Pre-filed December 1, 1995, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time January 4, 1996, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Reported from the Committee February 1, 1996, with recommendation that the bill do pass, with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1.

Taken up for Perfection February 19, 1996. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed, as amended.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S2186.01P

To repeal section 43.050, RSMo 1994, relating to the state highway patrol, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 43.050, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 43.050, to read as follows:

43.050. 1. The superintendent may appoint not more than twenty-two captains and one director of radio, each of whom shall have the same qualifications as the superintendent, nor more than forty-six lieutenants, and such additional force of sergeants, corporals and patrolmen, so that the total number of members of the patrol shall not exceed nine hundred forty officers and patrolmen and such numbers of radio personnel as he deems necessary.

2. In case of a national emergency the superintendent may name additional patrolmen and radio personnel in a number sufficient to replace, temporarily, patrolmen and radio personnel called into military services.

3. Members of the patrol hired in conjunction with any agreement with the Missouri gaming commission shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section. If such agreement is subsequently terminated or modified to reduce the number of personnel used in such agreement, those members affected by such termination or modification shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section for a period of three years.

4. Members of the patrol hired in conjunction with the community oriented policing services federal grant shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section until such time the federal grant expires.

[3.] 5. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national origin or sex.