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Lawmakers seek increase in daily expense payments for legislators living in Maricopa County

PHOENIX -- Arizona lawmakers gave approval Monday to two different ways to raise their own pay, adding a plan to give a major increase in daily expense payments to legislators who live in Maricopa County to an existing proposal that seeks to ask voters to retroactively OK inflation adjustments to their yearly salaries.

On a 14-3 margin, members of the House Appropriations Committee agreed to ask voters to approve an inflation adjustment to their current legislative salary of $24,000. But Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, worded it in a way so the indexing would be computed from 1998 -- the last time voters approved a pay hike -- a move that would set salaries at close to $48,000.





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AZ lawmakers gave approval to two different ways to raise their own pay, adding a plan to give a major increase in daily expense payments to legislators who live in Maricopa County to an existing proposal that seeks to ask voters to retroactively OK inflation adjustments to their yearly salaries. Read moreLawmakers seek increase in daily expense payments for legislators living in Maricopa County

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