ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2253
(By Delegates Caputo, Perdue, Tucker and Stalnaker)
[Passed March 10, 2007; in effect January 1, 2008.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to requiring classified service
designation for certain Regional Jail and Correctional
Facility Authority employees; providing that certain employees
retain their current exempt status; and authorizing employment
of new employees who have successfully completed certain
required examinations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
AUTHORITY.
§31-20-27. Employees of Regional Jail Authority; priority of
hiring; civil service coverage.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary,
the authority, when hiring employees to complete the approved staffing plan of a regional jail shall do so at a salary and with
benefits consistent with the approved plan of compensation of the
Division of Personnel, created under section five, article six,
chapter twenty-nine of this code. All persons employed under this
subsection shall be placed in the civil service system as covered
employees. On and after the first day of January, two thousand
eight, the executive director, of the Regional Jail and Correctional
Facility Authority; all employees within the office of the executive
director and all regional jail administrators are exempt from
coverage under the classified service.
(b) Persons employed under the provisions of this subsection
shall be employed at a salary and with benefits consistent with the
approved plan of compensation of the Division of Personnel, created
under section five, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
All persons employed under this subsection shall also be covered by
the policies and procedures of the West Virginia Public Employees
Grievance Board created under section one, article three, chapter
six-c of this code.
(c) Not withstanding the provisions of section ten, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code, and any rule promulgated
thereunder, on and after the first day of July, two thousand seven,
any person applying for employment with the Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority shall be hired based on passage of
the correctional officer examination without regard to his or her
position on the correctional officer register and shall be placed
in the civil service system as covered employees:
Provided, That no such person shall be hired before an otherwise qualified person on
a preference register.