FIRST REGULAR SESSION

House Concurrent Resolution No. 3

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

0747L.01I

AN ACT

Disapproving the amount of increase in compensation for public officials as recommended by the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Whereas, Article XIII, Section 3 of the Missouri Constitution charges the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials with setting the amounts of compensation paid to statewide elected officials, legislators, and judges; and

             Whereas, the Constitution provides the Commission with a four-month window prior to its constitutional deadline for making salary recommendations to hold public hearings around the state to gather testimony related to salaries for affected state officials and to carefully consider whether pay increases are warranted; and

             Whereas, in 2006, the Commission did not begin work until eleven days before its December 1, 2006, deadline for submitting a report containing salary recommendations; and

             Whereas, as few as six members of the twenty-two member Commission attended the public hearings at which testimony on salaries for affected officials was given; and

             Whereas, the Commission recommended pay increases for state judges and statewide elected officials effective July 1, 2007, and pay increases for legislators effective January 1, 2009; and

             Whereas, the Commission's recommendations shall take effect unless disapproved by the General Assembly through a concurrent resolution process passed by two-thirds majorities in each legislative chamber before February 1, 2007:

             Now, therefore, be it resolved by the members of the House of Representatives of the Ninety-fourth General Assembly, First Regular Session, the Senate concurring therein, that the recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation of Elected Officials be disapproved; and

             Be it further resolved that this resolution be sent to the Governor for his approval or rejection pursuant to the Missouri Constitution.

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