House Republican leader Craig Johnson, introduced an entirely new bill to eliminate state workers’ annual and biennial pay increases that a Democratic colleague said could actually set negotiations backward. He said House Bill 379 is a “part of the package” needed to close the state’s $4 billion budget gap. According to the bill, the increases would be reinstated if the price of oil — revenues from which have traditionally funded the majority of state government — rise to $90 a barrel from their current low of $42.
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