Senate Bill No. 690
(By Senator Bowman, Helmick, Craigo, Edgell, Jackson, Plymale,
Snyder, Bailey, Sharpe, Ross, Mitchell, Rowe and Fanning)
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[Introduced February 18, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two-a, article seven, chapter
six of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the salary of
members of the West Virginia racing commission from five
thousand dollars to twelve thousand dollars a year.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two-a, article seven, chapter six of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.
§6-7-2a. Terms of certain appointive state officers; appointment;
qualifications; powers and salaries of such officers.
(a) Each of the following appointive state officers named in
this subsection shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each of the appointive state
officers serves at the will and pleasure of the governor for the
term for which the governor was elected and until the respective
state officers' successors have been appointed and qualified. Each
of the appointive state officers are subject to the existing
qualifications for holding each respective office and each has and
is hereby granted all of the powers and authority and shall perform
all of the functions and services heretofore vested in and
performed by virtue of existing law respecting each office.
Prior to the first day of July, two thousand one, each such
named appointive state officer shall continue to receive the annual
salaries they were receiving as of the effective date of the
enactment of this section in two thousand one, and thereafter,
notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary,
the annual salary of each named appointive state officer shall be
as follows:
Administrator, division of highways, ninety thousand dollars;
administrator, state tax division, sixty-five thousand dollars;
administrator, division of corrections, seventy-five thousand
dollars; administrator, division of natural resources, seventy
thousand dollars; superintendent, state police, seventy-five
thousand dollars; administrator, lottery division, seventy-five
thousand dollars; director, public employees insurance agency,
seventy-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of banking, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of insurance, sixty
thousand dollars; administrator, division of culture and history,
fifty-five thousand dollars; administrator, alcohol beverage
control commission, seventy thousand dollars; administrator,
division of motor vehicles, seventy thousand dollars; director,
division of personnel, fifty-five thousand dollars; adjutant
general, seventy-five thousand dollars; chairman, health care
authority, seventy thousand dollars; members, health care
authority, sixty thousand dollars; director, human rights
commission, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of
labor, sixty thousand dollars; administrator, division of veterans
affairs, forty-five thousand dollars; administrator, division of
emergency services, forty-five thousand dollars; members, board of
parole, forty-five thousand dollars; members, employment security
review board, seventeen thousand dollars; members, workers'
compensation appeal board, seventeen thousand eight hundred
dollars; administrator, bureau of employment programs, seventy
thousand dollars; administrator, bureau of commerce, seventy
thousand dollars; administrator, bureau of environment, seventy
thousand dollars; director, office of miner's health, safety and
training, sixty-five thousand dollars. Secretaries of the
departments shall be paid an annual salary as follows: Health and
human resources, ninety thousand dollars; transportation,
seventy-five thousand dollars; tax and revenue, seventy-five thousand dollars; military affairs and public safety, seventy-five
thousand dollars; administration, seventy-five thousand dollars;
education and the arts, seventy-five thousand dollars;
environmental protection, seventy-five thousand dollars.
(b) Each of the state officers named in this subsection shall
continue to be appointed in the manner prescribed in this code,
and, prior to the first day of July, two thousand one two, each of
the state officers named in this subsection shall continue to
receive the annual salaries he or she was receiving as of the
effective date of the enactment of this section in two thousand one
two, and shall thereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of
this code to the contrary, be paid an annual salary as follows:
Administrator, division of risk and insurance management,
fifty-five thousand dollars; director, division of rehabilitation
services, sixty thousand dollars; executive director, educational
broadcasting authority, sixty thousand dollars; secretary, library
commission, sixty-seven thousand dollars; director, geological and
economic survey, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; executive
director, prosecuting attorneys institute, sixty thousand dollars;
; executive director, public defender services, sixty thousand
dollars; commissioner, bureau of senior services, seventy thousand
dollars; director, state rail authority, fifty-five thousand
dollars; executive secretary, women's commission, thirty-one
thousand dollars; director, hospital finance authority, twenty-six thousand dollars; member, racing commission, five twelve thousand
dollars; chairman, public service commission, seventy thousand
dollars; members, public service commission, seventy thousand
dollars.
(c) No increase in the salary of any appointive state officer
pursuant to this section shall be paid until and unless the
appointive state officer has first filed with the state auditor and
the legislative auditor a sworn statement, on a form to be
prescribed by the attorney general, certifying that his or her
spending unit is in compliance with any general law providing for
a salary increase for his or her employees. The attorney general
shall prepare and distribute the form to the affected spending
units.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the salary of
members of the West Virginia Racing Commission from $5,000 to
$12,000 a year.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.