Opinion No. (1980)

REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator Lewis:

This is in reply to your letter of January 29, 1980. In that letter you note that LB 652 of the Eighty-sixth Legislature (1979) `would raise the allowable mileage reimbursement for state employees for the use of their personal vehicles for state business from sixteen cents to twenty-one cents per mile. On reviewing the matter further' you note that `it would appear that a longer term solution to such reimbursement could be had by tying the reimbursement rate to some other mechanism.' You then solicit our review of the following proposed amendment:

"If a trip is…