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_ 62 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 61. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 facility; or (c) any person convicted of a felony offense and given an effective sentence of (i) twelve months or less or (ii) less than one year. 3. State responsible inmate--any person convicted of one or more felony offenses and (a) the sum of consecutive effective sentences for felonies, committed on or after January 1, 1995, is (i) more than 12 months or (ii) one year or more, or (b) the sum of consecutive effective sentences for felonies, committed before January 1, 1995, is more than two years. C. The individual or entity responsible for operating any facility which receives funds from this Item may, if requested by the Department of Corrections, enter into an agreement with the department to accept the transfer of convicted felons, from other local facilities or from facilities operated by the Department of Corrections. In entering into any such agreements, or in effecting the transfer of offenders, the Department of Corrections shall consider the security requirements of transferred offenders and the capability of the local facility to maintain such offenders. For purposes of calculating the amount due each locality, all funds earned by the locality as a result of an agreement with the Department of Corrections shall be included as receipts from these appropriations. D. Out of this appropriation, an amount not to exceed $377,010 the first year and $377,010 the second year from the general fund, is designated to be held in reserve for unbudgeted medical expenses incurred by local correctional facilities in the care of state responsible felons. E. The following amounts shall be paid out of this appropriation to compensate localities for the cost of maintaining prisoners in local correctional facilities, as defined by § 53.1-1, Code of Virginia, or if the prisoner is not housed in a local correctional facility, in an alternative to incarceration program operated by, or under the authority of, the sheriff or jail board: 1. For local responsible inmates--$5 per inmate day, or, if the inmate is housed and maintained in a jail farm not under the control of the sheriff, the rate shall be $19 per inmate day. 2. For state responsible inmates--$15 per inmate day. F. For the payment specified in paragraph E.1. of this Item for prisoners in alternative punishment or alternative to incarceration programs: 1. Such payment is intended to be made for prisoners that would otherwise be housed in a local correctional facility. It is not intended for prisoners that would otherwise be sentenced to community service or placed on probation. 2. No such payment shall be made unless the program has been approved by the Department of Corrections or the Department of Criminal Justice Services. Alternative punishment or alternative to incarceration programs, however, may include supervised work experience, treatment, and electronic monitoring programs. G.1. Except as provided for in paragraph G.2., and notwithstanding any other provisions of this Item, the Compensation Board shall provide payment to any locality with an average daily jail population of under ten in FY 1995 an inmate per diem rate of $18 per day for local responsible inmates and $12 per day for state responsible inmates held in these jails in lieu of personal service costs for corrections' officers. 2. Any locality covered by the provisions of this paragraph shall be exempt from the provisions thereof provided that the locally elected sheriff, with the assistance of the Compensation Board, enters into good faith negotiations to house his prisoners in an existing local or regional jail. In establishing the per diem rate and capital contribution, if any, to be charged to such locality by a local or regional jail, the Compensation Board and the local sheriff or regional jail authority shall consider the operating support and capital contribution made by the Commonwealth, as required by §§ 15.2-1613, 15.2-1615.1, 53.1-80, and 53.1-81, Code of Virginia. The Compensation Board shall report periodically to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees on the progress of these negotiations and may withhold the exemption granted by this paragraph if, in the board's opinion, the local sheriff fails to negotiate in good faith. H.1. The Compensation Board shall recover the state-funded costs associated with housing