IdahoProposed Idaho resolution would urge lower pay for next legislature
Before Idaho’s Sixty-ninth Legislature begins, the proposed resolution would ask the compensation committee to lower legislators’ pay and expense allowances for 2027 and 2028.
What it does
The proposed resolution would encourage Idaho’s compensation committee to lower pay and expense allowances for legislators in the Sixty-ninth Legislature; it would not require a reduction.
Argument forLowering legislators’ pay and expense allowances could let them share some of the budget strain facing Idaho residents and state employees.
Argument againstLower pay or expense allowances could make it harder for some legislators to cover the costs of serving.
More detail
The proposed resolution would encourage Idaho’s Citizens’ Committee on Legislative Compensation to lower legislators’ pay and expense allowances. The request concerns legislators serving in Idaho’s Sixty-ninth Legislature. The committee sets legislators’ pay and expense allowances; the resolution would encourage a reduction but would not require one. The committee was to meet before the Sixty-ninth Legislature’s first regular session to set pay and expense allowances for 2027 and 2028.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 31Recommitted to State AffairsLatest
- Mar 25Retained on calendar
- Mar 17Reported Printed; referred to 10th order; held one legislative day
- Mar 16Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for PrintingIntroduced
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