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Appropriations subcommittee reviews judiciary budget changes, flags judge pay and court costs
Summary
Subcommittee examined House changes to judiciary items including funding reductions tied to 33 judges who have not opted into a new pay structure, a $40,000 commuting-judge cost for the Court of Appeals, security contract shares, cloud-IT transition costs, and tax court rent/operations savings.
The subcommittee on appropriations for judicial reviewed House adjustments to several judiciary budget items Tuesday, examining funding implications for superior court judges, the Court of Appeals, and the Georgia Tax Court.
Budget staff explained that the House removed roughly half of a previously requested amount tied to a pay-structure change because 33 judges have not opted in; the staffer described the calculation as a per-judge rate multiplied by the number of judges not opting in plus a small prorated month for one judge who opted in in…
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