Bill Text: WV SB419 | 2018 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

West Virginia Senate Bill 419 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishing classification and base salaries of certain civilian employees of WV State Police Forensic Laboratory

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-02 - To House Finance [SB419 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-SB419-Comm_Sub.html

WEST virginia legislature

2018 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 419

By Senators Boley, Rucker, Cline, and Boso

[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization; Reported on February 23, 2018]

A BILL to amend and reenact §15-2-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to establishing the classification and base salaries of certain civilian employees of the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory; requiring legislative rules for purpose of ensuring consistency, predictability, and independent review of systems developed under this section; establishing annual salary schedule for evidence technicians, forensic technicians, forensic analysts, and forensic analyst supervisors; authorizing the superintendent to appoint a forensic laboratory director and set the director’s salary; requiring manuals be provided; clarifying authority of superintendent or forensic laboratory director or administrator to increase base compensation based on merit within classification; requiring legislative rules to establish policy and procedure for determining eligibility for promotions among classifications; requiring legislative rules establish guidelines for awarding merit-based salary increases within classifications; and authorizing the inclusion of certain exempt civilian employees in supplemental pay option.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. WEST VIRGINIA STATE POLICE.

§15-2-5. Career progression system; salaries; exclusion from wages and hour law, with supplemental payment; bond; leave time for members called to duty in guard or Reserves.

(a) The superintendent shall establish within the West Virginia State Police a system to provide for: The promotion of members to the supervisory ranks of sergeant, first sergeant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant; the classification of nonsupervisory members within the field operations force to the ranks of trooper, senior trooper, trooper first class, or corporal; the classification of members assigned to the forensic laboratory as criminalist I-VIII; the classification of civilian employees in the forensic laboratory as evidence technicians I-IV, forensic technicians I-IV, forensic analysts I-VI, and forensic analyst supervisors I-III; and the temporary reclassification of members assigned to administrative duties as administrative support specialist I-VIII.

(b) The superintendent ~~may~~ shall propose legislative rules for promulgation in accordance with §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code for the purpose of ensuring consistency, predictability, and independent review of any system developed under the provisions of this section.

(c) The superintendent shall provide to each member a written manual governing any system established under the provisions of this section and specific procedures shall be identified for the evaluation and testing of members for promotion or reclassification and the subsequent placement of any members on a promotional eligibility or reclassification recommendation list.

(d) Beginning on July 1, 2018, members shall receive annual salaries payable at least twice per month as follows:

ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)

SUPERVISORY AND NONSUPERVISORY RANKS

Cadet During Training........................................................................................... $34,858 Cadet Trooper After Training........................................................................................... $ 42,122

Trooper Second Year........................................................................................... …43,130

Trooper Third Year............................................................................................... …43,513

Senior Trooper...................................................................................................... …43,912

Trooper First Class............................................................................................... …44,518

Corporal................................................................................................................ …45,124

Sergeant................................................................................................................ …49,425

First Sergeant....................................................................................................... …51,576

Second Lieutenant................................................................................................ …53,726

First Lieutenant..................................................................................................... …55,877

Captain.................................................................................................................. …58,028

Major..................................................................................................................... …60,178

Lieutenant Colonel................................................................................................ …62,329

ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)

ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT SPECIALIST CLASSIFICATION

I ............................................................................................................................ 43,130

II ........................................................................................................................... 43,912

III .......................................................................................................................... 44,518

IV .......................................................................................................................... 45,124

V ........................................................................................................................... 49,425

VI .......................................................................................................................... 51,576

VII ......................................................................................................................... 53,726

VIII ........................................................................................................................ 55,877

ANNUAL SALARY SCHEDULE (BASE PAY)

CRIMINALIST CLASSIFICATION