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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84541</law_id><section_number>53.1-83.1</section_number><catch_line>How state appropriations for operating costs of local correctional facilities determined</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-612</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="53.1">Prisons and Other Methods of Correction</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Local Correctional Facilities</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Funding Local Correctional Facilities and Programs</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Governor&#x2019;s proposed biennial budget bill shall include, for each fiscal year, an appropriation for operating costs for local correctional facilities. The proposed appropriation shall include:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> An amount for compensating localities for the cost of maintaining prisoners arrested on state warrants in local jails, regional jails and jail farms, at a specified rate per prisoner day; <a id="paragraph-302976" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-83.1/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> An amount for maintaining convicted state felons in local correctional facilities, at a specified rate per felon day, pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Compensation of local jails for cost of incarceration" href="/53.1-20.1/">53.1-20.1</a>; <a id="paragraph-302977" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-83.1/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> An amount to pay two-thirds of the salaries of medical and treatment personnel approved by the State Compensation <span class="dictionary">Board</span>; and <a id="paragraph-302978" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-83.1/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> An amount to be set aside for unanticipated medical emergencies. <a id="paragraph-302979" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/53.1-83.1/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1983, c. 358; 1992, cc. 333, 573.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
