GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1131
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/11/89

Short Title:  Reimbursement for Lunches.	(Public)
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April 10, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MODIFY THE LAW PERTAINING TO REIMBURSEMENT OF STATE EMPLOYEE LUNCHES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 138-6(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Travel on official business by the officers and employees of State departments, institutions and agencies which operate from funds deposited with the State Treasurer shall be reimbursed at the following rates:
(1)	For transportation by privately owned automobile, twenty-five cents (25¢) per mile of travel and the actual cost of tolls paid. No reimbursement shall be made for the use of a personal car in commuting from an employee's home to his duty station in connection with regularly scheduled work hours. Any designation of an employee's home as his duty station by a department head shall require prior approval by the Office of State Budget and Management on an annual basis.
(2)	For bus, railroad, Pullman, or other conveyance, actual fare.
(3)	For expenses incurred for subsistence, payment of fifty-two dollars ($52.00) per day when traveling in-state or sixty-four dollars ($64.00) per day when traveling out-of-state. When travel involves less than a full day (24-hour period), a reasonable prorated amount shall be paid in accordance with regulations and criteria which shall be promulgated and published by the Director of the Budget. Reimbursement to State employees for lunches eaten while on official business may be made only in the following circumstances:
a.	When an overnight stay is required reimbursement is allowed while an employee is in travel status;
b.	When the cost of the lunch is included as part of a registration fee for a formal congress, conference, assembly, or convocation, by whatever name called. Such assembly must involve the active participation of persons other than the employees of a single State department, institution, or agency and must be necessary for conducting official State business;
c.	When the State employee is a member of a State board, commission, committee, or council which operates from funds deposited with the State Treasurer, or when the State employee's job requires his attendance at the meeting of such board, commission, committee, or council in his official capacity, and the lunch is preplanned as part of the meeting for the entire board, commission, committee, or council; or
d.	When the lunch is included as an integral part of a congress, conference, assembly, or convocation, by whatever name called. Such assembly must involve the active participation of persons other than the employees of a single State department, institution, or agency, the employee's attendance must be necessary for the performance of his duties but must not be part of that employee's normal day-to-day business activities, or the assembly must be planned in advance with a formal agenda, and include a written notice or invitation to participants.
(4)	For convention registration fees not to exceed thirty dollars ($30.00) per convention."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.