H. B. 2248
(By Delegates Doyle and Overington)
[Introduced February 11, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §5-5-6
, relating to
salary increases for state employees based upon residential
housing costs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-5-6
, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-6. Granting salary increases based on housing costs.
Effective for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July,
two thousand five, every eligible employee with three or more years
of service shall receive an annual salary increase equal to two
percent of the employees' regular salary, if that employee resides
in a county where residential home prices are at least ten percent above the statewide average for residential homes. Every eligible
employee with three or more years of service shall receive an
annual salary increase equal to four percent of the employees'
regular salary, if that employee resides in a county where
residential home prices are at least twenty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes. These incremental
increases shall be in addition to any across-the-board,
cost-of-living or percentage salary increases which may be granted
in any fiscal year by the Legislature. And, every eligible
employee with three or more years of service shall receive an
annual salary increase equal to six percent of the employees'
regular salary, if that employee resides in a county where
residential home prices are at least thirty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes. If an eligible employee
with three or more years of service resides in a county where
residential home prices are more than thirty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes, the employee shall receive
an annual salary increase of two percent of the employee's regular
salary for every ten percent that residential home prices in that
employee's county exceed the statewide average for residential
homes.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide salary increases
for state employees based upon residential housing costs. The
employee shall receive an annual salary increase of two percent of
the employee's regular salary for every ten percent that residential home prices in that employee's county exceed the
statewide average for residential homes.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.