WEST virginia legislature

2023 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 742

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel

(By Request of the Executive)

[Introduced March 01, 2023; referred

to the Committee on Finance]

A BILL making a supplementary appropriation by adding a new item of appropriation and increasing the expenditure 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 Veterans’ Assistance, fund 0456, fiscal year 2023, organization 0613, 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 0456, fiscal year 2023, organization 0613, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ ASSISTANCE

80. - Department of Veterans’ Assistance

(WV Code Chapter 9A)

Fund 0456 FY 2023 Org 0613

         General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

3a Welcome Home Vets – Surplus (R) ##### 500,000

Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Welcome Home Vets – Surplus (fund 0456, 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.