MARYLAND JUDICIARY | SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL COMPENSATION
(7) The concurrence of at least five members is required for any formal Commission action. (8) The Commission may request and receive assistance and information from any unit of State government. (c) Written recommendations and funding. — On or after September 1, 2011, September 1, 2013, and every 4 years thereafter, the Commission shall review the salaries and pensions of the judges of the courts listed in subsection (a) of this section and make written recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly on or before the next ensuing regular session of the General Assembly. The Governor shall include in the budget for the next ensuing fiscal year the funding necessary to implement those recommendations, contingent on action by the General Assembly under subsections (d) and (e) of this section.
(d)
Recommendation as house joint resolution. —
(1) The salary recommendations made by the Commission shall be introduced as a joint resolution in each House of the General Assembly not later than the fifteenth day of the session. The General Assembly may amend the joint resolution to decrease any of the Commission salary recommendations, but no reduction may diminish the salary of a judge during his continuance in office. The General Assembly may not amend the joint resolution to increase the recommended salaries. If the General Assembly fails to adopt or amend the joint resolution within 50 days after its introduction, the salaries recommended by the Commission shall apply. If the joint resolution is adopted or amended in accordance with this section within 50 days after its introduction, the salaries so provided shall apply. If the General A ssembly rejects any or all of the Commission’s salary recommendations, the salaries of the judges affected remain unchanged, unless modified under other provisions of law. (2) The Governor or the General Assembly may not increase the recommended salaries, except as provided under § 1-703(b) of this subtitle. (e) Legislation. — The recommendation of the Commission as to pensions shall be introduced by the presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Delegates in the form of legislation, and shall become effective only if passed by both Houses. (f) Changes in salaries and pensions. — Any change in salaries or pensions adopted by the General Assembly under this section takes effect as of the July 1 of the year next following the year in which the Commission makes its recommendations. (g) Sections unaffected. — This section does not affect § 1-702(b), § 1-703(b), or §§ 1-705 through 1-707 of this subtitle, or Title 27 of the State Personnel and Pensions Article.
HISTORY: 1980, ch. 717; 1982, ch. 820, § 3; 1992, ch. 131, § 12; 1994, ch. 468; 1997, ch. 14, § 1; 1998, ch. 21, § 2; 2005, ch. 25, § 13; ch. 444, § 1; 2006, ch. 44, § 6; 2009, ch. 2; 2010, ch. 72; ch. 484, § 2. Copyright © 2016 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Statutes current through October 1, 2016 and all chapters of the 2016 Regular Session of the Maryland General Assembly. Annotated Code of Maryland Copyright 2016 by Matthew Bender and Company, Inc., a member of the LexisNexis Group. All rights reserved.
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