FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 18
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS BARTLE, SHIELDS AND NODLER.
Read 1st time February 17, 2005, and ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article IX of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to the power to determine public school funding.
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein:
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2006, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article IX of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
Section A. Article IX, Constitution of Missouri, is amended and one new section adopted, to be known as section 1(c), to read as follows:
Section 1(c). The power to determine public school funding shall exclusively be the province of the people's elected representatives in the general assembly and their governor. The power to determine public school funding shall not fall within the province of the judiciary.