Senate Bill No. 333
(By Senators Humphreys, Chafin, Wooton, Bailey, Craigo,
Sharpe, Chernenko, Yoder, Dalton, Dittmar, Plymale,
Holliday, Minard, Wagner and Claypole.]
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[Introduced February 14, 1994; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section ten-a, article one, chapter
fifty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and reenact
section thirteen, article two of said chapter, all relating
to increasing the salaries of justices to ninety thousand
dollars annually; and to increase the salaries of judges of
the circuit court to eighty-five thousand dollars annually.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section ten-a, article one, chapter fifty-one of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted; and that section thirteen,
article two of said chapter be amended and reenacted, all to read
as follows:
ARTICLE 1. SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.
§51-1-10a. Salary of justices.
Effective the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-four, the salary of each of the justices of the supreme
court of appeals shall be fifty-five thousand dollars per year:
Provided, That beginning the first day of January, one thousand
nine hundred ninety, the salary of each of the justices of the
supreme court shall be seventy-two ninety thousand dollars per
year.
ARTICLE 2. CIRCUIT COURTS; CIRCUIT JUDGES.
§51-2-13. Salaries of judges of circuit courts.
The salaries of the judges of the various circuit courts
shall be paid solely out of the state treasury. No county,
county commission, board of commissioners or other political
subdivision shall supplement or add to such salaries.
Effective the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-four, the annual salary of all circuit judges shall be
fifty thousand dollars per year: Provided, That beginning the
first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, the
annual salary of all circuit judges shall be sixty-five eighty-
five thousand dollars per year.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the salaries
of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals to ninety
thousand dollars annually and to increase the salaries of Judges
of the Circuit Courts to eighty-five thousand dollars annually.
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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