SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1661

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WILSON (130) (Sponsor), JACKSON, HOBBS, NIEVES,

 RUESTMAN AND STEVENSON (Co-sponsors).Read 1^st time March 10, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 162.795, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to school for the deaf.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 162.795, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 162.795, to read as follows:

            162.795. 1. There shall be a board of advisors for the Missouri School for the Deaf and for the Missouri School for the Blind, each composed of five members, appointed by the [governor with the advice and consent of the senate] commissioner of education.

            2. The members of each board shall hold their office for the term of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

            3. The boards shall act in an advisory capacity in regard to the maintenance, operation, management, control and all other matters relating to the conduct and improvement of the Missouri School for the Deaf and the Missouri School for the Blind.

            4. The board of advisors for each school shall meet bimonthly. At the regular meeting following the appointment of new members, each board shall organize by electing one of its number president and one vice president and shall elect such other officers as it deems necessary. Three members of the board constitute a quorum but no business shall be transacted unless the majority of the whole board votes therefor.