SEC. 5-1-43. Remuneration of lieutenant governor and speaker of the house.

(1) The salary of the Lieutenant Governor and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be Forty Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($40,800.00) annually, and they shall receive for attending each extraordinary or called session the same compensation and mileage as is provided for members of the Legislature.

(2) Commencing on June 1, 1980, and on the first day of each month thereafter, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive in twelve (12) equal monthly installments the compensation provided for pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

SOURCES: Codes, 1930, Sec. 5349; 1942, Sec. 3346; Laws, 1928, ch. 297; 1946, ch. 198; 1950, ch. 456; 1956, ch. 357, Sec. 1; 1960, ch. 328; 1966, ch. 436, Sec. 2; 1976, ch. 531, Sec. 2; 1980, ch. 301; 1988, ch. 579, Sec. 1, eff from and after August 5, 1988 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection to the amendment).

1997 Amendment:

SECTION 7. Section 5-1-43, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

[Until December 31, 1999, this section shall read as follows:]

5-1-43. (1) The salary of the Lieutenant Governor shall be Forty Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($40,800.00) and the salary of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00) annually, and they shall receive for attending each extraordinary or called session the same compensation and mileage as is provided for members of the Legislature.

(2) * * * On the first day of each month * * *, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive in twelve (12) equal monthly installments the compensation provided for pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

[From and after January 1, 2000, this section shall read as follows:]

5-1-43. (1) The salary of the Lieutenant Governor * * * and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00) annually, and they shall receive for attending each extraordinary or called session the same compensation and mileage as is provided for members of the Legislature. However, in the event the Lieutenant Governor serving on the effective date of House Bill No. 1032, 1997 Regular Session, shall be re-elected for the term beginning in the year 2000, he shall continue to receive an annual salary of Forty Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($40,800.00).

(2) On the first day of each month, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive in twelve (12) equal monthly installments the compensation provided for pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 577, Sec. 7, HB1032, Voting Rights Act.

Note: 1997 Laws, Chapter 577, Sec. 10, states as follows:

SECTION 10. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi is hereby directed to submit Sections 1 and 3 through 9 of this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.