WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 936

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 Arts, Culture, and History, Division of Culture and History, fund 0293, fiscal year 2025, organization 0432, 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 0293, fiscal year 2025, organization 0432, be supplemented and amended by adding new items of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY

51 - Division of Culture and History

(W.V. Code Chapter 29)

Fund 0293 FY 2025 Org 0432

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

7a Current Expenses – Surplus (R) $13,099 $356,819

9a Capital Improvements – Surplus (R) $66,100 $2,635,388

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