WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 5449
By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
(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, Health Facilities – William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, fund 0413, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Health Facilities – Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital, fund 0414, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, 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 0413, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
69 - Health Facilities –
William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital
(W.V. Code Chapter 16)
Fund 0413 FY 2024 Org 0512
General
Appro- Revenue
priation Fund
5a Current Expenses – Surplus 13099 34,000,000
And, That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0414, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
70 - Health Facilities –
Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital
(W.V. Code Chapter 16)
Fund 0414 FY 2024 Org 0512
General
Appro- Revenue
priation Fund
5a Current Expenses – Surplus 13099 16,000,000
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 2024.