FISCAL
NOTE
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Education then Finance.
A
BILL to amend and reenact §18-17-1
of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the compensation of
personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind;
updating reference to minimum salaries in effect for personnel at facilities
under jurisdiction of the State Board of Education; and authorizing board to
establish salary schedules or compensation in excess of the minimums for
certain teachers at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-17-1 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 17. WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND THE
BLIND.
§18-17-1.
Continuation; management; minimum salary scale for all employees.
The West Virginia
Schools for Deaf Pupils and Blind Pupils heretofore established and located at
Romney, in Hampshire County, shall be continued and shall be known as the
"West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind." The West
Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind located at Romney, in Hampshire
County, is continued. The schools
shall be maintained for the care and education of the deaf youth and blind
youth of the state. The educational or
and business affairs of the schools shall be are under the
control, supervision and management of the State Board of Education, and the
state board shall employ the superintendent, principals, teachers and other
employees and shall fix the yearly or monthly salary to be paid to each person
so employed.
The minimum
salary scale for said principals, teachers and other employees shall be the
same as set forth in sections two, three and eight-a, article four, chapter
eighteen-a of this code professional personnel and service personnel
employed shall be in accordance with section seventeen, article four, chapter
eighteen-a of this code.
In
addition to the minimum salary scale, the state board may establish salary
schedules for additional compensation: (1) For teachers whose job duties
require specialized training and skills in addition to those required for the
teacher's regular instructional duties; and (2) for teachers assigned to or
employed for duties in addition to regular instructional duties.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to clarify a minimum salary scale for personnel employed by the West Virginia
Schools for the Deaf and Blind, and to authorize the state board to establish
salary schedules for additional compensation for certain teachers.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.