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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 33

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Relating to: merit pay raises for state public defenders.

Public defender Public employee — Salary

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, there is an assistant state public defender pay progression

plan, which consists of 17 hourly salary steps, with each step equal to

one-seventeenth of the difference between the lowest hourly salary and the highest

hourly salary. The plan provides that no salary adjustment under the plan may

increase an assistant state public defender's salary by more than 10 percent of his

or her base pay during a fiscal year.

This bill allows the Public Defender Board to provide merit-based pay raises

under the assistant state public defender pay progression plan in fiscal year 2021-22

that may exceed 10 percent of an assistant state public defender's base pay.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Drake (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Hong (D) , James (R) , Knodl (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Milroy (D) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Neubauer (D) , Novak (R) , Ramthun (R) , Riemer (D) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Summerfield (R) , Tauchen (R) , Tranel (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Zimmerman (R)

18 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , McGuire (D) , Petrowski (R) , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D) , Roys (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Smith (D) , Testin (R) , Vining (D) , Wanggaard (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Loudenbeck, Born, Schraa, Ramthun, Tauchen, Novak, Snyder, Skowronski, Rozar, Zimmerman, Edming, Mursau, Knodl, James, Doyle, Cabrera, Summerfield, VanderMeer, Dittrich, Sinicki, Milroy, Spiros, Moses, Neubauer, Hong, Duchow, Drake, Tranel, Riemer, Bowen, Andraca, Spreitzer, B. Meyers, Subeck and Brostoff; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Wanggaard, L. Taylor, Carpenter, Feyen, Ringhand, Jacque, Felzkowski, Roys, Darling, Testin, Larson, Pfaff and Smith

  2. Feb 5, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Feb 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Vining added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative McGuire added as a coauthor

  5. Feb 16, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Mar 1, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative S. Rodriguez added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  8. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1