WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
INTRODUCED
House Bill 5449
BY DELEGATES HANSHAW (MR. SPEAKER) AND
HORNBUCKLE
(BY REQUEST OF THE EXECUTIVE)
[Introduced February 5, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Finance]
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1 A BILL supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury
2 from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State
3 Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Health and Human Resources, Health
4 Facilities – William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital, fund 0413, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512,
5 and the Department of Health and Human Resources, Health Facilities – Mildred Mitchell-
6 Bateman Hospital, fund 0414, fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, by supplementing and
7 amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, by adding new items
8 of appropriation.
1 WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature
2 on January 10, 2024, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth
3 therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2023, and further included the estimate of revenue for the
4 fiscal year 2024, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus
5 appropriations for the fiscal year 2024, and further included recommended expirations to the
6 unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund, General Revenue; and
7 WHEREAS, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Fund, General
8 Revenue, there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is
9 available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024; therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
1 That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0413, fiscal
2 year 2024, organization 0512, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of
3 appropriation as follows:
4 TITLE II – APPROPRIATIONS.
5 Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
6 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
7 69 - Health Facilities –
8 William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital
9 (W.V. Code Chapter 16)
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10 Fund 0413 FY 2024 Org 0512
11 General
12 Appro- Revenue
13 priation Fund
14 5a Current Expenses – Surplus ............................................. 13099 34,000,000
15 And, That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0414,
16 fiscal year 2024, organization 0512, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of
17 appropriation as follows:
18 TITLE II – APPROPRIATIONS.
19 Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
20 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
21 70 - Health Facilities –
22 Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital
23 (W.V. Code Chapter 16)
24 Fund 0414 FY 2024 Org 0512
25 General
26 Appro- Revenue
27 priation Fund
28 5a Current Expenses – Surplus ............................................. 13099 16,000,000
NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add new items of
appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.
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