The good news is that the Legislature failed to adopt the concurrent resolution that would have rejected the recommendations of the Judicial Salary Commission. This means the salary recommendations became law as of May 6, 2004 and the judges may get their raise on July 1, 2005.
Now the bad news. The Legislature will get one more shot at it during the next session starting in January of next year. It's anyone's guess as to what will happen but rumor is the Legislature may amend or repeal the law that setup the Salary Commission and refuse to implement some or all of the recommended salary increases.
At this point, all I can say is we will take this one step at a time, planning for the worst but hoping for the best...
