Senate Bill No. 432

(By Senators Kessler, Beach, Facemire, Kirkendoll, Laird, Miller, Romano, Snyder, Stollings, Unger, Woelfel and Yost )

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[Introduced February 6, 2015; referred to the Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18A-4-1b, relating to increasing pay to service personnel over five-years.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

            That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §18A-4-1b, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.

§18A-4-1b. Graduated salary increase for service personnel beginning in 2015.

            The Legislature finds that it is in the best interest of the state to pay employees a competitive salary. Therefore, the following adjustments to the state minimum salaries for service employees shall be made:

            (1) Beginning July 1, 2015, the minimum monthly pay for each service employee shall be in accordance with section eight-a of this article, plus an additional $50.

            (2) Beginning July 1, 2016, the minimum monthly pay for each service employee shall be in accordance with section eight-a of this article, plus an additional $100.

            (3) Beginning July 1, 2017, the minimum monthly pay for each service employee shall be in accordance with section eight-a of this article, plus an additional $150.

            (4) Beginning July 1, 2018, the minimum monthly pay for each service employee shall be in accordance with section eight-a of this article, plus an additional $200.

            (5) Beginning July 1, 2019, and continuing thereafter, the minimum monthly pay for each service employee shall be in accordance with section eight-a of this article, plus an additional $250.

            NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase pay to school service personnel on a graduated basis over the next five years, so that the total pay increase after five years is $250 monthly, which works out to $3,000 in annual salary.

            This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.