{"id":26224,"date":"2019-05-09T03:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26224"},"modified":"2019-05-09T03:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:09:50","slug":"judicial-salary-increases-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26224","title":{"rendered":"Judicial salary increases advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska judges would receive a raise under a bill advanced from general file May 8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24409\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24409\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114504&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenLathrop_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Lathrop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24409\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Lathrop\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenLathrop_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Lathrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB300, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop, would increase Nebraska Supreme Court judges\u2019 salaries for fiscal year 2019-20 and FY2020-21. The current salary is $173,693.<\/p>\n<p>District, county, juvenile, appellate and workers\u2019 compensation court judges\u2019 salaries statutorily are based on a percentage of the Supreme Court judges\u2019 salaries, Lathrop said, so those judges also would receive a salary increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely essential that we pay our judges sufficiently to ensure a well-functioning judiciary,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is vital we retain experienced judges on the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An amendment offered by Lathrop, adopted 30-1, would set the salary increase at 3 percent each fiscal year, totaling $181,588 in FY2019-20 and $187,036 in FY2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>Elmwood Sen. Robert Clements supported the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe the 3 percent [increase] is above what other state employees are getting, but it\u2019s trying to catch up from lower increases from the previous two years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was advanced to select file on a 37-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska judges would receive a raise under a bill advanced from general file May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-26224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-steve-lathrop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LB300Lathrop5-8-19b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26225,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26224\/revisions\/26225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}