FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 309
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CASKEY.
Read 1st time January 22, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1200S.01I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 640, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the department of natural resources.
Section A.Chapter 640, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 640.080, to read as follows:
640.080.1.The state shall not utilize moneys in the water and wastewater loan fund established pursuant to section 644.122, RSMo, the water pollution permit fee subaccount of the natural resources protection fund established in section 640.220 or the water and wastewater loan revolving fund for the purpose of paying any portion of a future refund mandated under article X, section 18 of the Missouri Constitution if the United States Environmental Protection Agency determines that the use of any such moneys for paying such a refund would violate the federal Clean Water Act or any related federal regulation.
2.The department of natural resources shall, subject to appropriation, reimburse the state general revenue fund from funds that are appropriated to the department for any disproportionate impact on the state's general revenue fund that occurs as a result of subsection 1 of this section for any such refund th