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Senate Bill No. 1002

(By Senators Tomblin (Mr. President) and Caruth,

By Request of the Executive)

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[Introduced May 31, 2009; referred to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-5-4a, all relating to salary enhancements for health care personnel at certain hospitals; establishing legislative findings; requiring the Division of Personnel and the Department of Health and Human Resources to develop pay rates and requirements for certain classified service positions at Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital; authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to provide funding from legislative appropriations; exempting pay rates and employment requirements from grievance procedures; and declaring that the provisions do not give rise to any private cause of action.

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 §5-5-4a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-4a. Psychiatrists, nurses and aides classifications.

(a) The Legislature finds that Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital have extreme difficulty in recruiting and retaining physicians, physician specialists, nurses, nursing directors, health service workers, health service assistants, health service associates and other employees who assist in the direct provision of medical care to patients in those facilities.
(b) The West Virginia Division of Personnel and the Department of Health and Human Resources jointly shall develop pay rates and employment requirements to support the recruitment and retention of physicians, physician specialists, nurses, nursing directors, health service workers, health service assistants, health service associates or other positions at Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital and William R. Sharpe, Jr. Hospital. Pay rates shall reflect the regional market rates for relevant positions. The pay rates and employment requirements shall be put into effect by July 1, 2009.
(c) Funding for the pay rates and employment requirements shall be provided from the appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Resources. Due to the limits of funding, the implementation of the pay rates and employment requirements shall not be subject to the provisions of article two, chapter six-c of this code. The provisions of this section are rehabilitative in nature and it is the specific intent of the Legislature that no private cause of action, either express or implied, shall arise pursuant to the provisions or implementation of this section.

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