FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 16
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CIERPIOT.
0518S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.615, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to requiring
weighted voting in county political party committees.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 115.615, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.615, 2
to read as follows:3
115.615. In years when a primary election is held 1
pursuant to subsection 2 of section 115.121, each county 2
committee shall meet at the county seat on the third Tuesday 3
of August. In each city not situated in a county, the city 4
committee shall meet on the same day at such place within 5
the city as the chair of the current city committee may 6
designate. In all counties of the first, second and third 7
classification the county courthouse shall be made available 8
for such meetings and any other county political party 9
meeting at no charge to the party committees. At the 10
meeting, each committee shall organize by electing one of 11
its members as chair and one of its members as vice chair, a 12
man and a woman, and a secretary and a treasurer, a man and 13
a woman, who may or may not be members of the committee. 14
The county chair and vice chair so elected shall by virtue 15
thereof become members of the party congressional, 16
senatorial and judicial committees of the district of which 17
their county is a part. County committees shall provide for 18 SB 16 2
weighted voting in all matters before the committee, except 19
as otherwise provided in this section, by giving each 20
committeeman and committeewoman a number of votes equal to 21
the proportion of vote cast in the jurisdiction from which 22
the committeeman or committeewoman was elected for the 23
person who won the political party's nomination at the most 24
recent gubernatorial primary election or state auditor 25
primary election, as the case may be, and multiplying that 26
number by two. Weighted voting shall not be used for 27
purposes of nominating a candidate for county office 28
pursuant to subdivis ion (1) of subsection 1 of section 29
115.365. 30