Bill Text: WV HB2314 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case coordinators
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Judiciary [HB2314 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2314-Introduced.html
FISCAL
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WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on the Judiciary then Finance
A BILL to amend and
reenact §51-2A-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to
removing the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case
coordinators in the family court system and allowing the Administrative
Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals to set the salary of those employees.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That §51-2A-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2A. FAMILY COURTS.
§51-2A-6. Compensation and expenses of family court
judges and their staffs.
(a) A family court judge is entitled to receive as
compensation for his or her services an annual salary of $62,500: Provided, That beginning July 1, 2005, a
family court judge is entitled to receive as compensation for his or her
services an annual salary of $82,500:
Provided, however, That beginning July 1, 2011, the annual salary of
a family court judge shall be $94,500.
(b) The secretary-clerk of the family court judge is
appointed by the family court judge and serves at his or her will and pleasure.
The secretary-clerk of the family court judge is entitled to receive an
annual salary of $27,036: Provided,
That on and after July 1, 2006, The annual salary of the secretary-clerk
shall be established by the administrative director of the Supreme Court of
Appeals. but may not exceed $35,000. In addition, any person employed as
a secretary-clerk to a family court judge on the effective date of the
enactment of this section during the sixth extraordinary session of the
Legislature in the year 2001 who is receiving an additional $500 per year up to
ten years of a certain period of prior employment under the provisions of the
prior enactment of section eight of this article during the second
extraordinary session of the Legislature in the year 1999 shall continue to
receive such additional amount. Further, the secretary-clerk will is
entitled to receive such in addition to the salary as set by the
Administrative Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals the same percentage
or proportional salary increases as may be provided by general law for
other public employees and is entitled to receive the annual incremental salary
increase as provided in article five, chapter five of this code.
(c) The family court judge may employ not more than one
family case coordinator who serves at his or her will and pleasure. The annual
salary of the family case coordinator of the family court judge shall be
established by the Administrative Director of the Supreme Court of Appeals. but
may not exceed $36,000: Provided,
That on and after July 1, 2006, the annual salary of the family case
coordinator of the family court judge may not exceed $46,060. The family
case coordinator will receive such is entitled to the same
percentage or proportional salary increases as may be provided by
general law for other public employees and is entitled to receive the annual
incremental salary increase as provided in article five, chapter five of this
code.
(d) The sheriff or his or her designated deputy shall serve
as a bailiff for a family court judge. The sheriff of each county shall serve
or designate persons to serve to assure that a bailiff is available when a
family court judge determines the same is necessary for the orderly and
efficient conduct of the business of the family court.
(e) Disbursement of salaries for family court judges and
members of their staffs are made by or pursuant to the order of the Director of
the Administrative Office of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
(f) Family court judges and members of their staffs are
allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of
their duties. The expenses and compensation will shall be
determined and paid by the Director of the Administrative Office of the Supreme
Court of Appeals under such guidelines as he or she may prescribe
prescribes, as approved by the Supreme Court of Appeals.
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, family court
judges are not eligible to participate in the retirement system for judges
under the provisions of article nine of this chapter.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to remove the compensation caps entirely for secretary-clerks and case
coordinators in the family court system and allow the Administrative Director
of the Supreme Court of Appeals to set the salary of those employees.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.