A bill for an act relating to the compensation of county officers.

This bill requires Iowa county compensation boards to set salaries for county officers (including sheriffs, auditors, and treasurers) using specific comparison benchmarks. For sheriff salaries, boards must use the statistical mean of salaries for comparable law enforcement roles in the state patrol, criminal investigation division, and city police chiefs in cities with populations within 1,000 people of the county's population. Boards must document their salary recommendations using data from other Iowa counties, other states, private sector, and federal government, and a majority vote is needed to approve the schedule. If counties fail to follow these rules, the Attorney General can sue to compel compliance via a writ of mandamus.