Senate Bill No. 520

(By Senators Tomblin (Mr. President) and Buckalew
By Request of the Executive)
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[Introduced February 12, 1998; referred to the Committee
on Finance.]
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A BILL making a supplementary appropriation 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 military affairs and public safety, division of corrections -- correctional units, account no. fund 0450, fiscal year 1998, organization 0608, all supplementing and amending the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight.

Whereas, The governor submitted to the Legislature the executive budget document, dated January 14, 1998, which included a statement of the state fund, general revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance and investments as of July 1, 1997, and further included the estimate of revenues for fiscal year 1997-98, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular appropriations for fiscal year 1997-98; and
Whereas, It appears from the governor's executive budget document there now remains an unappropriated balance in the state treasury which is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight; therefore
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the total appropriation for fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, to account no. fund 0450, fiscal year 1998, organization 0608, be supplemented and amended by increasing the total appropriation by two million five hundred thousand dollars as follows:
TITLE II--APPROPRIATIONS.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS

AND PUBLIC SAFETY

62--Division of Corrections--

Correctional Units

(WV Code Chapters 25, 28, 49 and 62)

Account No.

Fund 0450 FY 1998 Org 0608

General
Act-Revenue
ivity Fund
5 Payments to Counties and/or
6 Regional Jails229$2,500,000
The purpose of this bill is to supplement this account in the budget act for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, by adding two million five hundred thousand dollars to an existing appropriation for payments to counties and/or regional jails for expenditure during fiscal year one thousand nine hundred ninety- eight.