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_ 630 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 471. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Services on the progress of this project and actual expenditures incurred for it in a form acceptable to the Secretaries of Finance and Administration. 3. The Department of General Services shall act as the fiscal agent for these funds. The director shall oversee the expenditure of state appropriations to ensure that payments to the City of Richmond are made consistent with the purposes set out in paragraphs and the Director, Department of Planning and Budget, is authorized to transfer these funds to the Department of General Services to implement this appropriation. 4. This appropriation shall be exempt from the disbursement procedures specified in § 4-5.05 of the act. 5. Any remaining funds contained in paragraph H.1. above for the purposes enumerated shall be made available to the City of Richmond upon the receipt of planning and development information by the Department of General Services. The Director of the Department of Planning and Budget shall provide the additional funds at the request of the Department of General Services as the fiscal agent for this project. I.1. The Chief Transformation Officer shall provide quarterly program updates, to include the status of projects and amounts expended per project, to the Governor and the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees beginning October 1, 2022. 2. The Chief Transformation Officer, in consultation with the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, shall report on the use of consultants for transformation and reform initiatives since January 2022. The report shall be submitted by January 1, 2024, and then annually thereafter for each calendar year, to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee and shall include for each instance that a consultant was used, the contract utilized, the amount, the purpose, and consultant name. J. The balances of any funds originally provided for victims of mass violence pursuant to Item 485, Chapter 1, 2023 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I shall be reappropriated. Upon notification from the Director, Department of Criminal Justice Services, that the General Assembly has adopted a structure for administering this funding, the Director, Department of Planning and Budget shall transfer the funds to the appropriate agency or fund. J.1. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Mass Violence Care Fund (the Fund). The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All moneys accruing to the Fund, including funds appropriated for such purpose and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds received on its behalf, shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Fund. Interest earned on moneys in the Fund shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the Fund, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used for the purpose of supporting out-of- pocket health expenses for victims of mass violence. 2. The Director, Department of Planning and Budget, shall transfer the balances of the funds originally provided for victims of mass violence pursuant to Item 485, Chapter 1, 2023 Acts of Assembly, Special Session I. 3. Amounts in the Mass Violence Care Fund shall not be transferred or expended unless and until the General Assembly has adopted a structure for administering the Fund. K.1. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 2.2-115, Code of Virginia, $250,000 the first year shall be transferred from the amounts in Item 101, Paragraph A. of this act to the Virginia Employment Commission on or before July 15, 2024, for the purpose of updating the November 2021 Paid and Family Medical Leave study. 2. The Virginia Employment Commission (the Commission), in collaboration with the Department of Human Resource Management, the Compensation Board, the Virginia Department of Education, and the Department of Planning and Budget, shall update its November 2021 Virginia Paid Family and Medical Leave study, as authorized by Item 111 of Chapter 1289 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, to include an assessment of the budgetary impacts of extending application of paid family and medical leave benefits as contemplated in Senate Bill 373 of the 2024 General Assembly to exempt individuals, while maintaining the