H. B. 4607


(By Delegates Damron, Fragale and Harrison)
[Introduced February 27, 1998; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]




A BILL to amend article ten-a, chapter eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section two-b, relating to increasing the rate of pay for nonteaching support personnel employed by the division of rehabilitative services to the amount paid to education service personnel holding the same or similar job titles for the board of education in the county where the rehabilitation service worker is employed.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article ten-a, chapter eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section two- b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10A. VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.
§18-10A-2b. Rehabilitation service personnel.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, nonteaching support personnel employed by the division of rehabilitative services shall be paid at the equivalent daily rate of education services personnel employed in the same or similar job classification by the county board of education in the county where the rehabilitation employee is employed. Nothing in this section may be construed to cause an employee's rate of pay to be reduced.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the rate of pay for nonteaching support personnel employed by the Division of Rehabilitative Services to the amount paid to education service personnel holding the same or similar job titles with the Board of Education in the county where the rehabilitation service worker is employed.

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