ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 391
(Senator Jackson, orginal sponsor)
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[Passed March 13, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section eighteen, article four,
chapter eighteen-a of the code of West Virginia, one
thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to
requiring that all department of education employees receive
at least the same pay as employees of the board of education
wherein the principal place of employment is located.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eighteen, article four, chapter eighteen-a of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-18. Department of education certified staff salaries.
(a) Personnel employed by the state department of education who are required to hold a teaching certificate shall receive a
salary that is at least equal to the salary paid to comparable
professional personnel employed by the county board in the county
in which their office is located, minus the six hundred dollars
authorized pursuant to section two of this article for classroom
teachers with twenty years of experience.
(b) Effective the first day of July, two thousand two,
service personnel employed by the department of education shall
receive a salary that is at least equal to the salary paid to
comparable personnel employed by the county board in the county
in which their principal place of employment is located. The
department of education shall establish a salary schedule that
phases in the necessary salary increases before the first day of
July, two thousand two.