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2017 VFC BUDGET AMENDMENTS BUDGET Description Senate Patron House Patron AMENDMENT Emmett Hanger Creation of the Requesting $10 million in FY 18 to be Tommy Norment Chris Peace Virginia Community funded from the TANF Program for Frank Ruff Wealth Building Fund Poverty Eradication Request a change to locality Group III for TANF Assistance payments for TANF-Locality eligible individuals in Danville, Jill Vogel Riley Ingram Grouping Change Hopewell, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, Richmond, and Winchester. This restores funding to the Enterprise Matthew James/ Enterprise Zone Zone Program at the level of the Frank Ruff Daun Hester co- Restore Funding original 2016-18 budget. patron Restores the reduction in the introduced budget to the original Matthew James/ Brownfields Restore amount contained in the 2016-18 Frank Ruff Daun Hester co- Funding adopted budget of $2.25 million for patron the second year. We are working with a coalition of preservationists, Defeat of these the developer bills obviates the Restores the Historic Rehabilitation community & need for a Tax Credit to its current status. others to defeat budget two bills that amendment. have been introduced that would cap this Historic Rehabilitation program Tax Credit 2017 VFC BUDGET AMENDMENTS The introduced budget added $1 million in the second year for this Master Teacher Roslyn Dance program. This amendment would add Delores McQuinn Residency an additional $2 million in funding to Tommy Norment grants for partnerships between university Master’s degree residency programs and school divisions. Remove language “After the third consecutive year of successful participation, an eligible school’s grant shall be based on a shared split of the Roslyn Dance Extended Year/Day grant between the state and Delores McQuinn participating school division’s local Tommy Norment composite index.” This language currently penalizes the successful transition to an extended school year schedule..

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