Title: S.L. 1967-1236
Category: Introduced Bill
Keywords: Bill ?

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1967 SESSION

CHAPTER 1236
SENATE BILL 737

AN ACT RELATIVE TO COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  That G.S. 120-33 be rewritten and amended as follows: The principal clerks of each house shall be allowed the sum of twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The reading clerks and the sergeants-at-arms of each house shall be allowed the sum of eighteen dollars ($18.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The chief enrolling clerk shall be allowed the sum of twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from his home to Raleigh and return.
The journal clerks, calendar clerks and chief engrossing clerks in each house shall be allowed the sum of nineteen dollars ($19.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The assistants to the calendar clerk and the assistants to the journal clerk and the clerks to the committees on finance and appropriations of each house and the disbursing clerks and the joint disbursing clerks, and the secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be allowed the sum of seventeen dollars ($17.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The assistants to the engrossing clerks and all committee clerks and assistants appointed by the Secretary of State to supervise the enrolling of bills and resolutions shall be allowed the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The chief pages of the House of Representatives and the Senate shall receive the sum of eight dollars ($8.00) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. All other pages authorized by either of the two houses shall receive the sum of six dollars and fifty cents ($6.50) per day during the Session of the General Assembly and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return. The chaplain of each house shall be allowed the sum of twelve dollars ($12.00) per day and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from his home to Raleigh and return. All laborers and assistants to the sergeants-at-arms authorized by law or rules of either the House of Representatives or the Senate shall receive during the Session of the General Assembly the sum of eleven dollars ($11.00) per day and mileage at the rate of ten cents (10¢) per mile, for one round trip only, from their homes to Raleigh and return.
Sec. 1.5.  With the Legislative intent to avoid, and to provide against the recurrence, subsequent to the convening of the 1969 General Assembly, of an effort similar to that embodied in this Act, viz: to achieve a retroactive pay raise or bonus, over and above the compensation for which the affected employees agreed to render the services for which they were employed, which agreements as to compensation were made when said employees accepted employment at or near the beginning of the 1967 Session of the General Assembly, the Legislative Research Commission is hereby requested and directed to make or cause to be made, at as early a date as is practicable, a study of position classifications, minimum and maximum ages of persons to be employed, and salary ranges for clerical and secretarial employees and other employees of the General Assembly herein mentioned. In making or causing said study to be made the said Legislative Research Commission is requested to seek the counsel and advice of the presiding officers, the principal clerks and the sergeants-at-arms of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Director of the Department of Administration, the State Budget Officer and the Advisory Budget Commission. Said Legislative Research Commission is requested to make a report of the results of its study and to submit the same, with its recommendations, to the 1969 General Assembly.
Sec. 2.  This Act shall be retroactive to and including the fifteenth day of April, 1967.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of July, 1967.