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_ 63 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 61. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 federal inmates, District of Columbia inmates or contract inmates from other states. The Compensation Board shall determine, by individual jail, the amount to be recovered by the Commonwealth by multiplying the jail's current inmate days for this population by the proportion of the jail's per inmate day salary funds provided by the Commonwealth, as identified in the most recent Jail Cost Report prepared by the Compensation Board. Beginning July 1, 2009, the Compensation Board shall determine, by individual jail, the amount to be recovered by the Commonwealth by multiplying the jail's current inmate days for this population by the proportion of the jail's per inmate day operating costs provided by the Commonwealth, excluding payments otherwise provided for in this Item, as identified in the most recent Jail Cost Report prepared by the Compensation Board. If a jail is not included in the most recent Jail Cost Report, the Compensation Board shall use the statewide average of per inmate day salary funds provided by the Commonwealth. 2. The Compensation Board shall deduct the amount to be recovered by the Commonwealth from the facility's next quarterly per diem payment for state-responsible and local-responsible inmates. Should the next quarterly per diem payment owed the locality not be sufficient against which to net the total quarterly recovery amount, the locality shall remit the remaining amount not recovered to the Compensation Board. 3. Any local or regional jail which receives funding from the Compensation Board shall give priority to the housing of local-responsible, state-responsible, and state contract inmates, in that order, as provided in paragraph H.1. 4. The Compensation Board shall not provide any inmate per diem payments to any local or regional jail which holds federal inmates in excess of the number of beds contracted for with the Department of Corrections, unless the Director, Department of Corrections, certifies to the Chairman of the Compensation Board that a) such contract beds are not required; b) the facility has operational capacity built under contract with the federal government; c) the facility has received a grant from the federal government for a portion of the capital costs; or d) the facility has applied to the Department of Corrections for participation in the contract bed program with a sufficient number of beds to meet the Department of Corrections' need or ability to fund contract beds at that facility in any given fiscal year. 5. The Compensation Board shall apply the cost recovery methodology set out in paragraph H.1. of this Item to any jail which holds inmates from another state on a contractual basis. However, recovery in such circumstances shall not be made for inmates held pending extradition to other states or pending transfer to the Virginia Department of Corrections. 6. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any local or regional jail where the cumulative federal share of capital costs exceeds the Commonwealth's cumulative capital contribution. 7. For a local or regional jail which operates bed space specifically built utilizing federal capital or grant funds for the housing of federal inmates and for which Compensation Board funding has never been authorized for staff for such bed space, the Compensation Board shall allow an exemption from the recovery provided in paragraph H.1. for a defined number of federal prisoners upon certification by the sheriff or superintendent that the federal government has paid for the construction of bed space in the facility or provided a grant for a portion of the capital cost. Such certification shall include specific funding amounts paid by the federal government, localities, and/or regional jail authorities, and the Commonwealth for the construction of bed space specifically built for the housing of federal inmates and for the construction of the jail facility in its entirety. The defined number of federal prisoners to be exempted from the recovery provided in paragraph H.1. shall be based upon the proportion of funding paid by the federal government and localities and/or regional jail authorities for the construction of bed space to house federal prisoners to the total funding paid by all sources, including the Commonwealth, for all construction costs for the jail facility in its entirety. For Western Tidewater Regional Jail, exemption from the recovery provided in paragraph H.1. shall apply to the first 76 federal inmates housed at the jail and for any inmate above 130 housed at the jail at any given time. 8. Beginning March 1, 2013, federal inmates placed in the custody of a regional jail