KRS 48.195: Financial information on salaries and on filing fees and costs to be

submitted as part of the judicial branch budget recommendation -- Treatment

of salaries in judicial branch budget bill.

(1) The General Assembly shall set the salaries of the justices and judges of the Court

of Justice in the judicial branch budget bill. The Chief Justice shall include in the

judicial branch budget recommendation the salaries of the justices and the judges. If

the General Assembly concurs with the recommended judicial salaries contained in

the judicial branch budget recommendation, then the judicial salaries shall be set in

the judicial branch budget bill by incorporating by reference the judicial branch

budget recommendation. If the General Assembly sets judicial salar ies different

from the judicial branch budget recommendation, then the General Assembly shall

set forth the salaries of the justices and judges or the incremental changes in the

judicial branch budget bill.

(2) The Chief Justice shall include in the judicial branch budget recommendation:

(a) The filing fees and costs, and any changes in the fees and costs, set under KRS

23A.200 or 24A.170 during the fiscal biennium immediately preceding the

biennium for which the recommendation is submitted; and

(b) A state ment of whether, and to what extent, the Supreme Court intends to

raise or anticipates raising the fees and costs set under KRS 23A.200 or

24A.170 during the biennium for which the recommendation is submitted.