A concurrent RESOLUTION

to memorialize the general assembly to supplement the in-district compensation of all members of the general assembly by an additional $25,000 each year to account for inflation.

Whereas, the General Assembly convenes the second Tuesday in January and adjourns the second Thursday the following May and during the session the duties every member is required to fulfill is a full-time job; and

Whereas, in the current age, a constituent has access to his representative at all hours of the day through email, and therefore even when the General Assembly is not in session, a member's responsibilities to his district never ends; and

Whereas, for many years, members only have been allotted $12,000 a year of in-district expense funds to meet the needs of their constituents; and

Whereas, in this current time of great inflation the costs to a member of the General Assembly to fulfill such duties is at an all-time high, yet the in-district expense funding remains unchanged. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, memorialize the General Assembly to supplement the in-district compensation of all members of the General Assembly by an additional $25,000 each year to account for inflation.

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