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Per Diem Defeated

February 18, 1997
By: Missy Shelton
State Capital Bureau

The Missouri House Budget Committee has voted down a proposal to give lawmakers more money to cover their expenses.

Missy Shelton has the story in Jefferson City.

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By just one vote, the Budget Committee defeated a bill that would have increased the so-called per diem to about 86-dollars per day.

Committee Chairman Sheila Lumpe said she had expected the bill to pass -- although she voted against the bill.

Lumpe said she questioned the legality of passing a per diem increase when the legislature rejected the salary commisssion's increase recommendation just last month:

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"I don't think we have the constitutional authorization to make it either 80 percent or 100 percent and that was the position I took."

Lumpe's committee voted down the expense allow increase by just one vote.

That narrow margin leaves the issue open for reconsideration at any time.

From Jefferson City, I'm Missy Shelton.