                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (§ 2.2-2370)

A. The Authority shall provide financial support only for efforts that satisfy
the following conditions:

   1. The efforts shall be designed to treat, prevent, or reduce opioid use
   disorder or the misuse of opioids or otherwise abate or remediate the opioid
   epidemic, which may include efforts to:
   				a. Support treatment of opioid use disorder and any co-occurring substance
   use disorder or mental health conditions through evidence-based or
   evidence-informed methods, programs, or strategies;
   				b. Support people in recovery from opioid use disorder and any
   co-occurring substance use disorder or mental health conditions through
   evidence-based or evidence-informed methods, programs, or strategies;
   				c. Provide connections to care for people who have, or are at risk of
   developing, opioid use disorder and any co-occurring substance use disorder or
   mental health conditions through evidence-based or evidence-informed methods,
   programs, or strategies;
   				d. Support efforts, including law-enforcement programs, to address the
   needs of persons with opioid use disorder and any co-occurring substance use
   disorder or mental health conditions who are involved in, or are at risk of
   becoming involved in, the criminal justice system through evidence-based or
   evidence-informed methods, programs, or strategies;
   				e. Support drug treatment and recovery courts that provide evidence-based
   or evidence-informed options for people with opioid use disorder and any
   co-occurring substance use disorder or mental health conditions;
   				f. Support efforts to address the needs of pregnant or parenting women
   with opioid use disorder and any co-occurring substance use disorder or mental
   health conditions and the needs of their families, including infants with
   neonatal abstinence syndrome, through evidence-based or evidence-informed
   methods, programs, or strategies;
   				g. Support efforts to prevent overprescribing and ensure appropriate
   prescribing and dispensing of opioids through evidence-based or
   evidence-informed methods, programs, or strategies;
   				h. Support efforts to discourage or prevent misuse of opioids through
   evidence-based or evidence-informed methods, programs, or strategies;
   				i. Support efforts to prevent or reduce overdose deaths or other
   opioid-related harms through evidence-based or evidence-informed methods,
   programs, or strategies; and
   				j. Support efforts to provide comprehensive resources for patients seeking
   opioid detoxification, including detoxification services;

   2. The efforts shall be conducted or managed by any agency of the Commonwealth
   or participating locality;

   3. No support provided by the Authority shall be used by the recipient to
   supplant funding for an existing program or continue funding an existing
   program at its current amount of funding;

   4. No support provided by the Authority shall be used by the recipient for
   indirect costs incurred in the administration of the financial support or for
   any other purpose proscribed by the Authority; and

   5. Recipients of support provided by the Authority shall agree to provide the
   Authority with such information regarding the implementation of the effort and
   allow such monitoring and review of the effort as may be required by the
   Authority to ensure compliance with the terms under which the support is
   provided.

B. The Authority shall give priority to applications for financial support for
efforts that:

   1. Collaborate with an existing program or organization that has an
   established record of success treating, preventing, or reducing opioid use
   disorder or the misuse of opioids;

   2. Treat, prevent, or reduce opioid use disorder or the misuse of opioids in a
   community with a high incidence of opioid use disorder or opioid death rate,
   relative to population;

   3. Treat, prevent, or reduce opioid use disorder or the misuse of opioids in a
   historically economically disadvantaged community; or

   4. Include a monetary match from or on behalf of the applicant, with higher
   priority given to an effort with a larger matching amount.

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 306, 307.