SB273 HFAT Summers 3-9

CR 3338

Delegate Summers moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

“A Bill to amend and reenact §49-2-101,  §49-2-102, and §49-2-809 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §49-10-101, §49-10-102, and §49-10-103; to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §49-11-101, all relating to child welfare; continuing the Bureau for Social Services; providing authority to the bureau; providing how the commissioner shall allocate child protective service workers; requiring reporting; requiring the department to have a redundancy centralized intake system; setting forth requirements for data submission in the event a system exists; providing that the Bureau for Social Services shall develop a merit-based system; providing legislative findings; providing the merit-based system shall be subject to the grievance process, except that there is no grievance available for the same classification description impacted by regional pay disparities; providing that for existing employees there is no grievance procedure for a regional pay disparity for the same job classification and establishing timeframes for implementation.

Adopted

Rejected