SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 726
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHILDERS.
Pre-filed December 1, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 14, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Financial and Governmental Organization, Veterans' Affairs and Elections.
Reported from the Committee January 28, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 12, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2649S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 9.130, RSMo, relating to Emergency Services Day, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 9.130, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 9.130, to read as follows:
9.130. The [twenty-eighth day of November] eleventh day of September of each year shall be known as "Emergency Services Day" and shall be set apart as a day of acknowledging, with special gratitude and profound respect, all public safety personnel, including police, firefighters, ambulance personnel, emergency dispatchers, and corrections officers. The people of this state and all of its political subdivisions are hereby requested to:
(1) Devote some part of such day to recognizing their respective public safety personnel;
(2) Make an effort to urge the citizens of their communities to cooperate with police agencies in the reporting of crimes; and
(3) Cooperate with fire agencies by checking their smoke detectors to assure that such detectors are functional.