ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 543
(By Senators Craigo, Anderson, Bailey, Chafin, Helmick, Jackson,
Love, Macnaughtan, Plymale, Prezioso, Sharpe, Walker, Boley, Dugan,
McKenzie, Minear and Sprouse
)
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[Passed April 8, 1997; in effect from passage.]
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AN ACT making a supplementary transfer of public moneys out of the
treasury from the unappropriated surplus balance in other
funds, by transferring an amount not to exceed three hundred
thousand dollars which has accrued or will accrue from the
treasurer's office, tobacco company settlement proceeds,
account no. fund 1316, organization 1300, to the department of
administration, public employees insurance agency, nonstate
health claims fund, account no. fund 2183, organization 0225.
Whereas, The money has or may be recovered from a settlement
with the Ligget group, one of the tobacco companies sued by the
public employees insurance agency. The lawsuit seeks to recover
moneys expended by the public employees insurance agency for
treatment of members in its plan for illness related to tobacco
use. This money will be used by the public employees insurance
agency to pay for medical treatment of public employees insurance
agency insureds and legal fees associated with the settlement with the Ligget group; and
Whereas, The governor has established that there now remains
an unappropriated surplus balance in the treasurer's office,
tobacco company settlement proceeds, account no. fund 1316,
organization 1300, available for transfer; therefore
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That an amount not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars
which has accrued or will accrue in the unappropriated surplus
balance of the treasurer's office, tobacco company settlement
proceeds, account no. fund 1316, organization 1300, be decreased
and expired by transferring an amount not to exceed three hundred
thousand dollars to the department of administration, public
employees insurance agency, nonstate health claims fund, account
no. fund 2183, organization 0225.
The purpose of this bill is to decrease and expire a sum not
to exceed three hundred thousand dollars which has accrued or will
accrue in the unappropriated surplus balance in other funds,
account no. fund 1316, organization 1300, by transferring an amount
not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars to account no. fund
2183, organization 0225, to pay for medical treatment of public
employees insurance agency insureds and legal fees associated with
the settlement with the Ligget group.