FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 622

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE VILLA.

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

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 84.140, RSMo 2000, relating to vacation, holidays and off-duty time for members of the police force, 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Section A. Section 84.140, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 84.140, to read as follows:

84.140. The boards shall grant every member of the police force [hired prior to May 1, 1986,] who has served for one year or more a total of three weeks vacation each year with pay, and each member of the police force who has served the department for twelve years or more shall receive four weeks vacation each year with pay, and each member of the police force who has served the department for twenty-one years or more shall receive five weeks vacation each year with pay[; however, the boards shall grant every member of the police force hired on or after May 1, 1986, a total of two weeks vacation each year with pay, and each such member of the police force who has served the department for five years or more shall receive three weeks vacation each year with pay, and each such member of the police force who has served the department for twelve years or more shall receive four weeks vacation each year with pay, and each such member of the police force who has served the department for twenty-one years or more shall receive five weeks vacation each year with pay], and each member of the police force who has served the department for twenty-five years or more shall receive six weeks vacation each year with pay. All members of the police force shall receive fourteen holidays with pay, and one hundred four days off duty each year with pay, and the boards may from time to time grant additional days off duty each year with pay when in the judgment of the boards, the granting thereof will not materially impair the efficiency of the department.


Missouri House of Representatives