WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

ENROLLED

House Bill 219

By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
(By Request of the Executive)

[Passed October 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 surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services, fund 0226, fiscal year 2025, organization 0221, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.

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, The Governor submitted to the Legislature an Executive Message dated May 19, 2024, which included a revised estimate of revenues for the State Fund, General Revenue, and recommended supplementary appropriations for the fiscal year 2024; and

WHEREAS, The Governor submitted to the Legislature an Executive Message dated September 30, 2024, which included 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

WHEREAS, It appears from the Executive Message, Statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, there remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the State 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 0226, fiscal year 2025, organization 0221, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

27 - Public Defender Services

(W.V. Code Chapter 29)

Fund 0226 FY 2025 Org 0221

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

6a Public Defender Corporations – Surplus 35299 1,050,000

The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

...............................................................

Clerk of the House of Delegates

...............................................................

Clerk of the Senate

Originated in the House of Delegates.

In effect from passage.

...............................................................

Speaker of the House of Delegates

...............................................................

President of the Senate

__________

The within is ................................................ this the...........................................

Day of ..........................................................................................................., 2024.

.............................................................

Governor