AB436: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly BILL 436

June 8, 1995 - Introduced by Representatives Nass, Handrick, Hahn, Dobyns, Ryba, Freese, Ziegelbauer, Silbaugh, Goetsch, Otte, Hoven, Huebsch, Ward, Zukowski, Duff, Gunderson, Walker, Grothman, Hanson, Seratti, Albers, Wasserman and Coleman, cosponsored by Senator Darling. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

AB436,1,2 An Act to amend 20.923 (1) and (2) (a) and (b) of the statutes; relating to: the salary-setting procedure for members of the legislature.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Currently, the salaries of state senators and representatives to the assembly are fixed upon recommendation of the secretary of employment relations and approval of the joint committee on employment relations (JCOER) in the same manner that salaries for nonrepresented employes in the state classified service are established. The salaries are fixed without reference to any salary range.

Under this bill, any proposal to adjust the salaries of state senators or representatives to the assembly, upon approval by JCOER, must be submitted by JCOER to the legislature in the form of a bill. If the legislature enacts the bill without change, the adjustment takes effect. If the legislature does not enact the bill, the adjustment does not take effect unless JCOER submits another bill and that bill is enacted without change.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB436, s. 1 Section 1. 20.923 (1) and (2) (a) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB436,2,16 20.923 (1) Establishment of executive salary groups. To this end, a compensation plan consisting of 10 executive salary groups is established in schedule one of the state compensation plan for the classified service from ranges 18 through 27. No salary range established above salary range 23 may be utilized in the establishment and compensation of positions in the classified service without specific approval of the joint committee on employment relations. The dollar value of the salary range minimum and maximum for each executive salary group shall be reviewed and established in the same manner as that provided for positions in the classified service under s. 230.12 (3), except that adjustments of salaries for the positions of state senator and representative to the assembly shall in addition be prepared in bill form by the joint committee on employment relations and submitted to a vote of the legislature, and shall not take effect until the bill is enacted without change. If the bill is not enacted without change, no adjustment may take effect unless the joint committee on employment relations submits a subsequent bill and that bill is enacted without change. Any such bill shall be put on the calendar and is not subject to ss. 13.093 (1), 13.50 (6) (a), (am) and (b) and 16.47 (2). The salary-setting authority of individual boards, commissions, elective and appointive officials elsewhere provided by law is subject to and limited by this section, and the salary rate for these positions upon appointment and subsequent thereto shall be set by the appointing authority pursuant to this section, except as otherwise required by article IV, section 26, of the constitution.

AB436,2,22 (2) (a) The annual salary for each elected state official position shall be set at the dollar value for the point of the assigned salary range for its respective executive salary group specified in this subsection in effect at the time of taking the oath of office, except as provided in par. (b) and s. 978.12 (1) (a). No adjustment to the salary of an official enumerated in this subsection is effective until it is authorized under article IV, section 26, of the constitution and until it is approved under sub. (1).

AB436,3,3 (b) The annual salary of each state senator, representative to the assembly, justice of the supreme court, court of appeals judge and circuit judge shall be reviewed and established in the same manner as provided for positions in the classified service under s. 230.12 (3), except as otherwise provided in sub. (1). The salary established for the chief justice of the supreme court shall be different than the salaries established for the associate justices of the supreme court.

AB436, s. 2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

AB436,3,7 (1)  This act first applies commencing with the first change in the salary rate for state senators or representatives to the assembly made under sections 20.923 (1) and 230.12 (3) of the statutes on the effective date of this subsection.

AB436,3,8 (End)