Senate File 21
SENATE FILE
BY McKIBBEN
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act reducing the number of days of payment for the expenses of
2 office for members of the general assembly during a regular
3 legislative session.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 2.10, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 1. a. Every member of the general assembly except the
1 4 presiding officer of the senate, the speaker of the house, the
1 5 majority and minority floor leader of each house, and the
1 6 president pro tempore of the senate and speaker pro tempore of
1 7 the house, shall receive an annual salary of twenty thousand
1 8 one hundred twenty dollars for the year 1997 and subsequent
1 9 years while serving as a member of the general assembly.
1 10 b. In addition, each such member shall receive the sum of
1 11 eighty=six dollars per day for expenses of office, except
1 12 travel, for each day the general assembly is in session
1 13 commencing with the first day of a legislative session and
1 14 ending with the day of final adjournment of each legislative
1 15 session as indicated by the journals of the house and senate,
1 16 except that. However, if the length of the first regular
1 17 session of the general assembly exceeds one hundred ten
1 18 calendar days and the second regular session exceeds one
1 19 hundred ninety calendar days, the payments shall be made only
1 20 for one hundred ten calendar days for the first session and
1 21 one hundred ninety calendar days for the second session.
1 22 Members from Polk county shall receive sixty=five dollars per
1 23 day.
1 24 c. Each member shall receive a two hundred dollar per
1 25 month allowance for legislative district constituency postage,
1 26 travel, telephone costs, and other expenses.
1 27 d. Travel expenses shall be paid at the rate established
1 28 by section 18.117 for actual travel in going to and returning
1 29 from the seat of government by the nearest traveled route for
1 30 not more than one time per week during a legislative session.
1 31 EXPLANATION
1 32 This bill reduces the number of days of payment for the
1 33 expenses of office for members of the general assembly during
1 34 a regular legislative session.
1 35 Under current law in Code section 2.10, subsection 1, such
2 1 payment is limited to 110 calendar days during the first
2 2 regular session in odd=numbered years and 100 calendar days
2 3 during the second regular session in even=numbered years. The
2 4 bill reduces the limitation by 10 calendar days for each
2 5 regular session. In addition, the bill divides the subsection
2 6 into lettered paragraphs.
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