Bill Text: WV HB4416 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees from $60 to $100
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-02 - To House Finance [HB4416 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB4416-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4416
By Delegates Hamrick and Howell
[Introduced February 2,
2018; Referred
to the Committee on Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §5-5-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees from $60 to $100.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. SALARY INCREASE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES.
§5-5-2. Granting incremental salary increases based on years of service.
(a) Every eligible employee
with three or more years of service shall receive an annual salary increase
equal to $60 $100 times the employee's years of service. In each
fiscal year and on July 1, each eligible employee shall receive an annual
increment increase of $60 $100 for that fiscal year.
(b) Every employee becoming
newly eligible as a result of meeting the three years of service minimum
requirement on July 1, in any fiscal year is entitled to the annual salary
increase equal to $60 $100 times the employee's years of service,
where he or she has not in a previous fiscal year received the benefit of an
increment computation. Thereafter, the employee shall receive a single annual
increment increase of $60 $100 for each subsequent fiscal year.
(c) These incremental increases are in addition to any across-the-board, cost-of-living or percentage salary increases which may be granted in any fiscal year by the Legislature.
(d) This section shall
not be construed to does not prohibit other pay increases based on
merit, seniority, promotion, or other reason, if funds are available for the
other pay increases: Provided, That the executive head of each spending
unit shall first grant the mandated increase in compensation in this section to
all eligible employees prior to the consideration of any increases based on
merit, seniority, promotion, or other reason.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the amount of annual and incremental salary increases for eligible employees from $60 to $100.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
