WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 833

By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel

[By Request of the Executive]

[Introduced February 16, 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 Arts, Culture, and History, Division of Culture and History, fund 0293, fiscal year 2024, organization 0432, 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 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 0293, fiscal year 2024, organization 0432, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY

50 - Division of Culture and History

(W.V. Code Chapter 29)

Fund 0293 FY 2024 Org 0432

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

1a Personal Services and Employees Benefits – Surplus 24301 493,700

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

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.