HB 2497 Summary

• Removes the phrase "as determined by the latest preceding federal decennial census" from the population threshold criteria for determining county salary schedules in A.R.S. § 11-419.

• Renumbers subsections C through F to D through G to accommodate the deletion.

• Maintains existing annual salary schedules for county officers in counties with populations of 500,000 or more persons versus fewer than 500,000 persons.

• Preserves salary adjustment provisions allowing county boards of supervisors to increase county attorney and county sheriff salaries above statutory minimums, with limitations on increases and restrictions on reductions during incumbents' terms.

• Effective date: December 31, 2018.