FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WILSON (130) (Sponsor), MOORE, SATER AND NANCE (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time February 7, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 44.020 and 44.024, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the state emergency management agency.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 44.020 and 44.024, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 44.020 and 44.024, to read as follows:
44.020. There is hereby created within the [military division of the executive department, office of the adjutant general] department of public safety, the "State Emergency Management Agency", for the general purpose of assisting in coordination of national, state and local activities related to emergency functions by coordinating response, recovery, planning and mitigation. This agency shall also serve as the statewide coordinator for activities associated with the National Flood Insurance Program.
44.024. The [adjutant general, subject to the direction and control of the governor,] director of the department of public safety shall be the executive head of the office of the state emergency management agency and shall appoint a director of the state emergency management agency to manage the day-to-day operations of the office.
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