SB 249 Text

Senate Bill No. 249
(By Senators Yoder, Barnes, Unger and Love)
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[Introduced January 17 , 2008; referred to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §15-2-5a, relating to providing a housing supplement for members of the State Police.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §15-2-5a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WEST VIRGINIA STATE POLICE.

§15-2-5a. Housing allowances.

Beginning the first day of July, two thousand eight through the first day of July, two thousand ten, each member of the State Police that resides in a county in which the average monthly mortgage payment upon residential property exceeds seven hundred dollars, as determined by the Bureau of Census of the United States Department of Commerce in the taking of the two thousand census of population, shall receive an annual housing allowance supplement determined according to the following schedule:
Average monthly mortgageHousing allowance supplement

$700.00 to $745.00
$300.00

$745.01 to $760.00

$600.00

$760.01 to $790.00

$900.00

$790.01 to $820.00

$1200.00

$820.01 to $850.00

$1500.00

$850.01 to $890.00

$1800.00

$890.01 to $930.00

$2100.00

$930.01 and above

$2400.00

The payments shall be made in equal monthly installments and shall be considered a part of the state minimum salaries for members of the State Police.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a housing supplement for members of the State Police.

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

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