ENROLLED
H. B. 4416
(By Delegates Marshall, Iaquinta, Craig, Manchin,
Evans and Anderson)
[Passed March 11, 2010; in effect from passage.]
AN ACT finding and declaring certain claims against the state and
its agencies to be moral obligations of the state, and
directing the Auditor to issue warrants for the payment
thereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE.
§1. Finding and declaring certain claims against the Division of
Corrections to be moral obligations of the state and
directing payments thereof.
The Legislature has heretofore made findings of fact that the
state has received the benefit of the commodities received or
services rendered, or both, by certain claimants herein and has
considered these claims against the state, and agencies thereof,
which have arisen due to overexpenditures of the departmental
appropriations by officers of the state spending units, the claims
having been previously considered by the Court of Claims which also found that the state has received the benefit of the commodities
received or services rendered, or both, by the claimants, but were
denied by the Court of Claims on the purely statutory grounds that
to allow the claims would be condoning illegal acts contrary to the
laws of the state. The Legislature, pursuant to its findings of
fact and also by the adoption of the findings of fact by the Court
of Claims as its own, while not condoning such illegal acts, hereby
declares it to be the moral obligation of the state to pay these
claims in the amounts specified below and directs the Auditor to
issue warrants upon receipt of properly executed requisitions
supported by itemized invoices, statements or other satisfactory
documents as required by section ten, article three, chapter twelve
of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, for the payments
thereof out of any fund appropriated and available for the purpose.
(a)
Claims against the Division of Corrections:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Monongalia General Hospital $5,085.90
(2) Montgomery General Hospital$5,135.75