SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1474
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES GREEN (15) AND ABEL (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 16, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 105.270, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to a state employee's leave of absence to perform military duties.
Section A. Section 105.270, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 105.270, to read as follows:
105.270. 1. All officers and employees of this state, or of any department or agency thereof, or of any county, municipality, school district, or other political subdivision, and all other public employees of this state who are or may become members of the national guard or of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, shall be entitled to leave of absence from their respective duties, without loss of time, pay, regular leave, impairment of efficiency rating, or of any other rights or benefits, to which otherwise entitled, for all periods of military services during which they are engaged in the performance of duty or training in the service of this state at the call of the governor and as ordered by the adjutant general without regard to length of time, and for all periods of military services during which they are engaged in the performance of duty in the service of the United States under competent orders for a period not to exceed a total of fifteen calendar days in any federal fiscal year; provided, that any such employee engaged in the performance of duty in the service of the United States under competent orders for more than fifteen calendar days shall continue to receive full pay until the completion of such service.
2. Before any payment of salary is made covering the period of the leave the officer or the employee shall file with the appointing authority or supervising agency an official order from the appropriate military authority as evidence of such duty for which military leave pay is granted which order shall contain the certification of the officer or employee's commanding officer of performance of duty in accordance with the terms of such order.
3. No member of the organized militia shall be discharged from employment by any of the aforementioned agencies
because of being a member of the organized militia, nor shall [he] such member be hindered or prevented from performing
any militia service [he] the member may be called upon to perform by proper authority nor otherwise be discriminated
against or dissuaded from enlisting or continuing [his service] to serve in the militia by threat or injury [to him] in respect
to [his] the member's employment. Any officer or agent of the aforementioned agencies violating any of the provisions of
this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Missouri House of Representatives