§5-1A-1. Legislative Findings and Purposes

The Legislature finds and declares that section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution, known as the “modern budget amendment,” authorizes the Legislature to prescribe by law the form and detail of the itemization and classification of the proposed appropriations of the budget bill submitted to it by the Governor, and that said section further authorizes […]

§5-1A-2. Submission of Budget Bill; Form Prescribed by Article

Pursuant to section fifty-one, article six of the Constitution of West Virginia, the Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of each house the budget and a bill for all the proposed appropriations of the budget. The proposed appropriations in such bill shall be clearly itemized and classified in the form and detail prescribed by […]

§5-1A-3. Proposed Appropriations for Legislative and Judicial Branches

(a) The proposed appropriations in such bill for the legislative branch shall be itemized and classified by the Governor in the identical amounts, language, form and detail as certified by the presiding officer of each house and transmitted to the Governor. (b) The proposed appropriations in such bill for the judicial branch shall be itemized […]

§5-1A-4. Uniform Itemization; Definitions; Sub Classifications and Sub Items; Separate Line Items for Specific Programs or Purposes; Separate Account Numbers for Single Spending Units Permitted

(a) With the exception of the spending units or purposes mentioned in section five of this article, the proposed appropriations submitted by the Governor for the spending units of the executive department shall be itemized and classified according to the provisions of this section. The budget bill shall itemize appropriations separately for: (1) "Personal services" […]

§5-1A-5. Itemization of Appropriations for State Division of Highways; State Aid to Schools

(a) Proposed appropriations for the state Division of Highways shall be itemized separately for: (1) "Debt service" which means the payment of principal and interest due on all state bonds issued for the benefit of the state road fund;