395#1h (DCJS) Project Lifesaver Statewide Office. HB30 - Member Request

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Chief Patron: Cosgrove
Project Lifesaver Statewide Office

Item 395 #1h

Item 395 #1h	First Year - FY2009	Second Year - FY2010
Public Safety
Criminal Justice Services, Department of	FY2009 $160,000	FY2010 $160,000	GF

Language
Page 363, line 40, strike "$81,939,599" and insert "$82,099,599".
Page 363, line 40, strike "$81,894,599" and insert "$82,054,599".
Page 366, after line 21, insert:
"K. Out of the amounts appropriated for Financial Assistance for Administration of Justice Services, $160,000 the first year and $160,000 the second year is from the general fund provided to initiate a statewide office to administer the Project Lifesaver program. This office is to be responsible for developing training standards for participating law enforcement agencies, offering program training, and distributing program-related equipment to participating law enforcement agencies."

Explanation
(This amendment provides $160,000 each year from the general fund to establish a Statewide Office for Project Lifesaver, which would develop statewide standards for training, offer training, and distribute equipment across the Commonwealth. Project Lifesaver, which was originally initiated by the City of Chesapeake's sheriff, uses personalized transmitters to locate persons suffering from Alzheimer's and related disorders and autistic Downs Syndrome children. Since its inception, Project Lifesaver has expanded throughout Virginia and the mid-Atlantic region.)

Item 395

Item 395	First Year - FY2009	Second Year - FY2010
Financial Assistance for Administration of Justice Services (39000)	$81,939,599	$81,894,599
Financial Assistance for Administration of Justice Services (39001)	FY2009 $81,939,599	FY2010 $81,894,599
Fund Sources:
General	FY2009 $36,118,870	FY2010 $36,073,870
Special	FY2009 $100,000	FY2010 $100,000
Trust and Agency	FY2009 $10,000,000	FY2010 $10,000,000
Dedicated Special Revenue	FY2009 $10,238,464	FY2010 $10,238,464
Federal Trust	FY2009 $25,482,265	FY2010 $25,482,265

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 $829,930 the first year and $829,930 the second year from the general fund for the required matching funds for state agencies.

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, $1,101,101 the first year and $1,101,101 the second year from the general fund and an estimated $1,500,000 the first year and an estimated $1,500,000 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, 2008, through June 30, 2010, except that the Board may approve a new academy for Roanoke County, to be supported with local funds, consistent with the Agreement dated February 5, 2007, by and between the Board of Supervisors of Roanoke County, the Sheriff of Roanoke County, and the Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy.

2. Virginia Crime Victim-Witness Fund, $5,124,059 the first year and $5,124,059 the second year from dedicated special revenue, and $3,100,000 the first year and $3,100,000 the second year from the general fund. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall provide a report on the current and projected status of federal, state and local funding for victim-witness programs supported by the Fund. Copies of the report shall be provided to the Secretary of Public Safety, the Department of Planning and Budget and the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees by October 16, 2008.

3.a. Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs, $1,615,000 the first year and $1,615,000 the second year from the general fund.

b. In the event that the federal government reduces or removes support for the CASA programs, the Governor is authorized to provide offsetting funding for those impacted programs out of the unappropriated balances in this Act.

C.1. Out of this appropriation, $21,908,828 the first year and $21,908,828 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). Out of these amounts, the Director, Department of Criminal Justice Services, is authorized to expend no more than five percent per year for state administration of these programs.

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.

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. 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 re-appropriated the unexpended balances remaining in the appropriations made in the Financial Assistance for Administration of Justice Services program on June 30, 2008, and June 30, 2009. 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.

F.1. Out of this appropriation, $1,490,000 the first year and $1,490,000 the second year from the general fund and $1,710,000 the first year and $1,710,000 the second year from such federal funds as are available 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, Department of Criminal Justice Services, is authorized to expend $357,285 the first year and $357,285 the second year from the School Resource Officer Incentive Grants Fund to operate the Virginia Center for School Safety, pursuant to § 9.1-110, Code of Virginia.

G. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall provide a grant of $75,000 the first year and $75,000 second year to the County of Fairfax for the Fairfax Partnership on Youth.

H. Included in the amounts appropriated in this Item is $100,000 the first year and $100,000 the second year from the general fund to support the dual diagnosis day reporting program operated by Chesterfield County Community Corrections.

I. Included in the amounts appropriated in this Item is $450,000 the first year and $450,000 the second year from the general fund for grants to local sexual assault crisis centers (SACCs) to provide core and comprehensive services to victims of sexual violence.

J. Included in the amounts appropriated in this Item is $45,000 the first year from the general fund for the planning phase of the Virginia Public Safety Memorial.