SCR 1010
Initials AF Page 1 Appropriations
ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
Second Regular Session
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SCR 1010: property tax exemption; virtual currency
S/E: legislators; inflation; adjustment
Sponsor: Senator Rogers, LD 7
Committee on Appropriations
Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to SCR 1010
Overview
Subject to voter approval, amends the Constitution to adjust the salaries of state legislators
for inflation.
History
The Arizona Constitution outlines the procedures for altering the salaries of elected state
officials, including state legislators. Specifically, changes to legislative salaries are
recommended by the Commission on Salaries for Elective State Officers and must be
approved by the voters at the next general election. If the voters approve the salary
adjustment, the salaries take effect at the start of the next regular legislative session (Ariz.
Const., Art. V, § 20).
The latest voter-approved legislative salary was set at $24,000 by 1998's Proposition 302
(Official General Election Canvass), effective in January 1999. The Consumer Price Index,
which is published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and measures inflation,
has increased by 88% between January 1999 and January 2024 (Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis).
Provisions
1. Adjusts the salary of state legislators for inflation or deflation, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, from the most recent voter-approved
legislative salary. (Sec. 1)
2. Specifies that that salary adjustment is to occur on the second Monday in January of each
year. (Sec. 1)
3. Directs the Secretary of State to submit this measure to the voters as a proposition at the
next general election. (Sec. 2)
4. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note