WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 937
By Senators Smith (Mr. President) and Woelfel
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced March 25, 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 surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, to the Department of Economic Development – Office of the Secretary, fund 0256, fiscal year 2025, organization 0307, by adding a new item 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 surplus 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 0256, fiscal year 2025, organization 0307, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
# Title II – Appropriations.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
43 - Department of Economic Development –
Office of the Secretary
(W.V. Code Chapter 5B)
Fund 0256 FY 2025 Org 0307
General
Appro-Revenue
priationFund
11aSite-Ready Projects, SEED, Vo-Tech
11band Workforce Investments – Surplus (R)XXXXX41,159,321
Any unexpended balance remaining in the appropriation for Site-Ready Projects, SEED, Vo-Tech and Workforce Investments – Surplus (fund 0256, appropriation XXXXX) at the close of fiscal year 2025 is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year 2026.
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.