Introduced By: Senator John M. Roney
Date Introduced : February 10, 1998
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 36-6-1 and 36-6-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 36-6 entitled "SALARIES AND TRAVELING EXPENSES" are hereby amended to read as follows:
36-6-1. Salary of governor. -- {DEL The DEL}
{ADD Until December 31, 1998, ADD} the salary of the governor shall
be sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars ($69,900) per annum.
{ADD After December 31, 1998, the salary of the governor shall
be ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) per annum and shall
thereafter be adjusted at the beginning of each succeeding term
by the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for
all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the United States Department
of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Northeast Region for
the four (4) previous fiscal years, but in any event not to exceed
twelve percent (12%). ADD}
36-6-2. Salaries of other general state officers.
-- (a) {DEL The DEL} {ADD Until December 31, 1998,
the ADD} salary of the lieutenant governor shall be fifty-two
thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum; the salary of the secretary
of state shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum;
and the salary of the attorney general shall be fifty-five thousand
dollars ($55,000) per annum; the salary of the general treasurer
shall be fifty-two thousand dollars ($52,000) per annum. {ADD After
December 31, 1998, the salary of the lieutenant governor shall
be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary of the secretary
of state shall be eighty thousand dollars ($80,000); the salary
of the attorney general shall be eighty-five thousand dollars
($85,000); and the salary of the general treasurer shall be eighty
thousand dollars ($80,000); and they shall thereafter be adjusted
as set forth in section 36-6-1. ADD}
(b) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as may be required from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.