CHARLESTON, W.Va.
West Virginia could soon create an office of minority affairs.



The Legislature sent a measure to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Saturday that calls for a new agency named after Herbert Henderson.

Henderson was a prominent black attorney from Huntington who served as president of the state NAACP. The office would provide a forum for issues and concerns of minority communities.

The House of Delegates passed the bill to Tomblin on the legislative session's final day after agreeing to a Senate change.

But lawmakers must still find about $175,000 in the upcoming budget to staff and furnish the office.

Passage followed years of debate, partly over whether state government should add another agency.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, nearly 94 percent of the state's population is white.

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