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12105806D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1228
FLOOR AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by Senator Colgan
on March 6, 2012)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Orrock)
A BILL to correlate changes in the compensation and benefits to state employees and members of the General Assembly.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. That whatever changes are made to the compensation of state employees covered under the Virginia Personnel Act (§ 2.2-2900 et seq. of the Code of Virginia) on or after July 1, 2016, and whatever changes are made to the fringe benefits offered to such state employees that are also offered to members of the General Assembly shall be made to the salary and fringe benefits of members of the General Assembly. However, any increase in the salary of members of the General Assembly shall be in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 5 of the Constitution of Virginia, and no such increase shall become effective prior to February 1 immediately following the general election of the Senate of Virginia.

2. That effective July 1, 2016, the salary for members of the House of Delegates, other than the Speaker of the House of Delegates, shall revert to $18,000, the salary in effect for members of the House of Delegates on January 1, 1990.