FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 282

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WALTON.

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

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

0979L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 115.619, RSMo 2000, relating to elections, 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Section A. Section 115.619, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 115.619, to read as follows:

115.619. 1. The membership of a legislative district committee shall consist of all county committee members whose townships, wards or committee districts are contained in whole or in part within the legislative district[, except as provided in subsections 4 and 5 of this section]. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, in all [counties] legislative districts of this state [which are wholly contained within a legislative district, or in which there are two or more whole legislative districts, or one whole legislative district and part of another legislative district, or parts of two or more legislative districts], there shall be elected from the membership of each legislative district committee a chairman and a vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man[, and]. Each legislative district at the same time shall elect a secretary and a treasurer, one of whom shall be a woman and one of whom shall be a man, but who may or may not be members of the legislative district committee. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and for weighted or fractional voting.

2. If a legislative district and a county are coextensive, the chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer of the county committee shall be the chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer of the legislative committee.

3. Except as provided in subsections 4 and 5 of this section, the congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee shall consist of the chairman and vice chairman of each of the legislative districts in the congressional, senatorial[,] or judicial districts and the chairman and vice chairman of each of the county committees within the districts. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and may provide for weighted or fractional voting.

4. The congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee of a district coextensive with one county shall be the county committee.

5. The congressional, senatorial or judicial district committee of a district which is composed in whole or in part of a part of a city or part of a county shall consist of the ward or township committeemen and committeewomen from such wards or townships included in whole or in part in such part of a city or part of a county forming the whole or a part of such district. Party state committees may provide for voting by proxy and may provide for weighted or fractional voting.


Missouri House of Representatives