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