Bill Text: WV HB2407 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are required to be on standby and providing a stipend for housing cost for certain officers
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Government Organization [HB2407 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2407-Introduced.html
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WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Government Organization then Finance.
A BILL to amend the Code
of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
§15-2-5a, relating to requiring compensation be made to certain members of the
State Police for off-duty time when they are required to be on standby to be
called back to work; requiring off duty State Police officers who are called
back to work or appear in court be compensated a minimum amount; and providing
a housing cost stipend for those officers who reside in and are assigned to one
of the top five counties in median monthly housing costs.
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. Compensation for call-back-time; stipend for
housing cost.
(a) Any time that the West Virginia State Police requires a
State Police officer, inclusive of the ranks of trooper to sergeant, during his
or her off-duty hours, to be restricted as to where he or she may go, or what
the officer may do in order that he or she may quickly return to duty, the
officer shall be paid fifty percent of the current minimum wage as determined
in section two, article five-c, chapter twenty-one of this code for every hour
while on call.
(b) State Police
officers who are off-duty and called back to work by the West Virginia State
Police or who are required to appear in court are guaranteed a minimum of two
hours or actual hours worked, whichever is greater.
(c) Subsections (a) and
(b) of this section do not exempt State Police officers as defined under the
Fair Labor Standards Act or to
State Police officers who are designated as support specialists as defined in
Legislative Rule 81-03, West Virginia State Police Career Progression System.
The pay provided in subsection (a) is not subject to retirement deduction and
is not to be used in retirement annuity calculations.
(d) If a State Police
officer resides in a county that is ranked among the top five counties in West
Virginia on the list of "median
monthly housing cost for owner-occupied housing units with a mortgage" for West Virginia counties as compiled from the most
recently completed five-year American Community Survey from the U.S. Census
Bureau and his or her assigned work area includes a county which is ranked
among those same five counties, that officer is entitled to receive a monthly
stipend equal to one half of the difference between the "median monthly
housing cost for owner-occupied housing units with a mortgage" for their
resident county and the "median monthly housing cost for owner-occupied
housing units with a mortgage" for all counties in the State of West
Virginia. The stipend provided in this subsection is not subject to retirement
deduction and is not to be used in retirement annuity calculations.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to require that State Police officers be compensated for time when they are
required to be on standby so that they may be called back to work if necessary
and to provide a stipend for housing cost for officers that reside in and are
assigned to the highest five counties according to median monthly housing cost.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.