MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Representative Zuber
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-3-43, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE EXPENSE ALLOWANCE FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 25-3-43, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
25-3-43. (1) When any
chancery judge, county judge or circuit judge shall be required to travel in
the performance of his official duties, such judge shall receive as expenses of
such travel the mileage allowance and a reimbursement for other actual and
necessary expenses incurred in such travel as provided for public officers and
employees in Section 25-3-41 * * *. This shall be the
entire travel allowances or travel expenses received by such judges.
(2) Chancery judges and circuit judges shall direct requests for reimbursement for the travel expenses authorized pursuant to this section to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court shall submit such requests to the Department of Finance and Administration.
(3) The Supreme Court shall have the power to adopt rules and regulations regarding the administration of travel expenses authorized pursuant to this section.
(4) In any county in which is located a State Penitentiary, the board of supervisors, in order to compensate the justice court judges who are required to travel to the State Penitentiary, is authorized to reimburse justice court judges' mileage in the amount authorized by Section 25-3-41, but not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, such monies to be paid from the general county fund of such county.
(5) In addition to the
regular salary provided by Section 25-3-35 and the mileage reimbursement
provided by Section 25-3-41, each Supreme Court Justice and each judge of the
Court of Appeals shall receive an expense allowance as specified in this
subsection. The expense allowance shall be equal to the maximum daily expense
rate allowable to employees of the federal government for travel * * * as may be established by federal regulations, per day,
for each day while actually attending to judicial duties * * *, not to exceed twenty
(20) days per month.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.