Senate Bill No. 628
(By Senator Buckalew)
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[Introduced February 20, 1998; 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, relating to the compensation and
allowances for appointive state officers; and removing the
administrator of the state board of risk and insurance
management and director of personnel from the same.
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 to read as follows:
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, state
police 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: Administrator, division of risk and
insurance management, fifty thousand dollars; Director, division
of rehabilitation services, fifty-five thousand dollars;
executive director, educational broadcasting authority,
fifty-five thousand 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.
NOTE: Removing the administrator and director of personnel
from state board of risk and insurance management from statutory
language relating to compensation and allowances.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that
would be added.