H. B. 2755
(By Delegates Prezioso, Facemyer, Ashley and Proudfoot)
[Introduced March 27, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section five, article four, chapter
eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to education; and
providing method of distribution of salary equity for
multicounty vocational schools to nonfiscal agent counties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section five, article four, chapter eighteen-a of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-5. Salary equity among the counties; state salary
supplement.
(a) For the purposes of this section, salary equity among
the counties means that the salary potential of school employees
employed by the various districts throughout the state does not
differ by greater than ten percent between those offering the
highest salaries and those offering the lowest salaries. In thecase of professional educators, such the difference shall be
calculated utilizing the average of the professional educator
salary schedules, degree classifications B.A. through Doctorate
and years of experience zero through twenty, in effect in the
five counties offering the highest salary schedules compared to
the lowest such salary schedule in effect among the fifty-five
counties. In the case of school service personnel, such the
difference shall be calculated utilizing the average of the
school service personnel salary schedules, pay grades "A" through
"H" and years of experience zero through thirty, in effect in the
five counties offering the highest such salary schedules compared
to the lowest such salary schedule in effect among the fifty-five
counties.
In the counties that jointly support a multicounty
vocational school, salary equity funding shall be distributed to
nonfiscal agent counties based on (1) calculating the amount of
salary equity funding each nonfiscal agent county would receive
for the employees for which it is charged in the public school
support program, as provided in section four, article nine-a,
chapter eighteen of this code, if this salary equity funding were
distributed to nonfiscal agent counties, and deducting (2) the
salary equity funding to be received by the fiscal agent county
in the public school support program for those employees for
which the nonfiscal agent county is charged in the public school
support program.
(b) To assist the state in meeting its objective of salaryequity among the counties, as defined in subsection (a) of this
section, on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine
hundred eighty-four, subject to available state appropriations
and the conditions set forth herein, each teacher and school
service personnel shall receive a supplemental amount in addition
to the amount from the state minimum salary schedules provided
for in this article.
State funds for this purpose shall be paid within the West
Virginia public school support plan in accordance with article
nine-a, chapter eighteen of this code. The amount allocated for
salary equity shall be apportioned between teachers and school
service personnel in direct proportion to that amount necessary
to support the professional salaries and service personnel
salaries statewide under sections four and five, article nine-a,
chapter eighteen of this code:
Provided,
That in making such
this division an adequate amount of state equity funds shall be
reserved to finance the appropriate foundation allowances and
staffing incentives provided for in said article nine-a.
Pursuant to this section, each teacher and school service
personnel shall receive the amount that is the difference between
their authorized state minimum salary and ninety-five percent of
the maximum salary schedules prescribed in sections five-a and
five-b of this article, reduced by any amount provided by the
county as a salary supplement for teachers and school service
personnel on the first day of January of the fiscal year
immediately preceding that in which the salary equityappropriation is distributed:
Provided,
That no amount received
pursuant to this section shall may be decreased as a result of
any county supplement increase instituted after the first day of
January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-four, unless and until
the objective of salary equity is reached:
Provided, however,
That any amount received pursuant to this section may be reduced
proportionately based upon the amount of funds appropriated for
this purpose.
No county may reduce any salary supplement that was in
effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred
eighty-four, except as permitted by sections five-a and five-b of
this article.
NOTE: This bill provides a method for distributing salary
equity funding to nonfiscal agent counties.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.