In New Hampshire, the legislature meets for about two weeks per year and the pay is about $250/term. Obviously, as a part-time job, it does offer the opportunity for influence peddling, but far less than the “professional” legislatures in the other 49, and largely explains why New Hampshire is an island of near-sanity in the cesspool that is the Northeast. I wish Congress met for only two weeks a year.
In Texas they meet once every two years.
It seemed very odd to a friend taking the capitol tour with me.
Seemed very reasonable to me.