NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1278

SENATE BILL 160

AN ACT TO FIX THE COMPENSATION AND PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Sec. 1.  G.S. 120-3 is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"G.S. 120-3.  Pay of members and presiding officers of the General Assembly. (a) Each member of the General Assembly, except the Speaker of the House, shall be paid for his services an annual salary of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400.00), payable monthly, and an expense allowance of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. The Speaker of the House shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00), payable monthly, and an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month. Such salary and expense allowance for each member and for the Speaker of the House shall be in addition to any per diem compensation and any subsistence and travel allowance authorized by any other law with respect to any regular or extra session of the General Assembly, and service on any state board, agency, commission, standing committee and study commission.

"(b)      The additional compensation of the presiding officers of the two houses shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) per day for each day of the session and for each day of any extra or special session.

"(c)       Members of the General Assembly wishing to be paid on an annual or semiannual basis shall notify, in writing, the State Disbursing Officer, Department of Administration, by December 15 of the calendar year preceding the year in which payment is to be made."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 120-4 is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as follows:

"G.S. 120-4.  Speaker and president pro tempore. For each day spent in the service of the State at times when the General Assembly is not in session, the President pro tempore of the Senate shall be entitled to receive subsistence and travel allowances at the rates prescribed in G.S. 138-5(b). The costs of clerical assistance, postage, and other office expenses incurred by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate in the performance of their official duties when the General Assembly is not in session shall be a proper charge against the funds appropriated for the maintenance and operation of the Legislative Research Commission."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after the first day of the convening of the 1971 Session of the General Assembly.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.