WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 656

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel

[By Request of the Executive]

[Introduced February 5, 2024; 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 Health and Human Resources, Division of Human Services, fund 0403, fiscal year 2024, organization 0511, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, by adding new items of appropriation.

WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on January 10, 2024, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2023, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2024, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2024, 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, 2024; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0403, fiscal year 2024, organization 0511, be supplemented and amended by adding new items of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES

61 - Division of Human Services

 (W.V. Code Chapters 9, 48, and 49)

Fund 0403 FY 2024 Org 0511

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

1a Personal Services and Employee Benefits – Surplus 24301 2,692,827

3a Current Expenses – Surplus 13099 350,000

25a Medical Services Administrative Costs – Surplus 78999 12,103,411

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.