SB444 SUB1
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 444
(By Senators Chafin, Laird, Deem, D. Facemire and Foster)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 17, 2010.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §5A-1A-4 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to the Employee Suggestion Award
Program; increasing the maximum cash award; requiring the
board to report to the Legislature every five years; and
allowing the Governor to make a secondary award.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5A-1A-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1A. EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION AWARD PROGRAM.
§5A-1A-4. Awards.
(a) The maximum cash award approved
shall be is limited to
twenty percent of the first year's estimated savings, as
established by the head of the affected spending unit, or
ten
thousand dollars $16,000 whichever is less.
Any A cash
awards
award approved by the board shall be charged by the head of the affected spending unit against the appropriation item or items to
which
such the estimated savings apply.
(b) Commencing December 2014, and every five years thereafter,
the board shall submit a report to the Joint Committee on
Government and Finance, including:
(1) Recommendations for the maximum award amount adjusted for
inflation; and
(2) Any other information concerning the maximum award amount.
(c) After the board has made an award, the Governor may make
one secondary award of up to twenty percent of the additional
savings realized by implementing the suggestion in other state
agencies, not to exceed $5,000. The Governor shall pay the
secondary awards from funds appropriated by the Legislature for
secondary awards.
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