H. B. 4677
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegate Trump)
[By Request of the Executive]
[Introduced February 21, 2006; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §5-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to incremental salary increases for
full-time faculty member employees of state institutions of
higher education.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-1. Definitions.
For the purposes of this article:
(a) "Eligible employee" means
either of the following:
(1) Any regular full-time employee of the state or any
spending unit of the state who is eligible for membership in any
state retirement system of the State of West Virginia or other
retirement plan authorized by the state:
Provided, That the mandatory salary increase required by this article shall not apply
to
any faculty employee at state institutions of higher education,
or any employee of the state whose compensation is fixed by statute
or by statutory schedule other than employees described in this
section. Clerks, deputy clerks and magistrate assistants of
magistrate courts are eligible for the incremental salary increases
provided in this article with the increases to be allowable in
addition to the maximum salaries and compensation for the employee
offices under the magistrate court system statutes of article one,
chapter fifty of the code. This article may not be construed to
mandate an increase in the salary of any elected or appointed
officer of the state;
or
(2) Any classified employee as defined in section two, article
nine, chapter eighteen-b of this code who is an employee of a state
institution of higher education,
or of the higher education policy
commission
or the council for community and technical college
education; or
(3) Effective on the first day of July, two thousand six and
thereafter, any full-time faculty member as defined in section one,
article eight, chapter eighteen-b of this code who is an employee
of a state institution of higher education, the higher education
policy commission or the council for community and technical
college education;
(b) "Years of service" means full years of totaled service as an employee of the State of West Virginia:
Provided, That a
full-time faculty member, as defined in section one, article eight,
chapter eighteen-b of this code, employed pursuant to a contract
for nine months or more during a year shall be credited to a full
year of service: Provided, however, That no more than one year of
service may be credited to any full-time faculty member for service
rendered by him or her in any fiscal year; and
(c) "Spending unit" means any state office, department,
agency, board, commission, institution, bureau or other designated
body authorized to hire employees.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to include certain faculty
at state institutions of higher education among those state
employees eligible for incremental salary increases.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.