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Senate Bill No. 690

(By Senator Bowman, Helmick, Craigo, Edgell, Jackson, Plymale, Snyder, Bailey, Sharpe, Ross, Mitchell, Rowe and Fanning)

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[Introduced February 18, 2002; referred to the Committee

on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the salary of members of the West Virginia racing commission from five thousand dollars to twelve thousand dollars a year.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.

§6-7-2a. Terms of certain appointive state officers; appointment; qualifications; powers and salaries of such officers.

(a) Each of the following appointive state officers named in this subsection shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of the appointive state officers serves at the will and pleasure of the governor for the term for which the governor was elected and until the respective state officers' successors have been appointed and qualified. Each of the appointive state officers are subject to the existing qualifications for holding each respective office and each has and is hereby granted all of the powers and authority and shall perform all of the functions and services heretofore vested in and performed by virtue of existing law respecting each office.
Prior to the first day of July, two thousand one, each such named appointive state officer shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the effective date of the enactment of this section in two thousand one, and thereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the annual salary of each named appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, ninety thousand dollars; administrator, state tax division, sixty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of corrections, seventy-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of natural resources, seventy thousand dollars; superintendent, state police, seventy-five thousand dollars; administrator, lottery division, seventy-five thousand dollars; director, public employees insurance agency, seventy-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of banking, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of insurance, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of culture and history, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, alcohol beverage control commission, seventy thousand dollars; administrator, division of motor vehicles, seventy thousand dollars; director, division of personnel, fifty-five thousand dollars; adjutant general, seventy-five thousand dollars; chairman, health care authority, seventy thousand dollars; members, health care authority, sixty thousand dollars; director, human rights commission, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of veterans affairs, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of emergency services, forty-five thousand dollars; members, board of parole, forty-five thousand dollars; members, employment security review board, seventeen thousand dollars; members, workers' compensation appeal board, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, bureau of employment programs, seventy thousand dollars; administrator, bureau of commerce, seventy thousand dollars; administrator, bureau of environment, seventy thousand dollars; director, office of miner's health, safety and training, sixty-five thousand dollars. Secretaries of the departments shall be paid an annual salary as follows: Health and human resources, ninety thousand dollars; transportation, seventy-five thousand dollars; tax and revenue, seventy-five thousand dollars; military affairs and public safety, seventy-five thousand dollars; administration, seventy-five thousand dollars; education and the arts, seventy-five thousand dollars; environmental protection, seventy-five thousand dollars.
(b) Each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this code, and, prior to the first day of July, two thousand one two, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to receive the annual salaries he or she was receiving as of the effective date of the enactment of this section in two thousand one two, and shall thereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, be paid an annual salary as follows:
Administrator, division of risk and insurance management, fifty-five thousand dollars; director, division of rehabilitation services, sixty thousand dollars; executive director, educational broadcasting authority, sixty thousand dollars; secretary, library commission, sixty-seven thousand dollars; director, geological and economic survey, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; executive director, prosecuting attorneys institute, sixty thousand dollars; ; executive director, public defender services, sixty thousand dollars; commissioner, bureau of senior services, seventy thousand dollars; director, state rail authority, fifty-five thousand dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty-one thousand dollars; director, hospital finance authority, twenty-six thousand dollars; member, racing commission, five twelve thousand dollars; chairman, public service commission, seventy thousand dollars; members, public service commission, seventy thousand dollars.
(c) No increase in the salary of any appointive state officer pursuant to this section shall be paid until and unless the appointive state officer has first filed with the state auditor and the legislative auditor a sworn statement, on a form to be prescribed by the attorney general, certifying that his or her spending unit is in compliance with any general law providing for a salary increase for his or her employees. The attorney general shall prepare and distribute the form to the affected spending units.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of members of the West Virginia Racing Commission from $5,000 to $12,000 a year.

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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