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2014 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB5002 (Floor Approved)

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Additional Marine Patrol Officers

Item 371 #1h

Item 371 #1h

First Year - FY2015 Second Year - FY2016
Natural Resources
Marine Resources Commission FY2015 $0 FY2016 $127,600 GF

Language
Page 310, line 6, strike "$18,406,580" and insert "$18,534,180".


Explanation
(This amendment provides the general fund dollars necessary to fill two vacant marine police officer positions in the second year of the biennium. These positions would augment the funding included in the introduced budget filling four vacant marine police officer positions in the first and second years. The additional positions supported by the amendment would better enable the Virginia Marine Resources Commission's law enforcement officers to reduce poaching of oysters from Virginia's oyster sanctuaries, protect Virginians from the harvest of oysters and other stocks condemned by the Health Department, and provide for boating safety inspections and search and rescue operations.)