SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1858
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BRAY.
Read 1st time February 7, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 162.291 and 162.459, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to qualifications for school board members of certain school districts.
Section A. Sections 162.291 and 162.459, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 162.291 and 162.459, to read as follows:
162.291. The voters of each seven-director district other than urban districts shall, at municipal elections, elect two or three directors according to the schedule set out in section 162.459 who are citizens of the United States and resident taxpayers of the district, who have resided in [this state] and been registered voters of the district for one year next preceding their election or appointment, and who are at least twenty-four years of age.
162.459. 1. Notwithstanding other provisions of law to the contrary, the school board of each seven-director school district [designated in the statutes as a seven-director, seven-director] or urban school district, except an urban district containing the greater part of a city of more than three hundred thousand inhabitants, shall consist of seven members. At the first election for members of the school board in each of such districts after January 1, 1993, and each three years thereafter, three members of the school board shall be elected and two members in other years; except, no school district composed of seven members as of January 1, 1993, shall be required to modify its schedule of electing board members.
2. Provisions of law applicable to seven-director[, seven-director] and urban school districts, except those which conflict
with the provisions of this section, shall apply to and govern the school districts designated in subsection 1 of this section.
Missouri House of
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