Senate Bill No. 766
(By Senators Hunter, Unger and Minard)
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[Introduced February 18, 2008; referred to the Committee on
Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §5-5-2 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to increasing the annual salary
increase for eligible state employees from fifty dollars per
year of service to one hundred dollars per year; and reducing
the years of service requirement to receive an annual salary
increase from three years to one year.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5-5-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-2. Granting incremental salary increases based on years of
service.
(a) Every eligible employee with
three one or more years of
service shall receive an annual salary increase equal to
fifty one
hundred dollars times the employee's years of service. In each
fiscal year and on the first day of July, each eligible employee
shall receive an annual increment increase of
fifty one hundred dollars for that fiscal year.
(b) Every employee becoming newly eligible as a result of
meeting the
three years one year of service minimum requirement on
the first day of July in any fiscal year, is entitled to the annual
salary increase equal to
fifty one hundred dollars times the
employee's years of service, where he or she has not in a previous
fiscal year received the benefit of an increment computation.
Thereafter, the employee shall receive a single annual increment
increase of
fifty one hundred dollars for each subsequent fiscal
year.
(c) These incremental increases are in addition to any
across-the-board, cost-of-living or percentage salary increases
which may be granted in any fiscal year by the Legislature.
(d) This section shall not be construed to prohibit other pay
increases based on merit, seniority, promotion or other reason, if
funds are available for the other pay increases:
Provided, That
the executive head of each spending unit shall first grant the
mandated increase in compensation in this section to all eligible
employees prior to the consideration of any increases based on
merit, seniority, promotion or other reason.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase an eligible
state employee's annual salary increase from fifty dollars for each
year of service to one hundred dollars per year. The bill also
reduces the qualifying length of service required to receive a
salary increase from three years to one year.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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