A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to update the LEGISLATIVE mileage rate.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective upon the convening of the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly, G.S. 120‑3.1(a)(1) and (2) read as rewritten:
"(a)	In addition to compensation for their services, members of the General Assembly shall be paid the following allowances:
(1)	A weekly travel allowance for each week or fraction thereof that the General Assembly is in regular or extra session. The amount of the weekly travel allowance shall be calculated for each member by multiplying the actual round‑trip mileage from that member's home to the City of Raleigh by the rate per mile which is the business standard mileage rate set by the Internal Revenue Service in Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2010‑51, December 20, 2010.(2)	A travel allowance at the rate which is the business standard mileage rate set by the Internal Revenue Service in Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2010‑51, December 20, 2010, whenever the member travels, whether in or out of session, as a representative of the General Assembly or of its committees or commissions, with the approval of the Legislative Services Commission."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.