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2021 Special Session I

Budget Amendments - HB1800 (Floor Approved)

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Increase Reimbursement Rate for Forensic Exams

Item 497 #1h

Item 497 #1h

First Year - FY2021 Second Year - FY2022
Independent Agencies
Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission FY2021 $0 FY2022 $775,000 GF

Language
Page 604, line 47, strike "$10,627,494" and insert "$11,402,494".

Page 605, line 7 strike "$1,885,000" and insert "$2,660,000".

Page 605, after line 10, insert:

"B. The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) Program shall make all efforts to access federal and state funds to raise the reimbursement rate cap for acute forensic exams performed by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner to sixty percent of the actual cost of the exam. The funds provided in paragraph A.1. shall be used to help meet this reimbursement rate goal, expand existing forensic nursing programs, and develop forensic nursing programs in under-served communities."

Page 605, line 11, strike "B" and insert "C".



Explanation

(This amendment increases the general fund transfer to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund by $775,000 in the second year to help increase the reimbursement rate for acute forensic exams to sixty percent of the actual cost of the exam, support existing forensic nursing programs, and develop forensic nursing programs in under-served areas of the Commonwealth. The amendment further directs Sexual Assault Forensic Exam program to access federal and state resources to achieve the sixty percent reimbursement rate goal.)