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Currently, the Legislature sets the governor's salary each year through the state budget process. Starting July 1, 2026, this bill would instead tie the governor's pay automatically to the total compensation of the chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court, including any extra pay the chief justice receives, so the governor's salary would rise or fall along with the chief justice's compensation rather than being set through a separate legislative vote. Because state law calculates the salaries of the lieutenant governor, attorney general, state auditor, and state treasurer as fixed percentages of the governor's salary, their pay would also change automatically whenever the chief justice's compensation changes.