FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 969
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRAHAM.
Read 1st time March 13, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 8.705, RSMo 2000, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to vending facilities on state property.
Section A. Section 8.705, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 8.705, to read as follows:
8.705. 1. Blind persons shall be authorized to operate vending facilities on any state property within this state in a fair and uniform manner.
2. With respect to vending facilities on state property, priority shall be given to blind persons. As used in sections 8.700 to 8.745, "state property" means all real property, or part thereof, owned, leased, rented, or otherwise controlled or occupied by any department, agency or body of this state, including roadside rest areas, except the department of mental health, but does not include any of the following:
(1) A building in which less than one hundred state employees are, or will be, located during normal working hours;
(2) A building in which less than fifteen thousand square feet of interior floor space is to be used for state government purposes or in which services are to be provided to the public;
(3) A building to be occupied by state government employees for less than three years; or
(4) The state capitol building.