RS 605 - Employees; salaries; warrants
A. The legislative fiscal officer shall appoint and remove all professional, research, technical, clerical, and other necessary employees and shall fix all salaries upon the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. All members of the professional, research, or technical staff shall be full-time employees.
B. All salaries of employees and operating expenses of the legislative fiscal office and of the legislative fiscal officer shall be paid upon warrants signed by the legislative fiscal officer and his principal assistant; provided that whenever any warrant, voucher, or check is in excess of one thousand dollars, it shall be signed by the legislative fiscal officer or his principal assistant and the chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
C. The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget shall be the governing council of the legislative fiscal office for purposes of rules and regulations adopted by the legislature to govern expenditure of legislative funds and related matters.
Added by Acts 1973, No. 169, §1, eff. July 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, No. 414, §1; Acts 1978, No. 357, §3; Acts 1981, No. 834, §1, eff. July 1, 1981.