SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 1048
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KENNEY.
Read 1st time January 28, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 31, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Financial and Governmental Organization, Veterans' Affairs and Elections.
Reported from the Committee February 12, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 25, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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AN ACT
To repeal section 304.027, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the spinal cord injury fund.
Section A. Section 304.027, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 304.027, to read as follows:
304.027. 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury for use by the board of curators of the University of Missouri a fund to be known as the "Spinal Cord Injury Fund". All judgments collected pursuant to this section, appropriations of the general assembly, federal grants, private donations and any other moneys designated for the spinal cord injury fund established pursuant to [sections 302.133 to 302.138, RSMo] this section, shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys deposited in the fund shall, upon appropriation by the general assembly to the board of curators, be received and expended by the board for the purpose of funding research projects that promote an advancement of knowledge in the area of spinal cord injury. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrary, any unexpended balance in the spinal cord injury fund at the end of any biennium shall not be transferred to the general revenue fund.
2. Any person who is convicted of an intoxication-related offense, as defined by section 577.023, RSMo, shall have a judgment entered against the defendant in favor of the spinal cord injury fund, in the amount of twenty-five dollars.
3. The judgments collected pursuant to this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the spinal cord injury fund created in this section. Any court clerk receiving funds pursuant to judgments entered pursuant to this section shall collect and disburse such amounts as provided in sections 488.010 to 488.020, RSMo.