SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COX (Sponsor) AND RUESTMAN (Co-sponsor).
Pre-filed December 11, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
Read 1st time January 9, 2008.
Read 2nd time January 10, 2008 and referred to the Special Committee on Healthcare Transformation January 10, 2008.
Reported from the Special Committee on Healthcare Transformation January 31, 2008 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f).
Reported from the Committee on Rules February 6, 2008 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent, with no time limit for debate.
Perfected by Consent February 14, 2008.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 96.160, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to municipal health facilities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 96.160, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 96.160, to read as follows:
96.160. 1. Each facility established or operated and maintained under the provisions of sections 96.150 to 96.228 shall be governed by a board of trustees who shall serve without compensation. Each such board of trustees shall consist of five trustees, who shall be citizens of the city, unless the council shall provide by ordinance for a larger board of not more than fifteen trustees. Trustees shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council and shall be chosen with reference to their fitness for such position; provided no member of the city council and no member of the immediate family of a member of the city council shall be a member of the board.
2. An ordinance providing for a larger board of trustees [shall require that three-fifths of such trustees shall be citizens of the city and] may provide that some or all of the [remaining] trustees need not be citizens of the city, but shall be citizens of the state of Missouri.
3. Any city establishing or maintaining and operating more than one health care facility may provide by ordinance that one board of trustees shall manage and operate two or more health care facilities.
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