WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Originating House Bill 5699
By Delegates Criss, Hardy, Espinosa, Gearheart,
Rowe, Hite, Mazzocchi, Rohrbach, Barnhart, Horst,
and Hott [Originating in the Committee on Finance; Reported on February 29, 2024]
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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, to the Department of Arts, Culture, and History, Division of Culture and
4 History, fund 0293, fiscal year 2024, organization 0432, by supplementing and amending
5 the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
1 Whereas, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on
2 January 11, 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 Revenue,
8 there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the Treasury which is available for
9 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 0293, fiscal
2 year 2024, organization 0432, 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 ARTS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY
7 50- Division of Culture and History
8 (W.V. Code Chapter 29)
9 Fund 0293 FY 2024 Org 0432
10 5a Current Expenses- Surplus.................................................. XXXXX 37,000
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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 2024.
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