Pennsylvania Act 1919-273 — GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SALARY AND MILEAGE ALLOWANCE FIXED

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SALARY AND MILEAGE ALLOWANCE FIXED
                 Act of Jun. 24, 1919, P.L. 579, No. 273              Cl. 46
                                  AN ACT

     To fix the salary and mileage of the members of the General
        Assembly and to provide for the furnishing of such postage,
        stationery, equipment, and supplies, as may be necessary for
        the conduct of their offices, and electric roll call and
        public address systems and other equipment for the respective
        Houses, and repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent
        therewith. (Title amended Nov. 9, 1959, P.L.1398, No.496)
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the salary of the
     members of the General Assembly shall be three thousand dollars
     ($3000) for each biennial session, or if annual sessions are
     provided for three thousand dollars ($3000) for each annual
     session, and mileage to and from their homes at the rate of five
     cents per mile circular for each week a member was in actual
     attendance at the session, to be computed by the ordinary mail
     route between their homes and the capitol of the State. The
     salary of the members of the General Assembly shall be five
     hundred dollars ($500), and mileage as aforesaid, for each
     special or extraordinary session lasting less than one calendar
     month, and seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750), and mileage
     as aforesaid, for each special or extraordinary session lasting
     one calendar month or more, and no other compensation shall be
     allowed whatever, except each member of the General Assembly
     shall receive an allowance for clerical assistance and other
     expenses incurred during his term in connection with the duties
     of his office the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for
     each year of service, payable one thousand seven hundred fifty
     dollars ($1,750) on June 1, 1955, two hundred fifty dollars
     ($250) on July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, and November
     1, 1955, thereafter five hundred dollars ($500) on January 15 of
     each year and two hundred fifty dollars ($250) on the first day
     of each month except January and December.
        (1 amended May 31, 1955, P.L.127, No.37 and repealed in part
     June 1, 1956 (1955), P.L.1959, No.657)
        Section 2.  Each member and the principal officers and
     employes of the Legislature shall also be entitled to receive
     the stationery, supplies and equipment necessary for their
     official use, also such printed or engraved official stationery
     as may be necessary for the conduct of their offices; and to
     carry out this provision, the chief clerks of the respective
     Houses are hereby authorized, when requested in writing so to do
     from a Senator, Member, or principal officer, of the
     Legislature, to requisition the Department of Property and
     Supplies for the official stationery herein authorized, properly
     printed or engraved, in such quantities as he may deem
     necessary. The chief clerks of each respective branch of the
     Legislature shall also have the authority to order such official
     stationery, properly printed or engraved, from the Department of
     Property and Supplies, as may be necessary for the use of the
     employes and committees of each House.
        (2 amended Nov. 9, 1959, P.L.1398, No.496)
        Section 3.  The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk
     of the House shall be the custodian of all stationery, and
     printed material, and the Chief Clerks of each House shall be
     the custodian of all supplies and equipment, and each shall have
     authority to requisition the Department of Property and
     Supplies, from time to time, for such supplies and equipment as
     may be necessary for each House, including members, officers,
     employes, committee and office work.
        The purchase or rental of electric roll call and public
     address systems and all purchases of supplies, equipment and
     printed material, for the use of either House or the members,
     officers, employes, committees, or office work thereof, that are
     paid for out of money appropriated to such House or to a
     department for the use of either House shall be made by direct
     purchase by the Secretary or Chief Clerk of such House, with the
     approval of the Speaker or President Pro Tempore thereof, and
     not through the Department of Property and Supplies, unless
     purchase by the department is specifically requested by such
     officer of the House for which the purchase is made.
        (3 amended Apr. 20, 1965, P.L.18, No.15)
        Section 4.  That section nine of an act, approved the twelfth
     day of June, one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine, entitled
     "An act to carry out the provisions of section twelve, article
     three of the Constitution, relative to contracts for supplies
     for the Legislature and the various departments of the State
     Government," and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent
     herewith, are hereby repealed.