Bill Text: WV SB550 | 2019 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-04-16 - Chapter 45, Acts, Regular Session, 2019 [SB550 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2019-SB550-Enrolled.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Enrolled

Senate Bill 550

By Senators Blair, Boley, Facemire, Hamilton, Ihlenfeld, Maroney, Palumbo, Plymale, Prezioso, Roberts, Swope, Sypolt, Tarr, Stollings, Jeffries, Hardesty, Romano, and Cline

[Passed March 9, 2019; in effect from passage]

AN ACT recognizing and declaring certain claims against agencies of the state to be moral obligations of the state; and directing the Auditor to issue warrants for the payment thereof.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

§1. Finding and declaring certain claims against the Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Racing Commission to be moral obligations of the state and directing payments thereof.

The Legislature has heretofore made findings of fact that the state has received the benefit of the commodities received and/or services rendered by certain claimants herein and has considered these claims against the state, and agency thereof, which have arisen due to over-expenditures of the departmental appropriations by officers of the state spending units, the claims having been previously considered by the Legislative Claims Commission which also found that the state has received the benefit of the commodities received and/or services rendered by the claimants, but were denied by the Legislative Claims Commission on the purely statutory grounds that to allow the claims would be condoning illegal acts contrary to the laws of the state.  The Legislature, pursuant to its findings of fact and also by the adoption of the findings of fact by the Legislative Claims Commission as its own, while not condoning such illegal acts, hereby declares it to be the moral obligation of the state to pay these claims in the amounts specified below and directs the Auditor to issue warrants upon receipt of properly executed requisitions supported by itemized invoices, statements, or other satisfactory documents as required by §12-3-10 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, for the payments thereof out of any fund appropriated and available for the purpose.

(a) Claims against the Department of Health and Human Resources:

(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)

(1)      Affordable Cremations of WV............................................ $15,000.00

(2)      Altmeyer Funeral Home....................................................... $5,000.00

(3)      Carpenter and Ford Funeral Home...................................... $3,750.00

(4)      Casto Funeral Home............................................................ $2,500.00

(5)      Domico Funeral Home............................................................ $434.00

(6)      Ford Funeral Home.............................................................. $2,500.00

(7)      Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home.......................................... $1,250.00

(8)      Johnson Tiller Funeral Home............................................... $3,750.00

(9)      Kepner Funeral Home.......................................................... $1,250.00

(10)   Kimes Funeral Home........................................................... $1,250.00

(11)   Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary.................................................. $1,250.00

(12)   Leavitt Funeral Home........................................................... $1,250.00

(13)   McCullough Funeral Home.................................................. $3,750.00

(14)   McCullough Raiguel Funeral Home..................................... $3,750.00

(15)   Melton Mortuary, Inc......................................................... $13,750.00

(16)   Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society..................................... $8,750.00

(17)   Morgan Funeral Home......................................................... $2,500.00

(18)   Smith Funeral & Cremation Care......................................... $1,250.00

(19)   Tankersley Funeral Home.................................................... $1,250.00

(20)   White Funeral Home............................................................ $1,250.00

 

(b) Claim against the Racing Commission:

(TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND)

(1)      Williams Racing Corporation............................................... $2,435.88