Section 75-3212 - Compensation, travel and subsistence allowances of certain state officers; paymentIn addition to amounts authorized under K.S.A. 46-137a, 46-137b and 46-137e, and amendments thereto, members of the senate and the house of representatives of the state and other persons or officers of various committees, delegations, subcommittees, boards, commissions and councils referred to in this act shall be paid compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowance for such service as follows:
(a) A per diem compensation of thirty-five dollars ($35) for each day of actual attendance at authorized in-state or out-of-state meetings except that members of the senate and the house of representatives shall receive per diem compensation therefor in the amount prescribed under subsection (a) of K.S.A. 46-137a or any amendments thereto;(b) the sum specified in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 46-137a or any amendments thereto for subsistence allowance per any day or part thereof spent in actual attendance at any such in-state meeting;(c) for any day, or part thereof, other than the day of the meeting, the sum specified in subsection (b) of K.S.A. 46-137a or any amendments thereto for subsistence allowance incurred in going to and returning from such in-state meetings, provided such person resides more than one hundred (100) miles from the location of the meeting;(d) the mileage rate authorized by K.S.A. 75-3203a or any amendments thereto for each mile actually traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place where an authorized in-state meeting is held; and(e) the sum specified in K.S.A. 46-137a, and any amendments thereto, for subsistence allowance per day or part thereof while attending and going to and from any out-of-state meeting authorized by the chairperson or the rules of the commission, committee or council, or as otherwise authorized in accordance with this act or if the actual subsistence expenses of such officer are in excess of the allowance prescribed such officer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such officer's actual subsistence expenses incurred while attending such out-of-state meeting. Such officers shall also be entitled to mileage allowances at the rate authorized by K.S.A. 75-3203a or any amendments thereto for each mile actually traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place of any such out-of-state meetings if private conveyance is used, or actual transportation cost if private conveyance is not used. No legislator shall receive compensation under this section during any legislative session except when the legislature is adjourned for a period of more than two days, Sundays excepted. No legislator shall receive subsistence expenses or allowances under this section for attendance at any in-state meeting during any legislative session or for which subsistence expenses or allowances are authorized under the provisions of K.S.A. 46-137e. The total of both subsistence expenses and allowances allowed under this section during a legislative session and subsistence allowances allowed under K.S.A. 46-137a during such session shall be limited to the amount equal to the combined total actual subsistence expenses incurred in Topeka and in out-of-state travel. The provisions of the third sentence of K.S.A. 75-4606 shall not apply to any legislator, and any legislator may use a privately owned motor vehicle and receive reimbursement for mileage at the rate provided in K.S.A. 75-3203a and amendments thereto whether traveling under authority of such statute or this act.L. 1968, ch. 208, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 211, § 5; L. 1974, ch. 361, § 76; L. 1975, ch. 269, § 6; L. 1980, ch. 266, § 6; 1/12/1981.