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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2026
REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 5276
By Delegates Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker) and Hornbuckle
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced February 06, 2026; referred to 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 Commerce, Division of Economic Development, fund 0256 fiscal year 2026, organization 0307, by supplementing and amending the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, by adding a new item of appropriation.
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 0256, fiscal year 2026, organization 0307, be supplemented and amended adding a new item of appropriation as follows:
Title II – Appropriations.
Section 1. Appropriations from general revenue.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
35 - Division of Economic Development
(W.V. Code Chapter 5B)
Fund
0256
FY
2026
Org
0307
General
Appro- Revenue
priation Fund
7a Directed Transfer – Surplus 70099 40,000,000
The above appropriation for Directed Transfer – Surplus (fund 0256, appropriation 70099) shall be transferred to the Economic Development Promotion and Closing Fund (fund 3171).
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.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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