FISCAL NOTE
West Virginia Legislature
2017 Regular Session
Introduced
House Bill 2080
(By Delegate Caputo)
to the Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and
reenact §5-5-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible
employees from $60 to $100; changing eligibility from three years of service to
one.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5-5-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-2. Granting incremental salary increases based
on years of service.
(a) Every eligible employee
with three one or more years of service shall receive an annual
salary increase equal to sixty dollars $100 times the employee's years of service.
In each fiscal year and on July 1, each eligible employee shall receive
an annual increment increase of sixty dollars $100 for that
fiscal year.
(b) Every employee becoming
newly eligible as a result of meeting the three years one year of
service minimum requirement on July 1 in any fiscal year is entitled to the
annual salary increase equal to sixty dollars $100 times the employee's years of service, where he or she has not in a
previous fiscal year received the benefit of an increment computation. Thereafter, the employee shall receive a
single annual increment increase of sixty dollars $100 for each
subsequent fiscal year.
(c) These incremental
increases 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.
(d) This section shall
not be construed to does not prohibit other pay increases based on
merit, seniority, promotion or other reason if funds are available for the
other pay increases: Provided,
That the executive head of each spending unit shall first grant the mandated
increase in compensation in this section to all eligible employees prior to the
consideration of any increases based on merit, seniority, promotion or other
reason.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to increase the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible
employees from $60 to $100 and to change eligibility criteria from three years
of service to one.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new
language that would be added.