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Committee hears bill to study state employee pay, forwards measure to study

2175621 · January 30, 2025
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Summary

A bill to create a legislative management study of state employee compensation — including pay history, private-sector comparisons, bonuses, prevailing wage and contract wage considerations — received testimony Thursday and was moved out of committee as amended.

House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Timothy Schauer opened a hearing on House Bill 1580, a bill to create a legislative management study of state employee compensation levels.

Representative Steve Vetter, the bill sponsor, told the committee the study would examine state pay levels and their history, compare state wages with private-sector wages, evaluate use of equity funding and bonuses to retain…

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