FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 527
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MATHEWSON.
Read 1st time April 12, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2269.02I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 26.500, 26.510 and 26.520, RSMo 1994, relating to reorganization plans for state government, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 26.500, 26.510 and 26.520, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 26.500 and 26.510, to read as follows:
26.500. [Within the first thirty days of any regular legislative session, the governor may submit] When the governor proposes a reorganization of executive agencies of state government, he shall submit to both houses of the [legislature, at the same time,] general assembly one or more formal and specific plans for the reorganization [of executive agencies of state government]. Each such plan or plans shall be submitted at the same time and shall be submitted within the first thirty days of a regular legislative session. The president pro tem and the speaker of the house shall submit the plan and any resolution pertaining thereto to the committee of jurisdiction under the rules of their respective chambers.
26.510. A reorganization plan so submitted shall become effective by executive order not sooner than [ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislature to which it is] July first of the year submitted, unless it is disapproved within sixty days of its submission to a regular session by a senate or house resolution adopted by a majority vote of the respective elected members thereof. [26.520. The presiding officer of the house in which a resolution disapproving a reorganization plan has been introduced, unless the resolution has been previously accepted or rejected by that house, shall submit it to a vote of the membership not sooner than ten days or later than sixty days after the submission by the governor of the reorganization plan to which the resolution pertains.]