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House adopts executive-compensation changes, asks commission to study salary ranges
Summary
The House adopted a conference committee report and passed House Bill 1009 (executive compensation) and unanimously adopted intent language directing the Executive and Judicial Compensation Commission to review salary ranges and report next year.
The House adopted the conference committee report on second substitute House Bill 1009, a package of executive-compensation changes, and gave the bill final passage by recorded vote (59 yes, 4 no). During committee reports Representative Alexander said the committee returned to the original bill language providing 2.5% increases across certain pay classifications.
Representative Alexander also moved and the House adopted intent language asking the Executive and Judicial Compensation Commission to study salary ranges for executive branch officers and consider whether cabinet-level officers should be assigned to the same salary range; the language requests a report back next year. "We decided to go back to the original bill, that would have the 2 and a half percent increases on those different pay classifications," Alexander said on the floor.
The speaker recorded the final tally for House Bill 1009 as 59 yes and 4 no; the speaker will sign and transmit the bill for the Senate president's signature. The adopted intent language was spread on the journal as requested.
What happens next: the bill proceeds to the Senate for signature and the compensation commission has been asked to study salary ranges and report to the Legislature.
