HB 113 SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SALARIES

Rep Dayan Hochman-Vigil

Actions: HPREF [2] HJC/HAFC-HJC

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 House Bill 113 (HB 113) provides that judges receive a salary increase and have annual pay increases at the rate of inflation, removes the salary formulas for magistrates and appropriates $6,048,684 to the Administrative Office of the Courts.  

 House Bill 113 (HB 113) provides that beginning July 1, 2024, supreme court justices will receive an annual salary of $232,600, which will increase annually at the rate of inflation. This salary increase for supreme court justices affects the salaries of the judges of the lower courts (court of appeals, district, and metropolitan) as the salaries for those judges are calculated as a certain percentage of the salary of a justice of the supreme court. 

The bill also removes the salary formula for magistrate judges which is currently a percentage of the salary of metropolitan court judge, and replaces it with the requirement that their salaries will be provided by the legislature.   

HB 113 appropriates $6,048,684 from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts for use in Fiscal Year 2025 and subsequent years to fund judicial salaries.  Unspent funds do not revert. 


 

 Currently, the legislature sets the salary of the supreme court justices through appropriations, and the salaries for magistrates are determined by using a formula (a certain percentage of salaries of other judges).   
 

 HB 113 relates to SB 70, HB 115 and HB 141