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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Committee Approved)

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Sexually Violent Predators Program

Item 331 #3h

Item 331 #3h

First Year - FY2003 Second Year - FY2004
Health And Human Resources
Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, Department of FY2003 $0 FY2004 ($954,208) GF

Language
Page 263, line 14, strike "$20,787,157" and insert "$19,832,949".
Page 264, after line 5, insert:
"3.  The Department shall prepare a revised estimate of the cost of locating and implementing a treatment program for the civil commitment of violent sexual predators on the grounds of a facility currently providing comprehensive and intensive forensic treatment services to violent mentally disabled patients.  The estimate shall be submitted to the Department of Planning and Budget by September 1, 2002."


Explanation
(This amendment requires the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services to revise their estimate of the cost for the confinement and treatment of violent sexual predators in a facility currently providing comprehensive and intensive forensic services to violent mentally disabled patients. The introduced budget assumed confinement and treatment on the Western State Hospital campus in Staunton, which includes the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents.)