WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 783
By Senators Smith (Mr. President) and Woelfel
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced March 17, 2025; referredto the Committee on Finance]
A BILL supplementing and amending the appropriations of public moneys out of the Treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, the Department of Administration, Public Defender Services, fund 0226, fiscal year 2025, organization 0221, by increasing existing items of appropriation 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 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 the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, to fund 0226, fiscal year 2025, organization 0221, be supplemented and amended by increasing existing items of appropriation as follows:
# Title II – Appropriations.
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
27 - Public Defender Services
(W.V. Code Chapter 29)
Fund 0226 FY 2025 Org 0221
General
Appro-Revenue
priationFund
6Public Defender Corporations352002,600,000
7Appointed Counsel Fees (R)7880020,000,000
NOTE: The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to increase existing items of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2025.