SB 300 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Budget Bill

SB 300 is West Virginia's 2026 state budget bill, allocating funds for all state agencies and operations from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It defines how money must be spent by categorizing appropriations into key areas like salaries ("personal services"), employee benefits, equipment, and operating costs ("current expenses"), while requiring spending units to cover shortfalls in collected funds. The bill also establishes rules for transferring funds between state agencies (limited to 5% per agency) and ensures agencies using federal funds pay their share of insurance costs. This procedural budget bill affects all state departments and agencies by governing how they manage and spend public funds during the 2026 fiscal year.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Last action Apr 9, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced Version → Committee Substitute · 5 edits

MODERATE

The bill text was converted from a legislative introduction format to a committee substitute format, significantly expanding the document with detailed budget appropriations for fiscal year 2026. The committee substitute includes specific funding amounts for all state agencies, departments, and programs, replacing the brief introductory language of the original version. This represents a substantive change from a bill proposal to an enacted appropriations bill with specific dollar amounts and allocation details.

Scope change

The bill scope changed from a general appropriations framework to a comprehensive budget document containing specific funding allocations for every state agency and department for fiscal year 2026.

FISCAL

Added detailed budget appropriations with specific dollar amounts for all state agencies, departments, and programs for fiscal year 2026, including legislature, judiciary, executive branch, and various departments.

Added specific funding allocations for numerous programs including education, health services, corrections, homeland security, and various state agencies with exact dollar amounts.

DEFINITION

Added comprehensive definitions for appropriation categories including personal services, employee benefits, current expenses, equipment, repairs, buildings, lands, and capital outlay.

TIMELINE

Changed from introductory version with February 2025 introduction date to committee substitute with April 2025 committee report date.

REQUIREMENT

Added detailed transfer authority provisions specifying limits on inter-agency fund transfers and conditions for transferring between appropriation categories.

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Committee

Apr 9, 2025

Committee

Referred to Rules on 3rd reading

upper

Apr 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute reported

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

To Finance

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

upper

0 primary · 1 co-sponsor