Authority: Title 9 9.1, Chapter 27 1, Code of Virginia.

A.1. This appropriation includes an estimated $12,000,000 the first year and an estimated $12,000,000 the second year in federal funds pursuant to the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968, as amended. Of these amounts, nine percent is available for administration, and 70 percent of the remainder is available for grants to state agencies and local units of government. The remaining federal funds are to be passed through as grants to localities, with a required 25 percent local match. Also included in this appropriation is $2,158,388 the first year and $2,158,388 $829,930 the second year from the general fund for the required matching funds for state agencies.

2. The appropriation reduction for this paragraph is pursuant both to productivity savings reflected in Item 541 of this act and savings pursuant to Executive Order 74(01) reflected in Item 543.05 of this act.

B. The Department of Criminal Justice Services is authorized to make grants and provide technical assistance out of this appropriation to state agencies, local governments, regional and nonprofit organizations for the establishment and operation of programs for the following purposes and up to the amounts specified:

1.a. Regional training academies for criminal justice training, $1,188,970 the first year and $1,188,970 the second year from the general fund and an estimated $1,114,562 in the first year and an estimated $1,114,562 the second year from nongeneral funds. The Criminal Justice Services Board shall adopt such rules as may reasonably be required for the distribution of funds and for the establishment, operation and service boundaries of state-supported regional criminal justice training academies.

b. The Board of Criminal Justice Services, consistent with § 9-170.10 9.1-102, Code of Virginia, and § 6VAC-20-20-61 of the Administrative Code, shall not approve or provide funding for the establishment of any new criminal justice training academy from July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2002.

2. Virginia Crime Victim-Witness fund $3,600,000 the first year and $3,600,000 the second year from dedicated special revenue.

3. Court Appointed Special Advocate programs, $825,000 the first year and $975,000 the second year from the general fund.

4. Prerelease and postincarceration services, $2,191,369 the first year and $2,191,369 the second year.

C.1.a. Out of this appropriation, $19,745,828 the first year and $20,995,828 the second year from the general fund is authorized to make discretionary grants and to provide technical assistance to cities, counties or combinations thereof to develop, implement, operate and evaluate programs, services and facilities established pursuant to the Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for Local-Responsible Offenders (§ 53.1-182.1, Code of Virginia) and the Pretrial Services Act (§ 19.2-152.4, Code of Virginia). Funding for local-responsible offenders shall be limited to programs, services and facilities targeting those offenders specified in § 19.2-303.3, Code of Virginia. Funds for pretrial programs or other alternatives to incarceration programs shall be limited to those established or expanded pursuant to paragraph E 2 of Item 64.

b. Included in paragraph C1a is $1,500,000 the first year and $2,500,000 the second year from the general fund to provide assessment, supervision and substance abuse treatment services for drug-involved offenders in local community-based corrections programs, as part of the Governor's Substance Abuse Reduction Effort (SABRE) program.

2.a. The Department of Criminal Justice Services, in conjunction with the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court and the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, shall conduct information and training sessions for judges and other judicial officials on the programs, services and facilities available through the Pretrial Services Act and the Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for Local-Responsible Offenders.

b. The Department of Criminal Justice Services, in conjunction with the Virginia Community Criminal Justice Association, the Virginia Municipal League, and the Virginia Association of Counties, shall study the feasibility of replacing the current system of discretionary grants with an alternative funding methodology to distribute funding for the Comprehensive Community Corrections Act and the Pretrial Services Act. Such funding methodology shall consider caseloads and other factors as appropriate to ensure an equitable distribution of funding while maintaining the current level of accountability provided by the discretionary grant process. The Department shall report its findings and recommendations to the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees by October 15, 2000.

3. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall provide an annual report on its progress in implementing the Pretrial Services Act and the Comprehensive Community Corrections Act for Local-Responsible Offenders to the Chairmen of the House Courts of Justice, Health, Welfare and Institutions, and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Courts of Justice, Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Finance Committees.

D. In the event the federal government should make available additional funds pursuant to the Violence Against Women Act, the Department shall set aside 33 percent of such funds for competitive grants to programs providing services to domestic violence and sexual assault victims.

E. The Department, from such federal funds as may be available, shall provide a grant of up to $750,000 the first year and $750,000 the second year to the Department of Corrections to contract for residential substance abuse treatment services for probationers and parolees. Services to be provided through such grant request shall be linked to existing institutional and community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the Department of Corrections.

F. Subject to the conditions stated in this Item and with the prior written approval of the Director, Department of Planning and Budget, there is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balances remaining in the appropriations made in the Financial Assistance for Administration of Justice Services program on June 30, 2000, June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002. These reappropriations shall be used only for the purposes of the original appropriation for grants made by the Criminal Justice Services Board. This provision shall apply to funds obligated to and in the possession of state agency subgrantees and the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

G. From such federal funds as may be available, the Department shall provide a grant of up to $500,000 each year to the Department of Juvenile Justice for regional and statewide training and technical assistance to localities in the development and evaluation of programs established under the Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act.

H. The Department shall provide a grant of up to $1,300,000 each year from federal funds to the Department of Corrections, to establish a structured treatment program for youthful offenders at St. Brides Correctional Center and to expand intensive substance abuse treatment services in correctional facilities.

I.1. Out of this appropriation, $1,700,000 the first year and $1,700,000 the second year from the general fund shall be deposited to the School Resource Officer Incentive Grants Fund established pursuant to § 9-171.1, Code of Virginia. Localities shall match these funds based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay. The Department shall give priority to localities requesting school resource officers in high schools.

2. The Director of the Department of Criminal Justice Services is authorized to expend $52,512 the first year and $57,285 the second year from the School Resource Officer Incentive Grants Fund to establish the Virginia Center for School Safety, contingent upon final passage of House Bill 391 by the 2000 General Assembly pursuant to § 9.1-110, Code of Virginia.

J. From such federal funds as are available, the Department shall provide grants to the Department of Juvenile Justice for up to $600,000 the first year and $600,000 the second year for additional juvenile probation officers for screening and assessment of certain juvenile offenders for substance abuse.

K. From such federal funds as are available, the Department shall provide grants of (i) up to $44,200 each year to establish a regional Office on Youth serving the City of Winchester and the Counties of Clarke and Frederick; (ii) up to $37,500 each year to establish an Office on Youth serving Madison County; and (iii) up to $35,000 each year to establish an Office on Youth serving the City of Poquoson.

L. Included within this appropriation is $1,400,000 the second year from the general fund to establish a grant program to assist localities that are making a good-faith effort to develop E-911 wireline emergency telephone services but have a demonstrated financial need for state assistance. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall serve as fiscal agent for this grant program. The Department of Technology Planning, with the assistance of the Department of Criminal Justice Services, shall provide a status report on the implementation of the grant program, including proposed guidelines to be used in the grant application process, by December 1, 2000, to the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees and the Chairman of the State Crime Commission. The appropriation reduction in this paragraph pursuant to Executive Order 74(01) is reflected in Item 543.05 of this act.