WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 257

By Senators Weld, Cline, and Baldwin

[Introduced January 11, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, in the amount of $1,120,000 from the Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner – Insurance Commissioner Fund, fund 7152, fiscal year 2019, organization 0704, and making a supplementary appropriation out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining unappropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Division of Health – Consolidated Medical Services Fund, fund 0525, fiscal year 2019, organization 0506, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

Whereas, The Legislature finds that the account balance in the Department of Revenue, Insurance Commissioner – Insurance Commission Fund, fund 7152, fiscal year 2019, organization 0704, exceeds that which is necessary for the purposes for which the accounts were established; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the balance of the funds available for expenditure in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, in the Department of Revenue Insurance Commissioner - Insurance Commission Fund, Fund 7152, Fiscal Year 2019, Organization 0704, be decreased by expiring the amount of $1,120,000, to the unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund, General Revenue, to be available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.

And, That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, to Fund 0525, Fiscal Year 2019, Organization 0506, be supplemented and amended by increasing an existing item of appropriation and by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES

57 – Consolidated Medical Services Fund

(WV Code Chapter 16)

Fund 0525 FY 2019 Org 0506

                                                                                                                                               General

                                                                                                            Appro-                       Revenue

                                                                                                           priation                         Fund

4     Behavioral Health Program – Surplus (R).................................. 63100          $          1,120,000

            Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Behavioral Health Program Surplus (Fund 0525, Appropriation 63100) at the close of the Fiscal Year 2019 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during Fiscal Year 2020.

NOTE: The purpose of supplemental appropriation bill is to expire funds to the surplus balance of General Revenue and to supplement, amend ,and add an item of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2020.