Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to the compensation of county officers
Sponsored by Rep. Megan Jones (R)
Topics:Cities & counties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 5, 2025
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by February 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Under this law, certain county leaders like auditors and treasurers would have more freedom to decide how much they pay their deputies and assistants. It removes the previous rules that limited deputy salaries to a certain percentage of their boss's pay. Additionally, county boards of supervisors could choose to give one elected official a smaller raise than others if they explain why they are doing it.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the compensation of county officers. Currently, the annual base salary of a county deputy sheriff, an assistant county attorney except in a county having a population of more than 200,000, and deputy officers of certain county offices shall not exceed 85 percent of the annual base salary of the county sheriff, the county attorney, or the principal officer, respectively. The bill specifies the auditor, county attorney, treasurer, or recorder, or other principal officers, as applicable, shall set the annual salaries of deputies and assistants. The bill strikes provisions requiring the annual salary of deputy officers of principal officers to not exceed 85 percent of the annual base salary of the county principal officer. Current law requires counties with populations of 200,000 or less to set a county attorney’s salary between 45 and 100 percent of a district court judge’s salary. The bill strikes this requirement. The bill authorizes the county board of supervisors to reduce the salary increase of an individual elected county officer without reducing the amount of salary increase proposed for the other elected county officers by an equal amount if the board of supervisors provides a justification.