The following bills from our legislative agenda have been introduced. You may track the progress of these bills or view them in their entirety by logging onto the West Virginia Legislative Web page which has a link from our web page and going to bill status or tracking. You can also obtain your legislators contact information from this location. It would be important to send them an email with your thoughts concerning our issues.

Plan B Retirement Bill- (SB285)(HB not yet   assigned) Would lower the normal retirement age to 50 with 25 years of service or age 52 with 20 years of service.  Would eliminate any reduction in the disability for injuries occurring on the job and to increase the limit on scholarship money available to surviving dependent children.
      
On-Call- (SB250)(HB4347) Would compensate Troopers for off-duty time when they are required to be on standby to be called back to work.

Leave Donation- (SB 529)(HB4369) Would allow the West Virginia Troopers Association to establish a
leave donation program. This would allow the membership to donate annual leave time to the
Association to be utilized by the President or
designee.

Pay Bill- (SB537)(HB4371) Would provide a pay raise to the State Police which would include a three year package.

Education - (HB4313)Would provide members of the State Police to receive tuition exemption for college education. This would provide an opportunity for the schools to have trained law enforcement officers within the classrooms.

     As a reminder the LEAD ceremony will be held on February 25, 2008, at 1230 hours, to be held at the Capitol.