WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 507

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel
(By Request of the Executive)

[Introduced January 27, 2023; 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 surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Administrative Services, fund 0546, fiscal year 2023, organization 0623, 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 expirations to the unappropriated surplus 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 surplus balance in the Treasury which is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, to fund 0546, fiscal year 2023, organization 0623, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

70 - Division of Administrative Services

(WV Code Chapter 15A)

Fund 0546 FY 2023 Org 0623

General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

10a Victims of Crime Act – Surplus (R) ##### 9,500,000

Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Victims of Crime Act – Surplus (fund 0546, appropriation #####) at the close of the fiscal year 2023 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2023.