NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1257

HOUSE BILL 78

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE SUBSISTENCE AND TRAVEL ALLOWANCE OF THE MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-3.1 is hereby amended by striking the present subsections (a) (b) and (c) and inserting new subsections as follows:

"(a)       In addition to compensation for their services, members and presiding officers of the General Assembly shall also receive, while engaged in legislative duties, such subsistence and travel allowances as are limited and prescribed by subsections (b) and (c) of this Section.

"(b)      The travel allowance authorized by subsection (a) of this Section shall be paid the members and presiding officers of the General Assembly while coming to the City of Raleigh and returning to their respective homes, the distance to be computed by the usual route of public travel. Such travel allowance shall be paid upon proper certification, only for travel expense based on actual mileage, and the expense of such mileage shall be deemed to be eight cents (8˘) per mile. This travel allowance shall be limited to a maximum of one (1) round trip each week during each regular or special session of the General Assembly.

"(c)       In addition to the travel allowance authorized in subsection (b) of this Section, during any session of the General Assembly, whenever any member or presiding officer of either house of the General Assembly is directed by any committee of either house or by either house of the General Assembly to perform any legislative duties outside of the City of Raleigh when out of session, then in such event such member or presiding officer shall be paid subsistence allowances while engaged in such duties in the amount provided hereafter. Subsistence allowance for expenses incurred in connection with their duties in the General Assembly in the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day shall be paid members and presiding officers for each day of the period during which the General Assembly remains in session."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 120-4 is hereby repealed and rewritten as follows:

"Sec. 120-4.  Speaker and President Pro Tempore. For each day spent in the service of the State at times when the General Assembly is not in session, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate each shall be entitled to receive subsistence and travel allowances at the rates prescribed in Sec. 120-3.1. The costs of clerical assistance, postage, and other office expenses incurred by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate in the performance of their official duties when the General Assembly is not in session shall be a proper charge against the funds appropriated for the maintenance and operation of the Legislative Research Commission."

Sec. 2.1.  The payment of subsistence as provided in this Act shall be made for each day the General Assembly has been in session since January 15. 1969.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.