ENGROSSED

Senate Bill No. 492

(By Senators Love, Edgell, Helmick, Sharpe, Minear, Hunter, Ross, and Ball)

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[Introduced February 15, 2000; referred to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL 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 adjutant general; alcohol beverage control administration; board of barbers and cosmetologists; board of trustees of the university system of West Virginia; department of administration; department of health and human resources; department of tax and revenue; division of banking; division of corrections; division of highways; division of juvenile services; division of labor; division of motor vehicles; ethics commission; insurance commission; public service commission; regional jail and correctional facility authority; state rail authority; and West Virginia state police to be moral obligations of the state and directing payment thereof.

The Legislature has considered the findings of fact and recommendations reported to it by the court of claims concerning various claims against the state and agencies thereof, and in respect to each of the following claims the Legislature adopts those findings of fact as its own, and in respect of certain claims herein, the Legislature has independently made findings of fact and determinations of award and hereby declares it to be the moral obligation of the state to pay each such claim in the amount specified below and directs the auditor to issue warrants for the payment thereof out of any fund appropriated and available for the purpose.
(a) Claims against the Adjutant General:
 (TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc$1,108.32
(2) Danka 303.87
(3) Brian R. Debow $732.00
(4) Vickie Marie Tetrick $609.03
(b) Claim against the Alcohol Beverage
Control Administration:
 (TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Dickinson Fuel Company, Inc. 508.57
(c) Claim against the Board of Barbers
and Cosmetologists:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Phyllis Haynes Edens, CCR 209.60
(d) Claims against the Board of Trustees of

the University System of WV:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Sherene N. Ballengee 53.00
(2) Logan Merritt 339.18
(3) Jason R. Simmons 100.00
(e) Claims against the Department of Administration:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) The Continental Insurance Company 21,255.00
(2) West Virginia Association of
Rehabilitation Facilities 27.62
(f) Claims against the Department of
Health and Human Resources:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Charles E. McElfish, D.D.S.20,564.59
(2) River Valley Child Development Services 5,000.00
(g) Claims against the Department of Tax and Revenue:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Computer Associates International,
Inc.254,000.00
(2) Tax Net Governmental Communications
Corporation 2,124.43
(h) Claim against the Division of Banking:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System 1,600.00
(i) Claims against the Division of Corrections:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Barbour County Commission16,225.00
(2) Browning Ferris Industries 374.25
(3) Correctional Foodservice Management69,289.25
(4) Roy J. Cunningham 74.24
(5) Thomas E. Gardner, Jr. 250.00
(6) Goldfarb Electric Supply Company,
Inc. 272.64
(7) Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company 523.16
(8) Green Acres Reg. Ctr., c/o Sheltered Workshop 468.40
(9) John J. Haddox 18.50
(10) Hampshire County Commission13,813.53
(11) Hancock County Commission48,234.56
(12) Harrison County Commission15,250.00
(13) Hervis Leasing13,589.89
(14) Lexis Law Publishing. 632.45
(15) Lexis Publishing 149.21
(16) Lincoln County Commission17,893.50
(17) Marion County Commission12,469.11
(18) Marshall County Commission 4,050.79
(19) McDowell County Correctional
Center224,690.14
(20) Monongalia County Commission38,725.00
(21) Preston County Commission 450.00
(22) Randolph County Commission 3,713.00
(23) Sergeant Robert L. Richard 22.46
(24) Taylor County Commission34,550.00
(25) Tyler County Commission 3,120.50
(26) WV Regional Jail and Correctional
Facility Authority4,017,465.50
(27) John Kenneth Walters 100.00
(28) Phillip A. Ward 32.75
(29) West Group 5,317.08
(30) Jess W. White 12.00
(31) Wirt County Commission 5,175.00
(32) Wood County Commission 30,375.00
(33) York International Corporation 291.00
(j) Claims against the Division of Highways:
(TO BE PAID FROM STATE ROAD FUND)
(1) AT & T Corporation 90,000.00
(2) Cindy Adkins 145.15
(3) Shannon Adkins 500.00
(4) Brenda Alvarado 260.95
(5) Dolores Artis 167.71
(6) John Allen Bailey 1,000.00
(7) Ronald E. Bailey 50.00
(8) Joseph J. and Mary V. Baniak 5,000.00
(9) Robert C. Booker 4,000.00
(10) Clyde W. Boyles 295.56
(11) Larry T. Bragg 567.52
(12) Ronald Brown 559.88
(13) David W. Burge 1,460.30
(14) Charles Burkievicz 216.24
(15) Treva Clutter 250.00
(16) Iris J. Crook 184.23
(17) George A. Deer 500.00
(18) Fred L. Donato 3,947.22
(19) Willie Lee Dotson, as Admin. of
the Estate of Tresa Myretta Dotson 99,000.00
(20) Willie Lee Dotson, as Guardian of
Austin Ryan Dotson, an infant 26,000.00
(21) Richard E. and Debra Sue Easter 500.00
(22) David Scott Gillenwater 4,450.00
(23) Nancy Godsey-Mayle 2,163.87
(24) Sanford D. Green 250.00
(25) Kenneth L. and Elizabeth F. Gue 79.50
(26) Randall W. Hall 200.00
(27) Angela D. Harless 202.11
(28) Dorothy Hartley 148.39
(29) Terry L. Hundagen 1,550.00
(30) Janet Jackson 3,500.00
(31) Cornelius R. Lewis 171.72
(32) Tracy Loosemore 200.00
(33) Steve M. Matusky 500.00
(34) Anna Elizabeth Mount 7,500.00
(35) Brenda S. Napier 244.51
(36) Bertha Noble 500.00
(37) James H. Oxley 269.74
(38) Charles G. and Murle A. Perry 300.00
(39) Edward Pinkerton 275.00
(40) Putnam Truckload Direct 4,142.72
(41) Michael Edward Queen 213.66
(42) Bobbie J. Rardon 250.00
(43) Lawrence Ratcliff, as the guardian and
next friend of Benjamin Nichols Ratcliff,
an infant 6,000.00
(44) Paula J. Rothwell 778.00
(45) Shelia F. Seabolt 358.15
(46) Christina Selman 902.27
(47) Jason L. Shaffer 500.00
(48) Margaret Ann Shields 596.48
(49) Clifford S. Summerfield 200.00
(50) David Allen Toto 105.82
(51) Joan L. Williams 315.80
(52) Deloris B. Young 576.20
(k) Claims against the Division of Juvenile Services:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Batra Cardiology Associates, Inc. 276.00
(2) Bluefield Regional Medical Center 209.75
(3) CAMC Dental Center 1,159.00
(4) Arthur L. Calhoun, M.D., James E. LeVos, M.D.,
dba Doddridge County Medical Center 113.00
(5) Camden Clark Memorial Hospital 75.00
(6) Clarksburg Anesthesia Associates 549.00
(7) EMP of Harrison County 801.30
(8) EMP of Kanawha County 123.90
(9) EMP of Ohio County 1,298.90
(10) Ferenc C. Gyimesi, M.D. 40.00
(11) Princeton Community Hospital 300.00
(12) Sargent's Court Reporting Service, Inc. 604.70
(13) Thomas Memorial Hospital 256.90
(14) Valley Radiologists, Inc. 226.00
(l) Claims against the Division of Labor:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 922.86
(2) Tartan Textile Services, Inc. 329.75
(m) Claim against the Division of Motor Vehicles:
(TO BE PAID FROM STATE ROAD FUND)
(1) A & B Sales, Inc. 9,013.17
(2) J. Christopher Burket 2,500.00
(3) Roy A. and Glenna Y. Wiles 2,000.00
(n) Claim against the Ethics Commission:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Sherri Goodman Reveal 2,706.28
(o) Claim against the Insurance Commission:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Taylor & James, PLLC 4,127.00
(p) Claims against the Public Service Commission:
(TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Charleston Department Store 826.55
(2) Weston Armory Committee 54.47
(q) Claims against the Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority:
 (TO BE PAID FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Steven Benjamin Adkins 120.00
(2) Anthony Keith Leonard 234.90
(3) Keith Parker 47.50
(4) Gary Phillips 200.00
(r) Claim against the State Rail Authority:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)
(1) Garrett B. Kuykendall, Jr. 2,000.00
(s) Claim against the WV State Police:
(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)

(1) Sgt. Joseph M. Menendez 159.98
The Legislature finds that the above moral obligations and the appropriations made in satisfaction thereof shall be the full compensation for all claimants, and that prior to the payments to any claimant provided for in this bill, the court of claims shall receive a release from said claimant releasing any and all claims for moral obligations arising from the matters considered by the Legislature in the finding of the moral obligations and the making of the appropriations for said claimant. The court of claims shall deliver all releases obtained from claimants to the department against which the claim was allowed.