Bill Text: MO HB1571 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Specifies that for two years the daily expense allowance for members of the General Assembly will remain the same as the rate in effect on September 30, 2009

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-18 - Referred: Rules - Pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f) (H) [HB1571 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB1571-Comm_Sub.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NOS. 1571 & 1645

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

4241L.02C                                                                                                                                                 D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 21.145, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the daily expense allowance for senators and representatives, with an emergency clause.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 21.145, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 21.145, to read as follows:

            21.145. 1. Each senator or representative shall be reimbursed from the state treasury for actual and necessary expenses in an amount equal to eighty percent of the federal per diem established by the Internal Revenue Service for Jefferson City for each day on which the journal of the senate or house, respectively, shows the presence of such senator or representative. Upon certification by the president and secretary of the senate and by the speaker and chief clerk of the house of representatives as to the respective members thereof, the commissioner of administration shall approve and the state treasurer shall pay monthly such expense allowance.

            2. Beginning on the effective date of this act and for a period ending two years from the effective date of this act, the reimbursement rate provided in subsection 1 of this section shall be the same as the rate in effect on September 30, 2009, and shall not be increased.

            Section B.  Because of the dire budget circumstances facing this state in the coming years, section A of this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.

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