Authority: Title 23, Chapter 13, Code of Virginia.
A.1. Out of the amount for Educational and General Programs, the following general fund sums shall be made available for special enhancements, to be released subject to an expenditure plan having the prior written approval of the Secretary of Education:
| | First Year | Second Year |
| Enhancement of Academic Programs | $1,688,240 | $1,688,240 |
| Historic Deficiencies | $1,334,141 | $1,334,141 |
| TOTAL | $3,022,381 | $3,022,381 |
2. Out of the amounts for Educational and General Programs, $583,269 the first year and $583,269 the second year from the general fund is designated to rectify problems identified in a report entitled Virginia State University Management Plan, dated December 6, 1982.
B. Included in Item 291, paragraph C 3 of this act is $992,242 from the general fund and $28,964 in nongeneral funds the first year and $914,595 from the general fund and $28,964 in nongeneral funds the second year to support the debt service on bonds issued by the Virginia College Building Authority to finance equipment. The Treasury Board shall transfer to the Virginia College Building Authority on July 1, 2000, the amounts in the first year, and on July 1, 2001, the amounts in the second year to support the Authority's debt obligation.
C. This appropriation includes $30,000 the first year and $30,000 the second year from the general fund to support the Virginia Writing Project.
D. This appropriation includes $200,000 the first year and $200,000 the second year from the general fund to increase the number of terminally qualified faculty to at least 85 percent of the total teaching faculty.
E. This appropriation authorizes Virginia State University to charge students a technology service fee in conformity with § 4-2.01 c of this act. This appropriation includes $125,005 the first year and $125,005 the second year from nongeneral funds, the unexpended balance of which shall not revert to the general fund in any fiscal year but shall be carried forward on the books of the Department of Accounts and allotted for expenditure each July 1. The fee charged resident undergraduate students each year shall not exceed one percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in FY 1998, and the amounts appropriated in this Item reflect that policy. The Department of Planning and Budget shall allot technology fee revenues in excess of the amounts appropriated in this Item provided that the revenues are not generated by resident undergraduate students and provided that such revenues reflect a fee that does not exceed three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in FY 1998 to nonresident undergraduate students and three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in FY 1998 to graduate and professional students.
F. Out of this appropriation, Virginia State University is authorized to use up to $600,000 the first year and $600,000 the second year to address extremely critical deferred maintenance deficiencies in its facilities, including residence halls and dining facilities, identified by the institution's deferred maintenance report dated August 1997. No more than 50 percent of the funds may be used for auxiliary facilities.