2793S.02C
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SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE BILLS NOS. 710 & 713
AN ACT
To amend chapter 67, RSMo, by adding thereto one new
section relating to sports complex authorities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 67, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto
one new section, to be known as section 67.646, to read as
follows:
67.646. 1. For the purposes of this section, the
following terms shall mean:
(1) "Authority", a county sports complex authority
created pursuant to this section;
(2) "Convention and sports complex fund", the fund
established by a county pursuant to the provisions of this
section for the purposes of developing, maintaining, or
operating within its jurisdiction, sports, convention,
exhibition, or trade facilities;
(3) "County", any county with more than two hundred
thirty thousand but fewer t han two hundred sixty thousand
inhabitants;
(4) "Governing body", the county commission or other
governing body charged with governing the county.
2. (1) There is hereby authorized to be created in
any county a special authority to be known as the "______
County Sports Complex Authority". Such authority shall be
created by order of the governing body and certified copies
of said order shall be filed in the offices of the governor
and secretary of state. The authority shall be a body
corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the
state of Missouri.
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(2) (a) The authority shall consist of five
commissioners who shall be qualified voters of the state of
Missouri, and residents of the county. The governing body
shall by a majority vote submit a panel of nine names to the
governor who shall select, with the advice and consent of
the senate, five commissioners from such panel, no more than
three of which shall be of any one political party, who
shall constitute the me mbers of such authority; provided,
however, that no elective or appointed official of any
political subdivision of the state of Missouri shall be a
member of the authority.
(b) The authority shall elect from its number a
chairman and may appoint such officers and employees as it
may require for the performance of its duties and fix and
determine their qualifications, duties, and compensation.
No action of the authority shall be binding unless taken at
a meeting at which at least three members are present and
unless a majority of the members present at such meeting
shall vote in favor thereof.
(c) Commissioners shall serve in the following
manner: one for two years, one for three years, one for
four years, one for five years, and one for six years.
Successors shall hold office for terms of five years, or for
the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
(d) In the event a vacancy exists a new panel of three
names shall be submitted by majority vote of the governing
body to the governor for appointment. All such vacancies
shall be filled within thirty days from the date thereof.
If the governing body has not submitted a panel of three
names to the governor within thirty days of the expiration
of a commissioner's term, the governor shall immediately
make an appointment to the authority with the advice and
consent of the senate. In the event the governor does not
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appoint a replacement, no commissioner shall continue to
serve beyond the expiration of that commissioner's t erm.
(3) The authority shall have the same powers as a
sports complex authority created pursuant to sections 64.920
to 64.950.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to
impair the powers of any county, municipality, or other
political subdivision to acquire, own, operate, develop, or
improve any facility which an authority is given the right
and power to own, operate, develop, or improve.
3. (1) A county establishing an authority pursuant to
this section shall be authorized to establish, by ordinance
or order of the county, a "Convention and Sports Complex
Fund", for the purposes of developing, maintaining or
operating within its jurisdiction, sports, convention,
exhibition, or trade facilities. Such fund shall be separa te
from the general funds of the county.
(2) The general assembly may annually appropriate up
to three million dollars from the state general revenue fund
to the convention and sports complex fund created pursuant
to this subsection, provided tha t the county or authority
has entered into a contract or lease with a professional
sports team affiliated with or franchised by the National
Football League, the National Basketball Association, the
National Hockey League, or the American League or the
National League of Major League Baseball on or after January
1, 2026. The convention and sports complex fund shall be
administered by the county and shall be used to carry out
the provisions of this section.
(3) Any county which has a conventio n and sports
complex fund established pursuant to this section shall,
prior to receipt of any appropriations pursuant to this
subsection, enact or promulgate ordinances, rules, or
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regulations which provide, pursuant to the terms and
provisions of section 70.859, for the purchase of goods and
services and for construction of capital improvements for
facilities administered by the authority. In no event shall
more than three million dollars be transferred from the
state to any one such convention an d sports complex fund in
any fiscal year pursuant to this subsection.
(4) No appropriation of state moneys shall be made
pursuant to this subsection until the county which has
created a convention and sports complex fund has commenced
paying into the convention and sports complex fund amounts
at a rate sufficient for the county to contribute the sum of
three million dollars per calendar year. Appropriations
made pursuant to this subsection to any convention and
sports complex fund shall not e xceed the amounts contributed
by the county to the fund. The county's proportional amount
specified in this subdivision may come from any source.
Once the county has commenced paying such appropriate
proportional amounts into its convention and sport s complex
fund, the county shall so notify the state treasurer and the
director of revenue and, thereafter, subject to annual
appropriation, transfers shall commence and continue each
month pursuant to this subsection until such monthly
transfers are made for forty years. Moneys appropriated
from general revenue shall not be expended until the county
has paid three million dollars into its fund.
4. The county shall make an annual report to the
general assembly stating the condition of its con vention and
sports complex fund and the various sums of money received
by the county into that fund and distributed by the county
from that fund during the preceding calendar year. The
county shall employ a certified public accountant to conduct
a biennial audit of all accounts and transactions of the
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convention and sports complex fund and may compensate such
accountants out of the funds.