FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 36
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR NODLER.
Pre-filed December 1, 2004, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0188S.02I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 174.450 and 174.453, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the numerical composition of the Board of Governors of Missouri Southern State University-Joplin.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 174.450 and 174.453, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 174.450 and 174.453, to read as follows:
174.450. 1. 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 Missouri Southern State University-Joplin shall be a board of governors consisting of nine members, composed of eight 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.
174.453. 1. The board of governors shall be appointed as follows:
(1) Five voting members shall be selected from the counties comprising the institution's historic statutory service region as described in section 174.010, except that no more than two members shall be appointed from any one county with a population of less than two hundred thousand inhabitants;
(2) Two voting members shall be selected from any of the counties in the state which are outside of the institution's historic service region; and
(3) One nonvoting member who is a student shall be selected in the same manner as prescribed in section 174.055.
2. The term of service of the governors shall be as follows:
(1) The voting members shall be appointed for terms of six years; and
(2) The nonvoting student member shall serve a two-year term.
3. Members of any board of governors selected pursuant to this section and in office on May 13, 1999, shall serve the remainder of their unexpired terms.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, the board of governors of Missouri Southern State University-Joplin shall be appointed as follows:
(1) [Five] Six voting members shall be selected from any of the following counties: Barton, Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Dade, Lawrence, and Barry provided that no more than three of these [five] six members shall be appointed from any one county;
(2) Two voting members shall be selected from any of the counties in the state which are outside of the counties articulated in subdivision (1) of this subsection;
(3) One nonvoting member who is a student shall be selected in the same manner as prescribed in section 174.055; and
(4) The provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection shall only apply to board members first appointed after August 28, 2004.