Maine public payments · 2019–2023
Out of Session
Senate President Troy Jackson’s mileage, lodging, meals, and per diem, set against the days the Maine Legislature was actually in session.
271
Days named on their own line while the Legislature was adjourned
$41,855.77
Paid on those single-day lines
$167,252.05
Everything in the ledger, including session allowances
Statutory session allowances — meals, housing, and mileage in lieu of housing — come to $81,280.04. They are weekly payments and are not painted as a travel day. Copper marks only lines that name a date.
- Senate met
- Session open, no floor session
- Named that day, Legislature adjourned
- Only inside a multi-day span
2021. 151 days named while adjourned, $22,147.89 on those lines.
Single-day claims while adjourned
January
No named adjourned days
Session allowances posted: $1,841.68
February
No named adjourned days
Session allowances posted: $2,357.20
March
1 adjourned
Session allowances posted: $3,204.00
April
22 adjourned
Session allowances posted: $416.40
May
No named adjourned days
Session allowances posted: $2,482.80
June
No named adjourned days
Session allowances posted: $3,274.00
July
8 adjourned
Session allowances posted: $1,385.30
August
20 adjourned
September
26 adjourned
October
27 adjourned
Session allowances posted: $70.00
November
24 adjourned
December
23 adjourned
How this was built
Payments come from the state ledger titled “Payments to President Troy Jackson from 1/1/2019 to 8/22/2023.” Each state fiscal year was added back up and matches the total printed on that record: $17,128.11, $33,876.78, $31,500.17, $40,553.22, $37,058.34, and $7,135.43. The underlying travel vouchers (later pages of the same file) were not re-keyed.
A copper day is a date written on a mileage, lodging, airfare, meal, or per diem line. If the line says a span, such as June 23–29, every day in that span gets a copper underline, and the dollars stay on the voucher rather than being split. The headline counts only days named on their own line. Weekly session allowances do not name a travel day, so they are totaled under each month instead of painted onto the grid.
“In session” means the Senate or House gaveled in, or a regular, special, or confirmation session had convened and had not yet adjourned sine die. Floor days are the 129th, 130th, and 131st House session schedules, plus Senate calendar days that the House schedule omits: August 24, 2020, February 25, 2021, and April 22, 2021. March 19–31, 2020 stayed on the House advance schedule after the March 17 sine die adjournment and are not counted. An “H” means the House met and the Senate did not.
From December 2, 2020 to March 30, 2021 the First Regular Session of the 130th had not adjourned, but the Senate met only a handful of days. Those non-meeting days stay in the pale “session open” band. They are not marked as adjourned.
Presiding officers can be reimbursed for legislative business while the chambers are adjourned. This record shows how often dated claims fall then. It is not a finding that any line was unlawful.