SB243 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Bill Holtzclaw

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Legislature, compensation, may not be increased during term of office, two-thirds or greater recorded vote by House and Senate on proposed bills increasing compensation, required, Section 68 (Section 68, Recompiled Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended), am'd., const. amend.

Description

Under existing law, the pay for members of the Alabama Legislature is $10 per day, which cannot be raised during the term of office. In addition, members of the Legislature receive a travel allowance, expense allowance, and per diem.

The amounts of these payments may be raised during the term that the legislators are currently serving.

This proposed constitutional amendment would provide that the pay, travel allowance, expense allowance, and per diem, or other compensation paid to the members of the Legislature could not be increased during their current term of office; would require recorded vote by members of both houses of the Legislature on each proposed bill that would increase the pay, travel allowance, expense allowance, per diem, or other compensation paid to the members of the Legislature; and the enactment of any increase shall require a two-thirds affirmative vote by each house of the Alabama Legislature and approval by the Governor.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments