Bill Text: FL S0118 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislative Travel Reimbursement [GPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Rules [S0118 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0118-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                     SB 118 
 
By Senator Bullard 
39-00194-10                                            2010118__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to legislative travel reimbursement; 
3         amending s. 11.13, F.S.; authorizing legislators and 
4         their staff members to be reimbursed by the state 
5         under certain circumstances for travel to visit an 
6         immediate family member in the case of death or 
7         serious illness; defining the term “immediate family 
8         member”; providing an effective date. 
9 
10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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12         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 11.13, Florida 
13  Statutes, is amended to read: 
14         11.13 Compensation of members.— 
15         (2)(a) During the time the Legislature is in session, each 
16  legislator shall be paid subsistence at a rate to be established 
17  by the President of the Senate for members of the Senate and the 
18  Speaker of the House of Representatives for members of the 
19  House. Each legislator, in addition to subsistence, shall be 
20  paid travel expenses in accordance with s. 112.061(7) and (8) 
21  for actual travel between the legislator’s home and the seat of 
22  government for not more than one round trip per week or fraction 
23  of a week during any regular, special, or extraordinary session 
24  of the Legislature or for the convening of either the House or 
25  Senate for official business. 
26         (b) If the cost of travel to visit an immediate family 
27  member in the case of death or serious illness is less than the 
28  cost of travel between the legislator’s or staff member’s home 
29  and the seat of government, each legislator and his or her staff 
30  members shall be paid travel expenses in accordance with s. 
31  112.061(7) and (8) for travel from the seat of government to 
32  visit an immediate family member in the case of death or serious 
33  illness for one single round trip during any regular, special, 
34  or extraordinary session of the Legislature or for the convening 
35  of either the House or Senate for official business. As used in 
36  this paragraph, the term “immediate family member” means a 
37  person having one of the following relationships to another: 
38  husband, wife, father, mother, son, or daughter. 
39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.