H. B. 2851
(By Delegates Kelley and Ashley)
[Introduced February 19, 1999; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]
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 salaries of certain
public officers; increasing the salary of the director of
the division of veterans affairs from forty thousand dollars
to forty-five thousand dollars; and making changes to
conform salaries and names changed by other legislative
enactments.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That 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 those 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 ninety-nine, 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 these appointive state officers shall
serve at the will and pleasure of the governor for the term for
which the governor was is elected and until the respective state
officers' successors have been appointed and qualified. Each of
such these appointive state officers shall hereafter be are
subject to the existing qualifications for holding each such
respective office and each shall have and is hereby granted has
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 ninety-nine, the annual salary of each such
named appointive state officer shall be is 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 sixty-five thousand nine hundred dollars; administrator, division of energy environmental
protection, 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 superintendent, West
Virginia state police, sixty thousand dollars; administrator,
lottery division, sixty thousand dollars; director, public
employees insurance agency, fifty-five not to exceed sixty-five
thousand dollars, as determined by the governor under the
provisions of section three, article sixteen, chapter five of
this code; 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 commissioner, 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 sixty-five thousand dollars;
members, health care cost review authority, fifty-one sixty
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 forty-five thousand dollars; administrator,
division of emergency services, forty thousand dollars; members, board of parole, forty thousand dollars; members, employment
security review the board of review, created under the provisions
of article four, chapter twenty-one-a of this code, 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 ninety-nine, 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
ninety-eight.
(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 ninety-nine, 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 ninety-nine, 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
ninety-eight, and shall thereafter after that date be paid an
annual salary as follows: Administrator, division board 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 sixty-two 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 bureau of senior services, sixty-five
thousand dollars; commissioner, oil and gas conservation
commission, forty thousand dollars; director, farm management
commission, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars; director,
railroad maintenance director, state rail authority, fifty
thousand dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty
thousand one hundred dollars; director, regional jail and
correctional facility 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 the appointive state officer shall have has 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 the 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: The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of
the Director of the Division of Veterans Affairs from $40,000 to
$45,000. The bill also makes changes to conform salaries and
names changed by other code sections.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.