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| 2 | 2 | | SECOND REGULAR SESSION |
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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE BILL NO. 949 |
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| 4 | 4 | | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 5 | 5 | | INTRODUCED BY SENATOR MOSLEY. |
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| 6 | 6 | | 3444S.01I ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary |
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| 7 | 7 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 8 | | To amend chapter 162, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the creation of wards |
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| 9 | 9 | | in certain school districts. |
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| 11 | 11 | | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | Section A. Chapter 162, RSMo, is ame nded by adding thereto 1 |
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| 13 | 13 | | one new section, to be known as section 162.386, to read as 2 |
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| 14 | 14 | | follows:3 |
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| 15 | 15 | | 162.386. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | law to the contrary, in any school district in which is 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | located, or which adjoins a school district in which is 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | located, in whole or in part, a street light maintenance 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | district with a registration of more than one thousand but 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | less than three thousand voters, or in which is wholly 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | located a street light maintenance district with a 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | registration of more than five hundred but less than one 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | thousand voters, and that is located within a county with a 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | charter form of government and with more than nine hundred 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | fifty thousand inhabitants, the board of election 11 |
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| 26 | 26 | | commissioners of the county sitting as an appo rtionment 12 |
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| 27 | 27 | | commission shall establish seven wards for the purpose of 13 |
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| 28 | 28 | | electing directors of such districts. In the event of a tie 14 |
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| 29 | 29 | | vote in adopting an apportionment or reapportionment of the 15 |
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| 30 | 30 | | wards, the chairperson of the school board of the affected 16 |
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| 31 | 31 | | school district shall break the tie. 17 SB 949 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2. (1) The ward boundaries shall be drawn by the 18 |
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| 33 | 33 | | commissioners within ninety days after the effective date of 19 |
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| 34 | 34 | | this act, and within six months after each decennial census 20 |
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| 35 | 35 | | is reported to the President of the United States. 21 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) The commissioners shall apportion the wards by 22 |
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| 37 | 37 | | dividing the population, determined by the preceding 23 |
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| 38 | 38 | | decennial census, of the district by the number of directors 24 |
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| 39 | 39 | | and shall establish each ward so that the population of that 25 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ward shall, as nearly as possible, equal that figure or be 26 |
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| 41 | 41 | | within one percent thereof. Each ward shall be composed of 27 |
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| 42 | 42 | | contiguous territory as compact as may be. 28 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 3. All board members elected or appointed in any such 29 |
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| 44 | 44 | | district shall be elected or appointed to represent one of 30 |
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| 45 | 45 | | the wards, beginning with the first general municipal 31 |
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| 46 | 46 | | election or vacancy occurring after August 28, 2022. Each 32 |
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| 47 | 47 | | member shall reside for one year prior to the date of his or 33 |
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| 48 | 48 | | her election in the ward from which he or she is elected, 34 |
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| 49 | 49 | | or, in the case of a vacancy, the ward from which he or she 35 |
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| 50 | 50 | | is appointed, and shall forfeit their office if they remove 36 |
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| 51 | 51 | | their residence from the ward. Such vacancy may be 37 |
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| 52 | 52 | | declared, and the office filled by the remaining members of 38 |
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| 53 | 53 | | the board as provided by law. 39 |
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| 54 | 54 | | 4. Elected members of the board in office on August 40 |
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| 55 | 55 | | 28, 2022, shall hold office for the length of term for which 41 |
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| 56 | 56 | | they were elected, and until their successors are elected 42 |
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| 57 | 57 | | and qualified, and any members appointed to fill vacancies 43 |
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| 58 | 58 | | in office occurring after August 28, 2022, shall serve until 44 |
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| 59 | 59 | | the next general municipal election, at which time a 45 |
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| 60 | 60 | | successor shall be elected to serve for the remainder of the 46 |
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| 61 | 61 | | term to which the replaced member was elected. 47 |
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| 62 | 62 | | 5. At the first general municipal election to occur 48 |
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| 63 | 63 | | after the effective date of this act, the elections for the 49 SB 949 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | seats of any expiring terms or appointed terms, as provided 50 |
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| 65 | 65 | | herein, of at-large board members shall be filled by persons 51 |
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| 66 | 66 | | elected from the lowest -numbered wards, as those war ds are 52 |
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| 67 | 67 | | created and numbered by the apportionment commission. The 53 |
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| 68 | 68 | | second such general municipal election shall be for the 54 |
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| 69 | 69 | | lowest-numbered wards not filled at the prior election, and 55 |
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| 70 | 70 | | the third such election shall be for the remaining wards not 56 |
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| 71 | 71 | | filled at the prior two elections. 57 |
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| 72 | 72 | | 6. The law governing school districts and seven - 58 |
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| 73 | 73 | | director school districts shall continue to apply to any 59 |
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| 74 | 74 | | district described in this section, except as expressly 60 |
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| 75 | 75 | | provided in this section. 61 |
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