46-1209. Expenses and compensation of members of committees and council; place of meetings; travel authorizations; expenses and allowances of officers and employees of legislature. (a) Any member of the legislative coordinating council, when attending a meeting of such council, shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Any member of a special committee, select committee or standing committee, when attending a meeting of such committee authorized by the legislative coordinating council, shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in said K.S.A. 75-3212. Any member of an advisory committee established by the legislative coordinating council, or any non-legislator member of any committee authorized to make a legislative study when attending a meeting of such committee authorized by the legislative coordinating council, shall receive travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided by law for state employees, including mileage in the amount fixed according to law, for each mile traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place of meeting.

(b) Amounts paid under authority of this section shall be paid from appropriations for legislative expense or from appropriations to the legislative coordinating council as determined by the legislative coordinating council and in either event, vouchers therefor shall be prepared by the director of legislative administrative services and approved by the chairman or vice-chairman of the legislative coordinating council.

(c) Meetings of the legislative coordinating council, special committees, select committees and advisory committees shall be held in Topeka, Kansas, unless authorized to be held in a different place by the legislative coordinating council. Standing committee meetings shall be held in Topeka, Kansas, unless another place of meeting is authorized by the chairman or vice-chairman of the legislative coordinating council. The legislative coordinating council may authorize members of the legislature or any officer or employee of the office of revisor of statutes, legislative research department or other officer or employee of the legislative branch to attend in-state or out-of-state meetings for participation in matters of legislative interest to the state of Kansas. When attending a meeting so authorized, such members of the legislature shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in said K.S.A. 75-3212. Officers and employees of the legislature when traveling in-state or out-of-state shall receive the same subsistence expenses and allowances as is provided by law for members of the legislature.

History: L. 1971, ch. 184, § 9; L. 1973, ch. 211, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 271, § 7; February 3.