State lawmakers would see a 72 percent increase to their salaries under the recommendations of a committee created by the Georgia legislature earlier this year to review compensation for elected officials.
In a report, the committee also recommended increasing by 19 percent the varying salaries of constitutional officers who are elected statewide, for example, the secretary of state, attorney general, state school superintendent and agricultural commissioner
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