H.
B.
4031
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chambers, and Delegate Burk)
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced January 17, 1994; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact sections two and 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 state constitutional officers; changing the salaries of certain state administrators and updating the provisions related to such salaries.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That sections two and two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
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2. Salaries of certain state officers.
Effective on and after the first Monday after the second Wednesday in January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-five ninety-seven, the salaries for each of the state constitutional officers shall be as follows:
(a) The salary of the governor shall be seventy-two ninety thousand dollars per year.
(b) The salary of the attorney general shall be fifty thousand four hundred seventy thousand dollars per year;
(c) The salary of the auditor shall be forty-six thousand eight hundred seventy thousand dollars per year;
(d) The salary of the secretary of state shall be forty-three thousand two hundred seventy thousand dollars per year;
(e) The salary of the commissioner of agriculture shall be forty-six thousand eight hundred seventy thousand dollars per year; and
(f) The salary of the state treasurer shall be fifty thousand four hundred seventy thousand dollars per year.
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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 enacted prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four, 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 of the 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, April one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety-four, the annual salary of each such named appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, sixty
sixty-five 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 fifty-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 sixty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of public safety, forty-four thousand six hundred sixty thousand 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 fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of insurance, thirty-six thousand seven hundred fifty thousand dollars; administrator, division of culture and history, thirty-eight thousand three hundred fifty thousand dollars; chairman, public service commission, fifty sixty-five thousand dollars; members, public service commission, forty-six thousand two hundred sixty thousand dollars; administrator, alcohol beverage control commission, thirty-eight thousand three hundred sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of motor vehicles, forty fifty-five thousand dollars; director, division of personnel, thirty-eight thousand three hundred sixty thousand dollars; adjutant general, thirty-five thousand seven hundred fifty thousand dollars; chairman, health care cost review authority, forty fifty-five thousand dollars; members, health care cost review authority, thirty-six thousand five hundred fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars; director, human rights commission, forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, thirty-five thousand seven hundred fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of veterans affairs, thirty-two forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of emergency services, thirty-two forty thousand dollars; administrator, nonintoxicating beer commission, thirty-two thousand dollars; members, board of probation and parole, twenty-eight thousand three hundred forty thousand dollars; 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 April, one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety-four, each of the aforesaid officers shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of March December, one thousand nine hundred eighty-three ninety-three.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary enacted prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this code, and, prior to the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, and shall thereafter 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 sixty 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 two hundred 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 defender legal services council, forty seven thousand five hundred fifty-five thousand 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 forty 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 be effective 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 certain increases to various state administrators and constitutional officers and to generally update this section of the code.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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