(a) The annual salary of each of the state officials listed below shall be as follows:

(1) Governor.................................................$175,000.00

An allowance in an amount specified in the appropriations Act

shall also be provided for the operation of the Governor's

mansion.

(2) Lieutenant Governor........................................54,920.00

(3) Adjutant general

The adjutant general shall continue to receive the pay and

allowances under the same procedure as provided by law.

(4) Commissioner of Agriculture...............................100,429.00

(5) Attorney General..........................................114,633.00

(6) Reserved.

(7) Commissioner of Insurance.................................100,396.00

(8) Reserved.

(9) Commissioner of Labor.....................................100,418.00

The above amount of salary for the Commissioner of Labor shall

include any compensation received from the United States

government and the amount of state funds paid shall be reduced

by the amount of compensation received from the United States

government.

(10) Reserved.

(11) Each member of the Public Service Commis-

sion.........................................................96,655.00

(12) Reserved.

(13) State School Superintendent...............................102,708.00

(14) Secretary of State........................................102,708.00

(15) Reserved.

(16) Reserved.

(17) Reserved.

(18) Each Justice of the Supreme Court.........................175,600.00

(19) Each Judge of the Court of Appeals........................174,500.00

(20) Each superior court judge.................................126,265.00

(21) Each district attorney....................................120,072.00

(22) Each member of the General Assembly........................16,200.00

(A) Reserved.

(B) Each member of the General Assembly shall also receive the

allowances provided by law. The amount of the daily expense

allowance which each member is entitled to receive under the

provisions of Code Section 28-1-8 shall be as provided in that

Code section. The mileage allowance for the use of a personal

car on official business shall be the same as that received by

other state officials and employees.

(C) In addition to any other compensation and allowances

authorized for members of the General Assembly, each member may

be reimbursed for per diem differential and for actual expenses

incurred in the performance of duties as a member of the

General Assembly in an amount not to exceed $7,000.00 per year.

Expenses reimbursable up to such amount shall be limited to one

or more of the following purposes: lodging, meals, per diem

differential, postage, personal services, printing and

publications, rents, supplies (including software),

telecommunications, transportation, utilities, purchasing or

leasing of equipment, and other reasonable expenditures

directly related to the performance of a member's duties. If

equipment purchased by a member has a depreciated value of

$100.00 or less when such member leaves office, the equipment

does not need to be returned to the state. No reimbursement

shall be made for any postage which is used for a political

newsletter. No reimbursement shall be paid for lodging or meals

for any day for which a member receives the daily expense

allowance as provided in this paragraph. Eligible expenses

shall be reimbursed following the submission of vouchers to the

legislative fiscal office in compliance with the requirements

of this subparagraph and subject to the provisions of

subparagraph (E) of this paragraph. Such vouchers shall be

submitted in such form and manner as prescribed by the

Legislative Services Committee pursuant to subparagraph (E) of

this paragraph, provided that each such voucher shall be

accompanied by a supporting document or documents, or legible

copies thereof, showing payment for each expense claimed or an

explanation of the absence of such documentation; in addition,

each such voucher shall include a certification by the member

that the information contained in such voucher and supporting

document or documents, or legible copies thereof, is true and

correct and that such expenses were incurred by the member. The

provisions of Code Section 16-10-20 shall be applicable to any

person submitting such certified vouchers and supporting

documents or copies the same as if the General Assembly were a

department or agency of state government. No such voucher or

supporting document shall be required for per diem differential.

(D) The amount of per diem differential which may be claimed for

each day under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph shall be the

difference between the daily expense allowance authorized for

members of the General Assembly and $119.00; provided, however,

that the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year may

increase such amount of $119.00 per day to an amount not in

excess of the federal per diem rate then in effect for the

state capital as specified by the General Services

Administration. Per diem differential shall be paid by the

legislative fiscal office to the member upon the member's

notification to the legislative fiscal office of the days for

which the daily expense allowance was received for which the

member wishes to claim the per diem differential, and the

legislative fiscal office shall keep a record of the days for

which per diem differential is so claimed and paid.

(E) For the purposes of this paragraph, a year shall begin on the

convening date of the General Assembly in regular session each

year and end on the day prior to the convening of the General

Assembly in the next calendar year. Any voucher or claim for

any reimbursement for any year as defined in this paragraph

shall be submitted no later than the fifteenth of April

immediately following the end of such year. No reimbursement

shall be made on any voucher or claim submitted after that

date. Any amounts remaining in such expense account at the end

of the first year of the two year biennium may be claimed for

expenses incurred during the second year of the two year

biennium. Any amounts remaining in any expense account which

are not so claimed by April 15 of the year following the second

year of the biennium and any amounts claimed which are returned

as hereafter provided for in this paragraph shall lapse and

shall be remitted by the legislative fiscal office to the

general fund of the state treasury. Any former member of the

General Assembly may be reimbursed for expenses incurred while

a member of the General Assembly upon compliance with the

provisions of this paragraph. The Legislative Services

Committee is empowered to provide such procedures as it deems

advisable to administer the provisions of this paragraph,

including, but not limited to, definitions of the above list of

items for which reimbursement may be made; provided, however,

that the term "other reasonable expenditures directly related

to the performance of a member's duties" shall be as defined by

policies adopted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives

and by the Senate Administrative Affairs Committee as to

reimbursement of such expenditures incurred by members of the

House and Senate, respectively; and provided, further, that the

amount of expenses which may be reimbursed within the limits of

subparagraph (C) of this paragraph for travel outside the state

may be as provided by policies adopted by the Speaker of the

House of Representatives and by the Senate Administrative

Affairs Committee as to such expenditures of members of the

House and Senate, respectively. The Legislative Services

Committee is further empowered to prescribe the form of the

voucher or claim which must be submitted to the legislative

fiscal office. In the event of any disagreement as to whether

any reimbursement shall be made or any allowance shall be paid,

the Legislative Services Committee shall make the final

determination; except that in the event of any disagreement as

to whether any reimbursement under subparagraph (C) of this

paragraph shall be made for other reasonable expenses directly

related to the performance of a member's duties or for travel

outside the state, the Speaker of the House of Representatives

shall make the final determination as to such expenses incurred

by a member of the House, and the Senate Administrative Affairs

Committee shall make the final determination as to such

expenses incurred by a member of the Senate. In the event any

reimbursement is made or any allowance is paid and it is later

determined that such reimbursement or payment was made in

error, the person to whom such reimbursement or payment was

made shall remit to the legislative fiscal office the amount of

money involved. In the event any such person refuses to make

such remittance, the legislative fiscal office is authorized to

withhold the payment of any other moneys to which such person

is entitled until the amount of such reimbursement or payment

which was made in error shall be realized.

(23) Speaker of the House of Representatives....................17,800.00

The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall also receive the

salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General

Assembly. Upon the taking of office by the members of the

General Assembly on the convening day of the regular session of

the General Assembly in 1983, the annual salary of the Speaker

of the House of Representatives shall become $22,800.00. After

such date, the Speaker shall also receive as additional salary

a sum equal to the amount of salary over $30,000.00 per annum

which is received by the Lieutenant Governor as of that date or

thereafter; and the salary of the Speaker shall be adjusted at

the beginning of each term so as to include such additional sum.

(24) President Pro Tempore of the Senate.........................4,800.00

The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall also receive the

salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General

Assembly.

(25) Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives.........4,800.00

The Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives shall also receive the salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General Assembly.

(b) As an adjustment except as qualified below as to members and member-officers of the General Assembly, the annual salary of each state official whose salary is established by Code Section 45-7-3, this Code section, and Code Sections 45-7-20 and 45-7-21, including members of the General Assembly, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, may be increased by the General Assembly in the General Appropriations Act by a percentage not to exceed the average percentage of the increase in salary as may from time to time be granted to employees of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. However, any increase for such officials shall not include within-grade step increases for which employees subject to compensation plans authorized and approved in accordance with Code Section 45-20-4 are eligible. Any increase granted pursuant to this subsection shall become effective at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees, except increases for members and member-officers of the General Assembly. That portion of the increase determined by the Legislative Services Committee to reflect a cost-of-living increase based upon objective economic criteria shall become effective for members and member-officers at the same time that funds are made available for the increase for such employees. The balance of the increase for members and member-officers of the General Assembly shall become effective on the convening of the next General Assembly in January of the next odd-numbered year. The Office of Planning and Budget shall calculate the average percentage increase.

(c) The annual salary being received on June 30, 1980, shall be increased by 8 percent for each state official listed in subsection (a) of this Code section who:

(1) Is not a member of the General Assembly; and

(2) Is not a contributing member of a state retirement system and, therefore, does not benefit by or participate in any program whereunder a portion of the employee contributions to the state retirement system are made on behalf of the employee by the employer.