SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 856
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR RUSSELL.
Pre-filed December 28, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 21, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Economic Development.
Reported from the Committee January 31, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass.
Taken up for Perfection February 19, 2002. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed, as amended.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3622S.01P
AN ACT
To amend chapter 135, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to enterprise zones.
Section A. Chapter 135, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 135.259 and 135.260, to read as follows:
135.259. In addition to the number of enterprise zones authorized pursuant to the provisions of sections 135.206, 135.210, 135.256 and 135.257, the department of economic development shall designate one such zone for any county of the third classification without a township form of government with a population of less than eighteen thousand and more than seventeen thousand nine hundred. Such enterprise zone designation shall only be made if such area which is to be included in the enterprise zone meets all the requirements of section 135.205.
135.260. In addition to the number of enterprise zones authorized pursuant to the provisions of sections 135.206 and 135.210, the department of economic development shall designate one such zone in every city of the fourth classification with greater than five thousand two hundred inhabitants and less than five thousand three hundred inhabitants in every noncharter county of the first classification which contains greater than one hundred four thousand inhabitants and fewer than one hundred five thousand inhabitants. Such enterprise zone shall only be made if such area in the city which is to be included meets all the requirements of section 135.205.