WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 5454
By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
[By Request of the Executive]
Introduced February 05, 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 Environmental Protection, Division of Environmental Protection, fund 0273, fiscal year 2024, organization 0313, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
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 0273, fiscal year 2024, organization 0313, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
54 - Division of Environmental Protection
(W.V. Code Chapter 20)
Fund 0273 FY 2024 Org 0313
General
Appro- Revenue
priation Fund
4a Capital Outlay, Repairs and Equipment – Surplus 67700 2,500,000
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 2024.