Senate Bill No. 549
(By Senator Wooton)
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[Introduced February 8, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Natural Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article one, chapter twenty of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-one,
relating to salary increases for wildlife managers based on
length of service.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-one, to
read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.
§20-1-21.
Wildlife managers; salary increases based on length of
service.
(a) Effective the first day of July, two thousand two,
wildlife managers shall be paid annual salaries based on the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
Wildlife manager (probation)$21,156
Wildlife manager (first year after probation)$22,214
Wildlife manager (second year)$23,486
Wildlife manager (third year)$24,698
Wildlife manager (after fifth year)$28,276
Wildlife manager (after tenth year)$32,854
Wildlife manager (after fifteenth year)$36,144
Wildlife manager (after twentieth year)$39,144
Wildlife managers in service at the time the amendment to this
section becomes effective shall be given credit for prior service
and shall be paid salaries as the same length of service will
entitle them to receive under the provisions of this section.
(b) Each wildlife manager shall also receive and be entitled
to an increase in salary based on length of service, including that
heretofore and hereafter served as a wildlife manager as follows:
For five years of service with the division, a wildlife manager
shall receive a salary increase of three hundred dollars per year
payable during his or her next three years of service and a like
increase at three intervals thereafter, with these increases to be
cumulative. A salary increase shall be based upon years of service
as of the first day of July of each year and may not be
recalculated until the first day of July of the following year.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish a salary
schedule for wildlife managers
with salary increases based on
length of service.
§20-1-21
is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.