WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced House Bill 5452
By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle [By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced February 05, 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 from
2 the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Fund,
3 General Revenue, the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services, fund
4 0226, fiscal year 2024, organization 0221, by supplementing and amending the
5 appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, by adding new items of
6 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
1 WHEREAS, It appears from the Governor's Statement of the State Fund, General
2 Revenue, there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is available
3 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 0226, fiscal
2 year 2024, organization 0221, be supplemented and amended by adding new items of
3 appropriation as follows:
4 TITLE II – APPROPRIATIONS.
5 Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
6 DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
7 27 - Public Defender Services
8 (W.V. Code Chapter 29)
9 Fund 0226 FY 2024 Org 0221
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10 General
11 Appro- Revenue
12 priation Fund
13 6a Public Defender Corporations – Surplus............................ 35299 2,600,000
14 7a Appointed Counsel Fees – Surplus.................................... 43500 20,000,000
NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to add items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2024.
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