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Enrolled Version - Final Version Senate Bill 337 History

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WEST virginia legislature

2017 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 337

Senator Blair, original sponsor

[Passed April 5, 2017; in effect 90 days from passage]

 

 

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §25-1-11f, relating to authorizing the hiring of correctional officers without regard to his or her placement on the correctional officer register; and granting employment preference to otherwise qualified persons on a preference register.

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 §25-1-11f, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS AND CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT.

25-1-11f. Hiring of correctional officer without regard to position on the register.


Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary or any rule promulgated under the provisions of this code, the Division of Corrections may hire any person listed on the Correctional Officer I Register for employment as a Correctional Officer I without regard to the person’s position on said register: Provided, That no person on the Correctional Officer I Register may be offered employment or hired before an otherwise qualified person on a preference register who is willing to accept the position.

 

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