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WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2559

By Delegates Howell, Pack, Hamrick, Worrell, Dean, Fast, Hoff, Hollen, Storch, Ellington and Butler

[Introduced January 21, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend and reenact §29-6-7a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring a special report by the Division of Personnel; setting a deadline for delivering the report; requiring certain financial revenue and expense data; requiring information related to classification and compensation actions of the division; and requiring a description of any administrative appeals and outcomes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 6. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM.


§29-6-7a. Special report on a centralized the state personnel system.

Before September 30, 2007 2019, the director of the Division of Personnel shall report to the Joint Committee on Government Organization on the following:

(1) A detailed financial report on the personnel/human relations system for the state, for Fiscal Year 2018 and Fiscal Year 2019, including the agency revenue for each fiscal year identified by appropriation, and for each category of fee charged by the agency, the amount of revenue received from each payee, and a detailed description of the agency expenses, including for contract services, legal fees, professional development training, job classification testing and the annual cost of the maintenance of the lists of qualified applicants;

(2) The benefits, cost effect and drawbacks of a centralized system A detailed report for Fiscal Year 2018 and Fiscal Year 2019, of each Classification and Compensation Section action resulting in a pay grade demotion or pay grade promotion for each job classification where a demotion or promotion of one or more pay grade has been recommended by the division or has occurred, identified by each job classification title, with a description of the personnel management techniques, merit principles and scientific methods used in justifying the personnel action;

(3) The structure for the system, including a recommendation on the number of satellite offices A detailed report for Fiscal Year 2018 and Fiscal Year 2019, of each administrative appeal of any personnel action taken by the division, the result of each administrative appeal, and a description of each personnel action that, after exhausting administrative remedies with the division, resulted in a grievance filed pursuant to §6C-2-1 et seq., of this code, and the outcome of each grievance, including the status or outcome of any appeals of said grievances to circuit court; and the cost to the agency to litigate each administrative appeal or grievance; and

(4) Any other recommendations the director finds beneficial to satisfy the personnel/human relations needs of the state A detailed report for Fiscal Year 2018 and Fiscal Year 2019, of each intervention by the division in the State Employee Grievance System describing the nature and style of the grievances being intervened in, the party whom the intervention by the division is intended to represent, the outcome of each grievance where the division has intervened, and a detailed description of the review of all settlement agreements reviewed by the division where the division rejected, modified, amended or otherwise altered the proposed settlement agreement, and the legal justification used by the division to alter each modified settlement agreement.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require a special report from the Division of Personnel to the Legislature by September 30 of 2019, regarding classification and compensation section activities, a report on administrative appeals of actions by the division and a report on the specific nature of intervention by the division in grievance and settlement activities.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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