Amend DOC Study Language (language only)

Item C-66 #1c

Language

Page 292, strike lines 13 through 28 and insert:

"H.1. The Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security shall convene a workgroup to assess and provide recommendations for a long-term operating and capital plan for the provision of health care services to inmates held in secure correctional facilities operated by the Department of Corrections. The workgroup shall be comprised of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security or their designees; the Secretary of Health and Human Resources or their designees; the Director, Department of Planning and Budget or their designees; the Staff Directors of the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee or their designees; the Director, Department of Corrections or their designees; and the Director, Department of General Services or their designees.

2. The workgroup shall assess plans produced by the Department of Corrections to provide health services to inmates held in secure correctional facilities operated by the Department. This shall include an assessment of plans produced by the Department to assume operation of all health care services provided in facilities, necessary services to be provided by contract either on-site or off-site, and the long-term capital needs for the Department to effectuate such operating plans. The assessment shall also consider the costs and benefits of the provision of health care services within secure correctional centers by vendors contracted by the Department, to include: i) an analysis of the transition from management by a third-party vendor to management directly by the Department for facilities that transitioned management in fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023, including actual and projected costs, as well as filled and vacant positions; and, ii) an analysis of cost drivers for the provision of inmate healthcare, including factors such as inflation, utilization, compensation, and the costs of goods and services.

The assessment shall include consideration of the Department's plan for using the 722-acre property at 3500 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County, previously known as the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center, as a consolidated medical facility for state-responsible inmates and describe how the facility will support the planned transition of medical service delivery to a state-managed model. The assessment shall also include information on other potential state needs and uses for the Beaumont property, and justification stating the reasons the expansion of the medical facility at Deerfield Correctional Facility and the replacement of Powhatan Infirmary (authorized in Chapter 552, 2021 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I) are no longer feasible to address the Department's infirmary and long-term care needs.

3. The Secretary or his designee shall present the workgroup's assessment, including its recommendations for future utilization of the Beaumont property, the medical facility at Deerfield Correctional Facility, and Powhatan Infirmary, to the Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee (Committee) and include feedback from the Committee in the workgroup's final report.

4. The workgroup shall report the findings of its assessment, and its recommendations, to the Governor and Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations no later than November 15, 2022.

5. The Department shall not proceed with the Deerfield Correctional Center Expansion or Powhatan Infirmary Replacement planning projects."