Senate Bill No. 502

(By Senators Kessler, Wooton, Bailey, Jackson,

Bowman, Helmick, Ross, McKenzie, Redd, Mitchell,

Dittmar, Snyder and Edgell)
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[Introduced February 11, 1999;

referred to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section ten-a, 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-a, article one, chapter fifty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted; 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 the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five two thousand, the salary of each of the justices of the supreme court of appeals shall be eighty-five thousand dollars one hundred 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 the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five two thousand, the annual salary of all circuit judges shall be eighty thousand dollars ninety-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 $15,000.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.