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When the Senate or the House of Representatives is not convened in either regular or special session, or when either House is not sitting, any committee may meet with the previous approval of the presiding officer of the legislative body concerned, or of both, if it is a joint committee, provided there is an express mandate for the committee to study or investigate a specific matter, or a matter of extraordinary importance comes up which requires immediate attention, in the opinion of the presiding officer of the House concerned. The Secretary of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, or both, as the case may be, shall be notified of the convening of every meeting so called.For attendance to committee meetings when the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in regular or special session, or when neither House is sitting, the legislator shall receive a per diem as provided in § 29 of this title. When such committees meet outside of the Capital, the per diem to be received shall be determined according to the distance between the town where the legislator resides and the town where the committees are to meet.

ees meet outside of the Capital, the per diem to be received shall be determined according to the distance between the town where the legislator resides and the town where the committees are to meet. Attendance at each meeting shall be certified to the Secretary of the House to which said committee belongs by the chairman of the committee concerned. History —June 19, 1968, No. 97, p. 179, § 3, renumbered as § 4 on Dec. 16, 1995, No. 235, § 3, eff. Jan. 2, 1997.