H. B. 2024

(By Delegates Caputo and R. M. Thompson)
[Introduced January 8, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Finance.]

A BILL to amend article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section fourteen-a, relating to sanitarian employees of the division of health; providing for a twenty-five percent across the board salary increase; and providing for an annual cost-of-living increase.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section fourteen-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DIVISION OF HEALTH.
§16-1-14a. Sanitarians' salaries.
On the first day of July, two thousand three, any sanitarian, as defined in section two, article seventeen, chapter thirty of this code, who is employed by the division of health shall receive a salary increase in an amount equal to twenty-five percent of his or her salary on that date. Thereafter each sanitarian shall receive an annual cost-of-living salary increase in an amount equal to the annual rate of inflation as calculated by the West Virginia division of labor.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a 25% across-the-board salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health to bring their salaries into parity with county sanitarian employee salaries, and to additionally provide for an annual cost-of-living salary increase.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.