Perks

==Background==
===Legislature Retirement Packages===
News Flashback: Ex-PA Senator, Brightbill to get $72,430 annual retirement package.
==Details==
===PA Constitution: Article 2, Section 8.===
Compensation: The members of the General Assembly shall receive such salary and mileage for regular and special sessions as shall be fixed by law, and no other compensation whatever, whether for service upon committee or otherwise. No member of either House shall during the term for which he may have been elected, receive any increase of salary, or mileage, under any law passed during such term.
===Summary===
PA's Legislators are only entitled benefits while they are in office. PA's Legislators are entitled to nothing once they are out of office.
==Links==
* Perks-ski
* News: State court rejects lawsuit over perks for PA legislators in 2006 from November, 2006
===Media===
* State Senate surrenders its car leases Post-Gazette - Lawmakers adopt alternatives to perk of $600 a month - July, 2006
* Getting state legislators to work is costly Legislators rack up big bills getting back and forth to Harrisburg, July 30, 2006, in the P-G.
* Pensions of Ousted Lawmakers from PA in December, 2006, from the Post-Gazette
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