West Virginia Senate Bill SB935

West Virginia 2025 Regular Session

• Introduced: 3/25/25
• Refer: 3/25/25

Caption

Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Homeland Security

Summary

SB935 is a supplemental appropriations bill that adds new General Revenue spending authority for two accounts within the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2025. It appropriates $398,295 to the Office of the Secretary for the Fusion Center and $13,099,378,771 to the Division of Emergency Management for Current Expenses, both from surplus General Revenue funds remaining in the State Treasury. The bill is framed as an executive-request measure and is intended to authorize spending from an unappropriated surplus balance identified in the Governor’s budget materials. The bill also carries forward any unexpended balances in these new appropriations into fiscal year 2026, allowing the funds to remain available beyond the end of FY 2025. In practical terms, SB935 adjusts the state budget to direct surplus money to homeland security and emergency management operations, rather than creating or changing regulatory policy. It is a fiscal measure affecting the Department of Homeland Security, especially the Fusion Center and emergency response-related current expenses.

Impact

SB935 would amend the state’s FY 2025 appropriations law by adding two new line-item appropriations from surplus General Revenue to the Department of Homeland Security. It affects the Office of the Secretary under W. Va. Code Chapter 5F and the Division of Emergency Management under W. Va. Code Chapter 15, and it authorizes reappropriation of any unspent balances into FY 2026. The bill primarily impacts state budgeting and the spending authority of these agencies, not substantive law governing public safety or emergency management.

Sentiment

Based on the bill text and available context, the measure appears to be a routine executive budget supplement with no recorded committee debate or votes in the provided materials. The overall tone is administrative and supportive of funding homeland security and emergency management functions using available surplus revenue. Because there are no transcripts or vote records, there is no evidence of organized opposition or controversy in the supplied record.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided materials. The only potentially notable issue is the size of the appropriation to the Division of Emergency Management, which is very large on its face and may invite scrutiny of budget priorities or the accuracy of the printed amount. Otherwise, the bill is presented as a straightforward supplemental appropriation requested by the executive branch, with no recorded disagreement from legislators, agencies, or the public in the supplied context.