ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 751
(By Senators Prezioso, Bailey, Dittmar and Helmick)
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[Originating in the Committee on Military;
reported February 27, 1998.]
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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 authorizing a pay
increase for the adjutant general, superintendent of the
state police, commissioner of motor vehicles, and director
of the regional jail authority.
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 to read 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 enacted prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred 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 the 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 the appointive state
officers are hereafter subject to the existing qualifications for
holding each respective office and each has all of the powers and
authority and shall perform all of the functions and services
vested in and performed by virtue of existing law respecting each
office.
Beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-eight, the annual salary of each such named
appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, 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 corrections, sixty-five thousand
dollars; administrator, division of natural resources, sixty-five thousand dollars; administrator, superintendent, state police,
sixty-eight thousand dollars; administrator, lottery division,
sixty thousand dollars; director, public employees insurance
agency, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of
banking, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of
insurance, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division
of culture and history, fifty thousand dollars; administrator,
alcohol beverage control commission, sixty thousand dollars;
administrator, division of motor vehicles, sixty thousand
dollars; director, division of personnel, fifty thousand dollars;
adjutant general,
fifty seventy thousand dollars; chairman,
health care cost review authority, fifty-five thousand dollars;
members, health care cost review authority, fifty-one thousand
two hundred dollars; director, human rights commission, forty
thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, fifty-five
thousand dollars; administrator, division of veterans affairs,
forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of emergency
services, forty thousand dollars; members, board of parole, 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 July, one thousand nine hundred
ninety-four, each of the aforesaid officers shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last
day of December, one thousand nine hundred 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 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 July, 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: Administrator, division of risk and
insurance management, fifty thousand dollars; director, division
of rehabilitation services, fifty-five thousand dollars;
executive director, educational broadcasting authority, fifty- five thousand 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 director, public defender services,
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; director,
railroad maintenance authority, fifty thousand dollars; executive
secretary, women's commission, thirty thousand one hundred
dollars; director, regional jail authority, sixty-five thousand
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
the appointive state officer has 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 his or
her spending unit is in compliance with any general law providing
for a salary increase for his or her employees. The attorney
general shall prepare and distribute the 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 the decreases shall take
effect at the time the appointive office is vacated.