WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 3353
By Delegate Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced March 13, 2025; referred to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL supplementing and amending Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2024, known as the budget bill, in Title II from the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Commerce – Office of the Secretary, fund 0606, fiscal year 2025, organization 0327, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, by adding a new item of appropriation.
WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on February 12, 2025, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2024, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2025, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2025, 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 balance in the Treasury which is available for appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025; therefore
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That Chapter 11, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 2024, known as the budget bill, fund 0606, fiscal year 2025, organization 0327 be supplemented and amended to read as follows:
# Title II – Appropriations.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
40 - Department of Commerce –
Office of the Secretary
(W.V. Code Chapter 5B)
Fund 0606 FY 2025 Org 0327
General
Appro-Revenue
priationFund
1Personal Services and Employee Benefits00100$1,469,368
2Salary and Benefits of Cabinet Secretary and
3Agency Heads00201153,750
4Unclassified099001,490
5Current Expenses13000353,147
5a Directed Transfer700001,000,000
6Total$2,977,755
7Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Jobs for WV Graduates –
8Surplus (fund 0606, appropriation 83699) at the close of fiscal year 2024 is hereby
9reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2025.
10The above appropriation for Directed Transfer (fund 0606, appropriation 70000) shall be 11transferred to the Marketing and Communications Operating Fund (fund 3002).
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 2025.