H. B. 2586
(By Delegates Rodighiero and Eldridge)
[Introduced January 13, 2010; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to salary increase for regional
jail authority employees of $5,000 paid over a three-year
period.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
AUTHORITY.
§31-20-27.
Employees of regional jail authority; Correctional
officers; regional jails; priority of hiring; civil
service coverage.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the authority, when hiring employees to complete the
approved staffing plan of a regional jail shall do so at a salary and with benefits consistent with the approved plan of compensation
of the Division of Personnel, created under section five, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code:
Provided, That effective
July 1, 2009, all employees of the Regional Jail Authority shall
receive a $5,000 salary increase, phased in over a three-year
period, payable in equal monthly installments. All persons
employed under this subsection shall be placed in the civil service
system as covered employees. On and after January 1, 2009, the
executive director of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
Authority; all employees within the office of the executive
director and all regional jail administrators are exempt from
coverage under the classified service.
(b) Persons employed under the provisions of this subsection
shall be employed at a salary and with benefits consistent with the
approved plan of compensation of the Division of Personnel, created
under section five, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
All persons employed under this subsection shall also be covered by
the policies and procedures of the West Virginia Public Employees
Grievance Board created under section one, article three, chapter
six-c of this code.
(c) Not withstanding the provisions of section ten, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code, and any rule promulgated
thereunder, on and after the July 1, 2007, any person applying for
employment with the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shall be hired based on passage of the correctional
officer examination without regard to his or her position on the
correctional officer register and shall be placed in the civil
service system as covered employees:
Provided, That no such person
shall be hired before an otherwise qualified person on a preference
register.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to grant a salary increase
for Regional Jail Authority employees of $5,000 to be paid over a
three-year period.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.