Text: HF00345 Text: HF00347 Text: HF00300 - HF00399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 2.10, subsection 1, Code 1997, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. 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. In 1 10 addition, each such member shall receivethe sum of eighty-six1 11dollars per day, upon the convening of each regular session of 1 12 the general assembly, an amount for expenses of office, except 1 13 travel, foreach dayservice while the general assembly is in 1 14 sessioncommencing with the first day of a legislative session1 15and ending with the day of final adjournment of each1 16legislative session as indicated by the journals of the house1 17and senate, except that if the length of. The amount received 1 18 shall be nine thousand four hundred sixty dollars for service 1 19 during the first regular session of the general assembly 1 20exceeds one hundred ten calendar daysand eight thousand six 1 21 hundred dollars for service during the second regular session 1 22exceeds one hundred calendar days, the payments shall be made1 23only for one hundred ten calendar days for the first session1 24and one hundred calendar days for the second sessionof the 1 25 general assembly. Members from Polk county shall receive 1 26sixty-five dollars per dayseven thousand one hundred fifty 1 27 dollars for service during the first regular session of the 1 28 general assembly and six thousand five hundred dollars for 1 29 service during the second regular session of the general 1 30 assembly. Each member shall receive a two hundred dollar per 1 31 month allowance for legislative district constituency postage, 1 32 travel, telephone costs, and other expenses. Travel expenses 1 33 shall be paid at the rate established bysection 18.117the 1 34 general assembly for actual travel in going to and returning 1 35 from the seat of government by the nearest traveled route for 2 1 not more than one time per week during a legislative session. 2 2 Sec. 2. This Act takes effect upon the convening of the 2 3 Seventy-eighth General Assembly in January 1999. 2 4 EXPLANATION 2 5 This bill provides that members of the general assembly 2 6 shall receive an amount for expenses, upon the convening of 2 7 each regular session of the general assembly, for service 2 8 while the general assembly is in regular session regardless of 2 9 the length of the regular session. The amounts established in 2 10 the bill represent the current daily rate for expenses allowed 2 11 during the session multiplied by the maximum number of days a 2 12 member may receive such expenses during that session. For 2 13 example, for members not from Polk county, $86 times 110 for 2 14 the first session and $86 times 100 for the second session. 2 15 This bill takes effect upon the convening of the Seventy- 2 16 eighth General Assembly in January 1999. 2 17 LSB 1573HH 77 2 18 ec/jw/5.1
Text: HF00345 Text: HF00347 Text: HF00300 - HF00399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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