House Sends Amended Budget Bill Back to Senate

During the Floor Session, the House of Delegates discussed and advanced the fiscal year 2027 budget bill.

Senate Bill 250 is the budget bill. The House amended it with its version of the budget bill. The House Finance Amendment of the Budget Bill allocated the of $5,462,851,590 of General Revenue as follows:

• Legislative
  • Senate: $6,652,206
  • House of Delegates: $12,620,268
  • Joint Committee $12,722,947
• Judicial: $176, 736,918
• Executive
  • Governor’s Office: $6,250,122
  • Custodial Fund: 622,377
  • Civil Contingent Fund: $102
  • Auditor’s Office: $2,779,793
  • Treasurer’s Office: $8,830,187
  • Department of Agriculture: $14,469,072
    • Meat Inspection Fund: $1,214,444
    • Agricultural Award Fund: $15,000
    • WV Agricultural Land Protection Authority: $111,862
  • West Virginia Conservation Agency: $12,417,443
  • Attorney General: $6,023,360
  • Secretary of State: $996,797
  • State Election Commission: $7,508
• Department of Administration
  • Office of Secretary: $16,223,859
  • Division of Finance: $825,887
  • Division of General Services: $26,463,626
  • Division of Purchasing: $1,024,457
  • Travel Management: $1,195,454
  • Commission on Uniform State Laws: $65,550
  • WV Public Employees Grievance Board: $1,178,156
  • Ethics Commission: $673,154
  • Public Defender Services: $46,010,978
  • Division of Personnel: $900,000
  • Committee for the Purchase of Commodities and Services from the Handicapped: $4,055
  • West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute: $693,963
  • Office of Technology: $7,000,000
  • Real Estate Division: $888,578
• Department of Commerce
  • Division of Forestry: $7,312,143
  • Geological and Economic Survey: $3,334,758
  • Division of Economic Development: $15,619,700
  • Office of Energy: $1,036,585
  • Division of Labor: $1,743,200
  • Division of Natural Resources: $31,658,977
  • Division of Miners’ Health, Safety, and Training: $12,402,386
  • Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety: $360,281
  • WorkForce West Virginia: $75,340
  • Office of the Secretary: $3,134,244
  • State Board of Rehabilitation: $16,227,477
• Tourism
  • Office of the Secretary: $20,550,127
  • Division of Culture and History: $5,689,995
  • Library Commission: $1,380,493
  • Educational Broadcasting Commission: $3,859,496
• Department of Education
  • School Lunch Program: $2,511,490
  • State Department of Education: $236,819,626
  • Aid for Exceptional Children: $36,913,699
  • State Aid to Schools: $2,010,884,589
  • Vocational Division: $38,766,049
  • WV School for the Deaf and the Blind: $14,511,425
  • School Building Authority: $24,000,000
• Department of Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Quality Board: $136,671
  • Division of Environmental Protection: $7,807,802
  • Air Quality Board: $76,645
• Department of Health
  • Central Office: $4,153,426
  • Office of Shared Administration: $6,096,658
  • Bureau for Public Health
    • Office of Commissioner: $4,492,893
    • Health Statistics Center: $638,606
    • Office of Environmental Health Services: $3,652,860
    • Office of Epidemiology and Prevention Services: $2,997,605
    • Office of Laboratory Services: $4,172,175
    • Office of Maternal, Child, and Family Health
      • Children’s Special Care: $1,685,672
      • Infant, Child, Adolescent, Young Adult Health: $2,030,040
      • Maternal, Child, and Family Health Epidemiology: $469,195
      • Community Health: $435,508
      • Women’s and Family Health: $2,557,262
      • WV Birth to Three: $17,156,198
    • Office of Medical Cannabis: $1,218,359
    • Office of Nutrition Services: $38,540
    • Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing: $242,921
    • Center for Local Health: $20,305,818
    • Office of Chief Medical Examiner: $14,138,525
    • Office of Emergency Medical Services: $5,332,052
    • Office of Threat Preparedness: $5,595
    • Office of Community Health and Health Promotion: $8,160,839
    • Human Rights Commission: $1,563,667
    • Office of Inspector General: $8,752,760
  • Department of Human Services
    • Division of Human Services: $188,579,791
    • Office of Shared Services: $27,996,004
    • Bureau for Medical Services
      • Office of the Commissioner: $901,324
      • Medical Services Administration: $47,255,306
      • Policy and Programming: $225,064,349
      • Home and Community Based Waiver Programs: $157,528,384
    • Bureau for Social Services
      • Office of Commissioner: $31,064,017
      • Children’s Services: $43,092,266
      • Adoption: $85,350,822
      • Foster Care: $202,733,826
      • Adult Services: $6,350,984
      • CPS Caseworkers: $33,679,906
      • Caseworkers: $13,916,220
      • APS Caseworkers: $5,984,002
      • YS Caseworkers: $6,564,776
    • Department of Health Facilities
      • Central Office: $7,743,609
      • Health Facilities Capital Projects Fund: $550,00
      • Welch Community Hospital: $24,216,810
      • Sharpe Hospital: $140,131,859
      • Mitchell-Bateman Hospital: $63,393,315
      • Sharpe Hospital – Transitional Living Facility: $2,366,766
    • Department of Homeland Security
      • Office of the Secretary: $4,296,125
      • Division of Emergency Management: $7,145,657
      • Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
        • WV Parole Board: $1,288,692
        • Central Office: $360,425
        • Correctional Units: $371,824,592
        • Bureau of Juvenile Services: $61,885,429
      • WV State Police: $116,510,428
      • Division of Protective Services: $3,990,124
      • Criminal Justice Fund: $23,940,215
      • Division of Administrative Services: $6,038,001
    • Department of Revenue
      • Office of Secretary: $648,849
      • Tax Division: $32,263,563
      • State Budget Office: $1,136,629
      • WV Office of Tax Appeals: $1,223,334
      • State Athletic Commission: $36,075
    • Department of Transportation
      • Division of Multimodal Transportation Facilities: $1,353,865
        • State Rail Authority: $2,509,484
        • Public Transit: $2,982,129
        • Aeronautics Commission: $993,394
      • Department of Veterans’ Assistance: $15,946,337
        • Veterans’ Home: $1,968,297
      • Bureau of Senior Services: $6,580,366
      • WV Council for Community and Technical College Education
        • Control Account: $14,862,985
        • Mountwest: $7,157,658
        • New River: $7,271,440
        • Pierpont: $8,540,530
        • Blue Ridge: $10,078,278
        • WVU-Parkersburg: $12,542,081
        • Southern WV CTC: $9,896,697
        • WV Northern CTC: $9,289,720
        • Eastern WV CTC: $2,466,862
        • BridgeValley: $9,254,556
      • Higher Education Policy Commission
        • Control Account: $82,987,803
        • WVU School of Medicine: $22,987,917
        • WVU General Administration: $125,905,175
        • Marshall University School of Medicine: $10,320,177
        • Marshall University Administration: $60,387,107
        • WV School of Osteopathic Medicine: $6,647,449
        • Bluefield State University: $7,209,129
        • Concord University: $11,669,283
        • Fairmont State University: $20,871,339
        • Glenville State University: $13,810,226
        • Shepherd University: $13,810,226
        • West Liberty University: $10,639,093
        • West Virginia State University: $18,68,730
        • WVNET: $2,028,906
      • Adjutant General
        • State Militia: $17,320,959
        • Military Fund: $78,887

Aside from the General Revenue Fund, the totals for other revenue funds were provided:

• State Road Fund: $$2,165,942,568
• Other Funds: $2,666,402,653
• Lottery Revenue: $166,006,00
• Excess Lottery Funds: $334,612,000
• Federal Funds: $9,728,704,716
• Federal Block Grants: $725,006,799
• General Revenue Surplus: $191,190,000
• Lottery Surplus: $31,777,000
• Excess Lottery Surplus: $21,345,488

Several amendments were made to the House Committee’s Budget Amendment.

Delegate Hite (R-Berkeley) amended the budget to state that all unexpended appropriated funds for IDD Waivers at the end of Fiscal Year 2026 may be used for Fiscal Year 2027.

Delegate Linville (R-Cabell) amended the bill to provide $150,000 to the Division of Labor for an OSHA investigator.

Delegate Hornbuckle (D-Cabell) and others amended the budget to include $25,000,000 from surplus to the WV Flood Resiliency Office Trust Fund.

Delegate Funkhouser (R-Jefferson) amended the bill to allocate an additional $2 million to WorkForce WV.

Delegates Riley (R-Harrison) and Hott (R-Grant) amended the bill to increase the funding for nonuniformed employees in the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The amended bill moves back to the Senate for consideration.

The House is adjourned until Tomorrow, February 26 at 11 a.m.

Committee Meetings, Today February 25

• Government Organization at 4 p.m. in Room 215E
• Education at 4 p.m. in Room 432M
• Energy & Public Works at 5:30 p.m. in Room 410M
• Health & Human Resources at 5:30 p.m. in Room 215E
• Finance at 6:30 p.m. in Room 460M

Committee Meetings, Tomorrow February 26

• Sub. Com. on Revenue at 8:30 p.m. in Room 460M
• Judiciary at 9 a.m. in Room 410M
• Finance at 9 a.m. in Room 460M
• Rules at 10:45 a.m. in Speaker’s Conference Room 218M
• Government Organization at 1 p.m. in Room 215E
• Energy & Public Works at 3 p.m. in Room 410M
• Health & Human Resources at 3:30 p.m. in Room 215E