Bill Text: MS SB2162 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

Mississippi Senate Bill 2162 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Legislative compensation for extraordinary session duties; no extra payment if Legislature is convened in regular session.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)

Status: (Failed) 2011-03-01 - Died In Committee [SB2162 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2011-SB2162-Engrossed.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2011 Regular Session

To: Fees, Salaries and Administration; Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Ward, Dickerson, Frazier, Hopson, Kirby, McDaniel, Wilemon, Yancey

Senate Bill 2162

(As Passed the Senate)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 5-1-41, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT LEGISLATORS SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR ANY EXTRAORDINARY SESSION WHICH IS HELD WHILE THE LEGISLATURE IS CONVENED IN REGULAR SESSION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 5-1-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

5-1-41. Beginning with the 1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place where the Legislature sits. Beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called session the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per day and mileage at the same rate as per regular session; provided, however, that there shall be no such payment for attending an extraordinary session held on any day that the Legislature is convened in regular session and receives compensation for the regular session. In addition to the above, beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor shall receive the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per month for expenses incidental to his office for every full month of his term, except any month or major fraction thereof when the Legislature is convened in regular or extraordinary session; and payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month following the month for which the payments are due.

SECTION 2. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall submit this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.