Further regulating the compensation of certain public officials

What it means

Changes pay for legislative leaders, statewide officials and judges. It raises extra pay for legislative leadership posts, for example from $35,000 to $80,000 for the Senate President and House Speaker, from $25,000 to $65,000 for the Ways and Means chairs, and from $22,500 to $60,000 for party floor leaders, sets extra pay for other leadership posts, and sets a yearly expense allowance of $15,000 for members living within 50 miles of the State House and $20,000 for those farther away. It sets salaries of $185,000 for the Governor (plus $65,000 a year for housing), $175,000 for the Treasurer and Attorney General, and $165,000 for the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State and Auditor, with pay adjusted every 2 years to wage changes, and bars the Governor, these officials, the Senate President and the House Speaker from receiving earned income from other sources (passive income is allowed). It raises judges' salaries in four steps from January 1, 2017 to July 1, 2018 (for example, one Supreme Judicial Court figure goes from $181,239 to $206,239).

Source: official text and history of H.58 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.