WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2023 REGULAR SESSION

ENROLLED

Senate Bill 465

By Senators Clements, Azinger, Caputo, Chapman, Maroney, Oliverio, Weld, Woodrum, Deeds, Plymale, and Jeffries

[Passed March 09, 2023; in effect 90 days from passage]

AN ACT to amend and reenact §7-21-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increase the maximum amount of money in a county's financial stabilization fund from 30 percent of the county's most recent General Fund budget to 50 percent of that fund.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 21. COUNTY FINANCIAL STABILIZATION FUND ACT.

§7-21-3. Budget stabilization fund; creation; appropriation; maximum.

(a) A county commission may create a "financial stabilization fund" by a majority vote of the members. The fund may receive appropriations, gifts, grants, and any other funds made available.

(b) The county commission may appropriate a sum to the fund from any surplus in the General Fund at the end of each fiscal year or from any other money available.

(c) The amount of money in the fund may not exceed 50 percent of the county's most recent General Fund budget, as originally adopted. When the fund exceeds the 50 percent, the county commission shall transfer the excess to any fund it considers appropriate.