FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 114
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHAMPION.
Pre-filed December 1, 2004, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0035S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 174.450, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the governing board of Southwest Missouri State University.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 174.450, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 174.450, to read as follows:
174.450. 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section the governing board of Central Missouri State University, Southwest Missouri State University, Missouri Southern State University-Joplin, and of each other public institution of higher education which, through the procedures established in subdivision (7) or (8) of section 173.030, RSMo, is charged with a statewide mission shall be a board of governors consisting of eight members, composed of seven voting members and one nonvoting member as provided in sections 174.453 and 174.455, who shall be appointed by the governor of Missouri, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. No person shall be appointed a voting member who is not a citizen of the United States and who has not been a resident of the state of Missouri for at least two years immediately prior to such appointment. Not more than four voting members shall belong to any one political party. The appointed members of the board of regents serving on the date of the statutory mission change shall become members of the board of governors on the effective date of the statutory mission change and serve until the expiration of the terms for which they were appointed. The board of regents of any such institution shall be abolished on the effective date of the statutory mission change, as prescribed in subdivision (7) or (8) of section 173.030, RSMo.
2. The governing board of Southwest Missouri State University, a public institution of higher education charged with a statewide mission in public affairs, shall be a board of governors of ten members, composed of nine voting members and one nonvoting member, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. The nonvoting member shall be a student selected in the same manner as prescribed in section 174.055. No more than one voting member shall be appointed to the board from the same congressional district, and every member of the board shall be a citizen of the United States, and a resident of this state for at least two years prior to his or her appointment. No more than five voting members shall belong to any one political party.