WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Introduced House Bill 209
BY DELEGATES HANSHAW (MR. SPEAKER) AND
HORNBUCKLE
(BY REQUEST OF THE EXECUTIVE)
[Introduced September 30, 2024; Referred to the Committee on Finance]
 Intr HB 209
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 Administration, Public Employees
4 Insurance Agency, fund 0200, fiscal year 2025, organization 0225, by supplementing and
5 amending Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2024, known as the
6 budget bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
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, The Governor submitted to the Legislature an Executive Message dated May
8 19, 2024, which included a revised estimate of revenues for the State Fund, General Revenue,
9 and recommended supplementary appropriations for the fiscal year 2024; and
10 WHEREAS, The Governor submitted to the Legislature an Executive Message dated
11 September 30, 2024, which included a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting
12 forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2024, and further included the estimate of revenue for
13 the fiscal year 2025, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus
14 appropriations for the fiscal year 2025; and
15 WHEREAS, It appears from the Executive Message, Statement of the State Fund,
16 General Revenue, there remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the State Treasury which
17 is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025; therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
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 Intr HB 209
1 That Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2024, known as the budget bill
2 to fund 0200, fiscal year 2025, organization 0225, be supplemented and amended to insert a new
3 item of appropriation as follows:
4 TITLE II – APPROPRIATIONS.
5 Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
6 DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
7 29A - Public Employees Insurance Agency
8 (W.V. Code Chapter 5)
9 Fund 0200 FY 2025 Org 0225
10 General
11 Appro- Revenue
12 priation Fund
13 1 PEIA Subsidy – Surplus ..................................................... XXXXX $ 87,000,000
14 2 The Division of Highways, Division of Motor Vehicles, Public Service Commission and
15 3 other departments, bureaus, divisions, or commissions operating from special revenue funds
16 4 and/or federal funds shall pay their proportionate share of the public employees health
17 5 insurance cost for their respective divisions.
18 6 The above appropriation for PEIA Subsidy – Surplus (fund 0200, appropriation XXXXX)
19 7 may be transferred to a special revenue fund and shall be utilized by the West Virginia
20 8 Public Employees Insurance Agency for the purposes of offsetting benefit changes to offset
21 9 the aggregate premium cost-sharing percentage requirements between employers and
22 10 employees. Such amount shall not be included in the calculation of the plan year aggregate
23 11 premium cost-sharing percentages between employers and employees.
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 the fiscal year
2025.
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