Authority: §§ 53.1-179 through 53.1-185.1, Code of Virginia.

A. The Department shall seek grant funding through the Department of Criminal Justice Services to continue operation of the Peninsula Day Reporting Center. Such grant should be requested for the same staffing and programming level as under the existing grant.

B. The Department shall seek grant funding of not less than $750,000 each year through the Department of Criminal Justice Services to contract for residential substance abuse treatment services for probationers and parolees. Services to be provided through such grant request shall be linked to existing institutional and community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the Department of Corrections.

C. The Department of Corrections shall provide biannual reports on its progress in implementing the Statewide Community-Based Corrections System for State-Responsible Offenders to the Chairmen of the House Courts of Justice, Health, Welfare and Institutions, and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Courts of Justice, Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Finance Committees.

D. The Department of Corrections is authorized to establish a Detention Center Incarceration Program pursuant to § 53.1-67.8 in each of its four administrative regions. The Department, in addition to the facilities authorized for this purpose, is also authorized to use for this purpose up to two of its minimum security work centers, and up to 200 correctional field unit beds in both its northern and western administrative regions.

E. Included in this appropriation is $2,620,713 the first year and $2,620,713 the second year from the general fund for three Diversion Incarceration Centers pursuant to § 53.1-67.7, Code of Virginia.

F. Included within this appropriation is $1,791,369 the second year from the general fund to contract for pre-release and post-incarceration services for state responsible felons.