SB 363 – Judicial Salaries

Senate Bill 0363 Judicial Salaries. Passed 76-16. (I don’t see a roll call available to see who was for and who was against.) Raises trial court judge salaries from $90,000 to $110,500; raises appellate court salaries from $110,000 to $129,800; and raises supreme court salaries from $115,000 to $133,600. Jacks up filing fees – $17 more for plenary docket cases and $12 more for small claims cases. I think that’s something like a 33% increase for small claims filing fees. (That’s just for this bill — I seem to recall some other filing fee increases in the pipe line.) The judicial salaries were overdue for an increase, but I think the entire community benefits from decently compensated judges; so it would seem appropriate for the whole community to pay for their salary increase.