WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 766
By Senators Smith (Mr. President) and Woelfel
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced March 17, 2025; referredto the Committee on the Finance]
A BILL 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, State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, by adding a new item of appropriation to the Department of Human Services, fund 5365, fiscal year 2025, organization 0511, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on February 12, 2025, containing a statement of the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, 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
WHEREAS, It appears from the Governor’s Statement of the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, there now remains an unappropriated surplus balance in the State 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 the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, to fund 5365, fiscal year 2025, organization 0511, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
# Title II – Appropriations.
362 - Department of Human Services
(W.V. Code Chapters 9, 48, and 49)
Fund 5365 FY 2025 Org 0511
Excess
Appro-Lottery
priationFunds
2Medical Services – Lottery Surplus68100$45,022,906
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.Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.