§11-21-96 Dedication of personal income tax proceeds. - West Virginia Statutes

§11-21-96. Dedication of personal income tax proceeds.
(a) There is hereby dedicated an annual amount of forty-five million dollars from annual collections of the tax imposed by this article for payment of the unfunded liability of the current Workers' Compensation Fund. No portion of this amount may be pledged for payment of debt service on revenue bonds issued pursuant to article two-d, chapter twenty-three of this code.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, beginning in January of two thousand six, forty-five million dollars from collections of the tax imposed by this article shall be deposited each calendar year to the credit of the old fund created in article two-c, chapter twenty-three of this code, in accordance with the following schedule. Each calendar month, except for July, August and September each year, five million dollars shall be transferred, on or before the twenty-eighth day of the month, to the Workers' Compensation Debt Reduction Fund created in article two-d, chapter twenty-three of this code.

(c) Expiration. -- The transfers required by this section shall continue to be made until the governor certifies to the Legislature that an independent actuary study determined that the unfunded liability of the old fund, as defined in chapter twenty-three of this code, has been paid or provided for in its entirety. No transfer pursuant to this section shall be made thereafter.