Like the 2014 bill, the 2015 bill does repeal the specific provision in the state's constitution prohibiting decreases in
judicial salaries mid-term and replaces it with the Commission system.
The Ohio Senate yesterday approved a plan (SJR 1) to create a Public Office Compensation Commission with the power to reduce
judicial salaries mid-term in cases of fiscal emergency, a departure from a 2014 proposal which would have allowed them to be diminished for any reason.