Modify Mileage and Per Diem.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
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HOUSE BILL 1135

Short Title: Modify Mileage and Per Diem. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Logan, Harrison, and Roberson (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
May 4, 2026
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO SET 2027 L EGISLATOR MILEAGE AN D PER DIEM AT 2025 F EDERAL 2
RATES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Effective upon the convening of the 2027 General Assembly and 5
applicable to travel occurring on or after that date, G.S. 120-3.1(a) reads as rewritten: 6
"(a) In addition to compensation for their services, members of the General Assembly 7
shall be paid the following allowances: 8
(1) A weekly travel allowance for each week or fraction thereof that the General 9
Assembly is in regular or extra session. The amount of the weekly travel 10
allowance shall be calculated for each member by multiplying the actual 11
round-trip mileage from that member's home to the City of Raleigh by the rate 12
per mile which is the business standard mileage rate set by the Internal 13
Revenue Service in Rev. Proc. 93 -51, December 27, 1993. IR-2024-312, 14
Notice 2025-5, December 19, 2024. 15
(2) A travel allowance at the rate which is the business standard mileage rate set 16
by the Internal Revenue Service in Rev. Proc. 93 -51, December 27, 1993, 17
IR-2024-312, Notice 202 5-5, December 19, 202 4, whenever the member 18
travels, whether in or out of session, as a representative of the General 19
Assembly or of its committees or commissions, with the approval of the 20
Legislative Services Commission. 21
(3) A subsistence allowance for meals and lodging at a daily rate equal to the 22
maximum per diem rate for federal employees traveling to Raleigh, North 23
Carolina, as set out at 58 Federal Register 67959 (December 22, 1993), 89 24
Federal Register 67093 (August 19, 2024), while the General Assembly is in 25
session and, except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, while the 26
General Assembly is not in session when, with the approval of the Speaker of 27
the House of Representatives in the case of Representatives or the President 28
Pro Tempore of the Senate in case of Senators, the member is: 29
a. Traveling as a representative of the General Assembly or of its 30
committees or commissions, or 31
b. Otherwise in the service of the State. 32
A member who is authorized to travel, whether in or out of session, 33
within the United States outside North Carolina, may elect to receive, in lieu 34
of the amount provided in the preceding paragraph, a subsistence allowance 35
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of twenty -six dollars ($26.00) a day for meals, plus actual expenses for 1
lodging when evidenced by a receipt satisfactory to the Legislative Services 2
Officer, the latter not to exceed the max imum per diem rate for federal 3
employees traveling to the same place, as set out at 58 Federal Register 4
67950-67964 (December 22, 1993) and at 59 Federal Register 23702 -23709 5
(May 6, 1994).89 Federal Register 67093 (August 19, 2024). 6
(4) A member may be re imbursed for registration fees as permitted by the 7
Legislative Services Commission." 8
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly 9
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year for costs 10
associated with implementing, and offsetting the costs of, the rate changes authorized by this act. 11
SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes 12
law. 13