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Relating to judicial officer salaries, and including effective date provisions
Proposed by the Judicial Branch · all agency proposals
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2025
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- 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 Instead of having the legislature decide their pay every year, this law would use a specific formula to set the salaries for judges and certain county attorneys. It links their pay to the salaries of federal judges and other state judicial positions. If there is not enough money available in the budget, the supreme court can decide to pay these officers less.1
Read the official explanation
_____ This bill relates to judicial officer salaries. Under current law, the general assembly determines the salaries of judicial officers by enacting the salaries in annual appropriations bills. The bill instead creates a formula to calculate judicial officer salaries. The bill requires the judicial officer salaries to be paid from the moneys appropriated to the judicial branch in a given fiscal year.6402 (additional magistrate allowed); and a senior judge, percent. The bill allows the supreme court to provide lower salaries for judicial officers if the supreme court decides that the moneys appropriated in a given fiscal year are not sufficient to provide the full allowable salaries for judicial officers, or if other good cause exists. 9204.752(5)). The bill takes effect June 20, 2025.
House subcommittee
Named February 13, 2025. On February 20, 2025 it recommended passage.
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