SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
HOUSE BILL NO. 1348
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MYERS, JETTON, MAYER, RICHARDSON, MERIDETH,
BLACK, SCHWAB AND BRITT (Co-sponsors).
Pre-filed January 2, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
Read 1st time January 9, 2002.
Read 2nd time January 10, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, January 24, 2002.
Reported from the Committee on Agriculture February 12, 2002, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent February 25, 2002.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 263.531, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to boll weevil eradication.
Section A. Section 263.531, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 263.531, to read as follows:
263.531. 1. In the event any referendum conducted under sections 263.500 to 263.537 fails to receive the required number of affirmative votes, the certified organization may, with the consent of the department be authorized to call other referendums.
2. After the passage of any referendum, the eligible voters shall be allowed, by the subsequent referendums, at least every [five] ten years, to vote on whether to continue their assessments.
3. All the requirements for an initial referendum shall be met in subsequent referendums.
Missouri House of Representatives