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2021 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB1800 (Conference Report)

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Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Fund

Item 301 #3c

Item 301 #3c

First Year - FY2021 Second Year - FY2022
Health and Human Resources
Department of Health FY2021 $100,000 FY2022 $650,000 GF

Language
Page 332, line 13, strike "$167,067,937" and insert "$167,167,937".
Page 332, line 13, strike "$163,353,397" and insert "$164,003,397".

Page 353, unstrike lines 11 through 13.

Page 353, line 11, after "G.", insert "1.".

Page 353, line 11, strike "$750,000 the first year and $750,000", insert "$100,000 the first year and $650,000".

Page 353, after line 13, insert:

"2.  The Department of Health shall continue to award and provide federal Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) funds through the cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control to the six sexual and domestic violence organizations that received such funds in year two of the cooperative agreement.  If however, the Centers for Disease Control does not approve or limits the cooperative agreement funding that can be awarded to these organizations, then the department shall make grants, notwithstanding any other provision of law, from the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Fund in an amount the first year or the second year to ensure the same level of funding the organizations received in federal RPE funds in year two of the cooperative agreement."



Explanation

(This amendment restores $100,000 the first year and $650,000 the second year from the general fund for the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Fund that was created pursuant to Chapters 912 and 913, 2020 Actis of Assembly. The program would be administered by the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health. The fund will award grants on a competitive basis to local sexual and domestic violence agencies engaged in evidence-informed sexual and domestic violence prevention work. In addition, language is included directing the Department of Health to continue to award and provide federal Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) funds through the cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control to six sexual and domestic violence organizations.)