Section 6. Officers and employees of the senate

1. The senate may choose a
  secretary,  a  sergeant-at-arms,  and  an  official  stenographer.   The
  secretary  of the senate shall be elected for the term of the senate. If
  the senate shall be unable to choose any such officer at the time of the
  organization of the senate, the temporary president of  the  senate  may
  appoint  a  person  to  fill the vacancy thus created, and the person so
  appointed shall serve as such  officer  until  his  successor  has  been
  chosen by the senate and thus qualified.
    2.  The president of the senate, the temporary president of the senate
  and the minority leader of the senate may each appoint such employees to
  assist him in the performance of his duties as  may  be  authorized  and
  provided  for  in  the  legislative appropriation bill. Employees of the
  president of the senate who are paid from appropriations  made  for  the
  legislature  shall be considered as employees of the legislature for all
  purposes.   The   secretary   of    the    senate    may    appoint    a
  stenographer-secretary and a stenographer.
    3.  A  general  clerk,  or  stenographer,  or  other employee shall be
  designated by and appointed for and  assigned  to  each  member  of  the
  senate  for  whom  no provision is made for employees in the legislative
  appropriation bill.
    4. The temporary president of the senate may from time to time appoint
  such additional employees as may be necessary for the work of the senate
  and  fix  their   compensation,   respectively,   within   the   amounts
  appropriated and available therefor.
    5. In case of the death or resignation of the secretary of the senate,
  or  his  inability to exercise the powers or discharge the duties of his
  office, and notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the
  temporary  president  of the senate shall appoint an acting secretary to
  serve until a secretary is chosen by the senate to fill the vacancy. The
  acting secretary shall have and  exercise  all  of  the  powers  of  the
  secretary  of  the  senate  until  a  secretary  has been chosen and has
  qualified.
    6. When an appropriation has been made for the services, temporary  or
  otherwise,  of  employees  of  the  senate, and their appointment is not
  otherwise authorized or provided for by law, the temporary president  of
  the  senate  may  appoint  such  employees  and  fix their compensation,
  respectively, within the amounts appropriated and available therefor.
    7. Whenever the temporary president of the  senate  is  authorized  or
  required,  singly or jointly, to certify or approve warrants or vouchers
  for the compensation of any person, it shall be sufficient if he execute
  the first such warrant or  voucher,  and  thereafter  the  same  may  be
  certified  or approved by his designee or designees, so long as the rate
  of such compensation is not increased, and upon proof  by  affidavit  or
  otherwise that the same is due. Such designation shall be in writing and
  filed  in the office of the temporary president and in the office of the
  comptroller, and shall remain in effect during the term of office of the
  temporary president unless sooner revoked by him.
    8. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the temporary president of
  the senate or his or her designee may authorize expenditures to be  made
  from  appropriations  or  reappropriations  made  to  the senate finance
  committee,  or  the   allocable   portion   of   an   appropriation   or
  reappropriation  so  made  to  a legislative council, commission or task
  force the expenditures from which are for senate purposes in whole or in
  allocable part; and may also suballocate or transfer such appropriations
  or reappropriations, or any portion thereof, to any department or agency
  deemed necessary for the purpose of implementing such expenditures.  The
  temporary  president  of  the  senate  may  effect such authorization by

  filing his  or  her  approval  of  such  authorization  with  the  state
  comptroller.