1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to state government; providing that the 
  1.3             recommendations of the compensation council do not 
  1.4             take effect unless enacted into law; amending 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 15A.082, subdivision 
  1.6             3. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 15A.082, 
  1.9   subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 3.  [SUBMISSION OF RECOMMENDATIONS.] (a) By May 1 in 
  1.11  each odd-numbered year, the compensation council shall submit to 
  1.12  the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of 
  1.13  the senate salary recommendations for constitutional officers, 
  1.14  legislators, justices of the supreme court, and judges of the 
  1.15  court of appeals, district court, county court, and county 
  1.16  municipal court.  The recommended salary for each office must 
  1.17  take effect on the first Monday in January of the next 
  1.18  odd-numbered year, with no more than one adjustment, to take 
  1.19  effect on January 1 of the year after that.  The salary 
  1.20  recommendations for legislators, judges, and constitutional 
  1.21  officers take effect only if an appropriation of money to pay 
  1.22  the recommended salaries is the recommendations are enacted into 
  1.23  law after the recommendations are submitted and before their 
  1.24  effective date.  Recommendations may be expressly modified or 
  1.25  rejected by law.  If no law is enacted adopting or modifying the 
  1.26  recommendations, the salaries remain unchanged.  The salary 
  2.1   recommendations for legislators are subject to additional terms 
  2.2   that may be adopted according to section 3.099, subdivisions 1 
  2.3   and 3. 
  2.4      (b) The council shall also submit to the speaker of the 
  2.5   house of representatives and the president of the senate 
  2.6   recommendations for the salary ranges of the heads of state and 
  2.7   metropolitan agencies, to be effective retroactively from 
  2.8   January 1 of that year if enacted into law.  The recommendations 
  2.9   shall include the appropriate group in section 15A.081 to which 
  2.10  each agency head should be assigned and the appropriate 
  2.11  limitation on the maximum range of the salaries of the agency 
  2.12  heads in each group, expressed as a percentage of the salary of 
  2.13  the governor. 
  2.14     (c) The council shall also submit to the speaker of the 
  2.15  house of representatives and the president of the senate 
  2.16  recommendations for the salaries of members of the metropolitan 
  2.17  council. 
  2.18     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.19     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.