00                            SENATE BILL NO. 145                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to per diem for legislators; and providing for an effective date."                                     
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 24.10.130(b) is amended to read:                                                                   
04 (b)  Legislators and officers and employees of the legislative branch of                                                
05 government may be entitled to a per diem allowance; however, if a bill that fully funds                                 
06 an operating budget has not, within the first 121 consecutive days of a regular                                         
07 legislative session, including the day the legislature first convenes in that regular                                   
08 session, been passed by the legislature, a member of the legislature may not receive                                
09 [IS NOT ENTITLED TO] a daily per diem allowance for the period beginning the                                        
10 day after the 121st day of that regular session and ending [A DAY THE                                               
11 LEGISLATURE IS IN SESSION AFTER THAT 121-DAY PERIOD UNTIL] the                                                          
12 first day after a bill that fully funds an operating budget is passed by the legislature or                             
13 the first day of the next regular legislative session, whichever occurs earlier. If a bill                          
14 that fully funds an operating budget is not passed by the legislature within the                                    
15 first 121 consecutive days of a regular legislative session, daily per diem may not                                 

01 be retroactively authorized for the period beginning the day after the 121st day                                    
02 of that regular session and ending the first day after a bill that fully funds an                                   
03 operating budget is passed by the legislature. In this subsection, "passed by the                                   
04       legislature" has the meaning given in AS 01.10.070.                                                               
05    * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).