Bill Text: NC S636 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Increase Judicial Pay 20%

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-05 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S636 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2017-S636-Amended.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

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SENATE BILL 636

 

 

Short Title:      Increase Judicial Pay 20%.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Senators Daniel, Britt (Primary Sponsors);  and Waddell.

Referred to:

Rules and Operations of the Senate

April 5, 2017

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to increase judicial Salary and benefits for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Effective July 1, 2017, the annual salaries, payable monthly, for specified judicial branch officials for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year are increased by twenty percent (20%), as follows:

Judicial Branch Officials                                                                          Annual Salary

Chief Justice, Supreme Court                                                                      $180,103

Associate Justice, Supreme Court                                                                  175,429

Chief Judge, Court of Appeals                                                                      172,654

Judge, Court of Appeals                                                                                168,173

Judge, Senior Regular Resident Superior Court                                            163,637

Judge, Superior Court                                                                                    159,101

Chief Judge, District Court                                                                           144,588

Judge, District Court                                                                                     140,052

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of nineteen million seven hundred sixty thousand dollars ($19,760,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year to increase salary and benefits for all judges and justices and to increase the annual contribution into the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017, for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year.

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