FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 431
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR HOUSE.
Read 1st time February 9, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S1926.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 622.020, RSMo 1994, relating to administrative law judges, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 622.020, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 622.020, to read as follows:
622.020. 1. Three administrative law judges shall also be appointed for the division. They shall be nominated by the department director and appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Each shall be appointed for a term of six years, except of those first appointed, one shall be appointed for a term of four years, and one for a term of two years. Each shall be an attorney-at-law admitted to practice before the supreme court of Missouri, and while serving in this capacity as an administrative law judge shall not otherwise practice law during his term of office. Not more than two of the administrative law judges shall be members of the same political party.
2. Administrative law judges shall [be compensated at the same rate] receive the same compensation and benefits as administrative hearing commissioners [are compensated], and they shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.