WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 571
Senators Carmichael
(Mr. President) and Prezioso
(By Request of the Executive)
[Originating in the Committee on Finance; reported on February 7, 2020]
Whereas, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on January 8, 2020, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2019, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2020, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2020, and further included recommended expirations to the unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund General Revenue; and
Whereas, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, there now remains an unappropriated balance in the State Treasury which is available for expiration during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020; and
Whereas, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, and this legislation, there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020; therefore
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the balance of the funds remaining as an unappropriated balance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund be decreased by expiring the amount of $20,000,000 to the unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund, General Revenue to be available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020;
And, that the total appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, to fund 0226, fiscal year 2020, organization 0221, be supplemented and amended by increasing existing items of appropriation and creating new items of appropriation as follows:
Title II – Appropriations.
Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
department of administration
27 – Public Defender Services
(WV Code Chapter 29)
Fund 0226 FY 2020 Org 0221
General
Appro- Revenue priation Fund
1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits – Surplus ….......... XXXXX $ 188,402
2 Unclassified – Surplus ………………………………………......... 09700 18,600
4 Public Defender Corporations – Surplus …………………........ XXXXX 300,000
5 Appointed Counsel Fees – Surplus (R)...................................... 43500 19,492,998
Any unexpended balance remaining in the above appropriation for Appointed Counsel Fees – Surplus (fund 0226, appropriation 43500) at the close of the fiscal year 2020 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2021.