2019 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 7 - Salaries and Fees
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 45-7-4. Annual salaries of certain state officials; cost-of-living adjustments
(a) The annual salary of each of the state officials listed below shall be as follows:
(1) Governor.................................................$175,000.00
An allowance in an amount specified in the appropriations Act
shall also be provided for the operation of the Governor's
mansion.
(2) Lieutenant Governor........................................54,920.00
(3) Adjutant general
The adjutant general shall continue to receive the pay and
allowances under the same procedure as provided by law.
(4) Commissioner of Agriculture...............................100,429.00
(5) Attorney General..........................................114,633.00
(6) Reserved.
(7) Commissioner of Insurance.................................100,396.00
(8) Reserved.
(9) Commissioner of Labor.....................................100,418.00
The above amount of salary for the Commissioner of Labor shall
include any compensation received from the United States
government and the amount of state funds paid shall be reduced
by the amount of compensation received from the United States
government.
(10) Reserved.
(11) Each member of the Public Service Commis-
sion.........................................................96,655.00
(12) Reserved.
(13) State School Superintendent...............................102,708.00
(14) Secretary of State........................................102,708.00
(15) Reserved.
(16) Reserved.
(17) Reserved.
(18) Each Justice of the Supreme Court.........................175,600.00
(19) Each Judge of the Court of Appeals........................174,500.00
(19.1) Judge of the Georgia State-wide Business Court..........174,500.00
(20) Each superior court judge.................................126,265.00
(21) Each district attorney....................................120,072.00
(22) Each member of the General Assembly........................16,200.00
(A) Reserved.
(B) Each member of the General Assembly shall also receive the
allowances provided by law. The amount of the daily expense
allowance which each member is entitled to receive under the
provisions of Code Section 28-1-8 shall be as provided in that
Code section. The mileage allowance for the use of a personal
car on official business shall be the same as that received by
other state officials and employees.
(C) In addition to any other compensation and allowances
authorized for members of the General Assembly, each member may
be reimbursed for per diem differential and for actual expenses
incurred in the performance of duties as a member of the
General Assembly in an amount not to exceed $7,000.00 per year.
Expenses reimbursable up to such amount shall be limited to one
or more of the following purposes: lodging, meals, per diem
differential, postage, personal services, printing and
publications, rents, supplies (including software),
telecommunications, transportation, utilities, purchasing or
leasing of equipment, and other reasonable expenditures
directly related to the performance of a member's duties. If
equipment purchased by a member has a depreciated value of
$100.00 or less when such member leaves office, the equipment
does not need to be returned to the state. No reimbursement
shall be made for any postage which is used for a political
newsletter. No reimbursement shall be paid for lodging or meals
for any day for which a member receives the daily expense
allowance as provided in this paragraph. Eligible expenses
shall be reimbursed following the submission of vouchers to the
legislative fiscal office in compliance with the requirements
of this subparagraph and subject to the provisions of
subparagraph (E) of this paragraph. Such vouchers shall be
submitted in such form and manner as prescribed by the
Legislative Services Committee pursuant to subparagraph (E) of
this paragraph, provided that each such voucher shall be
accompanied by a supporting document or documents, or legible
copies thereof, showing payment for each expense claimed or an
explanation of the absence of such documentation; in addition,
each such voucher shall include a certification by the member
that the information contained in such voucher and supporting
document or documents, or legible copies thereof, is true and
correct and that such expenses were incurred by the member. The
provisions of Code Section 16-10-20 shall be applicable to any
person submitting such certified vouchers and supporting
documents or copies the same as if the General Assembly were a
department or agency of state government. No such voucher or
supporting document shall be required for per diem differential.
(D) The amount of per diem differential which may be claimed for
each day under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph shall be the
difference between the daily expense allowance authorized for
members of the General Assembly and $119.00; provided, however,
that the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year may
increase such amount of $119.00 per day to an amount not in
excess of the federal per diem rate then in effect for the
state capital as specified by the General Services
Administration. Per diem differential shall be paid by the
legislative fiscal office to the member upon the member's
notification to the legislative fiscal office of the days for
which the daily expense allowance was received for which the
member wishes to claim the per diem differential, and the
legislative fiscal office shall keep a record of the days for
which per diem differential is so claimed and paid.
(E) For the purposes of this paragraph, a year shall begin on the
convening date of the General Assembly in regular session each
year and end on the day prior to the convening of the General
Assembly in the next calendar year. Any voucher or claim for
any reimbursement for any year as defined in this paragraph
shall be submitted no later than the fifteenth of April
immediately following the end of such year. No reimbursement
shall be made on any voucher or claim submitted after that
date. Any amounts remaining in such expense account at the end
of the first year of the two-year biennium may be claimed for
expenses incurred during the second year of the two-year
biennium. Any amounts remaining in any expense account which
are not so claimed by April 15 of the year following the second
year of the biennium and any amounts claimed which are returned
as hereafter provided for in this paragraph shall lapse and
shall be remitted by the legislative fiscal office to the
general fund of the state treasury. Any former member of the
General Assembly may be reimbursed for expenses incurred while
a member of the General Assembly upon compliance with the
provisions of this paragraph. The Legislative Services
Committee is empowered to provide such procedures as it deems
advisable to administer the provisions of this paragraph,
including, but not limited to, definitions of the above list of
items for which reimbursement may be made; provided, however,
that the term "other reasonable expenditures directly related
to the performance of a member's duties" shall be as defined by
policies adopted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives
and by the Senate Administrative Affairs Committee as to
reimbursement of such expenditures incurred by members of the
House and Senate, respectively; and provided, further, that the
amount of expenses which may be reimbursed within the limits of
subparagraph (C) of this paragraph for travel outside the state
may be as provided by policies adopted by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and by the Senate Administrative
Affairs Committee as to such expenditures of members of the
House and Senate, respectively. The Legislative Services
Committee is further empowered to prescribe the form of the
voucher or claim which must be submitted to the legislative
fiscal office. In the event of any disagreement as to whether
any reimbursement shall be made or any allowance shall be paid,
the Legislative Services Committee shall make the final
determination; except that in the event of any disagreement as
to whether any reimbursement under subparagraph (C) of this
paragraph shall be made for other reasonable expenses directly
related to the performance of a member's duties or for travel
outside the state, the Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall make the final determination as to such expenses incurred
by a member of the House, and the Senate Administrative Affairs
Committee shall make the final determination as to such
expenses incurred by a member of the Senate. In the event any
reimbursement is made or any allowance is paid and it is later
determined that such reimbursement or payment was made in
error, the person to whom such reimbursement or payment was
made shall remit to the legislative fiscal office the amount of
money involved. In the event any such person refuses to make
such remittance, the legislative fiscal office is authorized to
withhold the payment of any other moneys to which such person
is entitled until the amount of such reimbursement or payment
which was made in error shall be realized.
(23) Speaker of the House of Representatives....................17,800.00
The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall also receive the
salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General
Assembly. Upon the taking of office by the members of the
General Assembly on the convening day of the regular session of
the General Assembly in 1983, the annual salary of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives shall become $22,800.00. After
such date, the Speaker shall also receive as additional salary
a sum equal to the amount of salary over $30,000.00 per annum
which is received by the Lieutenant Governor as of that date or
thereafter; and the salary of the Speaker shall be adjusted at
the beginning of each term so as to include such additional sum.
(24) President Pro Tempore of the Senate.........................4,800.00
The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall also receive the
salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General
Assembly.
(25) Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives.........4,800.00
The Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives shall also receive the salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General Assembly.
(b) As an adjustment except as qualified below as to members and member-officers of the General Assembly, the annual salary of each state official whose salary is established by Code Section 45-7-3, this Code section, and Code Sections 45-7-20 and 45-7-21, including members of the General Assembly, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, may be increased by the General Assembly in the General Appropriations Act by a percentage not to exceed the average percentage of the increase in salary as may from time to time be granted to employees of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. However, any increase for such officials shall not include within-grade step increases for which employees subject to compensation plans authorized and approved in accordance with Code Section 45-20-4 are eligible. Any increase granted pursuant to this subsection shall become effective at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees, except increases for members and member-officers of the General Assembly. That portion of the increase determined by the Legislative Services Committee to reflect a cost-of-living increase based upon objective economic criteria shall become effective for members and member-officers at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees. The balance of the increase for members and member-officers of the General Assembly shall become effective on the convening of the next General Assembly in January of the next odd-numbered year. The Office of Planning and Budget shall calculate the average percentage increase.
(c) The annual salary being received on June 30, 1980, shall be increased by 8 percent for each state official listed in subsection (a) of this Code section who:
(1) Is not a member of the General Assembly; and
(2) Is not a contributing member of a state retirement system and, therefore, does not benefit by or participate in any program whereunder a portion of the employee contributions to the state retirement system are made on behalf of the employee by the employer.
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