SB295 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Clay Scofield Phillip W. Williams Paul Bussman Dick Brewbaker Greg J. Reed Scott Beason Rusty Glover Trip Pittman Del Marsh J.T. Waggoner Gerald H. Allen Bryan Taylor
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Legislature, basic compensation for members, median annual household income in Alabama, legislators submit signed vouchers for reimbursement, proposed const, amend.
Description: Under the existing constitution, members of the Legislature are paid $10 per day for each day the Legislature is in session and 10 cents a mile for one round trip from his or her place of residence to Montgomery per session. Members are also reimbursed travel expenses in the same amounts as other state officers and employees and receive a monthly expense allowance established by the Legislature.
The proposed constitutional amendment would repeal those existing provisions and provide the total compensation payable to members of the Legislature would be an annual salary equal to the median annual household income in Alabama and reimbursement for travel expenses and other expenses on the same basis as state employees.
Subjects: Constitutional Amendments

Indefinitely Postponed

Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections first Substitute Offered

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Constitution, Campaign Finance, Ethics, and Elections