ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 482
(By Senators Love, Minard, Kessler, Rowe, Fanning, Jenkins, Ross,
McKenzie, Hunter, Smith, Snyder and Edgell)
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[Introduced February 6, 2004; referred to the Committee on
Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §49-5E-5a of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to reclassifying juvenile detention
and corrections facility employees as classified service
rather than classified-exempt service.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §49-5E-5a of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5E. DIVISION OF JUVENILE SERVICES.
§49-5E-5a. Juvenile detention and corrections facilities;
employees; priority of hiring.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the division, when employing any persons to complete the
approved staffing plan of any of its juvenile detention or
corrections facilities, shall employ any person otherwise qualified
who applies for a position at the juvenile detention or corrections facility who was also employed in good standing at a county or
local jail facility, at the time of its closing, that was closed
due to the completion of a regional jail.
(b) All persons employed at a juvenile detention or
corrections facility 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 such employees shall also be
covered by the policies and procedures of the education and state
employees grievance board, created under section five, article
six-a, chapter twenty-nine of this code and the classified
-exempt
service protection policies of the division of personnel.
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