An Act To Clarify Legislative Pay
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1961
Senate Amendment SA_C_S542 (Senate)
Amends: 3 MRSA §2

SENATE AMENDMENT "t;, to S.P. 806, L.D. 1961, Bill, "An Act 
To Clarify Legislative Pay" 
Amend the bill by inserting after the enacting clause and 
before section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §2, first" as amended by PL 2003, c. 20, Pt. 
F, §l, is further amended to read: 
Each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
beginning 
with 
the 
first 
Wednesday 
of 
December 
2000 
and 
thereafter, is entitled to $19T819 $11,384 in the first year and 
$+T+69 $8,131. 42 in the 2nd year of each biennium, except that if 
a Legislator who is a recipient of retirement benefits from the 
federal Social Security Administration files a written request 
with the Executive Director of the Legislative Council within one 
week after the biennium commences, the Legislator is entitled to 
$9,270 in each year of the biennium. 
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be~isla~HFeT In addition, each Legislator is entitled to be paid 
for travel at each legislative session once each week at the same 
rate per mile to and from that Legislator's place of abode as 
state employees receive, the mileage to be determined by the most 
reasonable 
direct 
route, 
except 
that 
Legislators 
may 
be 
reimbursed for tolls paid for travel on the Maine Turnpike as 
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SENATE AMENDMENT "t-" to S.P. 806, L.D. 1961 
long as they have a receipt for payment of the tolls, such tolls 
to be reimbursed when Legislators use the Maine Turnpike in 
traveling 
to 
and 
from 
sessions 
of 
the 
Legislature 
or 
in 
performance 
of 
duly 
authorized 
committee 
assignments. 
Each 
Legislator is entitled to mileage on the first day of 
the 
session, and those amounts of salary and expenses at such times 
as the Legislature may determine during the session, 
and the 
balance at the end of the session.' 
Further amend the bill in section 1 in the first paragraph 
in the last line (page 1, line 33 in L.D.) by inserting after the 
following: 
"~" the 
following: 
'for the 
duration of 
the 
special session that occurs prior to the statutory adjournment 
date 0' the first regular session or the 2nd regular session that 
ended 
immediately prior 
to 
the 
special 
session. 
After 
the 
regular session statutory adjournment date before which a special 
session began, 
the 
members 
of the Senate 
and 
the House 
of 
Representatiyes must each be compensated $100 for every day's 
attendance at that special session held after that adjournment 
date plus expenses and mileage pursuant to this section for the 
rest of that special session.' 
Further amend 
any 
nonconsecutive 
consecutively. 
the amendment by relettering or renumbering 
Part 
letter 
or 
section 
number 
to 
read 
SUMMARY 
This 
amendment 
repeals 
the 
automatic 
cost-of-living 
adjustment in the annual legislative salary, but maintains the 
legislative salary at its current level to reflect cost-of-living 
adjustments applied in previous years. 
This 
amendment 
provides 
that the 
nonpayment 
of 
special 
session per diem applies only until the statutory adjournment 
date of the regular session that immediately preceded the special 
session. 
If the special session extends beyond the statutory 
adjournment date of the regular session, then Legislators are 
entitled to the special session per diem. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
SPONSORED BY: 
(Senator R. BENNETT 
COUNTY: 
Oxford 
SENATE 
(S 
tached) 
AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 04/15/04 ~ac:.. 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD 1961 
An Act to Clarify Legislative Pay 
LR 2882(05) 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment ,~ 
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Undetennined future biennium savings - General Fund 
PL 2003, chapter 20 eliminated the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in annual legislative salary for the Second 
Regular Session of the 121st and First Regular Session of the 122nd and the associated funds were de appropriated in 
fiscal year 2003-04 and fiscal year 2004-05. The amount of savings in fiscal year 2005-06 and fiscal year 2006-07 
will depend on the change in the CPI and is not known at this time. The amounts deappropriated for fiscal year 2003-
and fiscal year 2004-05 were $65,570 and $112,903, respectively. 
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