H. B. 2929
(By Delegates Doyle, Manuel, Trump,
Faircloth and Overington)
[Introduced March 21, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend article five, chapter five of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section five,
relating to salary increases for state employees based upon
residential housing costs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter five of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by
adding thereto a new section, designated section five, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-5. Granting salary increases based on housing costs.
Effective for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July,
two thousand one, every eligible employee 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 state employees 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.