WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 641

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel

[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 Education, State Board of Education – Aid for Exceptional Children, fund 0314, fiscal year 2024, organization 0402, 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 0314, fiscal year 2024, organization 0402, be supplemented and amended by adding new items of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

45 - State Board of Education –

Aid for Exceptional Children

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

Fund 0314 FY 2024 Org 0402

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

2a Special Education – Institutions – Surplus 16099 41,423

4a   Education of Juveniles Held in Predispositional

4b     Juvenile Detention Centers – Surplus 30299 15,051

5a Education of Institutionalized Juveniles

5b     and Adults – Surplus 47299 322,994

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.