Senate Bill No. 192

(By Senator Wooton)

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[Introduced January 25, 2000; referred to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-two, relating to sanitarian employees of the division of health; and providing for a twenty-five percent across-the-board salary increase.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DIVISION OF HEALTH.
§16-1-22. Sanitarian's salaries.
On the first day of July, two thousand, any sanitarian, as defined in section two, article seventeen, chapter thirty of this code, who is employed by the division of health shall receive a salary increase in an amount equal to twenty-five percent of his or her salary on that date.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a 25% across-the-board salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health to bring their salaries into parity with county sanitarian employee salaries.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.