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_ 116 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 102. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Assistance Services, and Department of Social Services. The department shall also include stakeholders whose constituents have an interest in expanding supportive housing for people with serious mental illness, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness Virginia, the Virginia Housing Alliance and the Virginia Sheriff's Association. An annual report on such strategies and the progress on implementation shall be provided to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees by the first day of each General Assembly Regular Session. I. Out of the amounts appropriated in this Item, $3,450,000 the first year and $3,450,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to establish a competitive Eviction Prevention and Diversion Pilot Program that will support local or regional eviction prevention and diversion programs that utilize a systems approach with linkages to local departments of social services and legal aid resources. This program shall prioritize grant applications that provide a local match at an amount deemed appropriate by the Department. J. The authorization provided under Item 113, Paragraph L., Chapter 1, 2022 General Assembly, Special Session I, that directs the department to use up to $11,400,000 of unobligated balances in the Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program Fund (02017) for flood relief is hereby continued. Using these funds, the department shall continue to administer a program established for the purposes of providing relief to residents of Virginia that lost or sustained property damage as a result of a flood disaster, mudslide, or landslide occurring on or after August 1, 2021, but before September 31, 2021, and subject to a Major Disaster Declaration (FEMA-4628-DR) issued by President Biden on October 26, 2021. K. The authorization provided under Item 113, Paragraph O., Chapter 1, 2023 General Assembly, Special Session I, that directs the department to use up to $18,000,000 of unobligated balances in the Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program Fund (02017) for flood relief is hereby continued. Using these funds, the department shall continue to administer a program established for the purposes of providing relief to residents of Virginia that lost or sustained property damage as a result of a flood disaster, mudslide, or landslide occurring on or after July 1, 2022, but before August 31, 2022, and subject to a Major Disaster Declaration (FEMA-4674-DR) issued by President Biden on September 30, 2022 L. Out of this appropriation, $200,000 the first year and $200,000 the second year from the general fund is provided for the department to support the comprehensive statewide housing assessment, pursuant to § 36-139, Code of Virginia. M.1. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 10.1-1330, Code of Virginia, the department shall utilize $5,000,000 of unobligated balances in the Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program Fund (02017) for the purpose of establishing a pilot program to assist residents of a manufacturing home park or organizations exempt from taxation under 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code with acquiring manufactured home parks located in Virginia. 2. The department shall award the funds provided in this paragraph as revolving loans to either: (i) associations consisting of residents of one or more manufactured home parks in Virginia, or (ii) organizations exempt from taxation under 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code that provide, construct, or renovate affordable housing in Virginia. 3. The department shall develop criteria and guidelines for this pilot program on or before December 1, 2024. At a minimum, the guidelines shall prohibit any loans that result in the involuntary displacement of any person residing in the park at the time of its acquisition. The interest rate of loans issued under this pilot program shall not exceed the lowest annual interest rate offered on a loan from the Virginia Housing Trust Fund. 4. Up to twenty-five percent of funds provided in this paragraph may be distributed to organizations exempt from taxation under 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code that provide, construct, or renovate affordable housing in Virginia that have been assigned a right of first refusal to purchase a manufactured home park by a locality, pursuant to the provisions of House Bill 1397 of the 2024 General Assembly. Upon receipt of notice from a nonprofit that they have: (i) been assigned right of first refusal by a locality to purchase manufactured home parks, or (ii) received notice from the locality that such owner has entered into a contract to sell the park contingent upon providing the right of first refusal, the department shall expedite the application for a loan, and notify the applicant of its decision within 30 days of receiving the application.