Offered
by
To approve a determination by the State Officers Compensation Commission to give state Supreme Court justices a 5% salary raise in both 2021 and 2022. The commission did not recommend any increases for legislators or state officers including the governor, as the pattern has been for legislators to reject these politically sensitive increases, but to approve Supreme Court raises. Under the state constitution a majority of both the House and Senate must approve SOCC recommendations for them to go through; this was changed by a 2002 ballot initiative from a previous system where the recommendations went into effect unless the House and Senate voted to halt them with a two thirds majority.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary
Adopted in the House by voice vote
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Adopted in the Senate by voice vote
