Restore Funds to Operate Unit at SWVMHI Geriatric Unit

Item 309 #1h

Language
Page 278, line 11, strike "$188,180,547" and insert "$187,180,547".

Explanation
(This amendment reduces the general fund by $1.0 million the second year that was contained in the introduced budget and maintains funding to continue operations of one 20-bed adult/geriatric unit at the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Marion. Chapter 874 of the 2010 Virginia Acts of Assembly reduced funding for fiscal year 2012 based on the closure of the geriatric unit at the Institute effective July 1, 2010. Discharges and transfers have taken place since that time which has enabled the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to close one 20-bed unit.)