Authority: Title 17.1, Chapter 4 and § 19.2-163, Code of Virginia.

A. Out of the amounts in this Item for Appellate Review shall be paid: 

1. 1. The annual salary of the Chief Justice, $164,883 from July 1, 2012, to November 24, 2012, $164,883 from November 25, 2012, to November 24, 2013, and $164,883 from November 25, 2013, to June 30, 2014.

2. The annual salaries of the ten (10) judges, each at $161,822 from July 1, 2012, to November 24, 2012, $161,822 from November 25, 2012, to November 24, 2013, and $161,822 from November 25, 2013, to June 30, 2014.

3. Salaries of the judges are to be 95 percent of the salaries of justices of the Supreme Court except for the Chief Judge, who shall receive an additional $3,000 annually.

4. To each judge, $6,500 the first year and $6,500 the second year, for expenses not otherwise reimbursed, said expenses to be paid out of the current appropriation to the Court.

B. There is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance remaining at the close of business on June 30, 2012, in the appropriation made in Item 40, Chapter 890, Acts of Assembly of 2011, in the item detail Other Court Costs and Allowances (Criminal Fund) and the balance remaining in this item detail on June 30, 2013.

C. The amount of attorney's fees allowed counsel to indigent defendants in appeals to the Court of Appeals shall be in the discretion of the court.