H. B. 4426
(By Delegates Rodighiero, Ellis,
Hrutkay and Eldridge)
[Introduced February 5, 2008; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to salary increase for regional
jail authority employees of five thousand dollars paid over a
three-year period.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §31-20-27 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
AUTHORITY.
§31-20-27.
Employees of regional jail authority; Correctional
officers; regional jails; priority of hiring; civil
service coverage.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the
contrary, the authority, when hiring employees to complete the
approved staffing plan of a regional jail shall do so at a salary and with benefits consistent with the approved plan of compensation
of the Division of Personnel, created under section five, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code:
Provided, That effective
the first day of July, two thousand eight, all employees of the
Regional Jail Authority shall receive a five thousand dollar salary
increase, phased in over a three-year period, payable in equal
monthly installments. All persons employed under this subsection
shall be placed in the civil service system as covered employees.
On and after the first day of January, two thousand eight, the
executive director of the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility
Authority; all employees within the office of the executive
director and all regional jail administrators are exempt from
coverage under the classified service.
(b) Persons employed under the provisions of this subsection
shall be employed at a salary and with benefits consistent with the
approved plan of compensation of the Division of Personnel, created
under section five, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.
All persons employed under this subsection shall also be covered by
the policies and procedures of the West Virginia Public Employees
Grievance Board created under section one, article three, chapter
six-c of this code.
(c) Not withstanding the provisions of section ten, article
six, chapter twenty-nine of this code, and any rule promulgated
thereunder, on and after the first day of July, two thousand seven, any person applying for employment with the Regional Jail and
Correctional Facility Authority shall be hired based on passage of
the correctional officer examination without regard to his or her
position on the correctional officer register and shall be placed
in the civil service system as covered employees:
Provided, That
no such person shall be hired before an otherwise qualified person
on a preference register.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to grant a salary increase
for Regional Jail Authority employees of five thousand dollars to
be paid over a three-year period.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.