Section 45-7-4. Annual salaries of certain state officials; cost-of-living adjustments

   (a) The annual salary of each of the state officials listed below shall be as follows:
       (1) Governor.................................................$ 60,000.00
            An allowance in an amount specified in the appropriations Act 
               shall also be provided for the operation of the Governor's 
               mansion.
       (2) Lieutenant Governor........................................54,920.00
       (3) Adjutant general
            The adjutant general shall continue to receive the pay and 
               allowances under the same procedure as provided by law.
       (4) Commissioner of Agriculture...............................100,429.00
       (5) Attorney General..........................................114,633.00
       (6) Reserved.
       (7) Commissioner of Insurance.................................100,396.00
       (8) Reserved.
       (9) Commissioner of Labor.....................................100,418.00
            The above amount of salary for the Commissioner of Labor shall 
               include any compensation received from the United States 
               government and the amount of state funds paid shall be reduced 
               by the amount of compensation received from the United States 
               government.
      (10) Reserved.
      (11) Each member of the Public Service Commis-
 
         sion.........................................................96,655.00
      (12) Reserved.
      (13) State School Superintendent...............................102,708.00
      (14) Secretary of State........................................102,708.00
      (15) Reserved.
      (16) Reserved.
      (17) Reserved.
      (18) Each Justice of the Supreme Court.........................139,418.00
      (19) Each Judge of the Court of Appeals........................138,556.00
      (20) Each superior court judge..................................99,862.00
            Each superior court judge shall also receive any supplement paid 
               to such judge by the county or counties of such judge's 
               judicial circuit as may be provided for by law. Each superior 
               court judge shall also receive reimbursement of travel expenses 
               as provided by law.
      (21) Each district attorney....................................107,905.00
            Each district attorney shall also receive any supplement paid to 
               such district attorney by the county or counties of such 
               district attorney's judicial circuit as may be provided for by 
               law.  Each district attorney shall also receive reimbursement 
               of travel expenses as provided by law.
      (22) Each member of the General Assembly........................16,200.00
            (A) Reserved.
            (B) Each member of the General Assembly shall also receive the 
               allowances provided by law. The amount of the daily expense 
               allowance which each member is entitled to receive under the 
               provisions of Code Section 28-1-8 shall be as provided in that 
               Code section. The mileage allowance for the use of a personal 
               car on official business shall be the same as that received by 
               other state officials and employees.
            (C) In addition to any other compensation and allowances 
               authorized for members of the General Assembly, each member may 
               be reimbursed for per diem differential and for actual expenses 
               incurred in the performance of duties within the state as a 
               member of the General Assembly in an amount not to exceed 
               $7,000.00 per year. Expenses reimbursable up to such amount 
               shall be limited to one or more of the following purposes: 
               lodging, meals, per diem differential, postage, personal 
               services, printing and publications, rents, supplies (including 
               software), telecommunications, transportation, utilities, and 
               purchasing or leasing of equipment. If equipment purchased by a 
               member has a depreciated value of $100.00 or less when such 
               member leaves office, the equipment does not need to be 
               returned to the state. No reimbursement shall be made for any 
               postage which is used for a political newsletter. No 
               reimbursement shall be paid for lodging or meals for any day 
               for which a member receives the daily expense allowance as 
               provided in this paragraph. Such expenses shall be reimbursed 
               upon the submission of sworn vouchers to the legislative fiscal 
               office. Such sworn vouchers shall be accompanied by a 
               supporting document or documents showing payment for each 
               expense claimed or an explanation of the absence of such 
               documentation. No sworn voucher or supporting document shall be 
               required for per diem differential.
            (D) The amount of per diem differential which may be claimed for 
               each day under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph shall be the 
               difference between the daily expense allowance authorized for 
               members of the General Assembly and $119.00; provided, however, 
               that the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year may 
               increase such amount of $119.00 per day to an amount not in 
               excess of the federal per diem rate then in effect for the 
               state capital as specified by the General Services 
               Administration. Per diem differential shall be paid by the 
               legislative fiscal office to the member upon the member's 
               notification to the legislative fiscal office of the days for 
               which the daily expense allowance was received for which the 
               member wishes to claim the per diem differential, and the 
               legislative fiscal office shall keep a record of the days for 
               which per diem differential is so claimed and paid.
            (E) For the purposes of this paragraph, a year shall begin on the 
               convening date of the General Assembly in regular session each 
               year and end on the day prior to the convening of the General 
               Assembly in the next calendar year. Any voucher or claim for 
               any reimbursement for any year as defined in this paragraph 
               shall be submitted no later than the fifteenth of April 
               immediately following the end of such year. No reimbursement 
               shall be made on any voucher or claim submitted after that 
               date. Any amounts remaining in such expense account at the end 
               of the first year of the two year biennium may be claimed for 
               expenses incurred during the second year of the two year 
               biennium. Any amounts remaining in any expense account which 
               are not so claimed by April 15 of the year following the second 
               year of the biennium and any amounts claimed which are returned 
               as hereafter provided for in this paragraph shall lapse and 
               shall be remitted by the legislative fiscal office to the 
               general fund of the state treasury. Any former member of the 
               General Assembly may be reimbursed for expenses incurred while 
               a member of the General Assembly upon compliance with the 
               provisions of this paragraph. The Legislative Services 
               Committee is empowered to provide such procedures as it deems 
               advisable to administer the provisions of this paragraph, 
               including, but not limited to, definitions of the above list of 
               items for which reimbursement may be made and the form of the 
               voucher or claim which must be submitted to the legislative 
               fiscal office. In the event of any disagreement as to whether 
               any reimbursement shall be made or any allowance shall be paid, 
               the Legislative Services Committee shall make the final 
               determination. In the event any reimbursement is made or any 
               allowance is paid and it is later determined that such 
               reimbursement or payment was made in error, the person to whom 
               such reimbursement or payment was made shall remit to the 
               legislative fiscal office the amount of money involved. In the 
               event any such person refuses to make such remittance, the 
               legislative fiscal office is authorized to withhold the payment 
               of any other moneys to which such person is entitled until the 
               amount of such reimbursement or payment which was made in error 
               shall be realized.
      (23) Speaker of the House of Representatives....................17,800.00
            The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall also receive the 
               salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General 
               Assembly. Upon the taking of office by the members of the 
               General Assembly on the convening day of the regular session of 
               the General Assembly in 1983, the annual salary of the Speaker 
               of the House of Representatives shall become $22,800.00. After 
               such date, the Speaker shall also receive as additional salary 
               a sum equal to the amount of salary over $30,000.00 per annum 
               which is received by the Lieutenant Governor as of that date or 
               thereafter; and the salary of the Speaker shall be adjusted at 
               the beginning of each term so as to include such additional sum.
      (24) President Pro Tempore of the Senate.........................4,800.00
            The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall also receive the 
               salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General 
               Assembly.
      (25) Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives.........4,800.00
            The Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives shall also receive the salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General Assembly.

(b) As a cost-of-living adjustment except as qualified below as to members and member-officers of the General Assembly, the annual salary of each state official whose salary is established by Code Section 45-7-3, this Code section, and Code Sections 45-7-20 and 45-7-21, including members of the General Assembly, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, may be increased by the General Assembly in the General Appropriations Act by a percentage not to exceed the average percentage of the general increase in salary as may from time to time be granted to employees of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. However, any increase for such officials shall not include within-grade step increases for which employees subject to compensation plans authorized and approved in accordance with Code Section 45-20-4 are eligible. Any increase granted pursuant to this subsection shall become effective at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees, except increases for members and member-officers of the General Assembly. That portion of the increase determined by the Legislative Services Committee to reflect a cost-of-living increase based upon objective economic criteria shall become effective for members and member-officers at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees. The balance of the increase for members and member-officers of the General Assembly shall become effective on the convening of the next General Assembly in January of the next odd-numbered year. The Office of Planning and Budget shall calculate the average percentage increase.

(c) The annual salary being received on June 30, 1980, shall be increased by 8 percent for each state official listed in subsection (a) of this Code section who:

   (1) Is not a member of the General Assembly; and

   (2) Is not a contributing member of a state retirement system and, therefore, does not benefit by or participate in any program whereunder a portion of the employee contributions to the state retirement system are made on behalf of the employee by the employer.

Ga. L. 1973, p. 701, § 2; Ga. L. 1978, p. 4, § 2; Ga. L. 1978, p. 902, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 756, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 758, § 1; Ga. L. 1980, p. 925, § 19; Ga. L. 1981, p. 894, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1255, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 34; Ga. L. 1983, p. 719, § 1; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1401, § 20; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1831, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 45; Ga. L. 1984, p. 444, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 717, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 808, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1985, p. 283, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 493, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 524, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 672, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1986, p. 877, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 154, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 284, § 2; Ga. L. 1989, p. 212, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 579, § 5; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1363, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 45; Ga. L. 1994, p. 851, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1065, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 45; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1018, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1302, § 2; Ga. L. 1999, p. 910, § 4; Ga. L. 1999, p. 1213, §§ 5, 6, 7; Ga. L. 1999, p. 1242, §§ 2, 2.1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 783, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 45; Ga. L. 2006, p. 414, § 5/HB 268; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 1/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-69/HB 642.