SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1209
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE VILLA.
Pre-filed December 12, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 84.140, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to vacation, holidays, and off-duty time for members of the police force.
Section A. Section 84.140, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 84.140, to read as follows: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]. All members of the police force shall receive [fourteen] fifteen 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.