VML S Top Budget Priorities

At a glance: Summary of how VML’s budget priorities fared

Topic Governor (proposed) House (proposed) Senate (proposed) Agreed upon conference report

Direct Aid to Reduced funding by Restored no funding; Added $100 million to Adds $75.6 million to provide Education $50 million over the eliminated funding for LCI provide an additional additional one-time payment of the biennium; eliminated hold harmless, school bus $130/pupil; includes state share of $130/pupil for FY12; LCI hold harmless replacement, and middle funding to make whole the includes funding to make whole account in order to pay school resource teachers; localities receiving LCI localities receiving LCI hold for increased teacher used funding to make hold harmless funding harmless funding. Does not retirement rate increased payment to VRS eliminate funding for school buses and to provide state share of and middle school resource 2 percent bonus teachers.

Comprehensive Redefined therapeutic Supported governor’s Reversed the introduced Restores community match rate for Services Act foster care for children amendment for therapeutic budget action and restores therapeutic foster care and $7.5 as a residential service, foster care funding. $7.5 million in the second million in state funding in the which means a higher year for the state share of second year. Requires additional match rate for local Proposed to make any child costs. data on use of TFC and clearer governments; as well as eligible for Medicaid- guidelines for its use. eliminated state funded behavioral health Did not include funding for services to rehabilitation services (both amendment to expand CSA Restores $5 million of state share of non-mandated children. community-based and mandated population. costs for non-mandated services in residential) a part of the second year. mandated population of CSA. Local governments Does not expand CSA target would have provided local population. match for each and every child in this category, Requires state to offer more CSA estimated to be as many as training and assistance. 190,000 additional cases.

Transportation Recommended $150 Accepted the governor’s Eliminated the $150.0 Reduces the general fund deposit to million from the state amendment million general fund the Virginia Transportation general fund for deposit to the infrastructure Infrastructure Bank to $32.7 proposed Virginia bank. Requires that the million. The amendment also Transportation $250 million in project specifies that any transfers to the Infrastructure Bank. balances from the bank from VDOT balances must Additional $250 Commonwealth identify the specific project to be million from VDOT Transportation Fund be funded as well as the corresponding balances used to certified before deposit to fund source. supplement GF, the infrastructure bank. bringing the total for the bank to $400 million.

VRS Required New local employees Accepted governor’s Rejected governor’s Rejects governor’s amendment. Contribution for required to pay; option amendment except requiring amendment Local Employees for localities to require 5 percent salary increase Plan 1 employees to pay 5% member contribution (3% salary increase)

VRS Teacher 7.16 percent 5.16 percent 6.33 percent 6.33 percent Contribution Rate

State assistance to No reductions or No amendment. Provided $18.7 million in Provides $12.4 million in FY12. local law restorations of earlier FY12 to bring HB 599 to Budget language requires that all enforcement (HB cuts for HB 599 the same total level of HB 599 localities receive the same 599) funding; at the same funding as for FY11. percentage reduction in their FY12 time, made partial Budget language provided allocations when compared to their restoration of earlier the same allocation in FY11 allocations. reductions in state FY12 as it receives this assistance to sheriffs’ fiscal year. offices in FY12.

Water Quality Added $32.8 million to Reallocated the $32.8 Reallocated the $32.8 Reallocates the $32.8 million with Improvement Fund WQIF for non-point million surplus revenue by million with $27.8 million $27.8 million for reducing agricultural and pollution source depositing $4.9 million in for reducing agricultural agricultural runoff. The remaining urban runoff reduction. $14 million the WQIF reserve and $22.9 runoff and a portion of the portion is deposited in the WQIF (nonpoint) in FY11 to be used specifically million for agricultural remaining $5 million reserve and no money is made for agricultural runoff. runoff. A portion of the available for reducing available for reducing urban $18.8 million would remaining $5 million was urban runoff pollutants. runoff pollutants. have been used for the expected to be available for same purpose, although reducing urban runoff $5 million was pollutants. expected to be directed toward urban runoff. Water Quality Added $3.644 million Deposited $547,645 of the Authorized up to $3 Authorizes up to $3 million from the Improvement Fund in FY11 to the WQIF to $3.644 million into the million of the $3.644 WQIF to fund a study of the James sewage treatment reimburse localities for WQIF reserve. million to fund a study of River on water quality standards. (point source) sewage treatment plant the James River on water Also deposits $546,645 of the upgrades. quality standards. $3.644 million into the WQIF Authorized an additional reserve. This means that less than $107.8 million in bonds for $100,000 in additional funds will FY12 to reimburse be available to reimburse localities localities for sewage for sewage treatment plant treatment plant upgrades. upgrades.

Line of Duty Act No amendment Delayed the deadline for Allowed localities to Delays the deadline for localities to localities to opt out of the establish alternative opt out of the statewide Line of statewide Line of Duty programs to fund LODA Duty program from 7/1/2011 to program from 7/1/2011 to benefits; required localities 7/1/2012 7/1/2012 to pay only for benefits given as of 7/1/2010, allowed local governing body to determine eligibility. Delayed opt- out to 2013.