SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 749
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GOODE.
Pre-filed December 1, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 16, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Financial and Governmental Organization, Veterans' Affairs and Elections.
Reported from the Committee January 30, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 14, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2788S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal sections 21.250 and 116.050, RSMo, relating to powers of the general assembly, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 21.250 and 116.050, RSMo, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 21.250, 21.265 and 116.050, to read as follows:
21.250. When a bill that has passed both houses of the general assembly is returned by the governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, and upon a reconsideration, passes both houses by the constitutional majority, it shall be authenticated as having become a law, by a certificate endorsed thereon, or attached thereto, in the following form:
This bill having been returned by the governor, with his objections thereto and, after reconsideration, having passed both houses by the constitutional majority, it has become a law, this ......... day of ..............
Which, being signed by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, is sufficiently authenticated, and the bill shall be deposited with the laws in the office of the secretary of state, by the presiding officer of the house in which the bill originated. Unless the bill provides otherwise, it shall become effective thirty days after approval by constitutional majorities in both houses of the general assembly.
21.265. When the general assembly submits an act to the voters for their approval or rejection, the act shall specify the date upon which it becomes effective.
116.050. 1. Initiative and referendum petitions filed under the provisions of this chapter shall consist of pages of a uniform size. Each page, excluding the text of the measure, shall be no larger than eight and one-half by fourteen inches. Each page of an initiative petition shall be attached to or shall contain a full and correct text of the proposed measure, with the effective date thereof. Each page of a referendum petition shall be attached to or shall contain a full and correct text of the measure on which the referendum is sought.
2. The full and correct text of all initiative and referendum petition measures shall:
(1) Contain all matter which is to be deleted included in its proper place enclosed in brackets and all new matter shown underlined;
(2) Include all sections of existing law or of the constitution which would be repealed by the measure; and
(3) Otherwise conform to the provisions of article III, section 28 and article III, section 50 of the constitution and those of this chapter.