FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 861

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

     Reported from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs, April 9, 2009, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

2045S.02C

AN ACT

To repeal section 41.150, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to assistant adjutants general.

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

            Section A.  Section 41.150, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 41.150, to read as follows:

            41.150.  The adjutant general may assign [two] the number of assistant adjutants general [in the grade of brigadier general or below, one] that are authorized by National Guard Bureau rules and regulations from the ground forces and [the other from] the air forces of this state[ however, general officers of the line federally recognized in the grade of major general may be reassigned as a state assistant adjutant general without change in grade or branch].  The assistant adjutants general shall, if they qualify therefore, hold military rank as may be authorized and approved for the positions by the National Guard Bureau of the United States.  The assistant adjutants general, at the time of their appointment, shall have not less than ten years of military service as a commissioned officer with the military forces of this state, another state or territory, the District of Columbia or the United States, or in any or all such services combined, five years of the service being in field grade.  The assistant adjutants general shall serve at the pleasure of the adjutant general and perform such duties as are assigned by the adjutant general.  During any period when the adjutant general is unable to perform such duties, the senior assistant adjutant general may, under the direction of the governor, perform the duties of the adjutant general.  

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