CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPERATING COSTS OF LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
DETERMINED (§ 53.1-83.1)

The Governor’s proposed biennial budget bill shall include, for each
fiscal year, an appropriation for operating costs for local correctional
facilities.  The proposed appropriation shall include:

   1.  An amount for compensating localities for the cost of maintaining
   prisoners arrested on state warrants in local jails, regional jails and jail
   farms, at a specified rate per prisoner day;

   2.  An amount for maintaining convicted state felons in local correctional
   facilities, at a specified rate per felon day, pursuant to § 53.1-20.1;

   3.  An amount to pay two-thirds of the salaries of medical and treatment
   personnel approved by the State Compensation Board; and

   4.  An amount to be set aside for unanticipated medical emergencies.

HISTORY: 1983, c. 358; 1992, cc. 333, 573.