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Bill to Split the DHHR Heads to the Governor

West Virginia’s Senate approved a bill that would split the Department of Health and Human Resources into separate departments. The bill now heads to the governor. Under the bill, the DHHR would be divided into the Department of Health and Department of Human Resources. The Senate adopted the House’s version to have one secretary for each new department without deputy secretaries. The DHHR currently has one cabinet secretary, Bill Crouch, overseeing a $7.6 billion budget, or 39% of the state’s entire spending, while 11 secretaries from other departments oversee the remaining 60% of state spending.

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