WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Originating

House Bill 3522 Number

By Delegates Dittman, Fehrenbacher, Hott, Barnhart, Howell, Horst, Cooper, Rohrbach, Mazzocchi, and Linville.

[Originating in the Committee on Finance; Reported on April 9, 2025]

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 Arts Culture and History – Division of Culture and History, fund 0293, fiscal year 2025, organization 0432, 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 0293, fiscal year 2025, organization 0432 be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE, AND HISTORY

51 - Division of Culture and History –

(W.V. Code Chapter 29)

Fund 0293 FY 2025 Org 0432

        General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

16a Directed Transfer 70000 2,000,000

The total amount of the above appropriation for Directed Transfer (fund 0293, appropriation 70000) shall be transferred to the Cultural Facilities and Capital Resources Matching Grant Program Fund (fund 3537).

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.