Authority: Title 2.2, Chapter 2, Article 8, and § 2.2-201, Code of Virginia.

A. The Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security shall present revised state and local juvenile and state and local responsibility adult offender population forecasts to the Governor, the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees, and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Courts of Justice Committees by October 15, 2016, for each fiscal year through FY 2022 and by October 15, 2017, for each fiscal year through FY 2023. The secretary shall ensure that the revised forecast for state-responsible adult offenders shall include an estimate of the number of probation violators included each year within the overall population forecast who may be appropriate for alternative sanctions.

B. The secretary shall continue to work with other secretaries to (i) develop services intended to improve the re-entry of offenders from prisons and jails to general society and (ii) enhance the coordination of service delivery to those offenders by all state agencies. The secretary shall provide a status report on actions taken to improve offender transitional and reentry services, as provided in § 2.2-221.1, Code of Virginia, including improvements to the preparation and provision for employment, treatment, and housing opportunities for those being released from incarceration. The report shall be provided to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees no later than November 15 of each year.

C. The Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Resources shall jointly prepare a report on potential options for continued utilization of the Peumansend Creek Regional Jail as a state, regional, or local correctional mental health facility. This shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, conversion of this facility into a regional mental health facility for inmates from regional or local jails who have been determined to have mental illness and who could be more appropriately housed in a specialized, minimum security facility rather than in a traditional jail setting. The report shall address financing options; governance and accountability; the appropriate mechanisms for administering the facility; security, operational, medical, and mental health treatment standards; and transport procedures. The Secretaries shall consult with the U.S. Department of the Army and leadership at Fort A. P. Hill to assure continuation of a cooperative agreement for the use of the property, as appropriate. Copies of the report shall be provided to the Governor and the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees by October 1, 2017.

D. Included in the appropriation for this item is $500,000 the second year from the general fund for the Commonwealth's nonfederal cost match requirement to accomplish the United States Corps of Engineers Regional Reconnaissance Flood Control Study for both the Hampton Roads and Northern Neck regions as authorized by the U.S. Congress.