2005 West Virginia Code - §18-2-31. — Plan for automatic cost of living adjustments.

§18-2-31. Plan for automatic cost of living adjustments.

After consultation with the governor's office of community and industrial development, the state board of education shall develop within equity guidelines a plan which provides for automatic cost of living adjustments to the salary schedules, as provided in chapter eighteen-a, whenever it is determined that the purchasing power of salaries of teachers and service personnel in areas of the state experiencing extraordinary growth and/or increases in the factors comprising the cost of living index is not equal to the purchasing power of teacher and service personnel salaries statewide, such plan to be submitted to the Legislature by the first day of the regular session one thousand nine hundred ninety-one.