SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 865
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS FOSTER AND KINDER.
Pre-filed January 2, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 21, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, Parks and Tourism.
Reported from the Committee February 4, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 19, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2887S.02P
AN ACT
To repeal section 263.531, RSMo, relating to boll weevil eradication, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 263.531, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 263.531, to read as follows:
263.531. 1. In the event any referendum conducted under sections 263.500 to 263.537 fails to receive the required number of affirmative votes, the certified organization may, with the consent of the department be authorized to call other referendums.
2. After the passage of any referendum, the eligible voters shall be allowed, by the subsequent referendums, at least every [five] ten years, to vote on whether to continue their assessments.
3. All the requirements for an initial referendum shall be met in subsequent referendums.