FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 427
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LOUDON.
Read 1st time February 6, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1722S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.027, RSMo 2000, relating to elections, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 115.027, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.027, to read as follows:
115.027. Each board of election commissioners shall be composed of four members, appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Each major political party shall provide the governor with a list of four candidates to choose from when appointing election commissioners. Two commissioners on each board shall be members of one major political party, and two commissioners on each board shall be members of the other major political party. In no case shall more than two commissioners on a board be members of the same political party. When appointing commissioners, the governor shall designate one commissioner on each board to be chairman of the board and one commissioner on each board to be secretary of the board. The chairman and secretary of a board shall not be members of the same political party.