WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced Senate Bill 754
By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced March 01, 2023; referred to the Committee on Finance]
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1 A BILL supplementing and amending Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2022,
2 known as the budget bill, in Title II from the appropriations of public moneys out of the
3 Treasury from the balance remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State
4 Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary, fund
5 0606, fiscal year 2023, organization 0327, by supplementing and amending the
6 appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, by adding a new item of
7 appropriation.
8 Whereas, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on
9 January 11, 2023, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth
10 therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2022, and further included the estimate of revenue for the
11 fiscal year 2023, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus
12 appropriations for the fiscal year 2023, and further included recommended expirations to the
13 unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund, General Revenue; and
14 Whereas, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Fund, General Revenue,
15 there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is available for
16 appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023; therefore
17 Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
1 That Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2022, known as the budget bill,
2 to fund 0606, fiscal year 2023, organization 0327 be supplemented and amended to read as
3 follows:
4 TITLE II – APPROPRIATIONS.
5 Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
6 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
7 39 - Department of Commerce –
8 Office of the Secretary
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9 (WV Code Chapter 19)
10 Fund 0606 FY 2023 Org 0327
11 General
12 Appro- Revenue
13 priation Fund
14 1 Personal Services and Employee Benefits........................... 00100 $ 1,374,092
15 2 Salary and Benefits of Cabinet Secretary and
16 3 Agency Heads............................................................... 00201 153,750
17 4 Unclassified.......................................................................... 09900 1,490
18 5 Current Expenses................................................................. 13000 353,147
19 5a Directed Transfer – Surplus.................................................. 70099 1,000,000
20 6 Total...................................................................................... $ 2,882,479
21 7 The above appropriation for Directed Transfer – Surplus (fund 0606, appropriation 70099)
22 8 shall be transferred to the Marketing and Communications Operating Fund (fund 3002).
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 2023.
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