SJR 28 – Changes the process for determining compensation and changes the amount of judicial salaries

• Sponsor: Lembke
• LR Number: 3091S.01I
• Committee: Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
• Last Action: 1/19/2010 - Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
• Journal Page: S132
• Effective Date: Upon voter approval

Current Bill Summary

SJR 28 - Upon passage of this amendment, the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials" would no longer consider the issue of judicial compensation. Beginning January 1, 2011, Missouri supreme court judges shall receive seventy-five percent of the salary of an associate justice of the United States supreme court. Appellate judges would receive seventy-five percent of the salary of a United States circuit court judge. A circuit court judge and an associate circuit court judge would receive seventy-five percent of the salary of a United States district judge.

EMILY KALMER