FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 371
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS DOLAN AND BRAY.
Read 1st time February 17, 2005, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1681S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 21.145, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to members of the general assembly.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 21.145, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 21.145 and 130.165, to read as follows:
21.145. Each senator or representative shall be reimbursed from the state treasury for actual and necessary expenses in an amount equal to [eighty] one hundred percent of the federal per diem established by the Internal Revenue Service for Jefferson City for each day on which the journal of the senate or house, respectively, shows the presence of such senator or representative. Upon certification by the president and secretary of the senate and by the speaker and chief clerk of the house of representatives as to the respective members thereof, the commissioner of administration shall approve and the state treasurer shall pay monthly such expense allowance.
130.165. 1. A member of the general assembly shall not accept meals, food, beverage, or other gifts from a legislative lobbyist or the lobbyist's principal as defined in subdivision (4) of section 105.470, RSMo.
2. The provisions of this section may be satisfied by reimbursing said lobbyist or lobbyist principal within thirty days of obtaining actual knowledge that reimbursement is necessary to meet the requirements of this section.