{"id":29938,"date":"2021-04-09T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29938"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:13:41","slug":"judicial-salary-increases-advanced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29938","title":{"rendered":"Judicial salary increases advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska judges would receive a raise under a bill advanced from general file April 9.<\/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-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>LB386, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop, would increase Nebraska Supreme Court judges\u2019 salaries for fiscal year 2021-22 and FY2022-23. The current salary is $187,035.<\/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 important if we are going to attract and retain good quality lawyers to serve the state \u2014 typically coming from their highest earning years \u2014 that every two years we fix their wage and provide for a raise in their pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would set the salary increase at 3 percent each fiscal year, totaling $192,647 in FY2021-22 and $198,426 in FY2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt opposed the bill. Nebraska Supreme Court judges should not be \u201crewarded\u201d with a pay increase, she said, after they prevented a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana from appearing on the 2020 general election ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court disregarded an unequivocal request from the people of Nebraska who pay the taxes that pay their salaries,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 37-1 to advance LB386 to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska judges would receive a raise under a bill advanced from general file April 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-29938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-steve-lathrop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29938","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=29938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29939,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29938\/revisions\/29939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}