HB2718 HFA Nelson 2-24 #1                                                                                                   McO

             Delegate E. Nelson moves to amend the bill on page two, following the enacting section, by striking out the remainder of the bill and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

“ARTICLE 22A. RACETRACK VIDEO LOTTERY.

§29-22A-10g. Distributions to various funds during fiscal year 2016. 

            (a) Notwithstanding any provision of section ten or ten-d of this article to the contrary, during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, the commission shall not make a deposit of such amounts as are available under subdivision (1), subsection (b), section ten of this article into a separate facility modernization account maintained within the Licensed Racetrack Modernization Fund for each racetrack as prescribed by subdivision (2), subsection (b), section ten of this article. In lieu thereof, the commission shall deposit the amounts otherwise made available by those calculations as follows:

            (1) Up to $6 million shall be deposited into the state road fund of the state to be expended for maintenance, contract paving, and secondary road maintenance purposes;

            (2) Up to $1 million shall be deposited into the Department of Human Services Medical Services Fund established pursuant to section two, article four, chapter nine of this code to be expended for the state's Title XIX Aged and Disabled Waiver program;

            (3) Up to $1 million shall be deposited into the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Division of Health General Administrative Fund established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to be expended for Health Right Free Clinics; and

            (4) Up to $1 million shall be deposited into the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Division of Health General Administrative Fund established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to be expended for the Substance Abuse Continuum of Care program.

            (b) The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Division of Health General Administrative Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be administered by the Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and shall consist of all moneys made available for the administration of programs or other activities of the Department as established by law or as directed by the Legislature from any source, including, but not limited to, all gifts, grants, bequests, deposits or transfers from any source, any moneys that may be transferred, designated or appropriated to the fund by the Legislature, and all interest or other return earned from investment of the fund. Expenditures from the fund are not authorized from collections but are to be made only in accordance with appropriation by the Legislature and in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twelve of this code and upon the fulfillment of the provisions set forth in article two, chapter eleven-b of this code. Any balance, including accrued interest and other returns, remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund and be expended as provided by this subsection.

            (c) Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (b), section ten of this article to the contrary, if a licensed racetrack's facility modernization account contains a balance in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, the unexpended balance from that fiscal year will be available for matching for two additional fiscal years, after which time, the remaining unused balance carried forward shall revert to the lottery fund.”.

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