PRINTER'S NO. 227
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
233
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY TRUITT, McGINNIS, DUNBAR, MACKENZIE, GREINER,
HICKERNELL, HELM, MENTZER, GRELL, BLOOM, MULLERY, LAWRENCE
AND TALLMAN, JANUARY 27, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 27, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
entitled "An act establishing salaries and compensation of
certain public officials including justices and judges of
Statewide courts, judges of courts of common pleas, judges of
the Philadelphia Municipal Court, judges of the Philadelphia
Traffic Court, district justices and the Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer, the Auditor
General, the Attorney General and certain other State
officers and the salary and certain expenses of the members
of the General Assembly; and repealing certain inconsistent
acts," providing for limitations on certain additional
expenses of the General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
known as the Public Official Compensation Law, is amended by
adding a section to read:
Section 5.3. Limitations on certain additional expenses of the
General Assembly.
(a) Prohibition on per diem payments.--Any payment made to a
member of the General Assembly that is a per diem payment, or
would be considered a per diem payment under the Internal
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Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26 U.S.C. ยง 1 et seq.),
for days of service shall be prohibited. Only actual expenses
shall be reimbursable to an individual member upon the receipt
of documentation of the expense.
(b) Limitations.--This section shall only apply to payments
made for individual days of service. This section shall not
impact any other form of compensation including salary, benefits
or reimbursed expenses.
Section 2. All rules and regulations inconsistent with this
act are abrogated insofar as any inconsistency with this act.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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