FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES STORCH (Sponsor), DEEKEN, GRILL, SCHNEIDER, FALLERT, DAY, YAEGER, BAKER (25), MOORE, McGHEE, SCAVUZZO, DONNELLY, LOW (39), SKAGGS, KRATKY, ZWEIFEL, MAY, WRIGHT-JONES, BURNETT, HOLSMAN AND PRATT (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time February 8, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 116.090, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to signing petitions illegally, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 116.090, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 116.090, to read as follows:
116.090. 1. Any person who knowingly signs any name other than his own to any petition[, or] shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a class one election offense, as defined in section 115.631, RSMo.
2. Any person who knowingly signs his or her name more than once for the same measure for the same election, or who knows he or she is not at the time of signing or circulating the same a Missouri registered voter and a resident of this state, shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a class A misdemeanor punishable, notwithstanding the provisions of section [560.021] 560.016, RSMo, to the contrary, for a term of imprisonment not to exceed one year in the county jail or a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars or both.
[2.] 3. Any person who knowingly accepts or offers money or anything of value to another person in exchange for a signature on a petition is guilty of a class A misdemeanor punishable, notwithstanding the provisions of section [560.021] 560.016, RSMo, to the contrary, for a term of imprisonment not to exceed one year in the county jail or a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars or both.
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