FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 315

                                   C 1 L 87

BYRepresentatives Grimm and Miller;by request of Office of Financial Management

Making a supplemental appropriation for the citizens' commission on salaries for elected officials.

House Committe on Ways & Means/Appropriations

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

During 1987, the Washington Citizens' Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials was established.

The commission is required to study the relationship of salaries to the duties of legislators, executive branch elected officials, and judges of the supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, and district courts, and fix the salary for each of those positions.  The salaries established by the commission are to be filed with the secretary of state by the first Monday in June 1987, and biennially thereafter.  The schedule of salaries becomes effective 90 days after it is filed.  The sole process for making changes in the salaries of elected officials is by referendum petition by the people.

SUMMARY:

One hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($127,000) is appropriated from the General Fund-State to the Citizens' Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 85  13

      Senate    35    13

EFFECTIVE:February 20, 1987