FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 719

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FLOOK (Sponsor), RUESTMAN, LAIR AND GUERNSEY (Co-sponsors).

1886L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 161.072, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to meetings of the state board of education.

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

            Section A. Section 161.072, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 161.072, to read as follows:

            161.072. The state board of education shall meet semiannually in December and in June in Jefferson City. Other meetings may be called by the president of the board on [five] seven days' written notice to the members. In the absence of the president, the commissioner of education shall call a meeting on request of [four] three members of the board, and if both the president and the commissioner of education are absent or refuse to call a meeting, any [four] three members of the board may call a meeting by similar notices in writing. The business to come before the board shall be available by free electronic record at least seven business days prior to the start of each meeting. All records of any decisions, votes, exhibits, or outcomes shall be available by free electronic media within forty-eight hours following the conclusion of every meeting. Any materials prepared for the members of the board by the staff shall be delivered to the members at least five days before the meeting, and to the extent such materials are public records as defined in section 610.010, RSMo, and are not permitted to be closed under section 610.021, RSMo, shall be made available by free electronic media at least five business days in advance of the meeting.

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