Legislative per diem.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0075

ENROLLED ACT NO. 34, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FIFTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2008 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to
the legislature;
increasing the statutory per diem rate for legislative activities;
providing for legislators to be reimbursed for actual expenses in lieu of per diem as specified;

providing appropriations;
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
‑
101
(b) and
(e)
is amended to read:

28
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5
‑
101.

Schedule of compensation, per diem and travel expenses.

(b)

The amount to be received by each member of the legislature for expenses is increased to forty
‑
four dollars ($44.00) per day effective January 1, 1980, to sixty dollars ($60.00) per day effective January 1, 1983, to eighty dollars ($80.00) per day effective January 9, 1995
,

and
to eighty-five dollars ($85.00) per day effective January 3, 2005

and to one hundred nine dollars ($109.00) per day effective
April
1, 2008
.

(e)

During the interim each member of the legislature shall be paid the full daily statutory salary for only the days during which the member is engaged in work for the management council, a standing committee, interim committee, select committee or a committee authorized by law. The member shall be paid full daily statutory per diem
, or actual expenses in lieu of per diem if authorized by management council
policy
,
for each day during which he travels to engage in, return from or engages in an interim activity for which he is entitled to receive salary or an activity approved by the management council or the chairman of an interim committee of which he is a member. The member shall be paid statutory mileage for necessary travel to attend and return from an approved interim activity.

Section 2
.

W.S. 28
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5
‑
101(e)(v) as effective on January 5, 2009, is amended to read:

28
‑
5
‑
101.

Schedule of compensation, per diem and travel expenses.

(e)

During the interim each member of the legislature shall be paid the following amounts, subject to subsection (f) of this section:

(v)

Full daily statutory per diem
, or actual expenses in lieu of per diem if authorized by management council
policy
,
for each day during which he travels to engage in, return from or engages in an interim activity for which he is entitled to receive salary under paragraph (ii) of this subsection, or an activity approved by the management council or the chairman of an interim committee of which he is a member; and

Section 3.

(a)

There is appropriated from the general fund to the legislative service office three hundred thirty-four thousand six hundred eighty-eight dollars ($334,688.00) to supplement legislative per diem for the period July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2010.

(b)

There is appropriated from the general fund to the state auditor sixty-eight thousand dollars ($68,000.00)
for the period July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2010,
to be distributed as necessary to supplement per diem
for any state board, commission, council, authority or other state entity whose rate of per diem is based upon the amount of per diem paid to state legislators.

Section 4.
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)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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