PRINTER'S NO. 831
No. 775 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, LEMMOND AND COSTA, APRIL 1, 1997
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, APRIL 1, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
2 entitled "An act establishing salaries and compensation of
3 certain public officials including justices and judges of
4 Statewide courts, judges of courts of common pleas, judges of
5 the Philadelphia Municipal Court, judges of the Philadelphia
6 Traffic Court, district justices and the Governor, the
7 Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer, the Auditor
8 General, the Attorney General and certain other State
9 officers and the salary and certain expenses of the members
10 of the General Assembly; and repealing certain inconsistent
11 acts," further providing for the compensation of senior
12 judges.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 2.1(h) of the act of September 30, 1983
16 (P.L.160, No.39), known as the Public Official Compensation Law,
17 added October 19, 1995 (P.L.324, No.51), is amended to read:
18 Section 2.1. Judicial salaries.
19 * * *
20 (h) Senior judges.--The compensation of the senior judges
21 pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 4121 (relating to assignment of judges)
22 shall be $315 per day. [In any calendar year the amount of
1 compensation which a senior judge shall be permitted to earn as
2 a senior judge shall not when added to retirement income paid by
3 the Commonwealth for such senior judge exceed the compensation
4 payable by the Commonwealth to a judge then in regular active
5 service on the court from which said senior judge retired.] A
6 senior judge who so elects may serve without being paid all or
7 any portion of the compensation provided by this section.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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