Senate approves multiple Medicaid supplemental appropriations, realigns lottery funds
April 12, 2025 | 2025 Legislature WV, West Virginia
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The West Virginia Senate on April 11 approved multiple supplemental appropriation measures that increase appropriations for medical services and reallocate existing state lottery and debt service funds.
On the Senate floor Senator from Lewis and the junior senator from the sixteenth described and advanced several House-originated supplemental bills. The Senate voted, in recorded roll calls where recorded, 34 yeas and 0 nays on each measure when the constitutional reading rule was dispensed with and the bills were placed on passage.
Key measures approved or advanced included:
- Engrossed House Bill 33 49, "supplemental appropriation — Medicaid": Creates a new medical services lottery surplus line of appropriation within the State Excess Lottery Fund and transfers $45,022,906 from the unappropriated balance of excess lottery surplus to the Department of Human Services. The junior senator from the sixteenth urged passage, and the Senate recorded a 34-0 vote to pass the bill and later declared it effective from passage.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 52, "supplemental appropriation — human services, Medicaid": Appropriates $39,376,837 from the unappropriated balance of general revenue surplus to a new medical services surplus line for the Department of Human Services, Bureau of Medical Services. The Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote and declared it effective from passage.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 59, "supplemental appropriation — EDA and Medicaid (net 0)": Realigns funds within the State Excess Lottery Fund by decreasing the debt service appropriation in the Economic Development Project Fund by $9,506,440 and increasing the medical services appropriation within the Department of Human Services by the same amount. The Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 71, "supplemental appropriation — health facilities to Office of Inspector General (net 0)": Moves $58,632 in personal services and employee benefits from Welch Community Hospital to the Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Health; the Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote and made it effective from passage.
Senator from Lewis handled procedural motions to dispense with the constitutional rule requiring three separate readings and to make several bills effective on passage. Where recorded, the roll-call results were 34 yays, 0 nays, 0 absent.
Several items were described on the floor as realignments of existing state funds rather than new net spending (for example, HB 33 59 and HB 33 71 were described as net zero transfers). The Senate clerk was directed to communicate the actions to the House after each passage.
The transcript does not show substantive floor debate opposing the measures; members who summarized the bills emphasized the administrative and budgetary mechanics of the transfers and the departmental recipients.
On the Senate floor Senator from Lewis and the junior senator from the sixteenth described and advanced several House-originated supplemental bills. The Senate voted, in recorded roll calls where recorded, 34 yeas and 0 nays on each measure when the constitutional reading rule was dispensed with and the bills were placed on passage.
Key measures approved or advanced included:
- Engrossed House Bill 33 49, "supplemental appropriation — Medicaid": Creates a new medical services lottery surplus line of appropriation within the State Excess Lottery Fund and transfers $45,022,906 from the unappropriated balance of excess lottery surplus to the Department of Human Services. The junior senator from the sixteenth urged passage, and the Senate recorded a 34-0 vote to pass the bill and later declared it effective from passage.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 52, "supplemental appropriation — human services, Medicaid": Appropriates $39,376,837 from the unappropriated balance of general revenue surplus to a new medical services surplus line for the Department of Human Services, Bureau of Medical Services. The Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote and declared it effective from passage.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 59, "supplemental appropriation — EDA and Medicaid (net 0)": Realigns funds within the State Excess Lottery Fund by decreasing the debt service appropriation in the Economic Development Project Fund by $9,506,440 and increasing the medical services appropriation within the Department of Human Services by the same amount. The Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote.
- Engrossed House Bill 33 71, "supplemental appropriation — health facilities to Office of Inspector General (net 0)": Moves $58,632 in personal services and employee benefits from Welch Community Hospital to the Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Health; the Senate passed the bill on a recorded 34-0 vote and made it effective from passage.
Senator from Lewis handled procedural motions to dispense with the constitutional rule requiring three separate readings and to make several bills effective on passage. Where recorded, the roll-call results were 34 yays, 0 nays, 0 absent.
Several items were described on the floor as realignments of existing state funds rather than new net spending (for example, HB 33 59 and HB 33 71 were described as net zero transfers). The Senate clerk was directed to communicate the actions to the House after each passage.
The transcript does not show substantive floor debate opposing the measures; members who summarized the bills emphasized the administrative and budgetary mechanics of the transfers and the departmental recipients.
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