WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 768

By Senators Smith (Mr. President) and Woelfel

[By Request of the Executive]

[Introduced March 17, 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 Department of Homeland Security, Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation – Correctional Units, fund 0450, fiscal year 2025, organization 0608, and to the Department of Homeland Security, Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation – Bureau of Juvenile Services, fund 0570, fiscal year 2025, organization 0608, by increasing the appropriations 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 supplemental appropriations from the 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 0450, fiscal year 2025, organization 0608, be supplemented and amended by increasing existing items of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

109 - Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation –

Correctional Units

(W.V. Code Chapter 15A)

Fund 0450 FY 2025 Org 0608

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

17 Special Services 68700 7,148,314

18 Directed Transfer 70000 7,670,255

And that the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, to fund 0570, fiscal year 2025, organization 0608, be supplemented and amended by increasing an existing item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

110 - Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation –

Bureau of Juvenile Services

(W.V. Code Chapter 15A)

Fund 0570 FY 2025 Org 0608

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

4 Central Office 70100 2,319,890

NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and increase items of appropriation in the aforesaid accounts for the designated spending units for expenditure during the fiscal year 2025.