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HB0042 • 2008

Constituent service allowance.

AN ACT relating to the legislature; authorizing payment of unexpended constituent service allowances in subsequent quarters; limiting annual amount of the allowance; and providing for an effective date.

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Landon
Last action
2008-02-28
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0042HW001

Committee of the Whole • ILLOWAY

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Committee of the Whole by ILLOWAY

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Bill History

  1. 2008-02-28 Senate

    S Placed on General File; Did Not Consider In CoW

  2. 2008-02-28 Senate

    S02 Recommended Do Pass

  3. 2008-02-27 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S02

  4. 2008-02-27 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  5. 2008-02-26 House

    H Passed 3rd Reading

  6. 2008-02-25 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  7. 2008-02-22 House

    H Passed CoW

  8. 2008-02-22 House

    Amendment Adopted

  9. 2008-02-22 House

    H Amendments Adopted

  10. 2008-02-22 House

    H Placed on General File

  11. 2008-02-22 House

    H12 Recommended Do Pass

  12. 2008-02-12 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H12

  13. 2008-02-11 House

    H Received for Introduction

  14. 2008-01-14 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
WORKING DRAFT
2008
STATE OF
WYOMING
08LSO-0165.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0042

Constituent service allowance.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Landon, Berger, Jorgensen, Lubnau, McOmie, Simpson and Zwonitzer, Dn. and Senator(s) Burns and Schiffer

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the legislature; authorizing payment of unexpended constituent service allowances in subsequent quarters; limiting annual amount of the allowance;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 28
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5
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106(b)(ii) is amended to read:

28
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5
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106.

Constituent service allowance.

(b)

Each member of the legislature is entitled to receive a constituent service allowance as provided under this section. This allowance is intended to defray expenses incurred by each member in providing service to and on behalf of their constituents, which services are in addition to attending sessions of the legislature, attending meetings of interim committees and engaging in authorized interim work for which salary, per diem and mileage is authorized by law. The allowance is subject to the following:
(ii)

The allowance shall be seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) per calendar quarter or fractional portion thereof that the member is in office
. To the extent
a member's
entire quarterly amount is not paid in any quarter
the
member may claim
previously
unused amounts in subsequent quarters so long as the
total
amount paid
the member
in any calendar year does not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000.00). This annual amount
shall
otherwise be
subject to the same conditions and restrictions as the quarterly allowance
;

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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