ENROLLED

H. B. 217


(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Thompson and Delegate Armstead)

[By Request of the Executive]

[Passed June 25, 2008; in effect ninety days from passage.]




AN ACT to amend and reenact §18A-4-7c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring county boards filling summer school program positions to give employment preference to professional educators who are regularly employed on a full-time basis.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18A-4-7c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-7c. Summer employment of professional educators.

A county board shall hire professional educators for positions in summer school programs in accordance with section thirty-nine, article five, chapter eighteen of this code or section seven-a of this article, as applicable, except that a professional educator who is regularly employed by the county board on a full-time basis shall be given employment preference over applicants who are not regularly employed by the county board on a full-time basis.