SS/SB 11 - This act revises the salary schedules for county elected officials except for officials in first classification counties which have charter forms of government.

(1) SB 11 equalizes the compensation for county assessors, clerks, recorders of deeds when the office is separate from that of the circuit clerk and treasurer ex officio collectors in township organization counties in second, third and fourth classification counties.

(2) The county coroner will become a member of a county salary commission.

(3) Associate county commissioners' salaries will be two thousand dollars less than the salaries of presiding commissioners in all counties.

(4) In second, third and fourth classification counties, county elected officials will be eligible for a cost of living adjustment (COLA). The COLA cannot exceed the percentage increase given to other employees of a particular county.

(5) The act also provides for a review of county salaries every ten years by the General Assembly.

(6) The act also provides for additional payments to a county which has licensed excursion gambling boats in the county, federal interstate highways passing through the county and weigh stations in the county. The specific amounts of these payments are specified in sections 1 and 2.

Other provisions pertain to particular county officials.

TOM MORTON