WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

ENGROSSED

House Bill 3356

By Delegate Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker)

(By Request of the Executive)

[Introduced March 13, 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 balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the State Board of Education – State Department of Education, fund 0313, fiscal year 2025, organization 0402, by increasing an existing item 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 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 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 0313, fiscal year 2025, organization 0402, be supplemented and amended by increasing an existing item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

45 - State Board of Education –

State Department of Education

(W.V. Code Chapter 18 and 18A)

Fund 0313 FY 2025 Org 0402

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

12 Hope Scholarship Program 30401 28,400,666