FIRST REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ZERR (Sponsor), FUNDERBURK, ALLEN, FAITH, GUERNSEY, DUGGER AND DIECKHAUS (Co-sponsors).
2346L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 191, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the Missouri healthy workplace recognition program.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 191, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 191.1025, to read as follows:
191.1025. 1. The department of health and senior services shall establish and develop the "Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program" for the purpose of granting official state recognition to employers with more than fifty employees for excellence in promoting health, wellness, and prevention. The criteria for awarding such recognition shall be developed by the department but at a minimum shall include an examination of whether the employer offers:
(1) Workplace wellness programs;
(2) Incentives for healthier lifestyles;
(3) Opportunities for active community involvement and exercise; and
(4) Encouragement of well visits with health care providers.
2. The designation to five employers each year as the healthiest place to work in Missouri shall be posted on both the department's and the state's Internet web site and shall be commemorated in a plaque for the employer.
3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2009, shall be invalid and void.
4. Under section 23.253, RSMo, of the Missouri sunset act:
(1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset six years after the effective date of this section unless reauthorized by an act of the general assembly; and
(2) If such program is reauthorized, the program authorized under this section shall automatically sunset twelve years after the effective date of the reauthorization of this section; and
(3) 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.
•