WEST virginia legislature

2023 regular session

House Bill 3108

By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle

(By Request of the Executive)

[Introduced January 27, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL supplementing and amending Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2022, known as the budget bill, as amended, in Title II from the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Transportation, Division of Multimodal Transportation Facilities - State Rail Authority, fund 0506, fiscal year 2023, organization 0810, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.

Whereas, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on January 11, 2023, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2022, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2023, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2023, 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, 2023; and

Whereas, On March 30, 2022, the Governor approved House Bill 4492, which re-organized the State Rail Authority under the newly-created Division of Multimodal Transportation Facilities of the Department of Transportation; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, to fund 0506, fiscal year 2023, organization 0810, be supplemented and amended to read as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

department of TRANSPORTATION

77 – Division of Multimodal Transportation Facilities –

State Rail Authority

(WV Code Chapter 17)

Fund 0506 FY 2023 Org 0810

1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits 00100 $ 370,704

2 Current Expenses 13000 287,707

3 Other Assets (R) 69000 2,370,019

4 BRIM Premium 91300 201,541   

5     Total $ 3,229,971

6 Any unexpended balances remaining in the appropriation for Other Assets (fund 0506,

7 appropriation 69000) at the close of the fiscal year 2022 is hereby reappropriated for

8 expenditure during the fiscal year 2023.

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to amend and increase an item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2023.