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

A. 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 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 $1,679,930 the first year and $1,679,930 the second year from the general fund for the required matching funds for state agencies. Of this amount, $850,000 the first year and $850,000 the second year is to be used as grant matching funds for agencies other than the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

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 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 § 9.1-102, 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, 2002, through June 30, 2004.

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, $975,000 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 from the general fund.

C.1.a. Out of this appropriation, $20,995,828 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 $2,500,000 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. 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.

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, 2002 and June 30, 2003. 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 continue 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 $57,285 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, 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.1.Out of this appropriation, $800,000 the first year and $800,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to serve as the state’s matching share for an anticipated $3,200,000 in federal grant funds in each year for the Integrated Criminal Justice Information System. Funding provided for this project shall be allotted upon approval of each phase of the project.

2. Any plans to develop and expand the Integrated Criminal Justice Information System (ICJIS) shall be done in phases. Before the department proceeds with implementation of any phase or component of the plan, the Secretary of Public Safety, the Secretary of Technology, and the Secretary of Finance must approve it. An oversight committee comprised of representatives from the Department of Technology, the Department of Information Technology, the Department of Planning and Budget, and the office of the Secretary of Public Safety shall review and make recommendations, as directed by the Secretary of Public Safety, over all aspects of development and implementation including the development of any requests for proposals. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall make periodic reports as directed by the Secretary of Public Safety, to this committee regarding its progress in implementing the integrated system.