Bill Would Decouple Colorado’s Judiciary, Legislative Pay

DENVER (AP) — When it passed its version of a fiscal year 2017-18 budget last month, the Senate stripped $2.2 million that would have given judicial employees a 3.1 percent pay hike.
That’s because current law would trigger an equivalent percentage hike for legislators — something they’d like to avoid as the Legislature struggles with tight finances.
The Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to Republican Sen. Bob Gardner’s proposal to sever the judiciary-legislati