H. B. 3241
(By Delegates Overington, Roberts, Tabb, Wysong,
Blair, Doyle, Trump, Rowan and Duke)
[Introduced March 25, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §18A-4-2b, relating
to salary increases for teachers based upon residential
housing costs.
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 §18A-4-2b, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-2b. Granting teachers salary increases based on housing
costs.
Effective for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July,
two thousand five, every eligible person employed as a teacher with
three or more years of service shall receive an annual salary
increase equal to two percent of the employee's regular salary, if that employee resides in a county where residential home prices are
at least ten percent above the statewide average for residential
homes. Every eligible employee with three or more years of service
shall receive an annual salary increase equal to four percent of
the employee's regular salary, if that employee resides in a county
where residential home prices are at least twenty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes. 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. And, every eligible employee with three
or more years of service shall receive an annual salary increase
equal to six percent of the employee's regular salary, if that
employee resides in a county where residential home prices are at
least thirty percent above the statewide average for residential
homes. If an eligible employee with three or more years of service
resides in a county where residential home prices are more than
thirty percent above the statewide average for residential homes,
the employee shall receive an annual salary increase of two percent
of the employee's regular salary for every ten percent that
residential home prices in that employee's county exceed the
statewide average for residential homes.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
provide salary increases
for a teacher based upon residential housing costs. The employee
shall receive an annual salary increase of two percent of the
employee's regular salary for every ten percent that residential home prices in that employee's county exceed the statewide average
for residential homes.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.