Senate Bill No. 516

(By Senators Wagner and Schoonover)

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[Introduced February 19, 1996; referred to the Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance .]
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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; and to amend and reenact section two, article five, chapter ten of said code, all relating to salaries of certain appointive state officers; increasing the salary of the director of the division of rehabilitation services; and authorizing the educational broadcasting authority to fix the compensation of the executive director.

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; and that section two, article five, chapter ten of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 6. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING OFFICERS.

ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.

§6-7-2a. 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 enacted prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, 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 of the 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 July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, the annual salary of each such named appointive state officer shall be as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, sixty-five 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 corrections, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of natural resources, sixty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of public safety, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, lottery division, sixty thousand dollars; director, public employees insurance agency, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of banking, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of insurance, fifty- five thousand dollars; administrator, division of culture and history, fifty thousand dollars; administrator, alcohol beverage control commission, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of motor vehicles, fifty-five thousand dollars; director, division of personnel, fifty thousand dollars; adjutant general, fifty thousand dollars; chairman, health care cost review authority, fifty-five thousand dollars; members, health care cost review authority, fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars; director, human rights commission, forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of labor, fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of veterans affairs, forty thousand dollars; administrator, division of emergency services, forty thousand dollars; members, board of parole, forty thousand dollars; members, employment security review board, seventeen thousand dollars; members, workers' compensation appeal board, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Prior to the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, each of the aforesaid officers shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary enacted prior to the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this code, and, prior to the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, each of the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to receive the annual salaries they were receiving as of the last day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, and shall thereafter be paid an annual salary as follows: State superintendent of schools, seventy-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of risk and insurance management, fifty thousand dollars; director, division of rehabilitation services, fifty-five sixty-two thousand five hundred 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 two hundred dollars; executive director, public defender services, fifty-five thousand 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; director, railroad maintenance authority, fifty thousand dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty thousand one hundred dollars; director, regional jail authority, fifty-five thousand 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 his or her spending unit is in compliance with any general law providing for a salary increase for his or her employees. The attorney general shall prepare and distribute such form to the affected spending units: Provided, That no decrease in salary shall be effective 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: Provided further, That the increase provided for the state superintendent of schools enacted during the regular session, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, should not become effective until the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven.
CHAPTER 10. PUBLIC LIBRARIES; PUBLIC RECREATION; ATHLETIC

ESTABLISHMENTS; MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS; ROSTER OF

SERVICEMEN; EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY.

ARTICLE 5. EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING AUTHORITY.

§10-5-2. West Virginia educational broadcasting authority; members; organization; officers; employees; meetings; expenses.

The West Virginia educational broadcasting authority, heretofore created, is hereby continued as a public benefit corporation. It shall consist of eleven voting members, who shall be residents of the state, of whom one shall be the state superintendent of schools, one shall be a member of the West Virginia board of education to be selected by it annually, one shall be a member of the university of West Virginia board of trustees to be selected by it annually, and one shall be a member of the board of directors of the state college system to be selected by it annually. The other seven members shall be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate for overlapping terms of seven years, one term expiring each year, except that the appointment to fill the membership position for the term expiring in the year one thousand nine hundred eighty-three, shall be for a term of six years. Not less than one appointive member shall come from each congressional district. Employees of noncommercial broadcasting stations in West Virginia are not eligible for appointment to the authority. The present members of the authority shall continue to serve out the terms to which they were appointed. Any vacancy among the appointive members shall be filled by the governor by appointment for the unexpired term.
The chairperson and vice chairperson of the authority as of the effective date of this section shall continue in their respective offices until their successors are elected. Thereafter, at its annual meeting in each year the authority shall elect one of its members as chairperson and one as vice chairperson. The authority is authorized to select an executive director and such other personnel as may be necessary to perform its duties and to fix the compensation of the executive director and such other personnel to be paid out of moneys appropriated for this purpose. The executive director shall keep a record of the proceedings of the authority and shall perform such other duties as it may prescribe. The authority is authorized to establish such office or offices as may be necessary for the proper performance of its duties.
The authority shall hold an annual meeting and may meet at such other times and places as may be necessary, such meetings to be held upon its own resolution or at the call of the chairperson of the authority. The members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incident to the performance of their duties upon presentation to the chairperson of an itemized sworn statement thereof.






NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of the Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services from $55,000 per year to $62,500 per year and to allow the Educational Broadcasting Authority to fix the compensation of the Executive Director of the Authority. The salary of the Educational Broadcasting Authority's Executive Director is currently set by statute at $47,500.

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