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WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.
A BILL to amend and
reenact §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees of $5,000 paid over a
three-year period.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL
FACILITY AUTHORITY.
§31-20-27. Employees of Regional Jail Authority Correctional
officers; regional jails; priority of hiring; civil service coverage.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the authority, when hiring employees to complete the approved
staffing plan of a regional jail shall do so at a salary and with benefits
consistent with the approved plan of compensation of the Division of Personnel,
created under section five, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code. However, effective July 1, 2017, all
employees of the Regional Jail Authority shall receive a $5,000 salary
increase, phased in over a three-year period, payable in equal monthly
installments. All persons employed
under this subsection shall be placed in the Civil Service System as covered
employees. On and after January 1, 2009,
the executive director of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
Authority; all employees within the office of the executive director and all
regional jail administrators are exempt from coverage under the classified
service.
(b) Persons employed under the provisions of this subsection
shall be employed at a salary and with benefits consistent with the approved
plan of compensation of the Division of Personnel, created under section five,
article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
All persons employed under this subsection shall also be covered by the
policies and procedures of the West Virginia Public Employees Grievance Board
created under section one, article three, chapter six-c of this code.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of section ten, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code, and any rule promulgated thereunder, on
and after the July 1, 2007, any person applying for employment with the
Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shall be hired based on
passage of the correctional officer examination without regard to his or her
position on the correctional officer register and shall be placed in the civil
service system as covered employees: Provided, That no such person shall be
hired before an otherwise qualified person on a preference register.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to grant a salary increase for Regional Jail Authority employees of $5,000 to
be paid over a three-year period.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.