WEST virginia legislature

2026 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 5302

By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle

[By Request of the Executive]

[Introduced; referred

to the Committee on]

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 Human Services, Bureau for Social Services – Foster Care, fund 0489, fiscal year 2026, organization 0511, by adding a new item of appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

WHEREAS, The Governor submitted the Executive Budget Document to the Legislature on January 14, 2026, containing a statement of the State Fund, General Revenue, setting forth therein the cash balance as of July 1, 2025, and further included the estimate of revenue for the fiscal year 2026, less net appropriation balances forwarded and regular and surplus appropriations for the fiscal year 2026, 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, 2026; therefore

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the total appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, to fund 0489, fiscal year 2026, organization 0511, be supplemented and amended by adding a new item of appropriation as follows:

Title II – Appropriations.

Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

90 - Bureau for Social Services –

Foster Care

(W.V. Code Chapter 16)

Fund 0489 FY 2026 Org 0511

       General

Appro- Revenue

priation Fund

2 Directed Transfer – Surplus 70,099 6,000,000

The above appropriation for Directed Transfer – Surplus (fund 0489, appropriation 70,099) shall be transferred to the Bring Them Home Fund (fund xxxx).

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 2026.