SB 66 Text

Senate Bill No. 66
(By Senators Love and Unger)
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[Introduced January 9, 2008; 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 §31-20-33, relating to allowing the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a relocation assistance program for nonprobationary correctional officers who volunteer to relocate from an adequately staffed regional jail to a regional jail that is persistently understaffed; and providing certain subjects be addressed in the program.

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 §31-20-33, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AUTHORITY.

§31-20-33. Relocation assistance program.
(a) The Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority is authorized to propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, establishing a relocation assistance program for nonprobationary officers who volunteer to relocate to jails that are understaffed.
(b) The program shall, at a minimum, include provisions establishing:
(1) Criteria to be used to determine the duration and the degree of corrections officer staffing deficiencies at each regional jail facility to determine which facilities are suffering staffing deficiencies;
(2) The minimum distance an employee is required to move his or her residence to be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement;
(3) The minimum criteria an employee is required to meet to be eligible to relocate to a new facility; and
(4) Which relocation expenses are reimbursable by the agency and the method by which the employee will be reimbursed.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a relocation assistance program for nonprobationary correctional officers who volunteer to relocate from an adequately staffed regional jail to a regional jail that is understaffed.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

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