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Sen. Christy Zito brings resolution to reject Citizens Committee pay recommendation
Summary
Senator Christy Zito introduced concurrent resolution RS 31919 in the Senate State Affairs Committee asking lawmakers to reject the legislative compensation rates set by the Citizens Committee on Legislative Compensation; the committee voted to send the resolution to print.
Senator Christy Zito, a state senator representing Legislative District 8 (Elmore Valley, Boise and Custer counties), introduced concurrent resolution RS 31919 in the Senate State Affairs Committee to reject the compensation rates set by the Citizens Committee on Legislative Compensation.
Zito told the committee that under the Idaho Constitution, Article IV, Section 23, the Citizens Committee, not the legislature, establishes legislative pay and that the constitution allows the legislature only to reject or reduce the rates by concurrent resolution. “The Idaho legislature…
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