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Committee sends commissioner salary increases to the floor with due-pass recommendation
Summary
Senate Bill 1148 would statutorily raise salaries for the Public Utilities Commission, State Tax Commission and Industrial Commission. The committee forwarded the bill to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation; one member recorded a nay during the voice vote.
Keith Bybee, division manager in Budget and Policy Analysis, introduced Senate Bill 1148, summarizing statutory salary changes for three commissions that the bill would make.
"This would statutorily increase the salary for the Public Utilities Commissioners from its current state of $126,424 annually to $129,648," Bybee said, and described similar increases for the State Tax Commissioner and the Industrial Commission. Bybee noted the change equates to roughly $1.55 per hour when converted to an hourly delta for reporting purposes.
Representative Furness asked whether the commissioners work a 40-hour week; Bybee said they are classified as executive employees who submit time cards indicating up to 40 hours and earn vacation and benefits like other state employees. Representative Manwaring asked about precedent for calculating increases as an hourly delta; Bybee said the same approach was used when the legislature provided a prior increase two years earlier and that the positions received an increase last year (he recalled a 4% increase).
Representative Handy moved to send Senate Bill 1148 to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation. The committee approved the motion by voice vote; Representative Price asked to be recorded as a nay during the vote. The bill will be sent to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
