Gov. McDonnell's Proposed Budget Cuts

Highlights of Gov. Bob McDonnell's proposed budget cuts and spending announced Wednesday, grouped by area of the budget and by cost. (Figures rounded to the nearest million):

Public Education

• $225 million from restoring base funding for public schools to 2008 level.
• $130 million cut from support for supplemental salaries such as coaches and department chairs.
• $92 million from eliminating Lottery support for some education programs.
• $32 million cut for lease and rental support.
• $30 million in travel funding cut.
• $19 million saved by extending the useful life of school buses from 12 years to 15.

Public Safety

• $6 million in reductions to judicial system operating costs.
• $1.3 million in cuts to court-appointed attorney waiver program.
• $4.7 million in cuts for inmate medical costs.

Employee Compensation

• $180 million from five furloughs annually for state employees except essential public safety personnel.
• $611 million in retirement system savings, particularly requiring new hires to pay part of their retirement plan contributions.
• $82 million spent to give employees a 3 percent bonus in December 2011.
• $115 million spent to relieve current state workers from the burden of paying part of their own retirement.

Health and Human Resources

• $63 million in cuts to consumer-directed Medicaid services.
• $53 million saved by tightening eligibility for Medicaid long term care.
• $34 million cut by freezing enrollment in FAMIS, a government-subsidized children's health insurance program.
• $28 million in cuts to Medicaid provider reimbursements.
• $11 million from eliminating a one-time expansion in spending for Temporary Aid to Needy Families.
• $9 million earned from selling the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents, an acute care mental health center.
• $5 million in cuts to local Social Services Department offices.
• $5 million from cutting adult components of the state general relief program.
• $4 million from reducing funding for the unemployed parents cash assistance program.
• $2 million cut for dental services.
• $2 million cut to the Virginia Health Care Foundation.
• $2 million cut from child advocacy centers.
• $2 million cut by eliminating general fund support for local domestic violence grants.
• $2 million in cuts to the Virginia Association of Free Clinics.
• $1 million in cuts to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative.

Commerce and Trade

• $6 million in reduced funding for homeless programs.
• $300,000 cut from eliminating funding for mortgage assistance counseling.

Higher Education

• $20 million in tuition assistance grant program reductions.
• $7 million in Eminent Scholars Program cuts.

General Government

• $50 million reduction in aid to localities.
• $40 eliminated deposit into the Revenue Stabilization (or rainy day) Fund.
• $21 million the state collected from the December state tax amnesty program.

Source: Office of the Governor

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