H. B. 2914
(By Delegates Doyle, Douglas, Manuel, Trump,
Faircloth and Overington)
[Introduced
March 20, 2001
; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend article four, chapter eighteen-a of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
eight-j, relating to salary increases for school service
employees based upon residential housing costs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article four, chapter eighteen-a of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
eight-j, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. SALARIES, WAGES AND OTHER BENEFITS.
§18A-4-8j. Granting service personnel salary increases based on
housing costs.
Effective for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July,
two thousand one, every eligible person employed as school service
personnel with three or more years of service shall receive an
annual salary increase equal to two percent of the employees'
regular salary, if that employee resides in a county where residential home prices are at least ten percent above the
statewide average for residential homes. Every eligible employee
with three or more years of service shall receive an annual salary
increase equal to four percent of the employees' regular salary, if
that employee resides in a county where residential home prices are
at least twenty percent above the statewide average for residential
homes. These incremental increases shall be in addition to any
across-the-board, cost-of-living or percentage salary increases
which may be granted in any fiscal year by the Legislature. And,
every eligible employee with three or more years of service shall
receive an annual salary increase equal to six percent of the
employees' regular salary, if that employee resides in a county
where residential home prices are at least thirty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes. If an eligible employee
with three or more years of service resides in a county where
residential home prices are more than thirty percent above the
statewide average for residential homes, the employee shall receive
an annual salary increase of two percent of the employee's regular
salary for every ten percent that residential home prices in that
employee's county exceed the statewide average for residential
homes.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
provide salary increases
for school service personnel based upon residential housing costs.
The employee shall receive an annual salary increase of two percent
of the employee's regular salary for every ten percent that residential home prices in that employee's county exceed the
statewide average for residential homes.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.