Bill Text: WV HB2133 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB2133 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB2133-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2133
By Delegate Caputo
[Introduced January
9, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then the Judiciary. ]
A BILL to amend and reenact §50-1-9a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to creating an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. COURTS AND OFFICERS.
§50-1-9a. Magistrate court deputy clerks; duties; salary.
(a) Whenever required by workload and upon the recommendation of the judge of the circuit court, or the chief judge of the circuit court if there is more than one judge of the circuit court, the Supreme Court of Appeals may, by rule, provide for the appointment of magistrate court deputy clerks, not to exceed 72 in number. The magistrate court deputy clerks shall be appointed by the judge of the circuit court, or the chief judge if there is more than one judge of the circuit court, to serve at his or her will and pleasure under the immediate supervision of the magistrate court clerk.
(b) Magistrate court deputy clerks shall have the duties, clerical or otherwise, as may be assigned by the magistrate court clerk and as may be prescribed by the rules of the Supreme Court of Appeals or the judge of the circuit court or the chief judge if there is more than one judge of the circuit court. Magistrate court deputy clerks may also exercise the power and perform the duties of the magistrate court clerk as may be delegated or assigned by the magistrate court clerk.
(c) A magistrate court deputy clerk may not be an immediate family member of any magistrate, magistrate court clerk, magistrate assistant or judge of the circuit court within the same county, may not have been convicted of a felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude and must reside in this state. For purposes of this subsection, "immediate family member" means a mother, father, sister, brother, child or spouse.
(d) Magistrate court deputy clerks shall be paid an annual salary by the state on the same basis and in the same amounts established for magistrate assistants in each county, as provided in §50-1-9 of this code.
(e) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the amendments made to §50-1-9 of this code during the 2013 First Extraordinary Session, and the effects of those amendments on §50-1-9a(d) of this code, are effective upon passage and are retroactive to January 1, 2013.
(f) Beginning January 1, 2017, the annual salary of all magistrate court deputy clerks is $39,348. After the effective date of this section, a general salary increase granted to state employees, whose salaries are not set by statute, expressed as a percentage increase or an across-the-board increase, may also be granted to magistrate court deputy clerks.
(g) Notwithstanding the limit in §50-1-9a(a) of this code, there is created, effective July 1, 2019, an additional magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a new magistrate court deputy clerk position for Marion County.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
