COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 732
(By Senators Chafin, Craigo, Jackson, Kessler, Wooton, Sharpe,
and Ball)
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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;
reported March 4, 1998.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section ten, article one, chapter
fifty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended; and to amend and reenact
section thirteen, article two of said chapter, all relating
to increasing the annual salary of the justices of the
supreme court of appeals and judges of circuit courts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section ten, article one, chapter fifty-one of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended; and that section thirteen, article two of said chapter
be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS.
§51-1-10a. Salary of justices.
The salary of each of the justices of the supreme court of
appeals shall be seventy-two thousand dollars per year: Provided,
That beginning Beginning the first day of January, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-five, the salary of each of the
justices of the supreme court of appeals shall be eighty-five
thousand dollars per year: Provided, That beginning the first
day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, the salary
of each of the justices of the supreme court of appeals shall be
ninety thousand dollars per year..
ARTICLE 2. CIRCUIT COURTS; CIRCUIT JUDGES.
§51-2-13. Salaries of judges of circuit courts.
The salaries of the judges of the various circuit courts
shall be paid solely out of the state treasury. No county,
county commission, board of commissioners or other political
subdivision shall supplement or add to such salaries.
The annual salary of all circuit judges shall be sixty-five
thousand dollars per year: Provided, That beginning Beginning
the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five,
the annual salary of all circuit judges shall be eighty thousand
dollars per year: Provided, That on and after the first day of
January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, the annual salary
of all circuit judges shall be eighty-five thousand dollars per
year.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the annual
salary of justices of the supreme court of appeals and circuit
judges by $5,000.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.