions to other divisions that have
fully used their state allocated slots. This would allow school
divisions that with full participation in VPI to offer preschool
programs to children who are on waiting lists. House:
Eliminates funding for hold harmless slots. Item 136 #9h.
Public EducationSenate: requires DOE to offer any unobligated balances for
Direct Aid-Virginia one-time grants, with priority to proposals to expand the use of
Preschool Initiative/ partnerships with either non-profit or for-profit providers; Item
Item 136 C 14 4 a
136 #5s
Senate: directs the Department to update the per pupil amount
for the Virginia Preschool Initiative in the next biennial reUpdating VPI
benchmarking. For this program, the per-pupil amount has
amount
been set out as a fixed amount, currently $6,000. Item 136 #9s
House: Limits eligibility for participation in VPI to eligibility
for a free lunch. Currently school divisions have the authority
to determine the criteria for the definition of at-risk and many
use a matrix of factors such as income, homelessness,
VPI eligibility
developmental delay, ESL and other factors. This would limit
$75,000,000
NGF
Language
Language
($3,500,893)
Language
($2,861,834)
S-FY16
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
S-FY16
the amount of children eligible for state funding. Item 136 #2h.
Updates kindergarten enrollment from 9/30/2013 to the
projected 9/3/2015 membership Item 136 #8h; the decrease in
funding shown is related to this change.
VPI Study
Subcommittee
House & Senate: Establish joint subcommittee to study VPI.
Language is similar but not identical. House: Item 1 #1h,
Senate: Item 1 #1s;
Language
Language
Finance
Dept of
Accounts/Item 261
Fund localities with qualifying tourism zone projects at an
amount equal to a 1% sales tax on purchases made in the zone
in order to pay the debt service financing a project.
$125,000
$125,000
No change
No change
No change
No change
Department of
Accounts Transfer
Payments/Item 261
No changes to distribution of rolling stock, recordation, rental
vehicle tax, sales tax, TVA payments; adds funds each year for
distribution of sales tax revenues from certain tourism projects
$125,000
$125,000
No change
No change
No change
No change
$99,500,000 $134,000,000
No change
No change
No change
$150,000
Rainy Day Fund
Planning &
Budget/Item 268
Taxation
Reserve revenue for projected deposit in FY 2017 Item 262
#1h Item 471.50 #1s
Eliminate funding for local school efficiency reviews. Senate:
Provides funding through direct aid to education as assistance
for school divisions to pay costs of school efficiency review
program Item 135 #4s
Taxation/Item 270
Transfer of cigarette enforcement funds to ABC Item 270 #2s
Allows taxpayers to file (through electronic transmission)
estimated income tax returns directly with the Dept. of
Taxation instead of local constitutional officers.
Central
Appropriations/Item
471.30
Reduces the amount of "local aid to the commonwealth" in
FY16 to $29.8 million. Item 471.30 #4s
--
--
$0
--
($200,000)
--
No change
--
No change
--
--
($361,000)
language
language
No change
No change
No change
No change
$0
($159,262)
No change
No change
No change
$29,840,738
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
($150,000)
($150,000)
H-FY16
S-FY16
Health and Human Resources
State Inspector
General/Item 63
Comprehensive
Services for At-Risk
Youth &
Families/Item 279
Comprehensive
Services for At-Risk
Youth &
Families/Item 281
Funds a study of Catawba Hospital and Piedmont Geriatric
Hospital to focus on best options for future use (healthcare
related or not), along with estimated costs associated with each
option. Study shall take into account future options for
serving geriatric individuals in need of behavioral health
services in state facilities and community settings. Final report
with recommendations due 3/1/16. Senate (Item 63 #1s) and
House (Item 63 #1h) remove the funding and request. Senate
(Item 307#8s) requests the Department of Behavioral Health
and Developmental Services to review and evaluate these
operations, future needs, and optional care models.
Reduces state general funds to overall program in FY16 to
account for decrease in forecast costs for foster care costs
covering youth to 21 years of age. House rejects the expansion
of foster care to youth from 19-21 years of age (Item 334 #1h)
and restores funding to CSA as a result (Item 279 #1h)
Adds funding each year to pay for the relocation of the office
to the same building as VDSS; rent will be higher at the new
location.
Comprehensive
Services for At-Risk
Youth &
Families/Item 281
Senate (Item 281 #1s) adds funds and one position to allow
OCS to comply with the Administrative Process Act (APA)
contingent upon passage of SB1054.
Department of
Medical Assistance
Services
(DMAS)/Item 298
Increases funding for medical services related to medical
screening and assessment services provided to persons with
mental illness while in emergency custody and other costs
related to involuntary mental commitments. Increases are
due mostly to policy changes extending the length of
temporary detention orders by an additional 24 hours.
$150,000
($3,023,836)
$11,279
$7,342,465
$22,673
$77,409
$3,126,498
$1,498,988
Agency/Item
Number
Department of
Medical Assistance
Services
(DMAS)/Item 300
DMAS/Item 301,
LLLL.1.-2.
DMAS/Item 301,
OOOO.1.
Item Description
Decreases funding for the Family Access to Medical Insurance
Security Program (FAMIS) to reflect the latest cost forecast.
Lower costs in FY15 were partially due to a delay in
reinstating the FAMIS MOMS program (pregnant women);
managed care rates are expected to be lower as well. Actual
enrollment of children in the program shows a slight decrease
in FY15 (-$400,831 GF) and increase in FY16 (+$315,943
GF). House (Item 300 #1h) further decreases funding but
provides authority in Item 301 to extend dental services to
pregnant women enrolled in FAMIS MOMS and extend
FAMIS to children of low-income state employees who
otherwise would be eligible.
Provides authority & funding to re-design and re-name the
Day Support waiver for persons with intellectual and
developmental disabilities. The new name is the "Building
Independence" waiver. The redesigned waiver would add
supported employment, integrated day services, shared living,
and independent living (to be complemented by non-waiver
funded rental assistance; see DBHDS Item 308 below). The
number of waivers would be increased from 300 to 500 slots.
House (Item 301 #3h) removes the funding and language
authorizing submission of amendments to the waiver.
Language added to Item 307 requires DMAS to report on its
plans to redesign the waivers prior to submitting a request to
CMS.
House (Item 301 #6h) adds funds to provide behavioral health
services and prescription drugs to 29,200 adults with serious
mental illness with incomes at or below 80 percent federal
poverty level; provide dental services to pregnant women in
FAMIS MOMS and extend FAMIS to children of low-income
state employees who otherwise would be eligible.
FY15
FY16
($44,798,514) ($33,255,812)
H-FY15
($339,872
GF)
($683,513
NGF)
S-FY15
H-FY16
($,672,801
GF)
($17,019,037
NGF)
($1,200,000
GF)
($1,200,000
NGF)
1,200,000 GF
1,200,000
NGF
$14,944,222
$15,988,267
NGF
$98,239,322
$114,717,276
NGF)
S-FY16
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
Authorizes expansion of Medicaid on 1/1/16 to non-elderly
adults with incomes up to 133 percent of federal poverty level,
resulting in 400,000 Virginians gaining health insurance paid
for with 100 federal funds ($482 million) in FY16. Savings
would accrue as federal funds supplanted state-supported
indigent care costs, mental health services provided by CSBs,
and inpatient hospital care for state correctional inmates. Net
savings would be about $105 million in FY16. Savings would
be deposited in special fund for future Medicaid costs or
deposits to the state rainy day fund. House (Item 301 #11h)
and Senate (Item 301 #11s) eliminate expansion overall; but
while the Senate (Item 301 #7s) reduces funding to reflect
lower estimate related to behavioral health homes in the
DMAS/Item 301 3b. introduced budget, it still includes $5 million for the Healthy
-10b.
Virginia initiative for adults with serious mental illness.
Authorizes emergency amendment to the State Medicaid Plan
to implement supplemental Medicaid payment of $300,000
annually ($150,000 NGF, $150,000 intergovt transfer from
DMAS/Item 301
VDH) for clinic services furnished by the VA Dept. of Health
DDDD.4.
beginning 7/1/15.
Establishes licensing fees for all adult behavioral health and
Behavioral Health & developmental services licensed by the department, including
Developmental
day support and residential. Application fee of $750 per
Services
service and renewal fee of $500 per service. All revenues
(DBHDS)/Item
would go into the state general fund. House (Item 305 #1h)
305B.
and Senate (Item 305 #1s) eliminate the language.
DBHDS/Item 307
Adds a position and funding for it in the central office to assist
in coordination and management of crisis intervention team
training centers, programs of assertive community treatment
(PACT), and emerging adult programs.
FY15
language
FY16
language
H-FY15
S-FY15
language
language
language
language
language
language
language
$86,024
H-FY16
S-FY16
Agency/Item
Number
DBHDS/Item 308,
2.
DBHDS/Item 307
DBHDS/Item C21.05
DBHDS/Item 308
DBHDS/Item 308
Item Description
Changes the deadline from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1 for the department
to report on the revenues and costs of the Part C early
intervention for infants and toddlers program to account for
the availability of information from localities. No revenue
impact, just a reality check.
Provides partial year funding for rental subsidies for up to 250
individuals who will transition to the planned Building
Independence Medicaid waiver. Rental subsidies are not
covered by Medicaid and would not be eligible for federal
reimbursement. House (Item 307 #3h) eliminates this funding;
a related item (Item 307 #2h) requires DBHDS to report on
plans to redesign the comprehensive waiver programs.
This item, under Part 2, Capital Budgets, authorizes use of the
$4.7 million remaining VPBA bond proceeds (2009 Act of
Assembly) to be used by the department to make grants to
localities, CSBs, or private sponsors for the construction,
rehabilitation, or acquisition of single-family or multi-family
housing for individuals with intellectual or developmental
disabilities. Contracts would only be allowed where any
continuing assistance results in an affordable cost to
individuals, without Commonwealth housing assistance unless
the General Assembly approves additional funds to support
such housing assistance. DBHDS may enter into agreements
with other state agencies and authorities to administer these
grants. House (Item C-21.05 #1h) eliminates this item.
House (Item 308 #1h) and Senate (Item 308 #4s) add funds to
expand child psychiatry and children’s crisis response
services.
House (Item 308#2h) and Senate (Item 308#5s) add funds to
the Part C Early Intervention Services for infants and toddlers
with disabilities from birth to three years of age To meet the
increase in number of referrals and prevent wait lists.
FY15
FY16
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
S-FY16
language
$675,000
language
language
($675,000)
language
$2,500,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$602,222
Agency/Item
Number
DBHDS/Item 308
DBHDS/Item 308
DBHDS/Item 312
Item Description
FY15
FY16
House (Item 308#4h) adds funding for five new therapeutic
assessment or “drop off” centers where law enforcement can
transfer custody of an individual in crisis for assessment and
treatment.
Senate (Item 308 #2s) adds funds to support 300 rental
subsidies and supports to be administered by CSBs or private
entities to provide stable, supportive housing for individuals
with serious mental illness, along with outreach and in-home
clinical services and supports to avoid hospitalizations,
incarceration or homelessness. This would provide an average
of $714 per month to support rental subsidies.
Funds six additional direct service staff for the Commonwealth
Center for Children and Adolescents, which has seen an
increase in admissions following changes in state mental
health law. The positions are for patient care and transport to
outside appointments. Western State also gets $454,532 in
additional funds in FY16 to fund eight patient care positions
because of increased admissions and acuity of the individuals
being admitted. Senate (Item 312 #1s) adds five more
positions and funding for this purpose.
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
S-FY16
$1,600,000
$4,255,200
$268,260
$281,894
Natural Resources
Agricultural &
Consumer
Services/Item 88
DEQ/Item C-43#1s
Decrease in VA Farmland Preservation grants to localities
Provides for $10 million in bond authorization in FY 16 for
50% matching grants to localities to reduce stormwater runoff
pollution.
Public Safety
$0
($250,000)
$0
$0
$750,000
($250,000)
$10,000,000
Agency/Item
Number
Dept. of
Correctionsconstruction of
regional jails/Item
382
Dept. of Criminal
Justice Services
Dept. of Veterans
Services, Veterans
Benefit Services,
Item 461
Dept. of Veterans
Services, Veterans
Benefit Services,
Item 461
Dept. of Veterans
Services, Veterans
Benefit Services,
Item 461
Item Description
Lowers state reimbursement for construction, expansion or
renovation of a regional jail from 50 percent to 25 percent.
Senate (Item 382 #1s) restores the 50 percent for approved
expansion or renovation of existing regional jails, contingent
upon passage of SB1049.
No increase in State Aid to Localities Operating Police
Departments (HB599). Senate (Item 390 #1s) reinserts
language from previous budgets clarifying that the amounts
distributed to each locality in FY15 and FY16 shall be equal to
the amounts distributed in FY14.
Provide funding for support for 3 local housing resource
specialists for the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program
Support promotion of hiring of veterans by Virginia Values
Veterans Program companies. Several local governments
participate in the program.
Provide additional funding for case management services for
veterans benefits and to assist veterans seeking healthcare and
other services. Funding for two positions (claims agent and an
administrator) is including for a potential partnership/funding
through local government.
FY15
FY16
$0
H-FY15
S-FY15
Language
Language
$0
Language
H-FY16
S-FY16
$180,000
$474,000 GF;
$100,000
NGF
$1,750,201
Transportation
DRPT/Item 439#1s
DRPT/Item 439#5s
Allocates $1.9 million in the FY 16 from the Mass Transit
Fund assess and plan for future light rail between areas of high
density commercial and residential populations in Hampton
Roads and Newport News
Directs the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to
analyze the potential opportunities for providing paratransit
services through private operators and contractors (including
transportation network companies like Uber & Lyft)
language
language
language
Agency/Item
Number
Item Description
VDOT/Item 445#1h
Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) to
include municipally-owned structurally deficient bridges in its
selection of projects being funded with the portion of the
"CTB formula" funds dedicated to structurally deficient
bridges. The Code provisions include municipally-owned
primary extensions but failed to reference bridges on the same
roadway sections.
Requires that state transportation dollars allocated for soil
retention for projects can only be spent on U.S. manufactured
geotextiles (i.e. silt fences)
VDOT/Item 447
Reduces the FY 2016 distribution to the Hampton Roads
Transportation Fund to $159.1 million.
VDOT/Item 427#1h
FY15
FY16
$0 ($24,524,680)
H-FY15
S-FY15
H-FY16
language
language
language
language
$0
$0
($24,524,680)
S-FY16
($24,524,680)