Senate Bill No. 418
(By Senators Love, White, Hunter, Caruth, McKenzie and Unger)
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[Introduced January 30, 2006; 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 §31-20-30, relating
to allowing the Executive Director of the West Virginia
Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish
a relocation assistance program for nonprobationary
correctional officers who volunteer to relocate from an
adequately staffed regional jail to a regional jail that is
persistently understaffed; and providing certain subjects be
addressed in the program.
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 §31-20-30, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
AUTHORITY.
§31-20-30. Relocation assistance program.
(a) The Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail
and Correctional Facility Authority is authorized to propose rules
for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of
article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, establishing a
relocation assistance program for nonprobationary officers who
volunteer to relocate to jails that are understaffed.
(b) The program shall, at a minimum, include provisions:
(1) Establishing criteria to be used to determine the duration
and the degree of corrections officer staffing deficiencies at each
regional jail facility to determine which facilities are suffering
staffing deficiencies;
(2) Establishing the minimum distance an employee is required
to move his or her residence to be eligible for relocation expense
reimbursement;
(3) Establishing the minimum criteria an employee is required
to meet to be eligible to relocate to a new facility; and
(4) Establishing which relocation expenses are reimbursable by
the agency and the method by which the employee will be reimbursed.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
allow the Executive
Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional
Facility Authority to establish a relocation assistance program for
nonprobationary correctional officers who volunteer to relocate
from an adequately staffed regional jail to a regional jail that is
understaffed.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
This bill was recommended for introduction and passage during the
2006 Regular Session of the Legislature by the Legislative Oversight
Committee on the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority.