Offered April 16, 1997.

Senate Substitute adopted, April 16, 1997.

Taken up for Perfection April 16, 1997. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed, as amended.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S1728.04P

To amend chapter 67, RSMo, by adding thereto four new sections relating to sports complex authorities, with an emergency clause.

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

     Section A. Chapter 67, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto four new sections, to be known as sections 67.597, 67.598, 67.599 and 1, to read as follows:

     67.597. There is hereby created a special authority to be known as the "St. Louis Regional Sports Complex Authority", which shall consist of the area contained in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, St. Charles County, Franklin County and Jefferson County, hereinafter referred to as the "authority".

     67.598. 1. The authority shall consist of seven commissioners who shall be qualified voters of the state of Missouri. The mayor of the City of St. Louis shall submit a panel of five names of residents of that city to the governor, who shall then select two names from such panel. The county executive of St. Louis County shall submit a panel of five names of residents of that county to the governor, who shall then select two names from such panel. The county executive of St. Charles County, the presiding commissioner of Franklin County, and the presiding commissioner of Jefferson County shall each submit a list of two names of residents from his or her county to the governor, who shall then select one name each from St. Charles County, Franklin County and Jefferson County. The names selected by the governor, no more than three of which shall be of any one political party, shall constitute the members of the authority; provided, however, that no elective or appointed official of the state of Missouri or any political subdivision shall be a member of a regional sports complex authority. Panel submissions shall be made as soon as practicable after the effective date of this act. The governor shall select the members of the authority within thirty days after all panel submissions have been made.

     2. The governor shall select from the five members of the authority a chairperson. No action shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least three members are present and unless a majority of the members of the authority shall vote in favor thereof.

     3. The sports complex commissioners first appointed shall serve for the following terms: one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one for five years, and one for six years. Successors shall hold office for terms of five years, or for the unexpired terms of their predecessors. Each sports commissioner shall hold office until his or her successor has been appointed and qualified.

     4. In the event a vacancy exists, the governor shall appoint a replacement from the same area as specified in subsection 1 of this section in which the member who created the vacancy resided. All vacancies shall be filled within thirty days from the date thereof.

     5. No compensation shall be payable to the sports complex commissioners by the authority.

     67.599. The duties of the authority shall include, but are not limited to, the study and review of all current major sports leagues, clubs or franchises operating in any city not within a county and the analysis of possibilities for future growth and expansion of existing and new major sports leagues, clubs or franchises in that and surrounding areas, and shall include the study and review of any maintenance services for such leagues, clubs or franchises under contract or otherwise applicable, and shall include the study, review and exploration of public ownership, in whole or in part, of such leagues, clubs or franchises. Unless and until otherwise provided, the authority shall make an annual report, due by December 1 of every year, to the governor, the president pro tem of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, setting forth in detail the authority's findings and recommendations.

     Section 1. No use of public revenue is authorized by this act and any new state or local tax or the reallocation of any existing state or local tax or other source of revenue used or to be used to fund the building, maintenance or rehabilitation of any sports stadium which is a proper subject of study by the St. Louis Regional Sports Complex Authority shall be submitted for approval or rejection to the voters of the political subdivision, including the state of Missouri, which is or will be authorizing, collecting, or expending the tax revenues for such use.

     Section B. Because of the need for the St. Louis regional sports complex authority to study the issues and make legislative recommendations for consideration during the second regular session of the eighty-ninth general assembly, sections 67.597, 67.598 and 67.599 of this act are deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and are hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and sections 67.597, 67.598 and 67.599 of this act shall be in full force and effect upon their passage and approval.