An Illinois legislature pay raise of nearly 16% was approved Sunday night after Gov. JB Pritzker brought up the idea of increasing some salaries.
The idea for raising salaries of top Illinois state government officials, which culminated this weekend with the House voting lawmakers an 18% pay hike, began with Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Lame-duck lawmakers are scrambling to act on last-minute - and mostly critical and contentious - issues before the 103rd General Assembly is sworn in on Wednesday. The last raise for legislators came in 2008, and concerned about the optics, lawmakers voted against any increase each year until 2019, when the House surprised the Senate by backing out of an agreed-to freeze on cost-of-living increases. A locked-in COLA increase has since been adopted.
For the constitutional officers' raises to take effect immediately, they must be signed into law before those officers are sworn in to four-year terms Monday afternoon in the capital.
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