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2024 SESSION
SB 549 Travel expenses; local officials.
Introduced by: Russet Perry | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Travel expenses; local officials. Provides that any travel expense of a local official, as defined in the bill, to be paid from public funds, as defined in the bill, that is anticipated to exceed $5,000 shall be subject to approval in advance by a vote of the local governing body in an open meeting. The bill specifies that if the final travel expense exceeds the previously approved amount, such expense shall be reported to the governing body and noted in the meeting agenda or meeting minutes within 60 days of the determination. The bill requires a local official to repay to the locality any travel expense that the governing body determines such local official misappropriated within 10 days and to furnish a copy of any receipts for such expense at the next public meeting. The bill allows a locality to adopt more stringent standards for local officials' travel expenses.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101797D pdf
- 02/07/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24101797D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101797D
- 01/10/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 02/05/24 Senate: Reported from Local Government with amendments (10-Y 3-N 2-A)
- 02/06/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/07/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/07/24 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/07/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB549E
- 02/07/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24101797D-E
- 02/08/24 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (29-Y 9-N 1-A)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 02/19/24 House: Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #3
- 02/27/24 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (4-Y 2-N)
- 03/04/24 House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns