MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Appropriations A
By: Representative Banks
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 5-1-41, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE SALARY OF EACH SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE, BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2025, TO AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE SALARY OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI; 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, 2025, 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, 2025, this section shall read as follows:]
5-1-41. * * * Each Senator and Representative of
the Legislature shall receive as compensation * * * an amount equal to fifteen percent (15%) of the
annual salary of the Governor of the State of Mississippi as established in
Section 25-3-31 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. * * * 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, * * * 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 or
her office for every full month of his or her 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.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2024.