Senate Bill sb0024B

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 24-B

    By Senator Lawson





    6-678-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to travel expenses; amending s.

  3         112.061, F.S.; increasing mileage rates for

  4         official travel by privately owned vehicles;

  5         providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subsection (7) of section

10  112.061, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

11         112.061  Per diem and travel expenses of public

12  officers, employees, and authorized persons.--

13         (7)  TRANSPORTATION.--

14         (d)1.  The use of privately owned vehicles for official

15  travel in lieu of publicly owned vehicles or common carriers

16  may be authorized by the agency head or his or her designee.

17  Whenever travel is by privately owned vehicle:

18         a.  A state, the traveler shall be entitled to a

19  mileage allowance at a fixed rate of 38 25 cents per mile;

20         b.  A nonstate traveler shall be entitled to a mileage

21  allowance of 38 for state fiscal year 1994-1995 and 29 cents

22  per mile; or

23         c.  The traveler shall be entitled to thereafter or the

24  common carrier fare for such travel, if as determined by the

25  agency head to be more economical.

26         2.  Reimbursement for expenditures related to the

27  operation, maintenance, and ownership of a vehicle shall not

28  be allowed when privately owned vehicles are used on public

29  business and reimbursement is made pursuant to this paragraph,

30  except as provided in subsection (8).

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 24-B
    6-678-06




 1         3.2.  All mileage shall be shown from point of origin

 2  to point of destination and, when possible, shall be computed

 3  on the basis of the current map of the Department of

 4  Transportation. Vicinity mileage necessary for the conduct of

 5  official business is allowable but must be shown as a separate

 6  item on the expense voucher.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 8  law.

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11                          SENATE SUMMARY

12    Increases the mileage allowance for the use of privately
      owned vehicles for official travel to 38 cents a mile.
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