WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Enrolled

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 644

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel

[By Request of the Executive]

[Passed March 8, 2024; in effect from passage]

AN ACT 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 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.

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 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 increasing an 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

1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits 00100 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 increasing items 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

1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits 00100 110,997

7 Mineral Mapping System (R) 20700 47,975