Current Status Bill Number:3911 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19950330 Primary Sponsor:Felder All Sponsors:Felder, Wilkins, Tucker, Harrison, Baxley, P. Harris and Carnell Drafted Document Number:gjk\21606sd.95 Companion Bill Number:738 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Committee 30 HWM Subject:Circuit solicitors, salaries increased
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House 19950330 Introduced, read first time, 30 HWM
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 14-1-200, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SALARIES OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, CIRCUIT COURT, AND FAMILY COURT, AND CIRCUIT SOLICITORS, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE AN INCREASE IN THE SALARIES OF CIRCUIT SOLICITORS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 14-1-200 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 14-1-200. The General Assembly shall establish the salary of the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court in the annual general appropriation act and shall fix the salaries for the Court of Appeals, Circuit Court, Family Court, and circuit solicitors according to the following schedule:
(1) The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals shall receive a salary in an amount not to exceed ninety-nine percent of the salary fixed for Associate Justices of the Supreme Court;
(2) Judges of the Court of Appeals, and Circuit Court Judges, and circuit solicitors shall receive a salary in an amount not to exceed ninety-five percent of the salary fixed for Associate Justices of the Supreme Court;
(3) Judges of the Family Court and Circuit Solicitors shall receive a salary in an amount not to exceed ninety percent of the salary fixed for Judges of the Court of Appeals and Circuit Court."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.