ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 4012
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegate Michael)
[Passed February 12, 2002; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact section one, article seven, chapter six
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to requiring all new
employees of the state, a state institution of higher
education or the higher education policy commission and others
hired after a certain date to be paid one pay cycle in
arrears.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, 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.
§6-7-1. State officials, officers and employees to be paid twice
per month; new employees paid in arrears; effective date.
All full-time and part-time salaried and hourly officials,
officers and employees of the state, state institutions of higher education and the higher education policy commission shall be paid
twice per month, and under the same procedures and in the same
manner as the state auditor currently pays agencies:
Provided,
That on and after the first day of July, two thousand two, all
new officials, officers and employees of the state, a state
institution of higher education and the higher education policy
commission, statutory officials, contract educators with higher
education and any exempt official who does not earn annual and
sick leave, except elected officials, shall be paid one pay cycle
in arrears. The term new employee does not include an employee
who transfers from one state agency, a state institution of
higher education or the higher education policy commission to
another state agency, another state institution of higher
education or the higher education policy commission without a
break in service. Nothing contained in this section is intended
to increase or diminish the salary or wages of any official,
officer or employee.
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