At a glance: Summary of how VML’s budget priorities fared
Topic
Governor (proposed)
House (proposed)
Senate (proposed)
Agreed upon conference report
Direct Aid to
Education
Reduced funding by
$50 million over the
biennium; eliminated
LCI hold harmless
account in order to pay
for increased teacher
retirement rate
Restored no funding;
eliminated funding for LCI
hold harmless, school bus
replacement, and middle
school resource teachers;
used funding to make
increased payment to VRS
and to provide state share of
2 percent bonus
Added $100 million to
provide an additional
$130/pupil; includes
funding to make whole the
localities receiving LCI
hold harmless funding
Adds $75.6 million to provide
additional one-time payment of the
state share of $130/pupil for FY12;
includes funding to make whole
localities receiving LCI hold
harmless funding. Does not
eliminate funding for school buses
and middle school resource
teachers.
Comprehensive
Services Act
Redefined therapeutic
foster care for children
as a residential service,
which means a higher
match rate for local
governments; as well as
eliminated state
funding for services to
non-mandated children.
Supported governor’s
amendment for therapeutic
foster care funding.
Reversed the introduced
budget action and restores
$7.5 million in the second
year for the state share of
costs.
Restores community match rate for
therapeutic foster care and $7.5
million in state funding in the
second year. Requires additional
data on use of TFC and clearer
guidelines for its use.
Transportation
Recommended $150
million from the state
general fund for
proposed Virginia
Transportation
Infrastructure Bank.
Additional $250
Proposed to make any child
eligible for Medicaidfunded behavioral health
rehabilitation services (both
community-based and
residential) a part of the
mandated population of
CSA. Local governments
would have provided local
match for each and every
child in this category,
estimated to be as many as
190,000 additional cases.
Accepted the governor’s
amendment
Did not include
amendment to expand CSA Restores $5 million of state share of
mandated population.
costs for non-mandated services in
second year.
Does not expand CSA target
population.
Requires state to offer more CSA
training and assistance.
Eliminated the $150.0
million general fund
deposit to the infrastructure
bank. Requires that the
$250 million in project
balances from the
Commonwealth
Reduces the general fund deposit to
the Virginia Transportation
Infrastructure Bank to $32.7
million. The amendment also
specifies that any transfers to the
bank from VDOT balances must
identify the specific project to be
million from VDOT
balances used to
supplement GF,
bringing the total for
the bank to $400
million.
Transportation Fund be
certified before deposit to
the infrastructure bank.
funded as well as the corresponding
fund source.
VRS Required
Contribution for
Local Employees
New local employees
required to pay; option
for localities to require
Plan 1 employees to
pay 5% member
contribution (3% salary
increase)
Accepted governor’s
amendment except requiring
5 percent salary increase
Rejected governor’s
amendment
Rejects governor’s amendment.
VRS Teacher
Contribution Rate
7.16 percent
5.16 percent
6.33 percent
6.33 percent
State assistance to
local law
enforcement (HB
599)
No reductions or
restorations of earlier
cuts for HB 599
funding; at the same
time, made partial
restoration of earlier
reductions in state
assistance to sheriffs’
offices in FY12.
No amendment.
Provided $18.7 million in
FY12 to bring HB 599 to
the same total level of
funding as for FY11.
Budget language provided
the same allocation in
FY12 as it receives this
fiscal year.
Provides $12.4 million in FY12.
Budget language requires that all
HB 599 localities receive the same
percentage reduction in their FY12
allocations when compared to their
FY11 allocations.
Water Quality
Improvement Fund
agricultural and
urban runoff
(nonpoint) in FY11
Added $32.8 million to
WQIF for non-point
pollution source
reduction. $14 million
to be used specifically
for agricultural runoff.
$18.8 million would
have been used for the
same purpose, although
$5 million was
expected to be directed
toward urban runoff.
Reallocated the $32.8
million surplus revenue by
depositing $4.9 million in
the WQIF reserve and $22.9
million for agricultural
runoff. A portion of the
remaining $5 million was
expected to be available for
reducing urban runoff
pollutants.
Reallocated the $32.8
million with $27.8 million
for reducing agricultural
runoff and a portion of the
remaining $5 million
available for reducing
urban runoff pollutants.
Reallocates the $32.8 million with
$27.8 million for reducing
agricultural runoff. The remaining
portion is deposited in the WQIF
reserve and no money is made
available for reducing urban
runoff pollutants.
Water Quality
Improvement Fund
sewage treatment
(point source)
Added $3.644 million
Deposited $547,645 of the
in FY11 to the WQIF to $3.644 million into the
reimburse localities for WQIF reserve.
sewage treatment plant
upgrades.
Authorized up to $3
million of the $3.644
million to fund a study of
the James River on water
quality standards.
Authorized an additional
$107.8 million in bonds for
FY12 to reimburse
localities for sewage
treatment plant upgrades.
Authorizes up to $3 million from the
WQIF to fund a study of the James
River on water quality standards.
Also deposits $546,645 of the
$3.644 million into the WQIF
reserve. This means that less than
$100,000 in additional funds will
be available to reimburse localities
for sewage treatment plant
upgrades.
Line of Duty Act
No amendment
Allowed localities to
establish alternative
programs to fund LODA
benefits; required localities
to pay only for benefits
given as of 7/1/2010,
allowed local governing
body to determine
eligibility. Delayed optout to 2013.
Delays the deadline for localities to
opt out of the statewide Line of
Duty program from 7/1/2011 to
7/1/2012
Delayed the deadline for
localities to opt out of the
statewide Line of Duty
program from 7/1/2011 to
7/1/2012