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2011 Session

Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Hanger
Restore GF for Tobacco Use Prevention Funding

Item 468 #1s

Item 468 #1s

First Year - FY2011 Second Year - FY2012
Central Appropriations
Central Appropriations FY2011 $0 FY2012 $2,000,000 GF

Language
Page 401, line 20, strike "$88,359,200" and insert "$90,359,200".
Page 402, after line 5, insert:
"D.  Out of this appropriation, $2,000,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to be used for tobacco use and obesity prevention activities."


Explanation
(This amendment restores $2.0 million GF the second year to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth for prevention activities. The role of the Foundation is to reduce tobacco use and obesity among children. The Foundation's budget was reduced in the current budget and it was directed to expand its mission to address childhood obesity, affecting the Foundation's ability to address both of these issues.)