COMMITTEE ON BUDGET, APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE 
 
 
BILL NO. 
36-0041 
 
Thirty-Sixth Legislature of the Virgin Islands 
 
 
 
February 27, 2025 
 
 
 
An Act amending sections 8 and 9 of Act No. 7267 by changing the authorized use of Matricula 
22-a Estate Mars Hill, West End Quarter, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and by reprogramming the 
$2,000,000 appropriation 
 
 
 
PROPOSED BY:  Senator Novelle E. Francis, Jr. 
 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Virgin Islands: 
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SECTION  1. (a) Act  No. 7267 is amended by striking section 9 in its entirety and 
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inserting the following new language: 
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“(a) The Department of Property and Procurement shall transfer title and ownership of  
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Matricula 22-a Estate Mars Hill, West End Quarter, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, consisting of 
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approximately 44.503 U.S. acres, as more fully described in OLG No. 5123, dated October 29, 
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1998, to the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (“VIHFA”) for the purpose of 
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constructing mixed-income affordable housing. 
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(b) 
The $2,000,000 appropriated to the VIHFA in section 8 of Act No. 7267 to be used 
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for architectural mid engineering services and infrastructure work for a multipurpose indoor 
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complex is reprogrammed for VIHFA to use for the construction of mixed-income affordable 
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housing at Matricula 22-a Estate Mars Hill, West End Quarter, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.” 
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BILL SUMMARY 
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This bill amends sections 8 and 9 of Act No. 7267 by changing the authorized use of 
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Matricula 22-a Estate Mars Hill, West End Quarter, St. Croix, Virgin Islands from a 
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Multipurpose Indoor Complex to mixed-income affordable housing, and reprogramming the 
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$2,000,000 appropriated to the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (“VIHFA”) for the 
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architectural and engineering services, and infrastructure work for the Multipurpose Indoor 
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Complex for the VIHFA to you use for the construction of mixed-income affordable housing. 
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BR25-0439/February 25, 2025/PFA 
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