SECOND REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES TALBOY (Sponsor), SCHIEFFER, MEINERS, WILDBERGER, BURNETT, BLAND, CURLS, SKAGGS AND HUGHES (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 17, 2008 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapters 393 and 414, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to the capping of natural gas and gasoline prices.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 393 and 414, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 393.1100 and 414.225, to read as follows:
393.1100. 1. Beginning January 1, 2009, any natural gas provided to consumers in this state shall not be more than three dollars per one thousand cubic feet. Such price may increase due to inflation at no more than five cents per one thousand cubic feet per year.
2. Pursuant to section 23.253, RSMo, of the Missouri Sunset Act:
(1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset five years after the effective date of this section; and
(2) This section shall terminate on September first of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the program authorized under this section is sunset.
414.225. 1. Beginning January 1, 2009, any gasoline sold in this state shall not be sold at a price greater than three dollars per gallon. Such price may increase due to inflation at no more than five cents per gallon per year.
2. Pursuant to section 23.253, RSMo, of the Missouri Sunset Act:
(1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset five years after the effective date of this section; and
(2) This section shall terminate on September first of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the program authorized under this section is sunset.
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