HB2149 NR AM 2-16 #1
The Committee on Natural Resources moves to amend the bill on page 1, after the enacting clause, by striking out the entire bill and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
That §20-7-1a and §20-7-1c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. LAW ENFORCEMENT, MOTORBOATING, LITTER.
§20-7-1a. Conservation Natural resource police officers salary increase based on length of service.
(a) Effective the first day of July, two thousand two, each conservation officer shall receive and be entitled to an increase in salary based on length of service, including that heretofore and hereafter served as a conservation officer as follows: For five years of service with the division, a conservation officer shall receive a salary increase of six hundred dollars per year payable during his or her next three years of service and a like increase at three-year intervals thereafter, with these increases to be cumulative. Each conservation natural resource police officer whose salary is fixed and specified pursuant to section one-c of this article shall receive, and is entitled to, an increase in salary over that set forth in section one-c of this article, for grade in rank, based on length of service, including that service served before and after the effective date of this section as a conservation natural resource police officer as follows: At the end of two years of service as a conservation natural resource police officer, the officer shall receive a salary increase of $400 to be effective during his or her next year of service and a like increase at yearly intervals thereafter, with the increases to be cumulative.
A salary increase shall be based upon years of service as of July 1 of each year and may not be recalculated until July 1 of the following year.
Conservation Natural resource police officers in service at the time the amendment to this section becomes effective shall be are given credit for prior service and shall be paid such salaries as the same length of service will entitle them to receive under the provisions hereof.
(b) This section does not apply to special or emergency conservation natural resource police officers appointed under the authority of section one of this article.
§20-7-1c. Conservation Natural resource police officers, ranks, salary schedule, base pay, exceptions.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the ranks within the law-enforcement section of the Division of Natural Resources are colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, lieutenant, sergeant, corporal, conservation natural resource police officer first class, senior conservation natural resource police officer, conservation natural resource police officer and conservation natural resource police officer-in-training. Each officer while in uniform shall wear the insignia of rank as provided by the chief conservation natural resource police officer.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2002 2009, and continuing thereafter, conservation natural resource police officers shall be paid the minimum annual salaries based on the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer-In-Training
(first year until end of probation).................$26,337 30,387
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (second year)..............................................$29,768 34,046
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (third year)..............................................$30,140 34,442
Senior Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (fourth and fifth year).........................................$30,440 34,766
Senior Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer First Class(after fifth year)..............................$32,528 36,962 Senior Conservation Officer (after tenth year).............$33,104
Senior Conservation Officer (after fifteenth year).........$33,528
Corporal (after sixteenth year)......................$36,704 41,270
Sergeant.............................................$40,880 45,566
First Sergeant.......................................$42,968 47,714
Lieutenant...........................................$47,144 52,022
Captain..............................................$49,232 54,170
Major................................................$51,320 56,318
Lieutenant Colonel...................................$53,408 58,466
Colonel...................................................$66,552
Beginning July 1, 2011, until and including June 30, 2012, conservation natural resource police officers shall be paid the annual salaries based on the following schedule:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer(In training 1-6 months).............................................$29,622 31,705
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (After Training Through First Year)..................................$36,458 35,337
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer Second Year ...................................................$37,922 37,651
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer Third Year ...................................................$38,294 38,069
Senior Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (4th - 6th Year)..............................................$38,682 38,416
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer First Class (7th - 9th Year)..............................................$39,270 40,335
Corporal (10+ years)...............................$39,858 42,274
Sergeant ................................ .........$44,034 46,578
First Sergeant.....................................$46,122 48,728
Lieutenant ........................................$50,298 53,026
Captain............................................$52,386 55,176
Major..............................................$54,474 57,331
Lieutenant Colonel ................................$56,562 59,460
Colonel ..................................................$67,567
Beginning July 1, 2012, and continuing thereafter, conservation natural resource police officers shall receive annual salaries as follows:
ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)
SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer(In training 1-6 months)............................................$31,122 33,024
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (After Training Through First Year)................................$37,958 40,288
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer Second Year...............................................$38,922 41,296
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer Third Year...............................................$39,294 41,697
Senior Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer (4th - 6th Year)..............................................$39,682 42,078
Conservation Natural Resource Police Officer First Class (7th - 9th Year)..............................................$40,270 42,684
Corporal ..........................................$40,858 43,290
Sergeant ..........................................$45,034 47,591
First Sergeant ...............1....................$47,122 49,742
Lieutenant ........................................$51,298 54,043
Captain ...........................................$53,386 56,194
Major .............................................$55,474 58,344
Lieutenant Colonel ................................$57,562 60,495
Colonel ..................................................$68,640
Each conservation natural resource police officer whose salary is fixed and specified in this annual salary schedule is entitled to the length of service increases set forth in subsection one-a of this article.
Conservation officers in service at the time the amendment to this section becomes effective In applying the salary schedules set forth in this section where salary increases are provided for length of service, conservation natural resource police officers in service at the time the schedules become effective shall be given credit for prior service and shall be paid salaries as the same length of service will entitle entitles them to receive under the provisions of this section.
(c)This section does not apply to special or emergency conservation natural resource police officers appointed under the authority of section one of this article.
(d) Nothing in this section prohibits other pay increases as provided for under section two, article five, chapter five of this code: Provided, That any across-the-board pay increase granted by the Legislature or the Governor will be added to, and reflected in, the minimum salaries set forth in this section; and that any merit increases granted to an officer over and above the annual salary schedule listed in subsection (b) of this section are retained by an officer when he or she advances from one rank to another.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide an increase in compensation for conservation natural resource police officers.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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