                                 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.