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Senate Bill No. 509
(By Senators Plymale, Bowman, Caldwell Dempsey, Edgell, Guills,
Hunter, Oliverio, Unger and White)
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[Originating in the Committee on Education;
reported February 12, 2003.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article five, chapter five
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and reenact section five,
article nine, chapter eighteen-b of said code, all relating to
classified employees; and removing the twenty-year cap for the
annual experience increment.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article five, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted; and that section five, article nine, chapter
eighteen-b of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-1. Definitions.
For the purposes of this article:
(1) (a) "Eligible employee" means either of the following:
(1) Any regular full-time employee of the state or any
spending unit thereof of the state who is eligible for membership
in any state retirement system of the state of West Virginia or
other retirement plan authorized by the state: Provided, That the
mandatory salary increase required by this article shall not apply
to any faculty employee at public state institutions of higher
learning education, or any employee of the state whose compensation
is fixed by statute or by statutory schedule other than employees
described in this section. (except that the Clerks, deputy clerks
and magistrate assistants of magistrate courts shall be are
eligible for the incremental salary increases provided in this
article and with such the increases to be allowable in addition to
the maximum salaries and compensation for such the employee offices
under the magistrate court system statutes of article one, chapter
fifty of the code.), nor shall This article may not be construed to
mandate an increase in the salary of any elected or appointed
officer of the state; or
(2) Any classified employee as defined in section two,
article nine, chapter eighteen-b of this code who is an employee of
a state institution of higher education or of the higher education
policy commission;
(2) (b) "Years of service" means full years of totaled service
as an employee of the state of West Virginia; and
(3) (c) "Spending unit" means any state office, department,
agency, board, commission, institution, bureau or other designated body authorized to hire employees.
ARTICLE 9. CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE SALARY SCHEDULE AND CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM.
§18B-9-5. Classified employee salary.
(a) Commencing with the fiscal year beginning on the first day
of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, and each fiscal
year thereafter, each classified employee with three or more years
of experience shall receive an annual salary increase equal to
fifty dollars times the employee's years of experience. Provided,
That the annual salary increase may not exceed the amount granted
for the maximum of twenty years of experience These incremental
increases are in lieu of any salary increase received pursuant to
section two, article five, chapter five of this code; are 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; and shall be paid in like manner as the annual payment
to eligible state employees of the incremental salary increases
based on years of service under the provisions of section two,
article five, chapter five of this code.
(b) (a) Any classified employee may receive merit increases
and salary adjustments in accordance with policies established by
the board of governors: Provided, That merit raises may be granted
only pursuant to a rule adopted by the board of governors, and
approved by the chancellor, which provides a fair and equitable basis for granting merit raises pursuant to regular evaluations
based upon reasonable performance standards.
(c) (b) The current annual salary of any classified employee
may not be reduced by the provisions of this article nor by any
other action inconsistent with the provisions of this article, and
nothing in this article may be construed to prohibit promotion of
any classified employee to a job title carrying a higher pay grade
if the promotion is in accordance with the provisions of this
article and the personnel classification system established by the
appropriate governing board.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
remove the twenty-year
experience cap for the annual experience increment classified
employees of state institutions of higher education and of the
higher education policy commission.
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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