§ 10-2-215 - Additional compensation for committee chairs, vice chairs, and cochairs. - Arkansas Statutes

10-2-215. Additional compensation for committee chairs, vice chairs, and cochairs.

(a) (1) In addition to the expense allowance provided by 10-2-212 and all laws amendatory and supplemental thereto, the chair of each of the standing, select, and joint committees of either house of the General Assembly, the cochairs of the Legislative Council and the chairs of each subcommittee of the Legislative Council, the cochairs of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee and the chairs of each subcommittee of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, the Speaker Designate of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore Designate, the House and Senate chairs of the Review/PEER Subcommittee, the Personnel Subcommittee, the Claims Subcommittee, and the Special Language Subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee, and the cochair of any committee of the General Assembly which does not function during the legislative session shall be eligible to receive an additional three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per year.

(2) (A) In addition to the expense allowance provided by 10-2-212, the House of Representatives vice chair of each of the standing, select, and joint committees and the House of Representatives vice chair of the Legislative Council is eligible to receive two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) per year.

(B) If a member of the House of Representatives is eligible to receive payment under this subdivision (a)(2) due to service in more than one (1) covered position, the member shall be eligible to receive three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per year.

(3) The chair of each subcommittee of each standing committee of either house shall be eligible to receive an additional one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per year. If a member of the General Assembly is eligible to receive payment under this subdivision (a)(3) due to service in more than one (1) covered position, the member shall be eligible to receive three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per year.

(4) No member of the General Assembly shall receive more than three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per year under this section.

(b) This additional allowance shall be paid from the same funds and appropriation and in the same manner as provided for the allowances authorized by 10-2-212 and all laws amendatory and supplemental thereto.

(c) The chair of a committee established by rule of the House of Representatives also may receive an allowance under subsection (a) of this section if authorized by rule of the House of Representatives.