H. B. 2481


(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chambers, and Delegate Burk)
(By Request of the Executive)
[Introduced March 5, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]



A BILL to amend and reenact section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the salaries of members of the parole board.

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.

ยง6-7-2a. Terms of certain appointive state officers; appointment; qualifications; powers and salaries of such officers.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, each of the following appointive state officers named in this subsection shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of such appointive state officers shall serve at the will and pleasure ofthe governor for the term for which the governor was elected and until the respective state officers' successors have been appointed and qualified. Each of such appointive state officers shall hereafter be subject to the existing qualifications for holding each such respective office and each shall have and is hereby granted all of the powers and authority and shall perform all of the functions and services heretofore vested in and performed by virtue of existing law respecting each such office.
Beginning on the first day of January July, one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety-three, the annual salary of each such named appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of health, fifty-seven thousand two hundred dollars; administrator, division of human services, forty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, state tax division, forty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars; administrator, division of energy, sixty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of finance and administration, forty- seven thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, division of corrections, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of community and industrial development, sixty-three thousand six hundred dollars; administrator, division of workers' compensation, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of commerce, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; administrator, division of natural resources, forty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; administrator, division of publicsafety, forty-four thousand six hundred dollars; administrator, lottery division, sixty thousand dollars; director, public employees insurance agency, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of employment security, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of banking, thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; administrator, division of insurance, thirty-six thousand seven hundred dollars; administrator, division of culture and history, thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; chairman, public service commission, fifty thousand dollars; members, public service commission, forty-six thousand two hundred dollars; administrator, alcohol beverage control commission, thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; administrator, division of motor vehicles, forty thousand dollars; director, division of personnel, thirty-eight thousand three hundred dollars; adjutant general, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; chairman, health care cost review authority, forty thousand dollars; members, health care cost review authority, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars; director, human rights commission, forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; administrator, division of veterans affairs, thirty-two thousand dollars; administrator, division of emergency services, thirty-two thousand dollars; administrator, nonintoxicating beer commission, thirty-two thousand dollars; members, board of probation and parole, twenty- eight thousand three hundred dollars thirty-three thousanddollars; members, employment security review board, seventeen thousand dollars; members, workers' compensation appeal board, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety, each of the aforesaid officers shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this code, and shall be paid an annual salary as follows, except that any increase in salary over and above the salary being received by any of the following state officers as of the last day of March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine, shall not become effective until the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety:
Chancellor, board of regents, seventy thousand dollars; state superintendent of schools, seventy thousand dollars; administrator, division of risk and insurance management, forty- two thousand dollars; director, division of rehabilitation services, fifty-five thousand dollars; executive director, educational broadcasting authority, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; secretary, library commission, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; director, geologic and economic survey, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; executive director, water development authority, fifty-four thousand twohundred dollars; executive secretary, teacher's retirement system, forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars; executive secretary, public employees retirement system, forty thousand one hundred dollars; director, air pollution control commission, forty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; executive director, public legal services council, forty seven thousand five hundred dollars; director, commission on aging, forty thousand dollars; commissioner, oil and gas conservation commission, forty thousand dollars; director, farm management commission, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; state fire administrator, twenty- five thousand two hundred dollars; executive secretary, municipal bond commission, thirty thousand two hundred dollars; director, railroad maintenance authority, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty thousand one hundred dollars; executive director, regional jail authority, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars; director, hospital finance authority, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
(c) No increase in the salary of any appointive state officer pursuant to this section shall be paid until and unless such appointive state officer shall have first filed with the state auditor and the legislative auditor a sworn statement, on a form to be prescribed by the attorney general, certifying that such spending unit is in compliance with any general law providing for a salary increase for his employees. The attorney general shall prepare and distribute such form to the affected spending units: Provided, That no decrease in salary shall beeffective for any current appointive state officer appointed prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine: Provided, however, That such decreases shall take effect at such time as any appointive office is vacated.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide salary increases for the members of the West Virginia parole board.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.