Delegate Cox submitted the budget amendments listed below to support key programs.  He submitted off setting amendments to fund these programs thereby eliminating budget growth.

Budget Item 413 #1c – Provides funding for four veterans claims officers and three support staff positions, as well as related office expenses for those positions, an increase of 15%.

Budget Item 408 #2h – Compensates State Police Officers for working overtime between 40 and 43 hours in any seven-day period in lieu of Comp-time. The benefits are significant – the equivalent of 82 new Trooper positions, fully trained, immediately available for duty at a fraction of the cost of creating new positions which are not available and productive for up to 3 years.

Budget Item 4-0.01 #1h - Prohibits state funding of embryonic stem cell research itself, but permits entities that conduct such research (without using state money) to receive state funding.

Budget Item 297 #6h - Funds $12.4M for 350 additional home and community based waiver slots for individuals on the Intellectual Disability (ID) Waiver waiting list.

Budget Item 227 #1h - Provides $399,992 to support fee-based museum programming, web-based education, tourism, and facility maintenance at the Jamestown-Yorktown Museums.

Budget Item C-10.40 #1h Authorizes Richard Bland College to lease Ernst Hall from the Southside Medical Center for educational purposes.

Budget Item 198 #2h - Restores $54,401 over two years to the VCU Council on Economic Education to teach young people financial responsibility.

Budget Item 448 #1c – Authorizes up to $325,000 to be used to develop rail access to Fort A.P. Hill to allow for train operations to move troops between Fort Lee and Fort A.P. Hill.

Budget Item C-80.30 #1c – Provides $3.3M (the state share) for a 40-bed expansion of the Sitter & Barfoot Veterans Care Center. The original authority for this expansion came from Delegate Cox’s 2005 Budget Amendment.

Budget Item 120 #4h – Restores $15,000 for advertising through the Outdoor Advertising Association.

Budget Item 305-3C – Mental Health – Includes $30M proposed by Governor McDonnell for the Behavioral Health & Developmental Services Trust Fund that will help transition individuals im Intellectual Disability Training Centers to appropriate community based settings.

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