Chief Patron: Walker
Relocate Funding for Public Broadcasting

Item 53 #1s

Language
Page 35, line 3, strike "$454,150" and insert "$9,110,316".
Page 35, line 3, strike "$456,800" and insert "$7,784,216".

Page 35, following line 33, insert:
"Financial Assistance for Cultural and Artistic Affairs (14300) 5,007,116 4,178,366
Financial Assistance for Public Broadcasting (14303) 5,007,116 4,178,366
Fund Sources: General 5,007,116 4,178,366                                
Authority: Title 2.1, Chapter 35.2, Article 6.1, Code of Virginia.
A. Out of this program shall be expended $3,499,602 the first year and $3,499,602 the second year for community service grants to public television stations and
$678,764 the first year and $678,764 the second year for community service grants to public radio stations. Of the amounts for community service grants to public
radio, $10,000 the first year and $10,000 the second year shall be allocated to Allegheny Mountain Radio. Grants to public television stations shall be used to
develop, acquire, produce and deliver programs and services which support pre-school and adult education, disseminate information on governmental and public
affairs issues, promote tourism and economic development within the Commonwealth, and inform, educate, and entertain families with program content which
offers alternatives to commercialized television programming.
B. The funds herein appropriated are to be administered by the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board in accordance with such rules and regulations as it may
prescribe provided that: (1) the Virginia Public Broadcasting Board shall certify that recipients of the community service grants provided for in paragraph A of this
item are noncommercial radio and television stations that are owned and operated by entities which qualified to receive community service grants from the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and whose offices, studios and transmitters are located in the Commonwealth and (2) it shall carry out its purposes and
functions and engage in its activities in ways that will most effectively assure the maximum freedom of the aforesaid noncommercial radio and television entities
and systems from interference with, or control of, program content or other activities.
C. Community service grants to public television and public radio stations shall be paid in equal quarterly installments.
D. Out of the amounts for this program shall be paid $233,750 the first year to Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications Corporation, as the state share of
funding, to be matched in cash or in-kind in an amount at least equal to the State share, for the relocation of WNVT-TV to the new Stafford County satellite
campus of Mary Washington College.
E. Out of the amounts for this program shall be paid $245,000 the first year to WVPT-TV, in Harrisonburg, as the state share of funding, to be matched in cash or
in-kind in an amount at least equal to the State share, for facility and equipment improvements.
F. Out of the amounts for this program shall be paid $75,000 the first year to WBRA-TV in Roanoke, as the state share of funding, to be matched in cash or
in-kind in an amount at least equal to the State share, for facility and equipment improvements.
G. Out of the amounts for this program shall be paid $275,000 the first year to WHRO-TV in Norfolk, as the state share of funding, to be matched in cash or in
kind in an amount at least equal to the State share, for equipment improvements."
Page 35, following line 33, insert:
"Financial Assistance for Public Education (Categorical) (17100) 3,649,050 3,149,050
Financial Assistance for Educational Telecommunications (17111) 3,649,050 3,149,050                                                                                                        
Fund Sources: General 3,649,050 3,149,050                                                                        
Authority: Title 2.1, Chapter 35.2, Articles 1 through 6, Code of Virginia.
Payments out of this appropriation shall be expended for instructional telecommunications payments and related services as provided by the Master Plan for Public
Telecommunications. The Department of Education shall participate in the negotiations, and be a signatory to contracts for elementary and secondary instructional
telecommunications."

Explanation
(This amendment reloocates funding for state aid to public broadcasting from the Department of Information Technology to the Secretary of Administration. Companion amendments eliminate funding for items 513.60 and 513.70.)