ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 115
(By Senators Tomblin, Mr. President, and Sprouse,
By Request of the Executive)
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[Passed March 9, 2002; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact section two, article five, chapter five
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to the elimination of the
twenty-year service cap on granting incremental salary
increases to eligible state employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article five, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-2. Granting incremental salary increases based on years of
service.
(a) Every eligible employee with three or more years of
service shall receive an annual salary increase equal to fifty
dollars times the employee's years of service. In each fiscal year and on the first day of July, each eligible employee shall receive
an annual increment increase of fifty dollars for that fiscal year.
(b)
Every employee becoming newly eligible as a result of
meeting the three years of service minimum requirement on the first
day of July in any fiscal year, is entitled to the annual salary
increase equal to fifty dollars times the employee's years of
service, where he or she has not in a previous fiscal year received
the benefit of an increment computation. Thereafter, the employee
shall receive a single annual increment increase of fifty dollars
for each subsequent fiscal year.
(c) These incremental increases are 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.
(d) This section shall not be construed to prohibit other pay
increases based on merit, seniority, promotion or other reason, if
funds are available for the other pay increases: Provided, That the
executive head of each spending unit shall first grant the mandated
increase in compensation in this section to all eligible employees
prior to the consideration of any increases based on merit,
seniority, promotion or other reason.