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_ 541 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 394. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 program or a renewal of an existing grant. Copies of this report shall be provided to the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Appropriations and House Appropriations Committees and the Director, Department of Planning and Budget by January 1 of each year. B. The Department of Criminal Justice Services is authorized to make grants and provide technical assistance out of this appropriation to state agencies, local governments, regional, and nonprofit organizations for the establishment and operation of programs for the following purposes and up to the amounts specified: 1.a. Regional training academies for criminal justice training, $1,527,859 the first year and $1,527,859 the second year from the general fund and an estimated $1,122,530 the first year and an estimated $1,122,530 the second year from nongeneral funds. The Criminal Justice Services Board shall adopt such rules as may reasonably be required for the distribution of funds and for the establishment, operation and service boundaries of state- supported regional criminal justice training academies. b. The Board of Criminal Justice Services, consistent with § 9.1-102, Code of Virginia, and § 6VAC-20-20-61 of the Administrative Code, shall not approve or provide funding for the establishment of any new criminal justice training academy from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2026. c. Notwithstanding subsection B.1.b. of this item, the Board of Criminal Justice Services may approve a new regional criminal justice academy serving the Counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Warren; the City of Winchester; the Towns of Berryville, Front Royal, Middletown, Stephens City and Strasburg; the Northwestern Adult Detention Center; and, the Frederick County Emergency Communications Center, to be established and operated consistent with a written agreement, provided to the Board, between the local governing bodies, chief executive officers, and chief law enforcement officers of the aforementioned localities, and the Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy. The new academy shall be eligible to receive state funding in a manner consistent with the currently existing regional criminal justice training academies. However, no current existing regional criminal justice training academy other than the Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy will receive less funding as a result of the creation of the new regional academy. 2. Virginia Crime Victim-Witness Fund, $5,692,738 the first year and $5,692,738 the second year from dedicated special revenue, and $5,988,807 the first year and $8,388,807$9,888,807 the second year from the general fund. The Department of Criminal Justice Services shall provide a report on the current and projected status of federal, state and local funding for victim-witness programs supported by the Fund. Copies of the report shall be provided annually to the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, the Department of Planning and Budget, and the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Appropriations and House Appropriations Committees by October 16 of each year. 3.a. Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs, $1,615,000 the first year and $1,615,000 the second year from the general fund. b. In the event that the federal government reduces or removes support for the CASA programs, the Governor is authorized to provide offsetting funding for those impacted programs out of the unappropriated balances in this Act. c. The Department of Criminal Justice Services (the Department) shall convene a work group to study and make recommendations on requiring a local court-appointed special advocate (CASA) program to be established and available in every judicial district of the Commonwealth. The work group shall include the CASA Program Coordinator, representatives of at least two local CASA programs, at least two volunteer court- appointed special advocates, at least two judges of a juvenile and domestic relations district court and one judge of a circuit court sitting in a judicial district where a local CASA program is established, at least two judges of a juvenile and domestic relations district court and one judge of a circuit court sitting in a judicial district where no local CASA program has been established, a representative from the Department of Social Services, and any other stakeholders deemed appropriate by the Department. The work group shall identify any judicial districts in the Commonwealth where no local CASA program has been established and determine the feasibility, including analyzing any obstacles, of requiring the establishment of a local CASA program in every judicial