1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; reducing salary for legislators and constitutional 
1.3 	officers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 3.099, subdivision 1; 
1.4 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 4; 5; 6; 8.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 3.099, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subdivision 1. Salary; pay days; mileage; per diem. The compensation salary 
1.8 	 of each member of the legislature is $29,583 per year. Salary is due on the first day of 
1.9 	the regular legislative session of the term and payable in equal parts on January 15, in 
1.10 	the first month of each term and on the first day of each following month during the term 
1.11 	for which the member was elected. The compensation salary of each member of the 
1.12 	legislature elected at a special election is due on the day the member takes the oath of 
1.13 	office and payable within ten days of taking the oath for the remaining part of the month 
1.14 	in which the oath was taken, and then in equal parts on the first day of each following 
1.15 	month during the term for which the member was elected.
1.16 	Each member shall receive mileage for necessary travel to the place of meeting and 
1.17 	returning to the member's residence in the amount and for trips as authorized by the senate 
1.18 	for senate members and by the house of representatives for house members.
1.19 	Each member shall also receive per diem living expenses during a regular or special 
1.20 	session of the legislature in the amounts and for the purposes as determined by the senate 
1.21 	for senate members and by the house of representatives for house members.
1.22 	On January 15 in the first month of each term and on the first day of each following 
1.23 	month, the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives shall 
2.1 	certify to the commissioner of finance, in duplicate, the amount of compensation then 
2.2 	payable to each member of their respective houses and its total.

2.3 	Sec. 2. [4.042] SALARIES.
2.4 	The salary of the governor is $114,288 per year. For the purposes of section 
2.5 	15A.0815, the salary of the governor is the amount that was paid to the governor in 2008. 
2.6 	The salary of the lieutenant governor is $74,287 per year.

2.7 	Sec. 3. [5.075] SALARY.
2.8 	The salary of the secretary of state is $85,715 per year.

2.9 	Sec. 4. [6.015] SALARY.
2.10 	The salary of the state auditor is $97,145 per year.

2.11 	Sec. 5. [8.015] SALARY.
2.12 	The salary of the attorney general is $108,574 per year.

2.13 	Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.14 	Sections 1 to 5 are effective the day following final enactment. Salaries payable in 
2.15 	2009 under sections 1 to 5 must be prorated so that the amount paid in calendar year 2009 
2.16 	does not exceed the annual limits provided.