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Senate approves multiple Medicaid supplemental appropriations, realigns lottery funds
Summary
The West Virginia Senate on April 11 approved several supplemental appropriation measures affecting Medicaid funding, including two new appropriations totaling about $84.4 million and internal fund realignments totaling $9.5 million; all measures passed by recorded 34-0 votes where recorded.
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…
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