SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 30
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CAUTHORN.
Pre-filed December 1, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2352S.01I
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment repealing section 8 of article IX of the Constitution of Missouri relating to transportation of elementary and secondary school students, and adopting one new section in lieu thereof relating to the same subject.
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2002, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article IX of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
Section A. Section 8, article IX, Constitution of Missouri, is repealed and one new section adopted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 8, to read as follows:
Section 8. Neither the general assembly, nor any county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall ever make an appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose, or to help to support or sustain any private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or real estate ever be made by the state, or any county, city, town, or other municipal corporation, for any religious creed, church, or sectarian purpose whatever; provided that a school district may provide pupil transportation services to pupils residing in the district and attending a private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university or other institution of learning by a religious creed, church or sectarian denomination, if the school district charges and collects from a person having care and custody of such pupil or from the pupil, if over age eighteen years, reimbursement for the proportionate share of all actual operating and capital expenses incurred by the district in providing such transportation services for such pupil.