Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB449%20SUB1.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=449
Timestamp: 2018-03-22 11:12:14
Document Index: 355392592

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SB449 SUB1 Senate Bill 449 History
A BILL to amend and reenact §9A-1-2, §9A-1-5, §9A-1-6, §9A-1-8, §9A-1-9, §9A-1-10, §9A-1-11 and §9A-1-12 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to the administration of the Department of Veterans’ Assistance; redesignating employment positions within the department; providing additional power and authority to the secretary; modifying duties of the Veterans’ Council; authorizing the award of grants to support the transportation of veterans to veterans’ hospitals or to veterans’ assistance offices; and revising language related to the Veterans Facilities Support Fund, which is continued, to include an additional veterans’ skilled nursing facility in Beckley, West Virginia, and providing for the acquisition of property on which to build the facility.
The division Department of Veterans’affairs Assistance of West Virginia shall:
(d) Sign and execute, in the name of the state by the West Virginia Division Department of Veterans’ Affairs Assistance, and by and with the consent of the Veterans’ Council, any contract or agreement with the federal government or its agencies, other states, subdivisions of this state, corporations, associations, partnerships or individuals;
(q) Provide volunteers who will drive or transport Award grants, as he or she deems advisable, subject to available appropriations, for the purpose of supporting the transportation of veterans to veterans’ hospitals from the veteran’s home or local veterans’ affairs assistance offices. and who shall be paid an expense per diem of seventy-five dollar. The secretary shall, annually for the first three years after the effective date of the amendment to this section, report to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance as to the status of the grants awarded for the transportation of veterans. After reporting for the initial three year period, the secretary shall report to the joint committee once every three years.
There is hereby created continued in the State Treasury a special revenue fund to be designated and known as the Veterans Facilities Support Fund, which shall be administered by the secretary. All interest or other returns earned on the investment of the moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Funds paid into the account shall be derived from the following sources: (1) Any gift, grant, bequest, endowed fund or donation which may be received by any veterans facility created by statute from any governmental entity or unit or any person, firm, foundation or corporation; and (2) all interest or other return on investment accruing to the fund. Moneys in the fund are to be used for the operational costs of any veterans facility created by statute, the acquisition, design, construction, equipping, furnishing, including, without limitation, the payment of debt service on bonds issued to finance the foregoing and/or as otherwise designated or specified by the donor. Any balance, including accrued interest or other earnings, in this special fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert to the General Revenue Fund but shall remain in the fund. Funds from the Veterans Facility Support Fund for operational costs will be distributed by appropriation of the Legislature. Funds from the Veterans Facility Support Fund for the acquisition, design, construction, equipping, furnishing, including, without limitation, the payment of debt service on bonds issued to finance the veterans nursing home and an additional veterans skilled nursing facility to be located in Beckley, West Virginia, shall be transferred to the Veterans Nursing Home Building Fund upon written request of the director of the division of Veterans Affairs Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Assistance to the Investment Management Board and the State Treasurer in accordance with the provisions of this section. The secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture to transfer all or part of the approximately seventeen acres of Department of Agriculture property in Beckley, West Virginia, located adjacent to the Jackie Withrow Hospital which was formerly known as Pinecrest Hospital, for construction of a veterans skilled nursing facility.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide consistent use of terms in the existing statutes governing the provision of assistance to veterans through the Department of Veterans’ Assistance, to remove obsolete or superseded language, and to clarify and provide additional power and authority to the Department’s secretary. The bill also authorizes funds from the Veterans Facility Support Fund, if appropriated, to be used for the construction of an additional veterans skilled nursing facility in Beckley.