Bill > HSB180

Introduced Session

S.F. _____ H.F. _____ This bill relates to judicial officer salaries. Under current law, the general assembly determines the salaries of judicial officers by enacting the salaries in annual appropriations bills. The bill instead creates a formula to calculate judicial officer salaries. The bill requires the judicial officer salaries to be paid from the moneys appropriated to the judicial branch in a given fiscal year. The bill provides an increase over four fiscal years for a state district judge’s salary from 71 to 75 percent of the salary of a federal district judge, and sets the salary of other judicial officers based on a percentage of the salary of a state district judge as follows: the chief justice of the supreme court, 124 percent; other justices of the supreme court, 119 percent; the chief judge of the court of appeals, 111 percent; a judge of the court of appeals except the chief judge, 107 percent; a chief judge of a judicial district, 104 percent; a district associate judge, associate juvenile judge, or associate probate judge, 89 percent; a magistrate, 27 percent, subject to Code section 602.6402 (additional magistrate allowed); and a senior judge, 6 percent. The bill allows the supreme court to provide lower salaries for judicial officers if the supreme court decides that the moneys appropriated in a given fiscal year are not sufficient to provide the full allowable salaries for judicial officers, or if other good cause exists. The bill makes conforming changes to Code sections 602.9104 and 602.9204. By operation of law, the bill affects the salaries of county attorneys of counties with a population of 200,000 or less (Code section 331.752(5)). The bill takes effect June 20, 2025.

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (on 02/20/2025)

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