Bill Text: MS SB2475 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

Mississippi Senate Bill 2475 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Transportation commissioners; revise mandatory compensation language to make discretionary with commissioner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Died In Committee [SB2475 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2022-SB2475-Introduced.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2022 Regular Session

To: Highways and Transportation; Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency

By: Senator(s) McLendon

Senate Bill 2475

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 65-1-7, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PROVISION FOR MANDATORY COMPENSATION OF TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONERS TO MAKE THE RECEIPT OF COMPENSATION DISCRETIONARY WITH EACH COMMISSIONER; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 65-1-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

65-1-7. The three (3) commissioners chosen as herein provided, and their successors, shall each be entitled to receive as compensation for their services salaries fixed by the Legislature, and in addition shall be allowed all of their actual and necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of their respective official duties.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022.