legislators; salary; county supervisors

HB2536 - 572R - I Ver

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legislators; salary; county supervisors

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2536

Introduced by

Representative
Mathis

AN
ACT

amending sections 41-1103, 41-1903
and 41-1904, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to compensation of state
legislators.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 41-1103, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
41-1103.

Compensation; reimbursement of expenditures

A.
Beginning January 1, 2027,
members
of the legislature are each entitled to receive an annual salary
established
that is equal to the annual salary of a county supervisor
pursuant
to
the provisions of section 41-1904

section 11-419, subsection a
.

B. In addition to the salary provided in subsection
A of this section, each member of the legislature shall also be reimbursed for
travel and subsistence expenses incurred in
attendance upon
attending
regular sessions or special sessions and for acting
in a legislative matter, other than in a regular or special session,
upon
on
prior approval of the presiding
officer of either house of the legislature at such rate and in such manner as
may be prescribed by law.
END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 41-1903, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
41-1903.

Function; applicability

A.
Beginning in 2002,
The
commission shall biennially conduct a review of the rates of pay of elective
state officers, of justices and judges of courts of record and of clerks of the
superior court. Such review by the commission shall be made for the
purpose of determining and providing the pay levels appropriate to the duties
and responsibilities of the respective offices and positions subject to such
review. The commission may hold public hearings to aid it in its
work.

B. The commission shall submit to the governor
no

not
later than June 1 a report of the
results of each review conducted by the commission of the offices and positions
subject to this chapter, together with its recommendations.

c. This chapter does not apply to the
office of state legislator.

END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Section 41-1904, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
41-1904.

Recommendations

A. The governor shall include, in the budget next
transmitted by
him
the governor
to
the legislature after the date of the submission of the report and
recommendations of the commission,
his

the
governor's
own recommendations with respect to the exact rates of pay
which he

that the governor
deems advisable
for those offices and positions subject to this chapter.

B. All or part, as the case may be, of the
recommendations of the governor transmitted to the legislature in the budget
relating to salaries shall become effective on the first Monday of January of
the next calendar year following the transmittal of
his

the governor's
recommendations in the budget, but only to the
extent that between the date of transmittal of such recommendations in the
budget and the ninetieth day following the transmittal of
his

the governor's
recommendations:

1.
No

A
statute
has
not
been enacted
which

that
establishes rates of pay other than those proposed by all
or part of such recommendations.

2. Neither house of the legislature specifically
disapproves all or part of such recommendations. In case of either
of
a legislative enactment or disapproval by either house, the
recommendations are effective only insofar as not altered or disapproved.

C. Any part of the recommendations of the governor
may
, in accordance with express provisions of express
recommendations,
may
be made operative on a date later
than the date on which such recommendations otherwise would take effect.

D. The recommendations of the
commission as to legislative salaries shall be certified by it to the secretary
of state and the secretary of state shall submit to the qualified electors at
the next regular general election the question, "Shall the recommendations
of the commission on salaries for elective state officers concerning
legislative salaries be accepted? Yes /__/ No
/__/". Such recommendations if approved by the electors shall
become effective at the beginning of the next regular legislative session
without any other authorizing legislation.

E.
D.
The
recommendations of the governor transmitted to the legislature under this
chapter
shall
,
upon
on

their effective date,
shall
supersede all provisions of
law in conflict therewith. The recommendations of the governor
which

that
do take effect shall be
published with the laws of
the

this
state.

END_STATUTE

Sec. 4.
Conditional
enactment

This act does not become effective
unless the Constitution of Arizona is amended by a vote of the people at the
next general election by passage of House Concurrent Resolution ______, fifty-seventh
legislature, second regular session, relating to compensation of elective state
officers.