Bill Text: MS HB2 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties; authorize to pay poll workers certain mileage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB2 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HB2-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: County Affairs; Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Clark
House Bill 2
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-227, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT FOR ANY POLL MANAGER OR OTHER PERSON WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE VOTING PRECINCT AND WAS REQUIRED TO RETURN TO THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE AFTER THE POLLS CLOSE ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-227, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-227. (1) * * *
The poll managers shall be each
entitled to One Hundred Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) for each election; however,
the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, pay the poll managers an additional
amount not to exceed Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per election.
(2) The poll manager who * * * carries to the place of voting,
away from the courthouse, the official ballots, ballot boxes, pollbooks and other
necessities, shall be allowed up to Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for each voting
precinct for * * *
that service. The poll manager who acts as returning officer shall be allowed
up to Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for each voting precinct for that service. If
a person who performs the duties described in this subsection uses a privately owned
motor vehicle to perform them, he or she shall receive for each mile actually and
necessarily traveled in excess of ten (10) miles, the mileage reimbursement rate
allowable to federal employees for the use of a privately owned vehicle while on
official travel. If the registrar requires any poll manager or other person
who was present at the voting precinct to return to the registrar's office
after the polls close on the day of the election, then that person shall
receive for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in excess of ten (10)
miles, the mileage reimbursement rate allowable to federal employees for the use
of a privately owned vehicle while on official travel to the registrar's
office.
(3) The compensation authorized in this section shall be allowed by the board of supervisors, and shall be payable out of the county treasury.
(4) The compensation provided in this section shall constitute payment in full for the services rendered by the persons named for any election, whether there be one (1) election or issue voted upon, or more than one (1) election or issue voted upon at the same time.
(5) The Secretary of State shall promulgate rules and regulations as are necessary to ensure the safety of poll managers, election commissioners, electors and their families at the voting precincts during a COVID-19 public health risk or other public health risk declared by the Governor where the appearance of such persons may result in exposure to such risk or the exposure of other persons to such risk.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.
