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_ 39 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 32. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Total for Court of Appeals of Virginia $21,937,991 $21,937,991 General Fund Positions 142.13 142.13 Position Level 142.13 142.13 Fund Sources: General $21,937,991 $21,937,991 Circuit Courts (113) 33. Pre-Trial, Trial, and Appellate Processes (32100) $131,392,451 $137,464,210 $138,814,210 Trial Processes (32103) $58,997,219 $59,084,019 $58,984,019 Other Court Costs And Allowances (Criminal Fund) (32104) $72,395,232 $78,380,191 $79,830,191 Fund Sources: General $131,392,451 $137,464,210 $138,814,210 Authority: Article VI, Section 1, Constitution of Virginia; Title 17.1, Chapter 5; § 19.2- 163, Code of Virginia. A. Out of the amounts in this Item for Trial Processes shall be paid: 1. The annual salaries of Circuit Court judges, each at $213,839 from June 10, 2024 to June 10, 2025, $220,254 from June 10, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Such salaries shall represent the total compensation from all sources for Circuit Court judges. 2. Expenses necessarily incurred for the position of judge of the Circuit Court, including clerk hire not exceeding $1,500 a year for each judge. 3. The state's share of expenses incident to the prosecution of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by an indigent petitioner, including payment of counsel fees as fixed by the Court; the expenses shall be paid upon receipt of an appropriate order from a Circuit Court. 4. A circuit court judge shall only be reimbursed for mileage for commuting if the judge has to travel to a courthouse in a county or city other than the one in which the judge resides and the distance between the judge's residence and the courthouse is greater than 25 miles. B. The Chief Circuit Court Judge shall restrict the appointment of special justices to conduct involuntary mental commitment hearings to those unusual instances when no General District Court or Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judge can be made available or when the volume of the hearings would require more than eight hours a week. C. There is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance remaining at the close of business on June 30, 2024, in the appropriation made in Item 44, Chapter 1, Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I, in the item detail Other Court Costs and Allowances (Criminal Fund) and the balance remaining in this item detail on June 30, 2025. D. The appropriation in this Item for Other Court Costs and Allowances (Criminal Fund) shall be used to implement the provisions of § 8.01-384.1:1, Code of Virginia. E.1. General fund appropriations for Other Court Costs and Allowances (Criminal Fund) total $139,541,179 the first year and $145,526,138 $146,976,138 the second year in this Item and Items 28, 32, 34, 35 and 36. 2. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia shall determine how the amounts appropriated to Other Courts Costs and Allowances (Criminal Fund) will be allocated, consistent with statutory provisions in the Code of Virginia. Funds within these appropriations are to be used to fund fully the statutory caps on compensation applicable to attorneys appointed by the court to defend criminal charges. Should this appropriation not be sufficient to fund fully all of the statutory caps on compensation as established by §