Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB472 Compare Versions

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3	3	HB472
4	4	QN7B315-1
5	5	By Representative Ingram
6	6	RFD: Ways and Means General Fund
7	7	First Read: 20-Mar-25
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12	12	5 QN7B315-1 03/18/2025 THR (L)THR 2025-1329
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, a state employee receives a
17	17	meal allowance of 15 percent of the regular per diem
18	18	rate for a trip of six to 12 hours' duration.
19	19	This bill would provide that a state employee
20	20	receives a meal allowance of 17.5 percent of the
21	21	regular per diem rate for a trip of six to 12 hours'
22	22	duration.
23	23	A BILL
24	24	TO BE ENTITLED
25	25	AN ACT
26	26	Relating to state employees; to amend Section 36-7-20,
27	27	Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the meal
28	28	allowance in certain circumstances.
29	29	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
30	30	Section 1. Section 36-7-20, Code of Alabama 1975, is
31	31	amended to read as follows:
32	32	"§36-7-20
33	33	(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 36-7-21,
34	34	the amount allowable to an individual traveling inside the
35	35	State of Alabama in the service of the state or any of its
36	36	departments, institutions, boards, bureaus, commissions,
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66	66	departments, institutions, boards, bureaus, commissions,
67	67	councils, committees, or other like agencies for expenses
68	68	other than transportation may be fixed by the Governor at not
69	69	less than seventy-five dollars ($75) per day, and this amount
70	70	shall be uniform in operation as to all individuals traveling
71	71	within the state on official business under this section,
72	72	provided, no individual shall be entitled to reimbursement
73	73	under both this section and under Section 36-7-21 for any
74	74	travel segment.
75	75	(b) No travel allowance shall be paid for a trip of
76	76	less than six hours' duration. For travel that does not
77	77	require an overnight stay, the traveler shall be paid a meal
78	78	allowance of 15 17.5 percent of the regular per diem rate for
79	79	a trip of from six to 12 hours' duration, and for travel in
80	80	excess of 12 hours' duration, the traveler shall be paid one
81	81	meal allowance and one-fourth of the per diem allowance.
82	82	(c) The per diem allowance shall not be paid to an
83	83	employee stationed at the same place in the state for a period
84	84	in excess of two consecutive months. After two consecutive
85	85	months the amount of the allowance shall be reduced to 75
86	86	percent of the regular per diem rate per day.
87	87	(d) This section shall not apply to examiners or other
88	88	individuals designated by the Commissioner of Insurance to
89	89	examine or cause to be examined the domestic insurance
90	90	corporations qualified in this state when the expense incurred
91	91	by those individuals shall be paid by, collected, or received
92	92	from the corporations examined under Section 27-2-25.
93	93	(e) This section shall be optional with the employing
94	94	agency in those instances where the employee is required to
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124	124	agency in those instances where the employee is required to
125	125	attend training sessions, schools, seminars, or other like
126	126	group functions at a facility when it would serve the best
127	127	interests of both the state and the employee, or in those
128	128	instances when the employee is assigned to assist in
129	129	suppressing on-going natural disaster situations, or other
130	130	emergencies. In those cases, the cost of meals and per diem
131	131	may be paid as set forth herein or by the employing agency of
132	132	the state directly to the contract facility furnishing the
133	133	service, but the costs of these services shall not exceed the
134	134	amount allowable to the individual employee for in-state
135	135	travel.
136	136	(f) For purposes of applying this section to members of
137	137	the Legislature, each of the following shall apply:
138	138	(1) The presiding officer of the house to which the
139	139	member belongs shall determine if the travel is in the service
140	140	of the state.
141	141	(2) In connection with the same travel, members of the
142	142	Legislature shall receive per diem under this section except
143	143	in either of the following instances:
144	144	a. For attendance on special or regular session days or
145	145	committee meeting days of the Legislature when otherwise
146	146	compensated pursuant to law.
147	147	b. For attendance on interim committee meeting days of
148	148	the Legislature when otherwise compensated pursuant to law.
149	149	(3) Travel means a departure from the place of
150	150	residence of the member of the Legislature."
151	151	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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