WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 935

By Senators Smith (Mr. President) and Woelfel

(By Request of the Executive)

[Introduced March 25, 2025; 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, Department of Homeland Security – Office of the Secretary, fund 0430, fiscal year 2025, organization 0601, and to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Emergency Management, fund 0443, fiscal year 2025, organization 0606, by adding new items of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.

WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on February 12, 2025, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2024, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2025, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2025, and further included recommended supplemental appropriations from the balance of the State Fund, General Revenue; and

WHEREAS, The Governor also recommends a further expiration of General Revenue funds remaining from previous fiscal years 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, and the additional recommended expiration to the unappropriated surplus balance 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, 2025; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, to fund 0430, fiscal year 2025, organization 0601, 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

105 - Department of Homeland Security –

Office of the Secretary

(W.V. Code Chapter 5F)

Fund 0430 FY 2025 Org 0601

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

8a Fusion Center – Surplus (R) XXXXX 398,295

Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Fusion Center – Surplus (fund 0430, appropriation XXXXX) at the close of fiscal year 2025 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

And that the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, to fund 0443, fiscal year 2025, organization 0606, 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

106 - Division of Emergency Management

(W.V. Code Chapter 15)

Fund 0443 FY 2025 Org 0606

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

6a Current Expenses – Surplus (R) 13099 378,771

Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Current Expenses – Surplus (fund 0443, appropriation 13099) at the close of fiscal year 2025 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add new items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure during the fiscal year 2025.