SB 819 - This act revises several provisions regarding salaries of prosecuting attorneys. In any county in which all salaries have been set at 100% of the maximum allowable compensation, the commission may vote to increase the compensation of all offices except that of full-time prosecuting attorneys.

In counties with correctional centers, the prosecuting attorney receives additional compensation according to the inmate population. These additional amounts shall be included in the computation of the maximum allowable compensation.

It also allows full-time prosecuting attorneys to accept appointment as special prosecutors in first classification counties. The act consolidates the salary schedule, so that there is only one salary for all part-time prosecutors regardless of county classification. For full-time prosecutors, who receive compensation equal to that of an associate circuit judge, the reference to chartered counties "of the first classification" is deleted, as well as the provision requiring the population factor to be "disclosed as in the last preceding federal decennial census".

This act is to become effective on December 31, 1998.
JOAN GUMMELS