MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Appropriations
By: Senator(s) Jordan
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 5-1-41, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING ON JANUARY 1, 2024, EACH SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE AND THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SHALL RECEIVE THE STATUTORY OFFICE EXPENSE ALLOWANCE FOR EVERY MONTH OF HIS TERM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 5-1-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
[Until January 1, 2024, this section shall read as follows:]
5-1-41. Beginning with the 1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place where the Legislature sits. Beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called session the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per day and mileage at the same rate as per regular session. In addition to the above, beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor shall receive the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per month for expenses incidental to his office for every full month of his term, except any month or major fraction thereof when the Legislature is convened in regular or extraordinary session; and payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month following the month for which the payments are due.
[From and after January 1, 2024, this section shall read as follows:]
5-1-41. Beginning with the
1986 Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, each
Senator and Representative of the Legislature shall receive as compensation at
each regular session the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and the mileage
allowance provided by Section 25-3-41, for each mile of the distance by the
most direct route usually traveled in coming to and returning from the place
where the Legislature sits. Beginning on April 16, 1997, each Senator and
Representative shall receive for attending each extraordinary session or called
session the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) per day and mileage at the
same rate as per regular session. In addition to the above, beginning on * * * January 1, 2024, each
Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant Governor shall receive the sum of
One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per month for expenses incidental
to his office for every * * * full month of his term * * *; and
payments shall be made to each Senator and Representative and the Lieutenant
Governor by the State Treasurer between the first and tenth day of each month
following the month for which the payments are due.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022, and shall stand repealed on June 30, 2022.