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_ 127 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 103. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 average annual per capita distribution award. Any funds rescinded pursuant to this paragraph shall be retained in the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund (09272) and may be used by the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board for grant awards to competitive projects. The Department shall notify the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees within 10 days of the decision by the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board to rescind regional per capital allocations. The regional council, the amount, and reason for unused funds shall be included in such notice. 6.a. The department shall report one month after the close of each calendar quarter to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees on grant awards and expenditures from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund. The report shall include, but not be limited to, total appropriations made or transferred to the fund, total grants awarded, total expenditures from the fund, total per capita allocations rescinded and repurposed to competitive awards, cash balances, and balances available for future commitments. The report shall further summarize such amounts by the allocations provided in paragraph N.2. of this item, including amounts allocated to support organizational and capacity building activities, amounts allocated to regional councils based on each region's share of the state population, and amounts to be awarded on a competitive basis by fiscal year. The report shall include details on the cash balances available in the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund including the unobligated balances by the per capita allocation and competitive allocation of paragraph N.2., which shall be further disaggregated by fiscal year and regional council, as appropriate. b. The department shall report at the close of each fiscal year to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees on the outcomes associated with closed projects that received a grant from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund on or before December 1st of each year. This report shall include itemized information that details the project name, the Regional Council, GO Virginia investment type (regional per capita, competitive, or Economic Resilience and Recovery), GO Virginia strategy, program year, date of award, committed match, anticipated project outcomes, and actual project outcomes. The department shall utilize the information provided in this report to create a public facing performance dashboard to be updated annually that, at a minimum, includes individual projects organized by Region, total GO Virginia resources committed to the project, anticipated outcomes, and final outcomes submitted to the department at the close of the project. This information shall further be disaggregated by year and shall feature all projects receiving GO Virginia grants. O.1. Out of the amounts in this Item, $424,000 the first year and $424,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to support the creation of a statewide broadband map. The department shall, in coordination with the Office of the Chief Broadband Advisor, develop a statewide broadband availability map indicating broadband coverage, including maximum broadband speeds available in service territories in the Commonwealth. The department and Chief Advisor shall update the map at least annually. 2. Broadband service providers shall be required to submit updated service territory data to the department annually. The department shall establish a process, timeline, and specific data requirements for broadband providers to submit their data. All public bodies shall cooperate with the department, or any agent thereof, to furnish data requested by the Department for the initial improvement and maintenance of the map. 3. In no instance may the department require broadband providers to submit any data, in either substantive content or form, beyond that which the provider is required to submit to the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to the federal Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act, 47 U.S.C. § 641 et. seq., provided, however, that satellite-based broadband providers that have been designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(6) for any portion of the Commonwealth shall be required to submit comparable data as other broadband providers. Public bodies and broadband providers shall not be required to submit any customer information, such as names, addresses, or account numbers. 4. The department may publish only anonymized versions of the map, showing locations served and unserved by broadband without reference to any specific provider. The map