WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 5471

By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
(By Request of The Executive)

[Introduced February 5, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Administrative Services – Criminal Justice Fund, fund 0546, fiscal year 2024, organization 0623, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on January 10, 2024, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2023, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2024, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2024, and further included recommended supplemental appropriations from the balance of the State Fund, General Revenue; and

WHEREAS, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, there now remains an unappropriated balance in the Treasury which is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0546, fiscal year 2024, organization 0623, be supplemented and amended by adding an item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

81 - Division of Administrative Services –

Criminal Justice Fund

(W.V. Code Chapter 15A)

Fund 0546 FY 2024 Org 0623

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

3a Victims of Crime Act 21601 10,000,000

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add an item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.