West Virginia budget, debt, and interest

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 23-1-2: Repeals the Insurance Commissioner’s at-least-quarterly report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance on workers’ compensation fund balances, revenue and spending, assets and liabilities, and estimated debt reduction for the next period. The latest former body is the five-line 2022 HB4296 provision, not the older broader commission report.
• Section 23-1-17: Repeals the joint Insurance Commissioner/Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board report to the Governor, due on or about September 15 using June 30 information. It covered injury causes and awards, diagnostic techniques, impairment and scientific support, occupational-disease research, fund disbursements and condition, and recommendations. Copies were filed with the Secretary of State and available to legislators and the public. This report repeal does not itself abolish occupational-disease benefits or the Board.
• Section 33-2-15a: Replaces annual direct communication to state/local governmental entities and nonprofits with a required annual website notification. It retains notice about reduced FEMA assistance when public property in identified flood-hazard areas lacks adequate flood insurance, potential financial exposure and possible NFIP availability. It deletes this section’s separate authority to propose legislative rules. The annual notice remains mandatory; this is public-property/disaster-finance context, not a new residential-insurance benefit.
• Section 33-2-21a: Removes monthly and on-request status/progress reporting to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, including requested program information. State-worker risk management, actuarial premium/fee assessments, competitive contracts despite a Purchasing Division exception, a restricted nonreverting program fund, investments, rulemaking and BRIM consultation remain. Interest-free initial borrowing from the Insurance Commission Fund is retained authority, not a new 2025 loan or verified debt/payment. Mandatory executive entities and optional discretionary participants remain distinct; county schools/counties/municipalities are not converted into program participants.
• Section 33-20B-8: Repeals professional-liability insurers’ 60-day reports on judgments, no-payment dismissals, settlement releases and closed pre-lawsuit claims, supplemental resolution reports, and the reporting duty for the Insurance Guaranty Association and BRIM. The former body covered multiple health-provider types, facilities and professional entities; data included date, appeal, payment, mediation and settlement structure. It removes probable-cause notice, a 30-day hearing-request process, $1,000–$10,000 per-violation civil penalties paid to General Revenue, collection proceedings after 30 days without payment, and good-faith report immunity. These are reporting sanctions, not malpractice liability or criminal penalties.

Public insurance fund reporting, disaster-assistance financial exposure and former General Revenue reporting penalties; no new borrowing or spending proven.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: health · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context · cpi · reviewed policy context · unemployment-rate · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Governor Patrick Morrisey approved SB856 on April 25, 2025. It repeals five insurance-reporting sections and changes workplace-safety, first-responder PTSD, flood-notice and state-worker program duties. The annual flood notice remains required on the agency website. Passage, approval and July 11 effectiveness are separate milestones.

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 23-1-2: Repeals the Insurance Commissioner’s at-least-quarterly report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance on workers’ compensation fund balances, revenue and spending, assets and liabilities, and estimated debt reduction for the next period. The latest former body is the five-line 2022 HB4296 provision, not the older broader commission report.
• Section 23-1-17: Repeals the joint Insurance Commissioner/Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board report to the Governor, due on or about September 15 using June 30 information. It covered injury causes and awards, diagnostic techniques, impairment and scientific support, occupational-disease research, fund disbursements and condition, and recommendations. Copies were filed with the Secretary of State and available to legislators and the public. This report repeal does not itself abolish occupational-disease benefits or the Board.
• Section 33-2-15a: Replaces annual direct communication to state/local governmental entities and nonprofits with a required annual website notification. It retains notice about reduced FEMA assistance when public property in identified flood-hazard areas lacks adequate flood insurance, potential financial exposure and possible NFIP availability. It deletes this section’s separate authority to propose legislative rules. The annual notice remains mandatory; this is public-property/disaster-finance context, not a new residential-insurance benefit.
• Section 33-2-21a: Removes monthly and on-request status/progress reporting to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, including requested program information. State-worker risk management, actuarial premium/fee assessments, competitive contracts despite a Purchasing Division exception, a restricted nonreverting program fund, investments, rulemaking and BRIM consultation remain. Interest-free initial borrowing from the Insurance Commission Fund is retained authority, not a new 2025 loan or verified debt/payment. Mandatory executive entities and optional discretionary participants remain distinct; county schools/counties/municipalities are not converted into program participants.
• Section 33-20B-8: Repeals professional-liability insurers’ 60-day reports on judgments, no-payment dismissals, settlement releases and closed pre-lawsuit claims, supplemental resolution reports, and the reporting duty for the Insurance Guaranty Association and BRIM. The former body covered multiple health-provider types, facilities and professional entities; data included date, appeal, payment, mediation and settlement structure. It removes probable-cause notice, a 30-day hearing-request process, $1,000–$10,000 per-violation civil penalties paid to General Revenue, collection proceedings after 30 days without payment, and good-faith report immunity. These are reporting sanctions, not malpractice liability or criminal penalties.

Public insurance fund reporting, disaster-assistance financial exposure and former General Revenue reporting penalties; no new borrowing or spending proven.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: health · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context · cpi · reviewed policy context · unemployment-rate · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Governor Patrick Morrisey approved SB856 on April 25, 2025. It repeals five insurance-reporting sections and changes workplace-safety, first-responder PTSD, flood-notice and state-worker program duties. The annual flood notice remains required on the agency website. Passage, approval and July 11 effectiveness are separate milestones.

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 11-19-2: Remove the prior direction of soft-drink tax proceeds to the special WVU medical-school fund, with these section changes effective July 1, 2022. Before the later repeal, the reenacted section retains one cent per 16.9 fluid ounces or fraction, or per half liter or fraction, of bottled drink; 80 cents per gallon of syrup or proportionate part, or 84 cents per four liters or proportionate part; and one cent per ounce or fraction, or per 28.35 grams or fraction, of dry mixture. State manufacturers/producers and original consignees, importers, distributors, wholesale or retail dealers are liable as specified; the excise is not collected more than once on the same drink or syrup. These are historical pre-repeal rates, not a current excise or an enacted increase recommended by the diabetes Task Force.
• Section 11-19-13: Repeal the entire soft-drink-tax article effective July 1, 2024; the soft-drink excise may no longer be imposed or collected after that date. This repeals the beverage excise, not every state or local sales tax on drinks. The diabetes plan’s proposed tax increase and exclusions are not enacted by this provision; no causal diabetes or consumption outcome is established.
• Section 33-3-14e: Support medical, dental, nursing and related health education and service programs at WVU, Marshall University’s School of Medicine and the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. Beginning July 1, 2022, require the Governor to include annual budget-bill appropriations from the insurance premium tax amounts credited to General Revenue under §33-3-14(c) and §33-3-14a, in addition to base appropriations: $14 million for WVU health sciences, $5.5 million for Marshall medicine and $3.9 million for osteopathic medicine ($23.4 million total). Dedicate one quarter of each school’s amount in July, October, February and April of each fiscal year. These amounts must not limit or reduce total school appropriations. This law establishes budget and dedication requirements; it does not by itself prove each annual appropriation, actual transfer or delivered educational/health service.

State tax-revenue dedication changes, tax repeal, annual budget-bill requirements and quarterly insurance-premium-tax funding for three schools; actual appropriations and transfers require separate evidence.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: health · reviewed policy context · income-taxes · reviewed policy context · education · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Governor Jim Justice approved SB 533 on March 30, 2022. It removed the old soft-drink-tax dedication to the WVU medical-school fund, set repeal of the beverage excise for July 1, 2024, and required annual budget proposals with $23.4 million in additional insurance-premium-tax support for WVU health sciences, Marshall medicine and the state osteopathic medical school beginning July 1, 2022. Quarterly dedication months are July, October, February and April. This enacted repeal is distinct from the earlier diabetes plan’s proposed tax increase; implementation and actual school funding remain separate verification tasks.

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 15-5-20b: Continue the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program and require its transfer from the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management on July 1, 2022. The Division must provide office space, equipment and supplies, with partial support from the flood-insurance tax fund; its Director supervises the office and shall employ staff as needed. Require program guidance and the floodplain-manager training referenced in §15-5-20a, plus land-use and development criteria consistent with federal minimum standards. Authorize proposed legislative rules, including rules governing state property in nonparticipating communities. Require a public strategic plan developed with the Director and floodplain managers, initially presented for approval to the State Resiliency Officer and Board and presented and approved no less than biannually thereafter. Require special-hazard state-property guidelines meeting 44 CFR §§60.3, 60.4 and 60.5 (2022), and cooperation with the State Resiliency Office. The source’s biannually wording is retained; actual training, adopted rules and plan approvals require separate evidence.
• Section 33-2-23: Assign and transfer the flood-program office’s assets from the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management effective July 1, 2022. The Director may decline assets considered unnecessary for proper program operation. The statutory transfer date is not an independently verified completed inventory or physical transfer.
• Section 33-3-14: Require insurers’ sworn annual financial statements and prior-calendar-year premium tax returns by March 1, subject to quarterly-payment provisions, with adjustments and full remittance. Retain the two-percent taxable-premium tax plus the additional tax in §33-3-14a. Route ordinary premium taxes into the separate insurance tax fund and require transfers of amounts not needed for refunds to General Revenue by the last business day of each month. Exclude federal and private-market flood-insurance premium taxes from that fund; route them to the separate flood-insurance tax fund, now subsection (c), for state flood-program operations, floodplain management and subgrants to local governments and other eligible entities after considering Emergency Management recommendations. Delete the old temporary medical-liability-tax dedication to replenish the tobacco settlement account, move the general-transfer wording into subsection (b), and replace old flood-fund subsections (d)/(e). This reenacts existing funds and rates with changed scope and allocation; no actual collection, refund or grant payment is established.
• Section 33-3-14a: Retain the additional one-percent taxable-premium tax alongside §33-3-14, applying the regular article’s levy and collection rules. After authorized refund and administration deductions, route amounts through §33-3-14(b) for General Revenue, except federal and private-market flood-insurance premium taxes, which must be deposited and distributed under the flood fund in §33-3-14(c). Delete the former temporary $833,000 medical-liability-tax replenishment provision for the tobacco settlement account. This is a premium-tax allocation rule, not a new personal income tax or proof of actual flood-fund transfers.

Office equipment/staff support, asset transfers, separate insurance/flood special revenue funds, monthly GeneralRevenue transfers, refunds and flood-program/subgrant uses. No actual payment or appropriation amount is established.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed policy context · education · reviewed policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Governor Jim Justice approved HB 4295 on March 28, 2022. The law continues West Virginia’s flood-insurance program and schedules its office and asset transfer from the Insurance Commissioner to Emergency Management for July 1, 2022. It requires floodplain-manager training, public strategic planning and federal-standard land-use/property guidelines, and directs federal and private-market flood-insurance premium taxes to the separate flood fund for program operations and subgrants. General insurance-tax funds and monthly General Revenue transfers remain separate. The general effective date is June 6, 2022; actual transfers, grants, training and plan approvals require independent records.

These describe the original enacted law provisions selected for this topic. Later amendments and current implementation require separate evidence.

• Section 8-13C-13: Repeal the chief technology officer’s study of the Tax Commissioner’s cost to implement the municipal taxes authorized by article 13C, with findings and recommendations due to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance before December 1, 2004. This one-time study provision did not itself impose or repeal municipal tax rates or pension benefits.
• Section 9-4A-2b: Reenact children and hospice Medicaid provisions, a two-page children’s application, trust-interest and conditional hospital-fund financing, and an annual January 1 coverage/cost report. These printed program terms are not all newly introduced by the 2022 reporting bill; prior-version comparison remains open.
• Section 9-4C-7: Reenact Medicaid provider-board fee recommendations, quarterly review and agency approval/discretion within federal and annual funding limits, quarterly reporting of agency modifications, and ambulance-rate method authority. No actual fee change or new coverage outcome is proved.
• Section 12-7-12: Provide electronic legislative delivery and website publication of Jobs Investment Trust operating/investment reports and the Housing Development Fund’s review of the board, with hard copies on request; preserve citizen inspection. Investment oversight does not establish new investment appropriations, jobs or GDP growth.
• Section 14-2A-21: Provide electronic delivery and legislative publication of the annual crime-victim claims, awards, denials and compensation-fund financial report, with hard copies on request. Preserve reporting contents; do not infer changes to eligibility, actual awards or crime rates.
• Section 31-15A-17b: Retain conditional lottery-backed financing for approved Chesapeake Bay nutrient and Greenbrier River fecal-coliform and phosphorus compliance projects with permitted flow of at least 400,000 gallons per day; restrict proceeds, preserve June 30, 2012 capital-plan deadline, and exclude private financing portions from covenant-limited public-project debt prepayment. Remove the prior subsection (f) December 1, 2012 legislative report and associated equal-percentage/ready-for-construction award clause; renumber prior-financing subsection (g) to (f). Retain the conditional FY2013 $6 million grant and pre-December 31, 2012 financing cutoff, without claiming a new 2022 appropriation.
• Section 31-18-24: Provide electronic legislative delivery/publication of the Housing Development Fund’s independent annual audit, with a hard-copy option, and electronic six-month financial and debt reports with hard copies on request. Retain public inspection and legislative demands for information; no household mortgage rate or new loan appropriation is established.
• Section 49-2-604: Reenact DHHR administration of regional support for families of people with developmental disabilities, budgeting, annual service evaluation, Medicaid coordination, family plans, resource allocation and grievances. The printed body ends at (c)(8); the complete prior reporting clause still requires comparison.

Direct public-fund, debt-service, grant, audit, fee-funding or fiscal reporting context. Authority and reporting requirements do not prove actual borrowing, disbursements or deficit changes.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: crime · reviewed policy context · health · reviewed policy context · income-taxes · reviewed policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed policy context · energy · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context · real-gdp · reviewed policy context · unemployment-rate · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

HB 4067 changes agency reporting across workplace, cybersecurity, crime-victim, health, investment and housing programs. It repeals nine sections, including one-time studies and legislative proposals, annual reports, and the Diabetes Action Plan’s planning, tracking and implementation duties. It also removes the watershed report-and-award clause while retaining conditional bond and grant provisions. The final law contains eleven reenacted code bodies and nine section repeals.

These are historical recommendations and planned activities selected for this topic. Adoption, funding and completed implementation require separate evidence.

• Reviewed provision J-1: The Task Force recommends raising the per-ounce sugary-beverage tax, removing carbonated water and diet soft drinks from its scope, and allocating part of the additional revenue to obesity prevention. The report describes its historical tax baseline; this is a proposed change, not proof of enactment, a current tax rate or a collected amount.
• Reviewed provision J-5: Recommend required coverage and reimbursement for National DPP and DSMES learning and care services for Medicaid beneficiaries, state/public employees and private-sector employees. A recommendation does not establish adopted coverage, an appropriation, insurer payment or delivered classes.
• Reviewed provision T3-1: Plan mini-grant funding for community organizations, worksites and other entities to sustain physical-activity and nutrition policy, systems and environmental changes. HPCD is responsible; evaluate changes after each grant cycle. No grant amount, executed award or payment is supplied.
• Reviewed provision T4-1: Plan expanded National DPP coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries, state/public employees and private employees. The West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians, Marshall University and WVU OHSR would collaborate with insurers and employers and assess commitment to a coverage and reimbursement plan; adopted benefits and spending remain unverified.
• Reviewed provision T4-2: Plan a National DPP value-based payment system in rural hospitals, with technical assistance from HPCD, the Office of Rural Health, West Virginia Hospital Association, WVU OHSR and Marshall University. Evaluate program outcomes; no completed payment system or disbursement is established.
• Reviewed provision T5-2: Plan standardized Medicaid DSMES coverage through collaboration between the Bureau for Medical Services and WVU OHSR. Assess coverage changes; the plan does not establish an adopted benefit or actual Medicaid expenditure.
• Reviewed provision T5-4: Plan Medicaid coverage of DSMES and medical nutrition therapy delivered through telehealth. HPCD, the Academy of Family Physicians and WVU OHSR would support implementing health systems and measure coverage expansion; this is not proof of adoption, reimbursement or completed implementation.
• Reviewed provision T6-6: Plan funding and technical assistance for DSMES programs to obtain ADA recognition or ADCES accreditation. HPCD, Marshall University and WVU OHSR would recruit programs; count programs achieving recognition/accreditation. No appropriated amount, award, payment or completed accreditation is established.

The plan proposes earmarking tax proceeds, mini-grants, program funding, Medicaid/public employee reimbursement and payment models. No amount, actual spending or debt change is established.

Retained West Virginia evidence context: health · reviewed policy context · income-taxes · reviewed policy context · education · reviewed policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

West Virginia’s Bureau for Public Health developed a diabetes plan with stakeholder input and a commissioner’s foreword dated February 2, 2021. Five Task Force recommendations address sugary-beverage tax changes and prevention funding, broadband access for telehealth, discounted insulin, outreach for diabetes learning programs, and insurance coverage and reimbursement. Nineteen strategy activities assign partner responsibilities and evaluation measures for community health, National DPP, DSMES coverage and enrollment. These are historical recommendations and planned activities, with adoption, spending and completed implementation still unverified.