Read 1st time January 15, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time January 22, 1997, and referred to the Committee on Corrections and General Laws.

Reported from the Committee March 6, 1997, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

Taken up March 26, 1997. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S0999.01P

To amend section 221.405, RSMo 1994, relating to regional jail districts, 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     Section A. Section 221.405, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 221.405, to read as follows:

     221.405. 1. Any regional jail district created pursuant to section 221.400 shall be governed by a commission. The commission shall be composed of the sheriff and presiding commissioner from each county within the district.

     2. Each commissioner shall serve during his tenure as sheriff or as presiding commissioner.

     3. Commissioners shall serve until their successors have been duly appointed. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled by the succeeding sheriff or presiding commissioner for the remainder of the term.

     4. Commissioners shall serve without compensation, except that they shall be reimbursed by the district for their reasonable and necessary expenses in the performance of their duties.

     5. A jail commissioner from each county in the district shall present a proposed budget to the county commission for approval. Any county not approving the proposed budget may request a change in the budget [or request a termination of the regional jail district agreement as to that county].