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_ 362 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 275. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 G. Out of this appropriation, $1,600,011 the first year and $1,600,011 the second year shall be provided to the Virginia Department of Health from available federal funding in the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, including the State Opioid Response Grant, as available, to purchase and provide opioid reversal drugs to support community rescue efforts for those who deal with vulnerable populations. H. Out of this appropriation, $1,300,000 the first year and $1,300,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to purchase opioid reversal drugs. I. The Virginia Department of Health shall review and update their data collection and reporting protocols for COVID-19 or other infectious disease data to report actual deaths not an extrapolated projection of deaths. J. The State Health Commissioner shall ensure that residents and employees of any nursing home or assisted living facility receive priority for testing indicating the existence of the COVID-19 virus in the Commonwealth. The Commissioner shall make available public health testing, if necessary, in order to ensure that nursing homes or assisted living facilities have access to testing that can provide the most rapid results in order to prevent or contain outbreaks of COVID-19. Such testing shall be provided, as needed, by the Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services or other public health testing agencies of the Commonwealth. Any testing costs through the public health system for employees or residents of nursing homes or assisted living facilities may be billed to responsible third- parties. K. The Virginia Department of Health shall work with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) to ensure that adequate funding, estimated at $2,111,670 the first year, is provided for COVID-19 testing and surveillance at DBHDS state- operated facilities. Any amount not expended in the first year may be appropriated in the second year to continue services. The Virginia Department of Health shall include such activity in its plan to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the use of the federal Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) funds received pursuant to the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (P.L. 116-260). The Virginia Department of Health shall transfer such funds to the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services as necessary for such activities. L.1. Out of this appropriation, $5,519,145 the first year and $5,519,145 the second year from the Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation fund shall be provided for the purchase and distribution of opioid reversal agents and test kits and for the development of tracking software. 2. Of the amounts provided in L.1., $1,000,000 the first year and $1,000,000 the second year shall be provided to purchase and distribute eight milligram naloxone nasal spray. M. Out of this appropriation, $100,000 the second year from the Commonwealth Opioid and Abatement and Remediation fund shall be provided for the purchase and distribution of additional opioid reversal agents for public school divisions by the Virginia Department of Health. N.1. The Virginia Department of Health shall establish and execute the Opioid Overdose Reversal Agent Program, a manufacturing program for a quality, lowest sustainable cost, opioid overdose reversal agent. Out of this appropriation, $8,000,000 the first year and $8,000,000 the second year from the Commonwealth Opioid Abatement and Remediation fund shall be provided to administer the Program. The Virginia Department of Health shall coordinate the Program with the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority. Key objectives of the Program shall be: (i) providing a long-term, sustainable supply of opioid overdose reversal agent to help combat Virginia's opioid epidemic; (ii) providing pricing stability and increase access for this critical life-saving medication; and, (iii) leveraging, when possible, existing federal and state investments building the advanced pharmaceutical development and manufacturing CAMPUS in Petersburg. 2. The Program shall contract with the private sector to lead an end-to-end opioid overdose reversal agent nasal spray development program to provide a new FDA-approved generic version resulting in a lower cost product to help drive down state and locality budgets for