Beginning on June 4, 1997, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall receive an annual salary in an amount equal to Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00). The salary provided for the President Pro Tempore under this section shall be in addition to the compensation and expense allowance established for members of the Legislature under Section […]
Beginning on June 4, 1997, the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives shall receive an annual salary in an amount equal to Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00). The salary provided for the Speaker Pro Tempore under this section shall be in addition to the compensation and expense allowance established for members of the Legislature […]
In addition to the regular salary and mileage provided by law, an expense allowance equal to the maximum daily expense rate allowable to employees of the federal government for travel in the high rate geographical area of Jackson, Mississippi, as may be established by federal regulations for each legislative day in actual attendance at a […]
Any qualified elector of any senatorial district, as defined in Section 5-1-3, who possesses the necessary constitutional qualifications may qualify as a candidate and be elected a state senator without regard to any so-called gentleman’s agreement or any other restriction. All elections for the office of state senator shall be conducted on a senatorial district […]
The mileage and one-third (1/3) of the salary for a regular session shall be paid at the beginning of the session. After thirty (30) days of the session have expired, another one-third (1/3) of the salary shall be paid. The remaining one-third (1/3) of the salary shall be paid (a) on the last Friday before […]
The compensation of the members, officers, and servants of the legislature shall be certified by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, respectively, to the auditor of public accounts, who shall issue his warrant on the treasurer therefor, payable out of the legislative appropriation.
There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Legislative Extraordinary Session Expense Revolving Fund. This fund is established for the purpose of paying the salaries, mileage, daily expense allowance, retirement contributions, matching funds and any other expenses of the members of the Legislature that are incurred during any […]
Witnesses on behalf of the state subpoenaed to appear before the legislature, or either branch thereof, or any committee authorized to send for witnesses, shall be allowed the same compensation for each day’s attendance, and the same mileage allowed to witnesses in the circuit courts. The sum due to each witness shall be ascertained by […]
When by the constitution or laws a joint meeting of the senate and house of representatives is required, they shall assemble with their secretary and clerk in the hall of the house of representatives on the day and hour previously agreed on by a concurrent resolution or as fixed by law.
The joint convention, when assembled, shall not have power to perform any act other than that specified in the concurrent resolution calling the same or required by law.
When the two houses shall be assembled in joint convention the president of the senate shall preside, and the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives shall each keep a perfect and complete record of the proceedings of the convention. On the re-assembling of the two houses in their respective […]
The rules of the house of representatives and the joint rules of the two houses, as far as the same may be applicable, shall be the rules for the government of the joint convention.
All votes in the joint convention shall be taken by yeas and nays, and all elections shall be viva voce. In taking the same it shall be the duty of the secretary of the senate to call the names of the members of the senate, after which the clerk of the house of representatives shall […]
The legislature shall meet at the seat of government, in regular session, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of January, in the year A.D. 1971, and every year thereafter, unless sooner convened by the governor; and should a quorum of either house not be present, each house shall be adjourned from day to […]
The person who receives a majority of all the votes of the joint convention, a majority of all the members elected to both houses being present and voting, shall be duly elected. When more than one officer is to be elected the vote shall be so taken as to elect only one at a time.
Any member of either house who may be guilty of disorderly behavior in the presence of the joint convention, may be punished by the house of which he is a member in the same manner as if the offense were committed in the presence of his house.
The joint convention shall have power to punish any person other than a member for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, by fine and imprisonment, in the same manner and to the same extent as either house may do for like conduct before it.
There shall be a mail carrier and distributor for the legislature of the state, who shall be elected at the same time and by the same method as now provided for the election of state librarian, and whose term of office shall be for a period of four years.
The post office or place for distributing the mails and the depository for receiving the outgoing mails, shall be located on the second floor of the capitol, in the room to the left of the entrance, which was provided for such purpose in the plan of the state capitol building.
The capitol commission as keeper of the capitol, is hereby authorized and directed to make such alterations and provide such furnishings for the post-office room as in its judgment may seem proper, to fit it for the convenience and necessary requirements of sections 5-1-79 and 5-1-81.
