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_____ 715 h. To the extent that a public institution of higher education maintains and operates university housing during scheduled intercessions, the institution shall provide access to housing for students eligible under § 23.1-601, Code of Virginia at no cost to the student provided that the student (i) is a registered student for the immediate following term and (ii) meets the definitions and conditions of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. § 4-1.00 APPROPRIATIONS § 4-1.01 PREREQUISITES FOR PAYMENT a. The State Comptroller shall not pay any money out of the state treasury except pursuant to appropriations in this act or in any other act of the General Assembly making an appropriation during the current biennium. b. Moneys shall be spent solely for the purposes for which they were appropriated by the General Assembly, except as specifically provided otherwise by § 4-1.03 Appropriation Transfers, § 4-4.01 Capital Projects, or § 4-5.01 a. Settlement of Claims with Individuals. Should the Governor find that moneys are not being spent in accordance with provisions of the act appropriating them, he shall restrain the State Comptroller from making further disbursements, in whole or in part, from said appropriations. Further, should the Auditor of Public Accounts determine that a state or other agency is not spending moneys in accordance with provisions of the act appropriating them, he shall so advise the Governor or other governing authority, the State Comptroller, the Chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, and Chairmen of the Senate Finance and Appropriations and House Appropriations Committees. c. Exclusive of revenues paid into the general fund of the state treasury, all revenues earned or collected by an agency, and contained in an appropriation item to the agency shall be expended first during the fiscal year, prior to the expenditure of any general fund appropriation within that appropriation item, unless prohibited by statute or by the terms and conditions of any gift, grant or donation. § 4-1.02 WITHHOLDING OF SPENDING AUTHORITY a. For purposes of this subsection, withholding of spending authority is defined as any action pursuant to a budget reduction plan approved by the Governor to address a declared shortfall in budgeted revenue that impedes or limits the ability to spend appropriated moneys, regardless of the mechanism used to effect such withholding. b.1. Changed Expenditure Factors: The Governor is authorized to reduce spending authority, by withholding allotments of appropriations, when expenditure factors, such as enrollments or population in institutions, are smaller than the estimates upon which the appropriation was based. Moneys generated from the withholding action shall not be reallocated for any other purpose, provided the withholding of allotments of appropriations under this provision shall not occur until at least 15 days after the Governor has transmitted a statement of changed factors and intent to withhold moneys to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees. 2. Moneys shall not be withheld on the basis of reorganization plans or program evaluations until such plans or evaluations have been specifically presented in writing to the General Assembly at its next regularly scheduled session. c. Increased Nongeneral Fund Revenue: 1. General fund appropriations to any state agency for operating expenses are supplemental to nongeneral fund revenues collected by the agency. To the extent that nongeneral fund revenues collected in a fiscal year exceed the estimate on which the operating budget was based, the Governor is authorized to withhold general fund spending authority, by withholding allotments of appropriations, in an equivalent amount. However, this limitation shall not apply to (a) restricted excess tuition and fees for educational and general programs in the institutions of higher education, as defined in § 4-2.01 c of this act; (b) appropriations to institutions of higher education designated for fellowships, scholarships and loans; (c) gifts or grants which are made to any state agency for the direct costs of a stipulated project; (d) appropriations to institutions for the mentally ill or intellectually disabled payable from the Behavioral Health and Developmental Services Revenue Fund; and (e) general fund appropriations for highway construction and mass transit. Moneys unallotted under this provision shall not be reallocated for any other purpose. 2. To the degree that new or additional grant funds become available to supplement general fund appropriations for a program, following enactment of an appropriation act, the Governor is authorized to withhold general fund spending authority, by withholding allotments of appropriations, in an amount equivalent to that provided from grant funds, unless such action is prohibited by the original provider of the grant funds. The withholding action shall not include general fund appropriations, which are required to match grant funds. Moneys unallotted under this provision shall not be reallocated for any other purpose. d. Reduced General Fund Resources: 1. The term “general fund resources” as applied in this subsection includes revenues collected and paid into the general fund of the state treasury during the current biennium, transfers to the general fund of the state treasury during the current biennium, and all unexpended balances brought forward from the previous biennium. I VETO ITEM 4-1.02 ON PAGES 715-718 /s/ Glenn Youngkin 5-2-25