SB 630 Text

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sb630 intr Senate Bill No. 630
(By Senators Love, Facemyer, Unger, Hunter, Minard and Weeks )
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[Introduced March 21, 2005; referred 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 §15-2D-8, relating to providing a base salary and retention salary increases for Division of Protective Services law-enforcement officers based on years of service; and excluding the Director and Deputy Director of the Division of Protective Services.

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 §15-2D-8, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2D. DIVISION OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

§15-2D-8. Base pay and retention incentive salary increases for law enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services.

(a) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers hired by the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary of twenty-seven thousand dollars per year. After a six month probationary period, such new law-enforcement officer shall receive a one thousand dollar salary increase.
(b) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her third anniversary with the Division.
(c) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her fifth anniversary with the Division.
(d)Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her seventh anniversary with the Division.
(e) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her tenth anniversary with the Division.
(f) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her thirteenth anniversary with the Division.
(g) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her fifteenth anniversary with the Division.
(h) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her seventeenth anniversary with the Division.
(i) Effective the first day of July, two thousand five, law-enforcement officers of the Division of Protective Services, excluding the Director and Deputy Director, shall receive a salary increase of one thousand dollars on his or her twentieth anniversary with the Division.
(j) This section shall not be construed to 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 law-enforcement officers prior to the consideration of any increases based on merit, seniority, promotion or other reason.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a base starting pay and retention salary increases for Division of Protective Services law-enforcement officers, excluding the Director and Deputy Director.

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