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The Arkansas Legislature's Joint Budget Committee on Thursday signed off on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' request to grant 2% merit pay raises to the secretaries of the state departments of commerce, education, human services, military and veteran affairs and the Governor's Mansion administrator and exceed their maximum-authorized salaries.
Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge paid 26 of the office's employees a total of $69,055 in excess of the line-item salary appropriation under Act 45 of 2021 for their positions in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, 2022, and that conflicts with Article 16, Section 4 of the Arkansas Constitution, according to Arkansas Legislative Audit.
LITTLE ROCK -- Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge paid 26 of the office's employees a total of $69,055 in excess of the line-item salary appropriation under Act 45 of 2021 for their positions in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, 2022, and that conflicts with Article 16, Section 4 of the Arkansas Constitution, according to Arkansas Legislative Audit.
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Attorney General Tim Griffin believes that a constitutional officer may not pay an employee more than the maximum line-item salary in the office's appropriation, even if the constitutional officer does not exceed the office's total appropriation, Chief Deputy Attorney General Bob Brooks told state lawmakers Thursday.