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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION
                    Enrolled Senate Bill 658
    By Senators Blair (Mr. President) and Woelfel [By Request of the Executive]
  [Passed February 23, 2024; in effect from passage]
    Enr SB 658
 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, the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services,
        fund 0226, fiscal year 2024, organization 0221, by supplementing and amending the
        appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, by adding new items of
        appropriation.
        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, It appears from the Governor's Statement of the State Fund, General
 Revenue, there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is available
 for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024; therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
        That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, to fund 0226, fiscal
 year 2024, organization 0221, be supplemented and amended by adding new items 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 2024 Org 0221
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     Intr SB 658
                                                                                       General
                                                                           Appro-      Revenue
                                                                           priation Fund
 6a Public Defender Corporations – Surplus............................     35299       2,600,000
 7a Appointed Counsel Fees – Surplus....................................   43500      20,000,000
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