SB 549 Text

Senate Bill No. 549
(By Senator Wooton)
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[Introduced February 8, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance

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A BILL to amend article one, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-one, relating to salary increases for wildlife managers based on length of service.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article one, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-one, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.

§20-1-21. Wildlife managers; salary increases based on length of service.

(a) Effective the first day of July, two thousand two, wildlife managers shall be paid annual salaries based on the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
Wildlife manager (probation)

$21,156

Wildlife manager (first year after probation)

$22,214

Wildlife manager (second year)

$23,486

Wildlife manager (third year)

$24,698

Wildlife manager (after fifth year)

$28,276

Wildlife manager (after tenth year)

$32,854

Wildlife manager (after fifteenth year)

$36,144

Wildlife manager (after twentieth year)

$39,144

Wildlife managers in service at the time the amendment to this section becomes effective shall be given credit for prior service and shall be paid salaries as the same length of service will entitle them to receive under the provisions of this section.

(b) Each wildlife manager shall also receive and be entitled to an increase in salary based on length of service, including that heretofore and hereafter served as a wildlife manager as follows: For five years of service with the division, a wildlife manager shall receive a salary increase of three hundred dollars per year payable during his or her next three years of service and a like increase at three intervals thereafter, with these increases to be cumulative. A salary increase shall be based upon years of service as of the first day of July of each year and may not be recalculated until the first day of July of the following year.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish a salary schedule for wildlife managers with salary increases based on length of service.

§20-1-21 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

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