SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1078
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CIERPIOT.
3327S.02I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 115.615, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to county
political party committees, with an effective date.
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Section A. Section 115.615, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1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 electi ng 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 persons elected secretary and treasurer may vote on all 15
matters before the committee, regardless if such persons are 16
members of the committee, provided that if a person elected 17
secretary or treasurer is not a member of the committee, 18 SB 1078 2
then the person shall not vote for the nomination of 19
candidates for county o ffice pursuant to subdivision (1) of 20
subsection 1 of section 115.365. The county chair and vice 21
chair so elected shall by virtue thereof become members of 22
the party congressional, senatorial and judicial committees 23
of the district of which their count y is a part. For the 24
Republican party county committee subject to subsection 3 of 25
section 115.607, the committee shall provide for population 26
apportioned representation voting in all matters before the 27
committee, except as otherwise provided in this s ection, by 28
giving each committeeman and committeewoman a number of 29
votes equal to the proportion of vote cast in the 30
jurisdiction from which the committeeman or committeewoman 31
was elected for the person who was the nominee of the 32
respective political party at the most recent gubernatorial 33
general election or state auditor general election, as the 34
case may be. Population apportioned representation voting 35
shall not be used for purposes of nominating a candidate for 36
county office pursuant to subdivis ion (1) of subsection 1 of 37
section 115.365. 38
Section B. Section A of this act shall become 1
effective January 1, 2025. 2