Each member of the Joint Transportation Committee shall be entitled to his or her regular legislative compensation and his or her per diem and travel expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting thereof when the Legislature is not in session or when the Legislature is in recess without pay. These sums shall be paid out of any funds appropriated to use of the Legislature on warrants drawn by the state Comptroller upon requisition by the chair of the Joint Transportation Committee.
Ala. Code § 29-2-5 (1975)