WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 644

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 Commerce, Division of Forestry, fund 0250, fiscal year 2024, organization 0305, and the Department of Commerce, Geological and Economic Survey, fund 0253, fiscal year 2024, organization 0306, 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 0250, fiscal year 2024, organization 0305, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

32 - Division of Forestry

(W.V. Code Chapter 19)

Fund 0250 FY 2024 Org 0305

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

1a Personal Services and Employee Benefits - Surplus 24301 755,000

And, That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0253, fiscal year 2024, organization 0306, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

33 - Geological and Economic Survey

(W.V. Code Chapter 29)

Fund 0253 FY 2024 Org 0306

             General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

1a Personal Services and Employee Benefits - Surplus 24301 110,997

7a Mineral Mapping System – Surplus 20799 47,975

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