EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 240
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BURGER.
0614S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 251.034, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to state
funds for regional planning commissions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 251.034, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 251.034, 2
to read as follows:3
251.034. Payments made under sections 251.032 to 1
251.038 to the various regional planning commissions shall 2
be distributed on a matching basis of one -half state funds 3
for one-half of local funds. No local unit shall receive 4
any payment without providing the m atching funds required. 5
The state funds so allocated shall not exceed the sum of 6
[sixty-five] one hundred thirty thousand dollars for the 7
East-West Gateway Coordinating Council and for the Mid - 8
America Regional Council. The remaining allocated state 9
funds shall not exceed the sum of [twenty-five] fifty 10
thousand dollars for each of the following regional planning 11
commissions: South Central Ozark, Ozark Foothills, Green 12
Hills, [Show-Me,] Bootheel, [Missouri Valley, Ozark 13
Gateway,] Mark Twain, [ABCD,] Southeast Missouri, Boonslick, 14
Northwest Missouri, Mid -Missouri, Kaysinger Basin, Lake of 15
the Ozarks, Meramec, Northeast Missouri, Harry S Truman, MO- 16
Kan, Pioneer Trails, and [Lakes Country] Southwest 17
Missouri. Beginning July 1, 2026, and each year after, the 18 SB 240 2
maximum grant amount for each regional planning commission 19
shall be adjusted with the consumer price index . 20