Taxes
•No new taxes
•Preserves $950 million a year to localities for reductions in city- and county-imposed car tax.
Public education
•An additional $253 million in reductions over the next two years; layered atop $1 billion in cuts recommended in Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s farewell budget.
•Preserves formula-based state funding to local schools at current levels, the so-called “hold-harmless” feature that ensures downstate schools don’t lose dollars under McDonnell administration decision that steers additional funds to Northern Virginia.
Higher education
•Preserves existing undergraduate financial-aid formula.
•Cuts $10 million over two years from a program that provides tuition aid to Virginians who attend the state’s private colleges and universities.
•Increases from $10 to $15 per credit hour the fee paid by out-of-state students to support construction at taxpayer-supported colleges and universities.
•Reduces state spending on health and human services by added $360 million.
•Reduces 3 percent in the spending cycle that begins July 1 Medicaid reimbursements to health-care providers; reduction rises to 4 percent in the following budget year.
•Provides Medicaid-financed mental health services for another 250 Virginians.
•An additional $1 million next year for the Massey Cancer Center at VCU Medical Center.
Courts and law enforcement
•Preserves drug courts but eliminates funding for 19 current judicial vacancies and erases dollars for future vacancies.
•Closes a minimum-security field unit and a larger prison over the next two years; defers to the Department of Corrections to determine which facilities to shutter.
•Cuts state aid to local police and sheriff’s departments by an extra 1.2 percent this year, but nonetheless provides $179 million annually.
•Eliminates funding for proposed public defenders in Chesterfield, Henrico and Prince William counties.
Public employees
•No additional unpaid days off, or furloughs, for state workers, who are required to take one before the June 30 close of the current budget year.
•3 percent salary bonuses for state workers; to be paid in the spending cycle that begins July 1. Would be financed with any additional revenues from current budget year.
•Spares state employees from making 1 percent contribution toward their pensions next year; 2 percent in the following year.
•To generate cash, defers $620 million in state contributions to the Virginia Retirement System.
Business, economic development
•Provides McDonnell with $46 million of the $54 million he sought for a fund to help lure industry to the state.
•Gradually phases out tax credit for state-based manufacturers that industry says would increase taxes $60 million. Credit would lapse in 2014.
Government operations
•Extends to General Assembly’s investigative arm oversight of the troubled contract between the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Northrop Grumman; requires VITA reduce staffing by nearly one-third.
•Adds another 15, pushing to 20, the total new government-run liquor stores; also increases prices by 2 percent but blocks Sunday openings by stores not previously authorized to open that day.
Transportation
•Continues funding to cover payoff of bonds to improve Route 58, which runs from Hampton Roads to the coalfields on the state’s southern tier.
•Allows state transportation board to steer to mass-transit operations dollars now used for construction.
•Authorizes funding for passenger rail service between Richmond and Norfolk and existing service between Lynchburg and Washington; also urges bus link from Roanoke to Lynchburg to support Washington-bound train service.
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