FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 217
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS CHAMPION AND CLEMENS.
Pre-filed January 2, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0763S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 174.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to names of state colleges.
Section A.Section 174.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 174.020, to read as follows:
174.020.1.State institutions of higher education governed by sections 174.020 to [174.320] 174.500 shall be named and known as follows: the institution at Warrensburg, Johnson County, shall hereafter be known as the "Central Missouri State University"; the institution at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, shall hereafter be known as the "Southeast Missouri State University"; the institution at Springfield, Greene County, shall hereafter be known as the "[Southwest] Missouri State University"; the institution at Maryville, Nodaway County, shall hereafter be known as the "Northwest Missouri State University"; the college at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, shall hereafter be known as the "Missouri Western State College"; the college at Joplin, Jasper County, shall hereafter be known as the "Missouri Southern State College"; and the college in the city of St. Louis shall be known as "Harris-Stowe State College".
2.References in the statutes in this state to such institutions whether denominated colleges or universities in such statutes or whether said institutions are renamed in subsection 1 of this section shall continue to apply to the applicable institution.
3.When the conditions set forth in section 178.631, RSMo, are met, the technical college located in Osage County, commonly known as the East Campus of Linn Technical College, shall be known as "Linn State Technical College".
4.Costs incurred from altering the names of the institutions specified in subsection 1 of this section shall be paid from private sources, not state appropriations, and such a name change will not authorize establishment of new degree programs by procedures other than as established by statute, including approval by the coordinating board for higher education.