H. B. 2481
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chambers, and Delegate Burk)
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced March 5, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section two-a, article seven, chapter
six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the salaries
of members of the parole board.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.
§6-7-2a. Terms of certain appointive state officers;
appointment; qualifications; powers and salaries
of such officers.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the
contrary, each of the following appointive state officers named
in this subsection shall be appointed by the governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of such
appointive state officers shall serve at the will and pleasure ofthe governor for the term for which the governor was elected and
until the respective state officers' successors have been
appointed and qualified. Each of such appointive state officers
shall hereafter be subject to the existing qualifications for
holding each such respective office and each shall have and is
hereby granted all of the powers and authority and shall perform
all of the functions and services heretofore vested in and
performed by virtue of existing law respecting each such office.
Beginning on the first day of January July, one thousand
nine hundred ninety ninety-three, the annual salary of each such
named appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, sixty thousand dollars;
administrator, division of health, fifty-seven thousand two
hundred dollars; administrator, division of human services,
forty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, state
tax division, forty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars;
administrator, division of energy, sixty-five thousand dollars;
administrator, division of finance and administration, forty-
seven thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, division of
corrections, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division
of community and industrial development, sixty-three thousand six
hundred dollars; administrator, division of workers'
compensation, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator,
division of commerce, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
administrator, division of natural resources, forty-seven
thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, division of publicsafety, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars; administrator,
lottery division, sixty thousand dollars; director, public
employees insurance agency, fifty-five thousand dollars;
administrator, division of employment security, forty-five
thousand dollars; administrator, division of banking,
thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; administrator,
division of insurance, thirty-six thousand seven hundred dollars;
administrator, division of culture and history, thirty-eight
thousand three hundred dollars; chairman, public service
commission, fifty thousand dollars; members, public service
commission, forty-six thousand two hundred dollars;
administrator, alcohol beverage control commission, thirty-eight
thousand three hundred dollars; administrator, division of motor
vehicles, forty thousand dollars; director, division of
personnel, thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; adjutant
general, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; chairman,
health care cost review authority, forty thousand dollars;
members, health care cost review authority, thirty-six thousand
five hundred dollars; director, human rights commission, forty
thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, thirty-five
thousand seven hundred dollars; administrator, division of
veterans affairs, thirty-two thousand dollars; administrator,
division of emergency services, thirty-two thousand dollars;
administrator, nonintoxicating beer commission, thirty-two
thousand dollars; members, board of probation and parole, twenty-
eight thousand three hundred dollars thirty-three thousanddollars; members, employment security review board, seventeen
thousand dollars; members, workers' compensation appeal board,
seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred
ninety, each of the aforesaid officers shall continue to receive
the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of
March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the
contrary, each of the state officers named in this subsection
shall continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this
code, and shall be paid an annual salary as follows, except that
any increase in salary over and above the salary being received
by any of the following state officers as of the last day of
March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine, shall not become
effective until the first day of January, one thousand nine
hundred ninety:
Chancellor, board of regents, seventy thousand dollars;
state superintendent of schools, seventy thousand dollars;
administrator, division of risk and insurance management, forty-
two thousand dollars; director, division of rehabilitation
services, fifty-five thousand dollars; executive director,
educational broadcasting authority, forty-seven thousand five
hundred dollars; secretary, library commission, forty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars; director, geologic and economic
survey, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; executive
director, water development authority, fifty-four thousand twohundred dollars; executive secretary, teacher's retirement
system, forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars; executive
secretary, public employees retirement system, forty thousand one
hundred dollars; director, air pollution control commission,
forty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; executive director,
public legal services council, forty seven thousand five hundred
dollars; director, commission on aging, forty thousand dollars;
commissioner, oil and gas conservation commission, forty thousand
dollars; director, farm management commission, thirty-two
thousand five hundred dollars; state fire administrator, twenty-
five thousand two hundred dollars; executive secretary, municipal
bond commission, thirty thousand two hundred dollars; director,
railroad maintenance authority, thirty-two thousand five hundred
dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty thousand
one hundred dollars; executive director, regional jail authority,
forty-two thousand six hundred dollars; director, hospital
finance authority, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
(c) No increase in the salary of any appointive state
officer pursuant to this section shall be paid until and unless
such appointive state officer shall have first filed with the
state auditor and the legislative auditor a sworn statement, on
a form to be prescribed by the attorney general, certifying that
such spending unit is in compliance with any general law
providing for a salary increase for his employees. The attorney
general shall prepare and distribute such form to the affected
spending units:
Provided,
That no decrease in salary shall beeffective for any current appointive state officer appointed
prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred
eighty-nine:
Provided, however,
That such decreases shall take
effect at such time as any appointive office is vacated.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide salary
increases for the members of the West Virginia parole board.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.
Email
Webmaster | © 2024 West Virginia Legislature **
