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ID H0695
Bill
Status
Passed
4/5/2012
Primary Sponsor
Appropriations Committee
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AI Summary
- Creates a Legislative Legal Defense Fund in the state treasury to pay for legal expenses of the legislature
- Fund moneys are continuously appropriated to the Senate and House of Representatives and exempt from Idaho Code chapters 35 and 36
- President pro tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House authorized to make expenditures from the fund for necessary legal expenses
- Transfers $200,000 from the General Fund to the Legislative Legal Defense Fund on July 1, 2012
- Allocates 50% of transferred funds ($100,000) to the Senate and 50% ($100,000) to the House of Representatives
Legislative Description
Adds to existing law relating to the Legislature to provide for the Legislative Legal Defense Fund, to provide for moneys in the fund, to provide that moneys in the fund shall be continuously appropriated, to provide for exemptions and to provide for expenditures; and to provide for a transfer from the General Fund to the Legislative Defense Fund and to provide that of the amount transferred, fifty percent shall be available to the Senate and fifty percent to the House of Representatives.
LEGISLATIVE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Last Action
Governor signed Session Law Chapter 335 Effective: 07/01/12
4/5/2012
Committee Referrals
Finance3/27/2012
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