ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 711
(By Senators Craigo, Anderson, Bailey, Bowman, Chafin, Edgell,
Helmick, Jackson, Love, Plymale, Prezioso, Sharpe, Unger, Walker,
Sprouse, Boley and Minear)
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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;
reported March 9, 1999.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article three, chapter
eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to the annual salary
of the state superintendent of schools.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article three, chapter eighteen of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
§18-3-1. Appointment; qualifications; compensation; traveling expenses; office and residence.
There shall be appointed by the state board a state
superintendent of schools. He The superintendent shall be a person
of good moral character, of recognized ability as a school
administrator, holding at least a master's degree in educational administration, and shall have had not less than five years of
experience in public school work. He The superintendent shall
receive an annual salary set by the state board, to be paid
monthly: Provided, That the annual salary may not exceed one
hundred thousand dollars; Provided, however, That effective the
first day of July, two thousand, the annual salary may not exceed
the annual salary of the chancellor of the board of trustees of the
university system of West Virginia. The state superintendent shall
also receive necessary traveling expenses incident to the
performance of his or her duties, the same expenses to be paid out
of the general school fund upon warrants of the state auditor. The
superintendent shall have his or her office at the state capital.