COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 115
(By Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, and Sprouse,By Request of
the Executive)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 21, 2002.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article five, chapter five
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to the elimination of the
twenty-year service cap on granting incremental salary
increases to eligible state employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article five, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-2. Granting incremental salary increases based on years of
service.
(a) Effective for the fiscal year beginning the first day of
July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, every eligible employee with three or more years of service shall receive an annual salary
increase equal to fifty dollars times the
employees' employee's
years of service.
not to exceed twenty years of service In each
fiscal year thereafter and on the first day of July, each eligible
employee shall receive an annual increment increase of fifty
dollars for that fiscal year.
(b)
Every employee becoming newly eligible as a result of
meeting the three years of service minimum requirement on the first
day of July in any fiscal year subsequent to one thousand nine
hundred ninety-six, is entitled to the annual salary increase equal
to fifty dollars times the employees' employee's years of service,
where he or she has not in a previous fiscal year received the
benefit of an increment computation. and Thereafter, the employee
shall receive a single annual increment increase thereafter of
fifty dollars for each subsequent fiscal year.
(c) These incremental increases shall be 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.
(d) This article section shall not be construed to prohibit
other pay increases based on merit, seniority, promotion or other
reason, if funds are available for the other pay increases:
Provided, That the executive head of each spending unit shall first
grant the mandated increase in compensation in this section to all
eligible employees prior to the consideration of any increases
based on merit, seniority, promotion or other reason.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the
twenty-year service cap on longevity pay provided to eligible state
employees.
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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