WEST virginia legislature
2023 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2909
By Delegate Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Skaff
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced January 23, 2023; Referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL supplementing and amending Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2022, known as the budget bill, in Title II from the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Revenue, State Budget Office, fund 0595, fiscal year 2023, organization 0703, by supplementing and amending appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, by adding a new item of appropriation.
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 Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2022, known as the budget bill, to fund 0595, fiscal year 2023, organization 0703 be supplemented and amended to read as follows:
74 – State Budget Office
(WV Code Chapter 11B)
Fund 0595 FY 2023 Org 0703
General
Appro- Revenue
priation Fund
1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits 00100 $ 819,147
2 Unclassified (R) 09900 9,200
3 Current Expenses (R) 13000 119,449
3a Directed Transfer – Surplus 70099 85,000,000
4 Total $ 85,947,796
Any unexpended balances remaining in the appropriations for Unclassified (fund 0595, appropriation 09900) and Current Expenses (fund 0595, appropriation 13000) at the close of the fiscal year 2022 are hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2023.
The above appropriation Directed Transfer – Surplus (fund 0595, appropriation \ 70099) shall be transferred to the PEIA Rainy Day Fund (fund 7402).
NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add a new item of appropriation from the State Fund, General Revenue unappropriated surplus for the fiscal year 2023.