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Committee advances bill tying State Board of Education daily pay to legislative rate
Summary
The Committee on K-12 Education Budget advanced House Bill 23-82, which would set State Board of Education membersdaily compensation to match the daily portion of legislators' pay; committee approved the bill on a voice vote with a technical amendment and sent it to the House floor.
The Committee on K-12 Education Budget on Monday advanced House Bill 23-82, a measure that would change state law so the daily rate of compensation for members of the State Board of Education corresponds to the daily amount legislators are paid while in session.
The bill would use the legislative compensation formula to compute a daily rate for board members, applying the session portion of the legislative base salary (60.03 percent) divided by 90 to arrive at a per-day figure. "This bill would establish the daily rate of compensation to an amount that corresponds to the daily amount that you all are paid, as members of the legislature, session, essentially," said Nick, committee staff, during the bill briefing.
The change responds to a 2023 statutory reorganization of legislative pay. The 2023 law creating the Legislative Compensation Commission set a new legislative base salary of $43,000 (effective in…
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