It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 36-6-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 36-6 entitled "Salaries and Traveling Expenses" is hereby amended to read as follows:

{ADD 36-6-9. Travel expenses of superior court and family court justices, clerks and attorney-general and assistants. -- ADD} The justices of the superior court and the chief judge and associate justices of the family court, and the stenographic clerks of those courts, when sitting or in attendance at any session of those courts held in any county other than Providence County shall be allowed and paid, in addition to their salaries, their actual traveling expenses {ADD for travel within the state of Rhode Island ADD} in connection with their attendance at those courts. The attorney general and the assistant attorneys general shall also be allowed and paid their actual traveling expenses {ADD for travel within the state of Rhode Island ADD} when performing official duties outside of Providence County. The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient for the payment of those expenses; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much thereof as may from time to time be required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers duly authenticated.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.