Updated: 6:21 AM MST June 23, 2022 State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. Take away federal money and pandemic extensions, and Arizona is left with a bare-bones unemployment insurance system. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. Lawmakers in the House and Senate ended a months-long impasse, working through the night to approve the budget shortly before sunrise. State workers get a 10% pay raise, the first across-the-board pay hike in more than a decade. Lawmakers in the House and Senate ended a months-long impasse, working through the night to approve the budget shortly before sunrise. That would be increased to $160. State employees have stepped up and answered the call of Graham said the majority of employees at the top of their current pay structure will not see an immediate increase, but will at least be eligible for a pay increase within the next few years.. Ducey released a recovery-focused budget for Fiscal Year 2022, and he plans in making investments in K-12 education, public health, public safety, wildfire prevention, infrastructure and more, while also providing tax relief to residents. Ned Lamont pitched an income tax cut in CT. Heres an overview of his proposal, Lamont, legislators heading for a battle over CT spending cap, State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. For 2023, lawmakers approved a 4% raise for state employees. Rowan has spent the last few months going through unemployment data from states, giving context to the problems we are seeing now. Two Arizona state senators announced Tuesday they would be stepping down from Democratic leadership roles, citing different reasons. Lawmakers in the House and Senate ended a months-long impasse, working through the night to approve the budget shortly before sunrise. In moving to court Democratic votes, GOP leaders lost the votes of some Republicans. Rep. Kelli Butler, D-Phoenix, asked earlier this week with a dose of sarcasm. (File photo by Howard Fischer/For the Miner). 0. FOX 10's Matt Galka reports. Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Boyer, who started as a Senate staffer and has been a lawmaker for a decade, said this is the first bipartisan budget in at least 15 years. The merit raises are separate from cost of living increases sometimes approved by the Legislature. $160 per employee a year to $186 per employee a year. State lawmakers worked overnight and passed a $15.6 billion budget in the early morning hours of June 23. She says it's the actual payment amounts that put Arizona at the bottom of her list. "But Id say that Arizona in general has not followed the market trend when it comes to police pay.". I had a bill I really cared about that I wanted included in the budget, a tax cut for low-income working families, Bowie said. Contact Editor Jim Small for questions: info@azmirror.com. For 2023, lawmakers approved a 4% raise for state employees. The package of budget bills passed with overwhelming support, highly unusual in the modern era. With single-vote Republican majorities in each chamber of the Legislature unable to come together, it took seven Senate Democrats to join in andpass the main budget legislation, while 27 of 29 Democratic members of the House voted in support. Arizona state officials gave pay raises to 169 government workers without getting the required approval from the Department of Its also done with the best financial interests of the state at heart.. The Republican governors office did not announce that he was using cash from President Joe Bidens American Rescue Plan Act to provide 20% pay boosts to the states corrections officers, 15% increases to state troopers and 10% increases to workers at the departments of child safety, economic security, juvenile corrections, transportation and health services. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence. The new judges will be split between divisions based in Phoenix and Tucson. That is one provision I am glad to see in here, Rep. Reginald Bolding, D-Phoenix, remarked, adding that Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, had been instrumental in getting the measure, which will allow agencies to request DPS to conduct independent investigations, into the criminal justice portion of the state budget. The package of budget bills passed with overwhelming support, highly unusual in the modern era. WebDeputy Chief Investment Officer. By: Jim Small and Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - June 23, 2022 5:24 am. But for me, its encouraging that we have actually come together.. Contents of this site are Copyright 2023 Kingman Miner and Western News&Info, Inc. All rights reserved. That hesitance sent GOP leaders looking for Democratic votes, which they got as they crafted a rare bipartisan budget. C.J. It also calls for an increase to employer premiums - $160 per employee a year to $186 per employee a year. A proposed expansion of a tax credit to subsidize private school tuition was removed from the must-pass budget, likely dooming it. Osten said the raises reflect the valuable work state employees provide daily, and particularly throughout the coronavirus pandemic. That will save property owners a collective $300 million. The plan includes a handful of small, targeted tax cuts for farm machines and private planes but no large scale reductions. Agencies are not required to give the increases. The increases are tied to job performance and employees could increase two steps, or 5%, on his or her employment anniversary date. The budget also includes nearly $1 billion that is earmarked for transportation projects across the state, particularly in rural Arizona. It does not call for a second raise or a cut to the number of weeks people can get paid. PHOENIX - Arizona's legislature approved a bipartisan $18 billion spending plan early Thursday that will make substantial investments in public schools, build new highways and pay down long-term debts. And the budget includes another $200 million for school repairs and another $50 million for school safety initiatives. A proposed expansion of a tax credit to subsidize private school tuition was removed from the must-pass budget, likely dooming it. 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Amplifying the voices of Arizonans whose stories are unheard; shining a light on the relationships between people, power and policy; and holding public officials to account. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror. Get CT Mirror emails in your inbox daily. Doug Ducey quietly tapped $95 million in federal coronavirus relief money in November to boost pay for state troopers, prison guards and workers in several other state departments deemed essential. Jim Small is a native Arizonan and has covered state government, policy and politics since 2004, with a focus on investigative and in-depth policy reporting, first as a reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times, then as editor of the paper and its prestigious sister publications. That includes $544 million for border security, roughly half of it for a wall, and $1 billion for highway construction, including widening Interstate 10 north of Casa Grande. It raises pay in January 2022 to $300 and raises employer premiums. The budget expands the state's Court of Appeals to 28 judges from 22 judges. The larger raise for troopers came out of debate about locality pay for state troopers in competitive areas, particularly Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties. Get CT Mirror briefings with enterprise reporting, investigations and more in your inbox daily. Republicans had sought to let parents use the scholarships to cover the entirety of a private schools tuition instead of the 90% limit that has been in place since the program was created in the early 2000s. Not everyone was happy with the plan to spend most of the state's surplus, as conservatives balked at the spending and called the budget bloated and more befitting of a Democratic product. The six new judges will cost the state $4.5 million a year, but about half that in the upcoming year because terms begin in January 2023, according a budget summary from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Republicans are widely expected to expand their majority in the 2022 election thanks to new district boundaries that appear to favor the GOP. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. Republican leaders had struggled for months to craft a spending plan that could find unanimous support in the fractious GOP caucuses without relying on Democrats. Some Republicans have said the hefty bonuses are only an election-year stunt from Lamont, a Democrat, to shore up his standing with his labor base. Giving taxpayers their money back, especially as inflation soars, is the only truly conservative action, she said but the Senate rejected two of her amendments to do that. The budget did include bipartisan measures for criminal justice reform, such as a revived measure that will create a new division within the Department of Public Safety to investigate use-of-force incidents and criminal misconduct by police officers. 2021. Those who have voted against it say they want to see a restructuring of DES before handing them more money. Expanding the court will give RepublicanGov. Lawmakers haven't forgotten the dire days of crafting a budget when facing a $1 billion shortfalleight years ago or after the Great Recession in 2008 and 2009. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items. The budget also includes a bigger write-off for people who donate to qualified charities and foster care organizations. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. State law gives the board the autonomy to change employee classifications and pay plans. The bonuses, the GOP argued, are hardly the key to retaining workers, as the governor and other Democrats claim. This is what our state, where voters are nearly evenly divided by party affiliation, has long asked of us to work together, said Rep. Reginald Bolding of Laveen, the top Democrat in the House. Senate Bill 531 applies to teachers, school counselors, school service personnel and State Troopers. March 10, 2022. Likely there will be some sort of compromise concerning the two state bills. In the House of Representatives, most of the budget bills garnered at least 40 votes in the 60-member chamber. Watching is one of those who spoke against it, Sen. Craig Miner. Although it wasn't enough for some fiscal conservatives in the Legislature, savings can be a dry part of the budget but also an important one. The employee pay raise bill got to the finish line with a $10,000 raise for State Troopers, up from the original $2,550 figure. And it puts another $425 million in the rainy day fund to help the state weather a potential recession. May 4, 2022. 0. 1/. Arizona Gov. Their agreement adds $80 million in combined additional funding for Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, bringing their funding boosts in line with additional money already allocated to the University of Arizona. This year, it comes in the form of the elimination of the state equalization tax, which is levied against properties. Support local journalism. The Legislature set aside $84 million for much-needed job-class-specific pay increases. Only a handful of dissenters from each party voted against the package of bills, and Republican Gov. Karamargin, Duceys spokesman, said there is increasing competitiveness in all sorts of jobs. The budget is made up of 17 pieces of legislation and amounts to hundreds of pages. Both measures will allow laid-off workers to take on more part-time work. Also on Thursday evening, Senate made its way through its calendar, completing action on six additional bills and passing 11 others that will need to be finalized by the House. I dont think we have a competitiveness problem here in Arizona, Rep. Kelli Butler, D-Paradise Valley, said, citing the, made in the state since its implementation and the states meager tax collections. Arizona lawmakers have approved a nearly $18 billion spending plan for the budget year ahead just one week before their deadline to do so. Republican leaders had struggled for months to craft a spending plan that could find unanimous support in the fractious GOP caucuses without relying on Democrats. This is really just getting on a soap box and vilifying immigrants and creating a political point, Quezada said. Right now, you can only earn $30 before benefits are reduced. Republicans last year cut $1.7 billion in income taxes. Our stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. A virtual reality experience is launching in Phoenix, allowing visitors to submerge themselves in history while touring the Anne Frank House. March 10, 2022. Their agreement adds $80 million in combined additional funding for Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, bringing their funding boosts in line with additional money already allocated to University of Arizona. "It really was just a stopgap to start trying to stop people from leaving because all the agencies around us have received considerable pay raises and we were still so far behind," Hawkins said. 0. And that total is expected to grow considerably between now and July 1. Thats when more stringent limits on state retirement benefits, negotiated as part of a 2017 concessions deal with unions, take effect. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The agreements, which unions ratified earlier this spring, are retroactive to the start of this fiscal year, which began last July 1. Only a handful of dissenters from each party voted against the package of bills, and Republican Gov. For the latest local news, download the FOX 10 News app. Duceys office routinely issues news releases when he allocates cash from the pot of COVID-19 relief money he controls, but that wasnt done this time. Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. The Senate completed action on a bill Thursday evening that will provide pay raises for state employees whose wages are outlined in state code. Republican leaders had struggled for months to craft a spending plan that could find unanimous support in the fractious GOP caucuses without relying on Democrats. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX. The Senate gave final approval Friday to a four-year package of raises for state employees that includes $3,500 in bonuses to help stem a surge in worker retirements. Follow Arizona Mirror on Facebook and Twitter. WebDeputy Chief Investment Officer. Duceys budget director, Matt Gress, informed the Republican Senate president and House speaker of his decision to tap the funds for premium pay in a Dec. 9 letter. Tax cuts are a staple of the annual budget. The Legislature set aside $84 million for much-needed job-class-specific pay increases. The contracts allow workers to accept the $2,500 extra payment and still retire before July 1. That includes $544 million for border security, roughly half of it for a wall, and $1 billion for highway construction, including widening Interstate 10 north of Casa Grande. Keith has spent most of his 31 years as a reporter specializing in state government finances, analyzing such topics as income tax equity, waste in government and the complex funding systems behind Connecticuts transportation and social services networks. By increasing the number of steps in the salary ranges, agencies have a way to reward long-term employees based on performance, and provide a mechanism to allow employees growth in their respective salary ranges, State Personnel Director Jackie Graham told Alabama Daily News. Web2022 Top Companies; Morning Scoop. PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. December 9, 2014 Leave a comment. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. Budget impasse:Republican fighting over promises, big spending stalls Arizona budget plan as deadline looms. State lawmakers worked overnight and passed a $15.6 billion budget in the early morning hours of June 23. TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - On Friday, Jan. 15, Arizona Gov. WebRaise Corporate STO Cap by $2 M; Increase Individual STO cap by $250/$500 in FY 24 (2.0) (11.9) (13.0) 10 Expand Vets Property Tax Exemption to all Disability Levels (Savings in '24) (Separate Bill) Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE 11: Eliminate State Equalization Tax Rate see ADE see ADE see ADE In a time of intense partisan divisions see recent debates over school curriculum, transgender rights, abortion Republican leaders reached across the aisle to get the state's spending plan across the finish line when their own members objected. Ironically, it was the Legislatures most conservative lawmakers who forced the hands of GOP leaders when they balked at initial, smaller spending proposals. Both are leaving the Legislature after this year. Sen. Martin Quezada, a Glendale Democrat, spoke out against plans to spend $335 million for a wall on the southern border, which he said would be useless in stopping people from crossing. State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. Average annual pay before overtime for non-supervisors is just over $70,000. The Senate is adjourned until tomorrow, March 11, at 11 a.m. This is what our state, where voters are nearly evenly divided by party affiliation, has long asked of us to work together, said Rep. Reginald Bolding of Laveen, the top Democrat in the House. 0. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. Reach reporter Stacey Barchenger at stacey.barchenger@arizonarepublic.comor 480-416-5669. Originally Published: June 23, 2022 10:52 a.m. It is unclear whether Gov. Doug Ducey, who appoints judges, a chance to further shape a conservative bench just ahead of his departure from office. They also cover the next two fiscal years and potentially 2024-25 as well. From families with school-age children, to the 35,000 state employees to motorists seeking a smoother drive, the budget has money for many of their needs. 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