Bill Text: WV SB617 | 2016 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Returning all salaried and hourly state employees to semimonthly payment schedule for wages
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-19 - Referred to Finance [SB617 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2016-SB617-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2016 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 617
By Senator Blair
[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization; reported on February 19, 2016.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §6-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to setting pay periods to a semi-monthly schedule for officers and employees of the state, state institutions of higher education and Higher Education Policy Commission.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §6-7-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES.
§6-7-1. State officials,
officers and employees to be paid at least twice per month semi-monthly;
new employees paid in arrears; effective date.
All full-time and part-time
salaried and hourly officials, officers and employees of the state, state
institutions of higher education and the Higher Education Policy Commission
shall be paid at least twice per month semi-monthly, and
under the same procedures and in the same manner as the State Auditor currently
pays agencies: Provided, That on and after July 1, 2002, all new
officials, officers and employees of the state, a state institution of higher
education and the Higher Education Policy Commission, statutory officials,
contract educators with higher education and any exempt official who does not
earn annual and sick leave, except elected officials, shall be paid one pay
cycle in arrears. The term “new employee” does not include an employee who
transfers from one state agency, a state institution of higher education or the
Higher Education Policy Commission to another state agency, another state
institution of higher education or the Higher Education Policy Commission
without a break in service: Provided, however, That, after July 1, 2014,
all state employees paid on a current basis will be converted to payment in
arrears. For accounting purposes only, any payments received by such employees
at the end of the pay cycle of the conversion pay period will be accounted for
as a credit due the state. Notwithstanding any other code provision to the
contrary, any such credit designation made for accounting of this conversion
will be accounted for by the Auditor at the termination of an employee=s employment and such accounting shall be documented
in the employee’s final wage payment. Nothing contained in this section is
intended to increase or diminish the salary or wages of any official, officer
or employee. The amendment to this section enacted during the 2016 Regular
Session of the Legislature shall be effective immediately upon its passage.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to return all salaried and hourly state employees to a semimonthly payment schedule for their wages.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.