BILL NUMBER: AB 2884	CHAPTERED  07/24/00

	CHAPTER   196
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 24, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 21, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 6, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 25, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Kuehl
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Aroner, Battin, Briggs,
Calderon, Campbell, Cedillo, Corbett, Cox, Davis, Dickerson, Dutra,
Gallegos, Granlund, Hertzberg, Honda, Jackson, Longville, Robert
Pacheco, Romero, Scott, Steinberg, Strom-Martin, Thomson,
Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington, Wiggins, and Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Figueroa, Hughes, Murray, Perata, Schiff,
Soto, and Vasconcellos)

                        MARCH 6, 2000

   An act to amend Section 68203 of the Government Code, relating to
judges' salaries, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2884, Kuehl.  Judges' salaries.
   Existing law provides for an annual increase in judges' salaries
based on salary increases for state employees as reported by the
California Office of Employment Relations, as specified.
   This bill would refer to state employee increases as reported by
the Department of Personnel Administration.  The bill would also
provide that on January 1, 2001, all judges' salaries shall be
increased by that amount which is produced by multiplying the salary
of each as of December 31, 2000, by 81/2%.
   Under the California Constitution, laws that set the salaries of
elected state officers constitute appropriations.
   This bill would constitute an appropriation by increasing judges'
salaries.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 68203 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   68203.  (a) On July 1, 1980, and on July 1 of each year thereafter
the salary of each justice and judge named in Sections 68200 to
68202, inclusive, shall be increased by that amount which is produced
by multiplying the then current salary of each justice or judge by
the average percentage salary increase for the current fiscal year
for California State employees; provided, that in any fiscal year in
which the Legislature places a dollar limitation on salary increases
for state employees the same limitation shall apply to judges in the
same manner applicable to state employees in comparable wage
categories.
   (b) For the purposes of this section, salary increases for state
employees shall be such increases as reported by the Department of
Personnel Administration.
   (c) The salary increase for judges and justices made on July 1,
1980, for the 1980-81 fiscal year, shall in no case exceed five
percent.
   (d) On January 1, 2001, the salary of the justices and judges
named in Sections 68200 to 68202, inclusive, shall be increased by
that amount which is produced by multiplying the salary of each
justice and judge as of December 31, 2000, by 81/2 percent.