House and Senate budgets are working to keep the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents open.

Del. Richard P. "Dickie" Bell (R-Staunton) announced Sunday that the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate have both restored funding for the CCCA in their respective budgets.

Former Gov. Tim Kaine first announced the proposed closure of the facility as part of his budget proposal in December. Gov. Bob McDonnell also included the closure in his budget proposal.

Bell put forth a budget amendment to restore funding to the Center earlier this session.

"I am pleased that both the House and Senate saw fit to restore the funding to the Commonwealth Center." says Bell. "This center provides vitally important services to children across the state that would have nowhere else to go. I am happy that both the House and Senate were able to find the funds to keep it open."

This announcement came Sunday afternoon as part of the announcement of the budgets presented by the House Appropriations and Senate Finance committees.

"I am also proposing to continue to operate the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents," says House Appropriations Committee Chairman Del. Lacey Putney, when announcing the proposed House budget. "So seriously mentally ill children continue to get acute inpatient services they so desperately need."