2009 BILL 54

Second

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 54

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

JOAN BURKE

Government House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the House of Assembly Accountability, Integrity

and Administration Act further to recommendations of the Members

Compensation Review Committee.

The Bill would freeze MHA salaries as

of June 30,

2009 , until the next Members' Compensation

Review Committee is appointed under the Act.

The Bill would also confirm that the

speaker, leader of the opposition and leader of a third party are entitled to

an allowance or expense amount for automobile use related to the duties and obligations

of their offices.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

Analysis

S.11 Amdt.

Salaries, expenses, severance and pensions

S.12 Amdt.

Other remuneration

S.15 Amdt.

Adjustments to salaries, expenses and severance

S.15.1 Added

Officers of the House automobile use

S.16 Amdt.

Inquiry re: salaries

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2007 cH-10.1

as amended

1. Subsection 11(1) of the House of Assembly Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act

is repealed and the following substituted:

Salaries,

expenses, severance and pensions

(1) A

member is entitled to be paid an annual salary of $95,357 payable in 26 equal instalments,

in arrears.

2. Subsection 12(1) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Other remuneration

(1) A

member who also holds one of the following positions shall be paid an

additional salary as follows:

(

a) speaker, $54,072;

(

b) deputy speaker and

chair of committees, $27,033;

(

c) deputy chair of

committees, $13,517;

(

d) leader of the opposition,

$54,072;

(

e) opposition house

leader, $27,033;

(

f) deputy opposition

house leader, $18,457;

(

g) leader of a third

party, $18,918;

(

h) party whip, $13,517;

(

i) caucus chairperson,

$13,517;

(

j) chairperson , public

accounts committee, $13,517; and

(

k) vice chairperson,

public accounts committee, $10,333.

3. Subsections 15(2) and (3) of the Act are

repealed and the following substituted:

(2) The salary of a member under subsection 11(1)

and the salaries for positions referred to in subsection 12(1) shall not be

adjusted except in accordance with recommendations of the first members'

compensation review committee appointed after December 31, 2009 .

(3) The appropriateness and the manner of

providing for periodic increases for members' salaries during the period

between the appointments of subsequent members' compensation review committees

shall be dealt with by those committees.

4. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 15 the following:

Automobile use

reimbursement

15.1

(1) Notwithstanding

subsection 15(1), the commission may make rules and directives to entitle the

speaker, leader of the opposition and leader of a third party to be paid an

allowance or expense amount for automobile use related to duties and

establish.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection 15(1) and

subsection (1), an automobile use allowance and expense regime approved by the

commission on January 23, 2008 and on April 11, 2008 applicable to the speaker, leader of the opposition and leader of a

third party that is related to the obligations and duties of those offices

shall be considered to have been validly made, and allowances and expenses paid

in accordance with those decisions shall be considered to have been validly

paid.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), commencing on April

1, 2009, where the speaker, leader of the opposition and leader of a third

party receives an automobile use allowance related to the duties of his or her

office, he or she is not entitled to be reimbursed mileage expenses for automobile

travel related to constituency business or to duties and obligations of the

offices of the speaker, leader of the opposition and leader of a third party.

(4) Subsection (1) shall be considered to have

come into force on June 14, 2007 .

Section 16 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) The members'

compensation review committee first appointed under subsection (1) during the

Forty-Seventh General Assembly shall be appointed not more than 6 months after

the election of members to that General Assembly.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer