FISCAL NOTE
Date Requested: February 12, 2025
Time Requested: 10:03 PM |
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Human Services, WV Department of |
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Version: |
Bill Number: |
Resolution Number: |
| 2004 |
Introduced |
SB265 |
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FUND(S):
0403 - DIV OF HUMAN SERVICES GENERAL ADMINISTRATION FUND, 0493 - DIV OF HUMAN SERVICES Child Protective Services Case Workers Fund, 8722 - CONS FEDERAL FUNDS DIV HUMAN SERVICES GEN ADMN FD, 8816 - TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES (TANF), 8757 - FED
Sources of Revenue:
Other Fund General and Federal
Legislation creates:
Fiscal Note Summary
Effect this measure will have on costs and revenues of state government.
The purpose of this bill is to transfer child welfare enforcement responsibilities to the West Virginia State Police. The bill transfers employees, funds and property of the Department of Health and Human Resources to the West Virginia State Police. The bill provides that the transferred employees remain in the Civil Service System, continue to participate in Public Employees Retirement System Insurance and continue to be covered by the Public Employees Insurance Act. The bill requires rulemaking.
This bill would have significant fiscal impact on the Department, however, that impact cannot be quantified at this time without more specifics as to who and how the transfer would take place. The impact would be on personal services, benefits, and current expenses. The funding of the current costs come from both federal and state funds.
This bill would remove unknown portions of child welfare. The impact could result in fragmentation of child welfare duties within Chapter 49, which includes early care and education, foster care licensing, juvenile justice, child protective services investigations and child protective services child custody issues. The bill does not clearly outline which child welfare activities would be transferred to the State Police and which would remain with the Department of Human Services.
The DoHS claimed $351,479,436 of federal funding for FFY 2024 in the following programs: Foster Care, Adoption, Guardianship, Child Welfare, Safe & Stable Families, Promoting Safe & Stable Families Case Worker, Safe & Stable Families, Promoting Safe & Stable Families - Kinship Navigator, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Child Care, Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act, Community Based Child Abuse Prevention, Children Justice, Chafee Independent Living, Chafee Education & Training Voucher. There is a potential to lose a portion of this funding.
Transferring a large group of employees from Department of Human Services to the WVSP may impact the staffing needs of the OSA Office of Human Resources Management.
Fiscal Note Detail
| Effect of Proposal |
Fiscal Year |
2025
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
2026
Increase/Decrease
(use"-") |
Fiscal Year
(Upon Full
Implementation) |
| 1. Estmated Total Cost |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Personal Services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Current Expenses |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Repairs and Alterations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Assets |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Other |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 2. Estimated Total Revenues |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Explanation of above estimates (including long-range effect):
Please explain increases and decreases in personal services, current expenses, repairs and alterations, assets, other costs and revenues, including assumptions and data sources and delineation between start-up and ongoing costs. Please also include a long-range schedule of costs and revenues if fiscal impact is expected to vary in future years.
Memorandum
As written, the bill would require the transfer of all staff overseeing child care licensing/regulation and child care quality initiatives from the Bureau for Family Assistance, Division of Early Care and Education, to the WV State Police because these staff administer programs under the statutory authority of W.Va. State Code Chapter 49. This represents 33 non-child welfare FTEs currently funded through the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and not working on child welfare issues.
Proposed legislation references the Department of Health and Human Services. This legislation would fall under the Department of Human Services.
The federal funding supporting these costs are awarded to the Department of Human Services, therefore, federal reimbursement to the State Police would have to occur, or another source of funding identified.
Person submitting Fiscal Note: Alex J. Mayer
Email Address: osafiscalnotes@wv.gov