Bill Text: MS HB42 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Counties; authorize to pay poll workers certain mileage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-03-03 - Died In Committee [HB42 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB42-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections; County Affairs
By: Representative Clark
House Bill 42
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 Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) for each election; however, the board of supervisors may, in its discretion, pay the poll managers an additional amount not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00) 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 Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each voting
precinct for * * *
that service. The poll manager who acts as returning officer shall be
allowed Ten Dollars ($10.00) 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.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
