FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 270

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LEGAN, CHAMPION, BOUCHER,

SMITH AND FARNEN (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time January 4, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

0760L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 610.015, RSMo 2000, relating to votes taken at public governmental bodies meetings, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 610.015, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 610.015, to read as follows:

610.015. Except as provided in section 610.021, rules authorized pursuant to article III of the Missouri Constitution and as otherwise provided by law, all votes shall be recorded, and [if a roll call is taken, as to attribute] attributed as to each "yea" and "nay" vote, or abstinence if not voting, to the name of the individual member of the public governmental body. Any votes taken during a closed or open meeting shall be taken by roll call, except votes on procedural or ministerial matters. All public meetings shall be open to the public and public votes and public records shall be open to the public for inspection and duplication.


Missouri House of Representatives