The Legislature would do its part toward helping offset the state’s $3.2 billion budget shortfall, under legislation approved Wednesday by the Senate.
Lawmakers’ annual salaries would be kept at the current $29,697, with a provision included in the budget implementing bill (SB 2702) that reaffirms the 7 percent salary reduction approved last year.
The Senate, which approved the measure 37-0, is already looking to make public employees contribute a portion of their pay for pension coverage and would require lawmakers and 27,000 now-exempt state workers pay for health coverage.
The House so far has advanced a 3 percent payroll reduction for state agencies – but would leave it to department administrators to determine how to achieve the reductions.
Source: News Service of Florida
