Missouri 2024 Regular Session

Missouri Senate Bill SB1076 Compare Versions

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2	2	SECOND REGULAR SESSION
3	3	SENATE BILL NO. 1076
4	4	102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
5	5	INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KOENIG.
6	6	4205S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
7	7	AN ACT
8	8	To repeal section 116.160, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to ballot
9	9	summaries prepared by the general assembly.
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11	11	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
12	12	Section A. Section 116.160, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
13	13	section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 116.160, 2
14	14	to read as follows:3
15	15	116.160. 1. If the general assembly adopts a joint 1
16	16	resolution proposing a constitutional amendment or a bill 2
17	17	without a fiscal note summary, which is to be referred to a 3
18	18	vote of the people, after receipt of such resolution or bill 4
19	19	the secretary of state shall promptly forward the resolution 5
20	20	or bill to the state auditor. If the general assembly 6
21	21	adopts a joint resolution pro posing a constitutional 7
22	22	amendment or a bill without an official summary statement, 8
23	23	which is to be referred to a vote of the people, within 9
24	24	twenty days after receipt of the resolution or bill, the 10
25	25	secretary of state shall prepare and transmit to the 11
26	26	attorney general a summary statement of the measure as the 12
27	27	proposed summary statement. The secretary of state may seek 13
28	28	the advice of the legislator who introduced the 14
29	29	constitutional amendment or bill and the speaker of the 15
30	30	house or the president pro tem of the legislative chamber 16
31	31	that originated the measure. The summary statement may be 17
32	32	distinct from the legislative title of the proposed 18 SB 1076 2
33	33	constitutional amendment or bill. The attorney general 19
34	34	shall within ten days approve the legal content and form of 20
35	35	the proposed statement. 21
36	36	2. If the general assembly adopts a joint resolution 22
37	37	proposing a constitutional amendment or statutory measure 23
38	38	that includes an official summary statement, the statement 24
39	39	shall appear on the ballot, and no court shall ha ve the 25
40	40	authority to rewrite or edit the summary statement or ballot 26
41	41	language. If such summary statement or ballot language is 27
42	42	challenged in court and the court finds the summary 28
43	43	statement or ballot language to be legally flawed, the 29
44	44	summary statement shall only be rewritten by the secretary 30
45	45	of state, provided that the general assembly may, by passage 31
46	46	of a concurrent resolution, pass a new summary statement at 32
47	47	any time during a meeting of the general assembly prior to 33
48	48	the sixth Tuesday before the e lection at which the ballot 34
49	49	measure will be voted on by the people. Any such summary 35
50	50	statement shall comply with section 116.155 or this section, 36
51	51	as applicable. 37
52	52	3. The official summary statement shall contain no 38
53	53	more than fifty words, excluding articles. The title shall 39
54	54	be a true and impartial statement of the purposes of the 40
55	55	proposed measure in language neither intentionally 41
56	56	argumentative nor likely to create prejudice either for or 42
57	57	against the proposed measure. 43
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