Committee to Consider New State Trooper Contract

Meeting to be Held Tuesday

The legislative committee that deals with state workers’ contracts is set to consider another new deal for state troopers.

The Republican-controlled Joint Committee on Employment Relations rejected a two-year deal in March that would have given the troopers a 17 percent pay raise on average.

Committee leaders said the full Legislature would never support such a raise.

The committee is set to hold a hearing on a new contract Tuesday that would give the troopers a 3 percent raise for fiscal year 2014 and again for fiscal year 2015.

The money paid out through retroactive lump sums.

The new pay rates would remain in effect going forward.

In exchange the troopers would have to pay more monthly for their health insurance.