ASSEMBLY, No. 2222

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JUNE 27, 1996

By Assemblyman LANCE

An Act concerning judicial salaries and amending N.J.S.2B:2-4.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. N.J.S.2B:2-4 is amended to read as follows:

    2B:2-4. Judicial Salaries.

     a. Annual salaries of justices and judges shall be:

    Chief Justice of the Supreme Court            $138,000

    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court     132,250

    Judge of the Superior Court,

      Appellate Division                        124,200

    Judge of the Superior Court,

      Assignment Judge                         120,750

    Judge of the Superior Court;

      Judge of the Tax Court                 115,000

    b. Commencing July 1, 1997, the annual salaries of all justices and judges shall be adjusted upward in direct proportion to any increase, in the immediately preceding calendar year, in the average Consumer Price Index for urban wage-earners and clerical workers in the New York City and the Philadelphia areas as reported by the United States Department of Labor.

(cf: P.L.1995, c.424, s.1)

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would provide judges and New Jersey Supreme Court justices with automatic, annual salary increases proportionate to any increases in the cost of living. Under the bill, any increase in the Consumer Price Index for a calendar year would result in judicial salaries being increased proportionately.

Increases salaries for judges commensurate with increases in the Consumer Price Index.