Senate Bill No. 540
(By Senators Tomblin (Mr. President) and Buckalew
By Request of the Executive)
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[Introduced February 13, 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 lottery net profit fund to the
state department of education, account no. fund 3951, fiscal
year 1998, organization 0402, all supplementing and amending
the appropriation for 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 lottery net profit fund, 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.
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 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 3951, fiscal year 1998, organization 0402, be
supplemented and amended by increasing the total appropriation by
ten million dollars in the line item as follows:
TITLE II--APPROPRIATIONS.
Sec. 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
205--State Department of Education--
Health Care Provider Tax
(WV Code Chapters 18 and 18A)
Account No.
Fund 3951 FY 1998 Org 0402
General
Act-Revenue
ivity Fund
1 Computer Basic Skills--Total (R)567 $10,000,000
Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Computer Basic Skills--Total (fund 3951, activity 567) at the
close of fiscal year 1997-98, is hereby reappropriated for
expenditure during fiscal year 1998-99.
The purpose of this bill is to supplement the budget act for
the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-eight, by adding ten million dollars to the
existing appropriation for Computer Basic Skills for expenditure
during fiscal year one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight.