P.R. Laws tit. 2, § 29
The members of the Legislative Assembly shall receive per diems for each day they attend a meeting of the Legislative Body to which they belong. As of January 2, 2013, the amount of the per diems shall continue to be that in effect at the time of the approval of this act, established after the adjustment made in 2005, and which remained unaltered during the 2009-2012 government administration by virtue of Act No. 118-2008. No legislation that increases the per diems of the members of the Legislative Assembly shall take effect until the expiration of the term of the Legislative Assembly that approves the same.
For the purposes of this section, attendance at a committee which is at work by permission of the proper Legislative Body while that Body is in session shall be considered as attendance to any legislative session. The Secretary or Clerk shall not certify attendance to a session of a Legislative Body of any legislator who is absent during the roll call before the session adjourns. In the case a legislator is present at a session, but, for justified cause is compelled to leave before it adjourns, he/she shall be deemed to be present for the purposes of this provision, provided, that he/she has obtained authorization from the Presiding Officer, who shall report it to the Legislative Body.
A ten percent (10%) tax shall be levied at source on all per diems to be paid to the members of the Legislature for attending to sessions and/or committees. This withholding shall be remitted on a monthly basis to the Curable Catastrophic Illnesses Services Fund.
History —June 19, 1968, No. 97, p. 179, § 2; May 20, 1974, No. 44, Part 1, p. 196; July 9, 1985, No. 98, p. 319; renumbered as § 3 on Dec. 16, 1995, No. 235, § 3; July 29, 2005, No. 35, § 1; July 17, 2008, No. 118, § 1; Aug. 14, 2012, No. 163, § 2.