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SCR 101

LEGISLATIVE COMPENSATION – States findings of the Legislature and rejects the rate of legislative compensation set by the Citizens’ Committee on Legislative Compensation.

68th Legislature, 1st Regular Session (2025)

SCR 101 rejects Nov 6, 2024 Citizens’ Committee pay raise, keeps Idaho legislators’ pay at the Sixty-seventh Legislature level, saving about $658,000 annually.

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Bill Summary · SCR 101

Summary — SCR 101 (Idaho)

Concurrent Resolution rejecting the Citizens’ Committee legislative compensation rates

Purpose / Intent

SCR 101 is a concurrent resolution of the Idaho Legislature that formally rejects the legislative compensation and expense rates recommended by the Citizens’ Committee on Legislative Compensation (report dated November 6, 2024). The resolution’s stated intent is to keep legislator pay at the level in effect during the prior (Sixty-seventh) Legislature rather than implement the Committee’s increase scheduled to take effect December 1, 2024.

Key provisions

  • Formally rejects the compensation and expense rates set by the Citizens’ Committee on Legislative Compensation on November 6, 2024, that were to take effect beginning December 1, 2024, for the subsequent two-year period.
  • Directs that the rate of compensation and expenses in effect during the Sixty-seventh Idaho Legislature remains in full force and effect.
  • States that compensation and expenses that were in effect from December 1, 2024, until the effective date of this resolution are deemed to have been lawfully in effect during that period and that any amounts paid need not be recovered (i.e., no clawback of pay).

Legal basis

  • The resolution cites the Legislature’s constitutional authority (Section 23, Article III, Idaho Constitution) to reject or reduce rates of compensation and expenses set by the Citizens’ Committee on Legislative Compensation.

Fiscal impact

  • The sponsor-prepared fiscal note estimates annual salary and variable benefit savings to the General Fund of approximately $658,000. Because the resolution takes effect after the Committee’s increase went into effect on December 1, 2024, first‑year savings are slightly less than the full annual amount. The resolution does not require repayment of amounts already paid.

Who is affected

  • Primary effect: Idaho state legislators (the rate they are paid).
  • Secondary effect: Idaho General Fund (reduced ongoing compensation expenditures relative to the rejected higher rate).
  • No changes to statutory law; the action is a legislative determination under the Constitution about compensation levels.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced as SCR 101 in the First Regular Session of the Sixty‑eighth Idaho Legislature (sponsor: Senator Christy Zito).
  • Co-sponsors listed (Senate and House members) in the resolution file.
  • Legislative actions in 2025 show committee and floor consideration consistent with a concurrent resolution process; sponsor contact provided in the fiscal note.
  • Because this is a concurrent resolution exercising a constitutional prerogative over compensation, its practical effect is to set the Legislature’s compensation level rather than create enforceable statutory changes outside the compensation context.

Contact / source

  • Sponsor contact (as listed in the fiscal note): Senator Christy Zito.
  • Fiscal note and statement of purpose attached to the resolution indicate estimated savings and implementation timing.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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