FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 218
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 174.450 and 174.453, RSMo Supp. 1998, relating to the governing boards of certain state colleges and universities, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.
Section A. Sections 174.450 and 174.453, RSMo Supp. 1998, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 174.450 and 174.453, to read as follows:
174.450. The governing board of Central Missouri State University, Southwest Missouri State University and of each other public institution of higher education which, through the procedures established in subdivision (7) or (8) of section 173.030, RSMo, is charged with a statewide mission shall be a board of governors consisting of [ten] eight members, composed of seven voting members and [three] one nonvoting [members] member as provided in sections 174.453 and 174.455, who shall be appointed by the governor of Missouri, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. No person shall be appointed a voting member who is not a citizen of the United States and who has not been a resident of the state of Missouri for at least two years immediately prior to such appointment. Not more than four voting members shall belong to any one political party. The appointed members of the board of regents serving on the date of the statutory mission change shall become members of the board of governors on the effective date of the statutory mission change and serve until the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed. The board of regents of any such institution shall be abolished on the effective date of the statutory mission change, as prescribed in subdivision (7) or (8) of section 173.030, RSMo.
174.453. 1. The board of governors shall be appointed as follows:
(1) [Four] Five voting members shall be selected from the counties comprising the institution's historic statutory service region as described in section 174.010, except that [not more than one member] no more than two members shall be appointed from any one county with a population of less than two hundred thousand inhabitants;
(2) [Three] Two voting members shall be selected from any of the counties in the state which are outside of the institution's historic service region; [except that not more than one member shall be appointed from any one congressional district;] and
(3) [Two nonvoting members whose residence is other than the state of Missouri and who are knowledgeable of the educational mission of such institution; and
(4)] One nonvoting member who is a student shall be selected in the same manner as prescribed in section 174.055.
2. The term of service of the governors shall be as follows:
(1) The voting members shall be appointed for terms of six years; [except, that of the voting members first appointed, two shall serve for terms of two years, two for terms of four years, and three for terms of six years;] and
(2) [The nonvoting members who are not students shall be appointed for terms of six years; except, that of the nonvoting members first appointed, one shall serve for a term of three years, and one shall serve a term of six years; and
(3)] The nonvoting student member shall serve a two-year term.
3. Members of any board of governors selected pursuant to this section and in office on the effective date of this section shall serve the remainder of their unexpired terms.
Section B. Because immediate action is necessary to provide organized higher education, section A of this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.