To repeal sections 96.230, 96.240, 96.250, 96.260, 96.270, 96.280, 96.290, 205.590, 205.600, 205.610, 205.620, 205.640, 205.650, 205.660, 205.670, 205.680, 205.690, 205.700, 205.710, 205.720, 205.730, 205.740, 205.750, 205.760, 205.765, 205.766, 205.767, 205.769, 205.770, 205.780, 205.790, 205.800, 205.810, 205.820, 205.830, 205.840, 205.850, 205.860, 205.870, 205.880, 205.890, 205.900, 205.910, 205.920, 205.930, 205.940, 205.950, 208.015, 251.470, 251.473, 251.476, 251.479, 251.481, 251.483 and 251.485 RSMo 1994, and section 205.565, RSMo Supp. 1996, relating to governmental reorganization, and to enact in lieu thereof sixteen new sections relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

     Section A. Sections 96.230, 96.240, 96.250, 96.260, 96.270, 96.280, 96.290, 205.590, 205.600, 205.610, 205.620, 205.640, 205.650, 205.660, 205.670, 205.680, 205.690, 205.700, 205.710, 205.720, 205.730, 205.740, 205.750, 205.760, 205.765, 205.766, 205.767, 205.769, 205.770, 205.780, 205.790, 205.800, 205.810, 205.820, 205.830, 205.840, 205.850, 205.860, 205.870, 205.880, 205.890, 205.900, 205.910, 205.920, 205.930, 205.940, 205.950, 208.015, 251.470, 251.473, 251.476, 251.479, 251.481, 251.483 and 251.485, RSMo 1994, and section 205.565, RSMo Supp. 1996, are repealed and sixteen new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 205.1000, 205.1003, 205.1006, 205.1009, 205.1012, 205.1015, 205.1018, 205.1021, 205.1024, 205.1027, 205.1030, 205.1033, 205.1036, 205.1039, 205.1042 and 205.1045, to read as follows:

     205.1000. 1. Sections 205.1000 to 205.1045 of this act shall be known as the "Missouri Work and Self-Reliance Plan".

     2. As used in sections 205.1000 to 205.1045 of this act, the following terms mean:

     (1) "Commission", the Missouri work and self-reliance commission;

     (2) "Community", an area with similar interests which commits itself to an infrastructure to support the goals of the Missouri work and self-reliance plan. A community can include a group of blocks or a self-defined neighborhood in an area;

     (3) "Community contract", an agreement entered into between the commission and a community that authorizes the reallocation of some portion of existing resources from participating agencies to a specific community to further support the community work and self-reliance plan;

     (4) "Community partnership council", the council established to design, implement, monitor and evaluate the community work and self-reliance plan;

     (5) "Community work and self-reliance centers", local one-stop employment assistance centers which assist local customers in meeting their employment goals, address barriers to employment and provide information regarding public assistance programs;

     (6) "Community work and self-reliance plan", a comprehensive community policy to guide the use of employment, public assistance, training, education and economic development funds, and other resources toward achievement of state economic and employment goals;

     (7) "Community support system", interlinked public and private, formal and informal structures, resources, support and services which promote healthy development and support the needs of families living in the community; and

     (8) "Missouri work and self-reliance plan", a comprehensive state policy to guide the use of employment, public assistance, training, education and economic development funds, and other resources toward achievement of state economic and employment goals.

     205.1003. 1. The department of social services shall enter into and administer a cooperative agreement with the departments of corrections, economic development, elementary and secondary education, health, labor and industrial relations, mental health and transportation to create a commission to be known as the "Missouri Work and Self-Reliance Commission".

     2. Also serving on the commission shall be a non-governmental member of the Missouri family investment trust, the Missouri training and employment council and the Missouri welfare reform coordinating committee. These commission members shall be appointed by their respective organization. Upon unanimous agreement by the commission other persons may be appointed to the commission.

     3. The department of social services shall convene, organize and provide support services for the commission.

     4. Members appointed by the Missouri family trust, the Missouri training and employment council and the Missouri welfare reform committee and any member appointed by the commission shall serve three year terms. The other members shall serve for as long as they hold the position which made them eligible for appointment.

     5. Members of the commission shall not be compensated for their services, but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

     205.1006. 1. The commission shall develop a comprehensive state plan to guide the use of employment, public assistance, training, education and economic development funds, and other resources toward achievement of state economic and employment goals. The plan should utilize the initiatives developed by the family investment trust to improve the deliverance of services to children and families and the initiatives developed by the Missouri training and employment council which collaborates with labor, business, government, education and community leaders in meeting the workforce needs of the state. The plan should also develop methods to assist Missourians in obtaining gainful employment; reduce dependence upon public assistance and unemployment insurance programs; develop a well trained, productive work force that meets the needs of the state's changing economy; and make maximum use of existing institutions and organizations with demonstrated effectiveness in employment and training service delivery. The commission shall develop procedures to avoid unnecessary duplication of employment and training programs. The commission shall also develop procedures that prepare economically disadvantaged unskilled youth and adults for entry into the work force.

     2. The commission may also, subject to appropriations, use, administer and dispose of any gifts, grants, or in-kind services and may award grants to qualifying entities to carry out the caring communities program.

     205.1009. The commission shall have the following powers and duties, which shall be performed by staff to the commission or by participating state agencies to:

     (1) Ensure that all funds appropriated to the commission shall be used to carry out the goals of the state plan. However, each department shall be able to utilize other appropriated funds to carry out the goals of the commission and the state plan.

     (2) Ensure that its funding decisions meet all federal and state statutory requirements;

     (3) Establish the emergency intervention fund and distribute such funds to community partnership councils;

     (4) Establish a community revitalization and job creation fund and distribute such funds on a matching basis of one-half state funds for one-half of community funds or in-kind services. No community partnership council shall receive any payment without providing the matching funds required or an accurate accounting of all in-kind services provided through the community support system;

     (5) Establish a family investment trust fund and distribute such funds to form an integrated approach to implementing the state work and self-reliance plan;

     (6) Develop and implement procedures for wage supplementation agreements on behalf of employers and persons receiving public assistance funds;

     (7) Prepare an annual comprehensive state plan to guide the use of employment, public assistance, training, education and economic development funds, and other resources toward achievement of state economic and employment goals through the Missouri work and self-reliance program;

     (8) Coordinate state agencies and the services they provide with community partnership councils to achieve the goals and expected results detailed in the comprehensive state plan;

     (9) Develop criteria and standards for approval of any community contracts based on plans submitted by community partnership councils;

     (10) Develop criteria and standards for revocation or renewal of community contracts;

     (11) Develop and implement procedures to determine the amounts and geographic allocation of state and federal funds distributed to and within community partnership councils;

     (12) Develop and implement procedures to provide equitable work and self-reliance services throughout the state;

     (13) Monitor each community's work and self-reliance plan's compliance to the state plan;

     (14) Evaluate state and local efforts to administer and carry out community work and self-reliance services;

     (15) Submit an annual report of its activities and on issues relating to the progress of the Missouri work and self-reliance plan to the speaker of the house of representatives, president pro tem of the senate, and the governor before December thirty-first of each year; and

     (16) The commission shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations which shall be public record.

     205.1012. To evaluate and monitor the progress of the Missouri work and self-reliance, the Commission will review the following:

     1. The composition of each community partnership council;

     2. The motivation for participation by each community partnership council;

     3. The structure of each community partnership council;

     4. The development of flexible financing by each          community partnership council;

     5. The initiative shown by each community partnership     council;

     6. The communication and understanding of goals by the community partnership council to the rest of the community, to the partnership itself and to state agencies involved in the Missouri work and self-reliance plan; and

     7. The quality of the collaboration of each community partnership, including:

     (a) Shared vision of each partnership;

     (b) Collective ownership of each project;

     (c) Ideas to eliminate barriers to the success of each community partnership council;

     (d) Ability to develop assets necessary to succeed in the development of each partnerships' projects; and

     (e) Ability to learn from and develop successful ideas from conflict.     

     205.1015. 1. The commission shall administer a fund to be known as the "Emergency Intervention Fund", which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys deposited in the fund shall include all unencumbered balances from the general relief fund, moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any private donations, grants or in-kind services. Moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes established in this section.

     2. The unexpended balance existing in the fund and interest earned on the fund at the end of any biennium year shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund.

     3. The emergency intervention fund shall be used to eliminate barriers to accepting employment and to assist individuals in remaining in the work place. Services to be provided by the fund shall first be spent on emergency intervention services including, but not limited to, child care payments, transportation allowance and work-related expense payments. Any funds not spent on emergency intervention services shall be spent on temporary intervention payments to families and individuals and temporary assistance to needy and medically unemployable adults who cannot qualify under any other assistance program. Emergency and temporary intervention services payments shall be made directly to vendors or to reimburse individuals for purchase of necessary materials.

     205.1018. 1. The commission shall administer, a fund to be known as the "Community Revitalization and Job Creation Fund", which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys deposited in the fund shall include all unencumbered balances from the main street fund as of June 30, 1997 and the job development and training fund, moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any private donations, grants or in-kind services. Moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes established in this section.

     2. The unexpended balance existing in the fund and interest earned on the fund at the end of any biennium year shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund.

     3. The community revitalization and job creation fund shall be used to ensure the community partnership council's plan for wealth creation, encouragement of local volunteer projects, revitalization of small communities' central business district, improvement of substandard infrastructure of disadvantaged communities, encouragement of local private investment in community development projects, increase the workforce skills of Missouri workers to prepare them to fill jobs projected in Missouri's future.

     205.1021. 1. The commission shall administer, a fund to be known as the "Family Investment Trust Fund", which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys deposited in the fund shall include all unencumbered balances from the family investment trust and moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any private donations, grants, or in-kind services. Moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes established in this section.

     2. The unexpended balance existing in the fund and interest earned on the fund at the end of any biennium year shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund.

     3. The family investment trust fund shall be used by the commission to form integrated approaches to providing the services now being provided separately by the departments of economic development, elementary and secondary education, health, higher education, labor and industrial relations, mental health, social services and transportation with the community partnership council.

     205.1024. All state agencies, the university of Missouri extension system, and any unit of local government, including school districts, may share information and cooperate with the commission to enable it to perform the functions assigned to it by state law.

     205.1027. 1. To obtain the entire Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants and to be eligible for contingency funds in case of economic downturn, the state of Missouri shall meet the one hundred percent maintenance effort conditional requirement set forth in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 by creating the "Missouri Maintenance of Effort For Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Fund" to be administered by the department of social services with input from the commission.

     2. The qualified state expenditures that will count toward the maintenance of effort requirement for the TANF block grant are:

     (1) State spending in the program created by the block grant on eligible families for:

     (a) Cash assistance;

     (b) Child care;

     (c) Educational activities designed to increase self-sufficiency, job training and work, excluding any expenditure for public education except expenditures which involve the provision of services or assistance to a member of an eligible family which is not generally available to persons who are not members of an eligible family;

     (d) Administrative costs, not to exceed fifteen percent of the total amount of the block grant; and

     (e) Any other use of funds allowed under the grant;

     (2) State expenditures in excess of the amount spent in fiscal year 1995 for other state or local programs on eligible families for the activities listed in subdivision 1 of this section;

     (3) State spending on families who would otherwise be eligible for assistance if not for the application of the five year lifetime limit on federal benefits; and

     (4) State expenditures that would have received federal match funds under former programs.

     3. Moneys deposited in the fund shall include one hundred percent of the state funds expended in fiscal year 1994 on the AFDC, JOBS, AFDC-related child care and emergency assistance programs.

     4. The unexpended balance existing in the fund and the interest earned on the fund at the end of any biennium year shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the general revenue fund.

     5. The Missouri maintenance of effort for temporary assistance for needy families fund may also be used to provide assistance to those persons who satisfy all the eligibility requirements except lack the capacity to participate in or perform the work requirements.

     205.1030. 1. One or more local communities may establish a community partnership council to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate a community work and self-reliance plan. At least one of the communities establishing the council must have general governmental responsibilities and legal authority to accept state or federal funds, gifts, grants or in-kind services.

     2. The community partnership council shall act as an advisory committee to the commission and shall have the following powers and duties:

     (1) Identify work force development needs in its area, assist the commission in the awarding of grants or contracts administered by the community partnership council in that area and in monitoring the implementation of the community work and self-reliance plan;

     (2) Organize and implement methods to provide job creation in the community;

     (3) Inform businesses of and recruit businesses to use the job profiling system at the community work and self-reliance centers;

     (4) Arrange for mentoring programs between local businesses and those seeking public assistance;

     (5) Develop and implement methods of contracting with local community services organizations for services which will aid applicants for and recipients of public assistance benefits to eliminate barriers to employment;

     (6) Give recommendations as to the location of community work and self-reliance centers;

     (7) Set procedures for community work and self-reliance centers in the administration and distribution of emergency intervention funds;

     (8) Set procedures for the application and distribution of community revitalization and job creation funds;

     (9) Enter into wage supplementation agreements on behalf of local employers and persons receiving public assistance funds;

     (10) Ensure that its funding decisions meet all federal and state statutory requirements;

     (11) Prepare an annual comprehensive community plan to guide the use of employment, public assistance, training, education and economic development funds, and other resources toward achievement of state economic and employment goals through the community self-sufficiency and employment program;

     (12) Develop criteria and standards for approval of community contracts;

     (13) Develop criteria and standards for revocation or renewal of community contracts;

     (14) Develop and implement procedures to determine the amounts and geographic allocation of state and federal funds distributed to and within the community partnership council's area;

     (15) Develop and implement procedures to provide equitable self-sufficiency and employment services throughout the community partnership council region;

     (16) Perform an evaluation of the community partnership council's efforts to administer and carry out community work and self-reliance services; and

     (17) Submit an annual report of its activities and on issues relating to the progress of the community partnership council's work and self-reliance program to the commission before November fifteenth of each year.

     3. The membership of the community partnership council shall be appointed by the chief elected official or the executive board of any community organization entering into the community partnership council agreement with the advise and consent of the commission. The membership of each board shall include a balance of community residents and leaders, local agencies providing support and services to the community and government agencies. The members shall be appointed for staggered terms. The community councils shall include at a minimum, all of the following:

     (1) Representatives of families living in the community;

     (2) Representatives of local organizations, religious and secular, providing support and services to the community;

     (3) Representatives of the business community;

     (4) Representatives of the labor community;

     (5) Local government and school officials responsible for public programs, services, or funds included in the plan, appointed by their respective governing boards; and

     (6) A member of the governing board of each local jurisdiction included in the community partnership council.

     4. Each community partnership council shall elect its own chairman and executive committee and shall establish its own rules of procedure. The community partnership council may authorize the executive committee to act for it on all matters pursuant to rules adopted by it. The community partnership council shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which shall be public record.

     5. Members of the community partnership councils shall not be compensated for their services, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties by the commission. The commission shall provide such support as each community partnership council requires to aid it in the performance of its duties.

     205.1033. All state agencies, the university of Missouri extension system, and any unit of local government, including school districts, may share information and cooperate with any community partnership council to enable it to perform the functions assigned to it by state law.

     205.1036. 1. The commission, with input from each community partnership council, shall establish at least one community work and self-reliance center in each county and the city of St. Louis. The commission shall encourage each community partnership council to provide additional accessibility to employment information, day care information and transportation information through the use of computer technology and the strategic location of kiosk facilities within the community. These centers shall assist local customers in meeting their employment goals, address barriers to employment and provide information regarding public assistance programs.

     2. The duties and services of the department of social services, divisions of child support enforcement, family services and medical services, the department of labor and the division of employment security shall be placed in one centrally located office or within the area covered by the community partnership council. This merging of duties should be based on the one-stop idea developed by the Missouri training and employment council.

     205.1039. 1. In order to stress the program's work focus, an applicant must complete a self-sufficiency assessment and planning interview with a human resource advocate before proceeding to an eligibility interview for public assistance.

     2. The department of labor will design and implement an employee/employer job profiling program. This program shall profile both the aptitude and training qualifications of an applicant and the job descriptions and training requirements of job openings in the community. If an applicant and job profile match, the applicant shall be required to attend an interview for such job opening.

     3. If an applicant has immediate employment prospects or is encountering barriers which create an inability to work, the human resource advocate shall be given authority to provide the applicant with emergency intervention funds to meet immediate needs, transitional medical and/or child care support services which allow the applicant to remain employed or to obtain immediate employment. The use of emergency intervention funds shall follow the procedures developed by the community partnership council.

     205.1042. 1. The division of child support enforcement shall continue to provide services, including paternity establishment and establishment, modification and enforcement of support obligations for children receiving benefits from the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, or who receive foster care maintenance payments, or Medicaid.

     2. The department of social services shall establish an automated state case registry that contains a record on each case in which services are being provided by the division of child support enforcement, as well as each support order established or modified in the state on or after October 1, 1998.

     3. By October 1, 1998, the department of social services, division of child support enforcement is required to operate a centralized, automated unit for collection and disbursement of payments on child support orders enforced by the child support agency and payments on orders issued after December 31, 1993 which are not enforced by the division of child support enforcement but for which income is subject to withholding.

     4. The disbursement unit must be used to collect and disburse support payments, to generate orders and notices of withholdings to employers, to keep an accurate identification of payments, to promptly distribute money to custodial parents or other states, and to furnish parents with a record of the current status of support payments. Any child support check being issued to the custodial parent must be made on behalf of the child or children and must state that the support is being paid on behalf of the non-custodial parent.

     205.1045. 1. The department of social services, division of child support enforcement shall seek judicial or administrative orders requiring non-custodial parents owing child support to a child receiving TANF funds to:

     (1) Pay such support in accordance with a plan approved by the court or by the department of social services; or

     (2) Participate in work activities as the court or department of social services deems appropriate.

     2. The department of social services may grant temporary administrative reduction of child support payments for given circumstances to be determined by rule of the department.

     3. The department of social services shall institute a procedure which would allow a portion of the state's maintenance of effort moneys created in the Personal Opportunity and Personal Responsibility Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law 104-193, to be used to assistance working non-custodial parents in the payment of their child support obligations to prevent the inclusion of these children in the TANF program.

          [96.230. In all cities of the third class in this state there is hereby created and established, at the option of the mayor and common council of any such city, a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of the City of ...". All powers and duties connected with and incident to the relief and prevention of dependency, relief and care of the indigent, and the care of sick dependents, with the exception of the insane and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases, and excepting those persons who may be admitted to the county poorhouses of the counties in which such cities are located, shall be exclusively invested in and exercised by the board. The board shall have power to receive and expend donations for social welfare purposes, and shall have exclusive control of the distribution and expenditure of any public funds set aside and appropriated by such cities for relief of the temporary dependent. The board shall have power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to assume the care of or take by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, real estate, personal property, right of property or other valuable things, and may use, enjoy, control, sell or convey the same for charitable purposes, to have and to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. The board may make bylaws for its own guidance, rules and regulations for the government of its agents, servants and employees, and for the distribution of the funds under its control.]

          [96.240. Said board shall have power to make all suitable provisions for the relief, maintenance and support of all indigent persons within said cities, and to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance of the sick dependents and those who are unable to support themselves; to enforce the laws of the state, the ordinances of said cities, in regard to the indigent, and to make such rules and regulations in the conduct of its business not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Missouri, and the ordinances of said cities; to recommend to the common council of said cities the passage of such ordinances as said board may deem necessary for the welfare of the indigent of said cities. The board shall have the power to employ and discharge all persons or officers in their judgment necessary to carry on the work over which said board is given jurisdiction or control. Said board shall further have power to enter into cooperative arrangement with state or county agencies, or with charitable and philanthropic associations in order better to promote the objects of its work. Said board may act as agent for the county superintendent of public welfare within the limits of the city, under such arrangements as may be made jointly by them.]

          [96.250. Said board shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian and the members and officers thereof shall receive no compensation as such. Said board shall consist of the mayor of such cities, who shall be ex officio a member thereof, and six other members, men or women, who shall be appointed by the mayor and the common council of such cities, who shall hold office, two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years, whose term of office shall be designated by the mayor. Whenever the term of office of any member so appointed expires, the appointment of his successor shall be for three years. All such appointments shall date from the first of June following their appointment. Vacancies from any causes shall be filled in like manner as original appointment. The mayor may, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any members appointed by him in the manner required for removal of officers of such cities.]

          [96.260. Said members shall, immediately after their appointment, and annually thereafter, meet and organize by electing out of their number a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. All subordinate officers and employees appointed shall give such bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties as may be required by the board.]

          [96.270. All moneys received or appropriated for the use of said board shall be deposited with the treasurer, who shall give good and sufficient bond to said board for the safekeeping and proper expenditure of all funds placed in his hands, by or for the use of said board.]

          [96.280. It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of its proceedings and its receipts, expenditures and operations, and to annually render a full and complete itemized report, stating the condition of their trust, together with such other matters as they may deem of general interest to the mayor and common council of said cities; provided said board shall render reports concerning receipts, expenditures, operations, etc., whenever called for by the common council of said cities.]

          [96.290. It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by himself or another applies for relief, to make immediate inquiry into the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he or she is in such indigent circumstances as to require temporary relief, the said board shall furnish, out of the funds in its hands, such relief as the circumstances of the case may require; provided, that in all cases where the applicant for aid may be found dependent, and said applicant or member of said applicant's family is an able-bodied person, said board shall require such person to perform work to the value of the aid given.]

          [205.565. The department of social services may, subject to appropriation, use, administer and dispose of any gifts, grants, or in-kind services and may award grants to qualifying entities to carry out the caring communities program.]

          [205.590. Aged, infirm, lame, blind or sick persons, who are unable to support themselves, and when there are no other persons required by law and able to maintain them, shall be deemed poor persons.]

          [205.600. No person shall be deemed an inhabitant within the meaning of sections 205.580 to 205.760, who has not resided in the county for the space of twelve months next preceding the time of any order being made respecting such poor person, or who shall have removed from another county for the purpose of imposing the burden of keeping such poor person on the county where he or she last resided for the time aforesaid.]

          [205.610. The county commission of each county, on the knowledge of the judges of such tribunal, or any of them, or on the information of any associate circuit judge of the county in which any person entitled to the benefit of the provisions of sections 205.580 to 205.760 resides, shall from time to time, and as often and for as long a time as may be necessary, provide, at the expense of the county, for the relief, maintenance and support of such persons.]

          [205.620. The county commission shall at all times use its discretion and grant relief to all persons, without regard to residence, who may require its assistance.]

          [205.640. The several county commissions shall have power, whenever they may think it expedient, to purchase or lease, or may purchase and lease, any quantity of land in their respective counties, not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, and receive a conveyance to their county for the same.]

          [205.650. Such county commission may cause to be erected on the land so purchased or leased a convenient poorhouse or houses, and cause other necessary labor to be done, and repairs and improvements made, and may appropriate from the revenues of their respective counties such sums as will be sufficient to pay the purchase money in one or more payments to improve the same, and to defray the necessary expenses.]

          [205.660. The county commission shall have power to make all necessary and proper orders and rules for the support and government of the poor kept at such poorhouse, and for supplying them with the necessary raw materials to be converted by their labor into articles of use, and for the disposing of the products of such labor and applying the proceeds thereof to the support of the institution.]

          [205.670. The several county commissions shall set apart from the revenues of the counties such sums for the annual support of the poor as shall seem reasonable, which sums the county treasurers shall keep separate from other funds, and pay the same out on the warrants of their county commissions.]

          [205.680. Any county which now has or may hereafter have within such county a city having a special charter and which city now has or may hereafter have a population of not less than ten thousand inhabitants and not more than thirty thousand inhabitants shall, out of the funds of such county, provide for the care of the poor in said county, including poor of such city or cities, and no such city shall hereafter be exempt from any tax for the support of the poor of such county. No money shall hereafter be refunded to any such city by any such county on account of any money expended by said county for the support of the poor of said county.]

          [205.690. Whenever such poorhouse or houses are erected, the county commission shall have power to appoint a fit and discreet person to superintend the same and the poor who may be kept thereat, and to allow such superintendent a reasonable compensation for his services.]

          [205.700. Such superintendent shall have power to cause persons kept at such poorhouse, who are able to do useful labor, to perform the same by reasonable and humane coercion.]

          [205.710. The county commission may at any time, for good cause, remove the superintendent and appoint another to fill the vacancy.]

          [205.720. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the poor, or poor farm, as provided for in sections 205.580 to 205.760, to keep a book furnished by the county commission, and enter therein a book account of all business transactions had or done or caused to be done by him as superintendent. Said book shall show an itemized account of all farm products, stock and other articles sold by the superintendent or by his authority, and of all articles purchased for the use of the poor, or for the use or improvement of the poor farm or the buildings thereon, and of all expenses for farm labor and other work or services done by order or contract of the superintendent, and of such other items as may be ordered kept therein by the county commission.]

          [205.730. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to appear before the county commission on the first day of every regular session thereof, and at such other times as the commission may require, and present said book to said commission for their inspection. Should the superintendent fail or refuse to keep such book and present the same to the county commission, as provided in sections 205.580 to 205.760, it shall be considered sufficient cause for his removal, and it shall be the duty of the county commission to remove the same, and appoint another to fill the vacancy.]

          [205.740. All money that shall come into the hands of the superintendent from the sale of farm products, stock or other articles belonging to the county, and all other money belonging to the county that shall come into his hands from other sources, except by warrants drawn in his favor by the county commission, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed with the fund for the support of the poor, and a receipt taken for the same.]

          [205.750. Every superintendent, before entering upon his duties, shall enter into a bond to the state of Missouri in a sum not less than five hundred nor more than three thousand dollars, to be determined by the county commission, conditioned that he will faithfully account for all money belonging to the county that shall come into his hands, and that he will exercise due diligence and care over property belonging to the county, under his control. Said bond shall be approved by the county commission and filed with the clerk thereof.]

          [205.760. Sections 205.720 to 205.750 shall not apply to any county where the support and keeping of the poor is let out by contract, nor to any county where the superintendent rents or leases the poor farm and stocks the same and furnishes the necessary farm implements used thereon at his own expense, and carries on said farm at his own expense.]

          [205.765. 1. The county commission of any county of the first class may by resolution create a department of health and welfare which department shall be operated in the manner hereinafter set out.

          2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1, no department of health and welfare shall be created in any county of the first class not having a charter form of government in which a county health center has been established pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.010 to 205.150, whether or not the health center is established prior to the county's attaining first class status.]

          [205.766. 1. The commissioners of the county commission shall during their term of office serve as commissioners of health and welfare of their respective counties and shall have charge and control of all county hospitals, clinics, health centers, institutions for the insane and all county corrective, welfare and eleemosynary institutions except the county jail and the place of detention used by the juvenile court.

          2. Said commissioners shall have supervision of the rehabilitation of all state prisoners in the county jail after conviction and sentence thereto, subject to the approval of the county sheriff.

          3. They shall perform investigational case work, excepting that relating to adoption, probation and detention of juveniles, in all cases involving the distribution and expenditure of any county funds.

          4. They shall administer all laws relating to the county support of the poor and shall have charge of all boarding home care for all juveniles subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and shall perform such other duties as provided by law.]

          [205.767. The commissioners of health and welfare may appoint a director of health and welfare and the commissioners shall fix his compensation. The commissioners may also employ such assistants as are necessary and shall fix their compensation. The cost of salaries and expenses of the department shall be apportioned to any appropriate county fund.]

          [205.769. 1. Any first class county not having a charter form of government and adjacent to a county of the first class having a charter form of government which does not contain a city with a population of three hundred thousand or more, and adjacent to not more than one county of the second class, may make health inspections of premises on or from which food is prepared, served, or sold to members of the general public for consumption by humans; except this act shall not apply to hospitals licensed under chapter 197, RSMo, or to nursing homes licensed under chapter 198, RSMo. Any county which makes inspections as authorized by this section shall also have the power and authority to issue licenses and to charge reasonable fees for such inspections, which fees shall not exceed the amount necessary to fund and implement an inspection program established pursuant to this section.

          2. Such inspections shall be performed at least annually according to procedures established by the Missouri department of health and shall be performed in the most cost efficient manner. Inspections shall be performed by qualified employees of the county, or by contracting such services on a fee basis, at the discretion of the county commission. Any person making such inspections must meet the Missouri department of health qualifications.

          3. No establishment described in subsection 1 of this section shall be issued a county license until it has passed inspection. Any such establishment which has been licensed and subsequently fails an inspection shall be given ten days to correct its deficiencies and if such establishment fails to correct its deficiencies, it shall be subject to license suspension and suspension of operations. If the establishment operates without the license, the owner is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. The license shall remain suspended until the deficiencies are corrected.

          4. New establishments must submit plans for their operation to the county health department before construction proceeds and licenses are sought. Establishments already doing business in the county shall not be subject to this subsection.

          5. All religious, educational, nonprofit, fraternal or civic organizations shall be exempt from the fees authorized by the provisions of subsection 1 of this section.

          6. From and after August 13, 1986, health inspections of the establishments described in subsection 1 of this section shall be performed only by the county and the state. Municipalities may provide for such health inspections only in those counties which do not provide for a health inspection throughout the county.]

          [205.770. 1. In any county of the second class in this state there may be created and established by order of the county commission of any such county a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of the County of .........".

          2. All powers and duties connected with and incident to the betterment of social and physical causes of dependency, the relief and care of the indigent, and the care of sick dependents, with the exception of the mentally ill and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases shall be exclusively invested in and exercised by the board.

          3. The board shall have power to receive and expend donations for social welfare purposes and shall have exclusive control over the distribution and expenditure of any public funds set aside and appropriated by such counties and by any city located in any such county for the relief of the temporarily dependent. The board shall have power to promote the general welfare of the poor within the limits of such counties by social and sanitary reforms, by industrial instruction, by the inculcation of habits of providence and self-dependence, and by the establishment and maintenance of any activities to these ends. The board shall have power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to assume the care of or take, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, real estate, personal property, right of property, or other valuable things, and may use, enjoy, control, sell or convey the same for charitable purposes, to have and to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.

          4. The board may make bylaws for its own guidance, rules and regulations for the government of its agents, servants and employees, and for the distribution of the funds under its control.

          5. If any second class county which has established a social welfare board pursuant to the provisions of this section, subsequently becomes a first class or a third class county, such county may retain its social welfare board and continue to function pursuant to the provisions of sections 205.770 to 205.840.]

          [205.780. Said board shall have the exclusive power to make all suitable provisions for the relief, maintenance and support of all indigent persons within said county and within any city in said county who may appropriate for the support of said board, and to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance to the sick dependents and those who are unable to support themselves; to enforce the laws of the state, the ordinances of such cities located within said county, in regard to the indigent, and to make such rules and regulations in the conduct of its business not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Missouri and the ordinances of such cities; to have exclusive control, care and management of all public hospitals owned or operated by said counties or said cities, except those for the care of the insane and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases; to recommend to the common council of said city the passage of such ordinances as said board may deem necessary for the welfare of the indigent of said city; to have the power to appoint competent physicians and surgeons, who shall hold their office at the pleasure of said board, at a salary to be fixed by said board, and said physicians and surgeons shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by said board, and shall render medical attendance to all those who may come within the provisions of this law; said board shall have the power and it shall be the duty of said board to employ and discharge all persons or officers in their judgment necessary to carry out the matters over which said board is given jurisdiction or control.]

          [205.790. 1. Said board shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian in character, and the members and officers thereof shall receive no compensation as such.

          2. Said board shall consist of the mayor of such cities and the presiding commissioner of the county commission of such counties, who shall be ex officio members thereof, and six other members, three of whom shall be appointed by the county commission of such counties, who shall hold office, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, whose terms of office shall be designated by such county commission, three by the mayor and common council of such cities, who shall hold office, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, whose terms of office shall be designated by the mayor.

          3. Whenever the term of office of any member so appointed expires, the appointment of his successor shall be for three years. All such appointments shall date from the first of June following their appointment.

          4. Vacancies from any causes shall be filled in like manner as original appointment. The mayor may, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any member appointed by him in the manner required for removal of officers of such cities. The county commission may, by a majority vote, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any member appointed by them.]

          [205.800. Said members shall immediately after their appointment, and annually thereafter, meet and organize by electing out of their number a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. All subordinate officers, agents and employees appointed shall give such bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties as may be required by the board.]

          [205.810. All moneys received or appropriated for the use of said board shall be deposited with the treasurer, who shall give good and sufficient bond to said board for the safekeeping and proper expenditure of all funds placed in his hands, by or for the use of said board.]

          [205.820. It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of its proceedings and of its receipts, expenditures and operations, and shall annually render a full and complete itemized report, stating the condition of their trust, together with such other suggestions as they may deem of general interest to the mayor and common council of said cities and the county commission of said counties; provided, said board shall render reports concerning receipts, expenditures, operations, etc., whenever called for by the common council of said cities or the county commission of said counties.]

          [205.830. 1. It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by himself, herself, or another apply for relief to make immediate inquiry into the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he or she is in such indigent circumstances as to require temporary relief, the said board shall furnish, out of the funds in their hands, such relief as the circumstances of the case may require; provided, that in all cases where the applicant for aid may be found dependent and said applicant or member of said applicant's family is an able-bodied male person capable of performing manual labor, said board shall require such person to perform work to the value of the aid given, and the city engineer and the street commissioners of such cities in their respective departments are required to utilize the services of such able-bodied persons upon receiving notice from said board that such person has received or is entitled to such aid. Where the applicant or a member of the applicant's family is an able-bodied female, said board shall, whenever practicable, require that labor to the value of the aid given be performed. They shall make investigations of cases of dependence for individuals or other charitable organizations and furnish such reports upon the same as in their judgment seems advisable.

          2. Their office shall be a center of intercommunication between the various charitable agencies in the city. They shall foster harmonious cooperation between them and endeavor to eradicate the evils of overlapping relief, and for this purpose shall maintain a confidential registration bureau.

          3. When it is impossible to repress mendicancy by the above means they shall prosecute imposters. They shall carefully work out such plans for helping families to self-dependence as may seem most practicable. They shall make concentrated attack on social causes of hardship, such as unsanitary housing, child labor, extortionate charges by pawnshops, salary loan and chattel mortgage agreements.]

          [205.840. It shall be the duty of the board of police commissioners of said cities, and the health officers of said cities and counties to render said social welfare board, its officers and agents, such aid as may be requested by them, or either of them, whenever such aid requested shall reasonably come within the duties of said police board, its agents or officers or the health officers aforesaid.]

          [205.850. The county commission in counties of the third and fourth classes may in its discretion, with an order of the juvenile court showing approval, appoint a county superintendent of public welfare, and such assistants as it may deem necessary. Whenever the county commission of any county has appointed a superintendent of public welfare such officer shall assume all the powers and duties now conferred by law upon the probation or parole officer of such county and shall assume all the powers and duties of the attendance officer in said county and all the powers and the duties of the attendance officer in any incorporated town or village having a population of more than one thousand inhabitants, and no other or different probation or parole officer or attendance officer or officers shall be appointed by the judge of the juvenile court, by the county superintendent of public schools, or by the school board or any incorporated city, town, or village school district or consolidated school district.]

          [205.860. The county commission shall fix the salary of the county superintendent of public welfare and of his assistants in its county.]

          [205.870. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public welfare to administer all of the funds of the county devoted to outdoor relief and allowances to needy mothers. He shall seek to discover any cases of neglect, dependent, defective or delinquent children in the county, and take all reasonable action in his power to secure for them the full benefit of the laws enacted for their benefit. Assistants to the county superintendents of public welfare shall perform such of the duties of the county superintendent of public welfare as he may assign to them.]

          [205.880. The county superintendent of public welfare may be deputized or authorized and required by the department of social services to act as its agent in relation to any work to be done by said department within the county, and when said county superintendent is so authorized as the agent of the department of social services, he shall have the same powers and authority as are given to the department of social services. The county superintendent of public welfare may at any time call on the department of social services for advice and assistance in the performance of his duties.]

          [205.890. The county superintendent of public welfare in each county shall, upon the request of the department of mental health, and in accordance with its direction, give special care and attention to the needs of any patient recently discharged from the state hospital for the insane who resides in his county, either on parole or permanent discharge, to the end that such patients may be established in such favorable circumstances as shall tend to prevent their relapse into insanity, and shall report on the progress of such former patients to the department of mental health, and under its direction, to the institution from which they have been paroled or discharged.]

          [205.900. 1. The county superintendent of public welfare shall give such oversight and supervision to prisoners who are on parole from the state penitentiary and are residing in his county, and to persons who are on parole from the Missouri Reformatory, and Missouri Training School for Boys and to girls on parole from the State Training School for Girls or from the State Training School for Negro Girls, as may be requested by the state department of corrections and human resources and shall report upon the progress of said paroled prisoners to the state department of corrections and human resources as often as it may request.

          2. The county superintendent of public welfare in each county shall give oversight and supervision to prisoners on parole or probation by any court in the state of Missouri and shall investigate applications for clemency when requested to do so by said courts, and shall report in regard to each person placed under his supervision to the court placing said persons under his supervision.

          3. The county superintendent of public welfare shall also give oversight and supervision to children placed on parole or probation by the juvenile court or the court having jurisdiction of children's cases in his county when requested to do so by said court and shall report to said court upon progress of persons thus placed on parole or probation.]

          [205.910. The county superintendent of public welfare in each county shall cooperate with the state employment bureaus and shall, upon request of the head of such bureaus, furnish data with regard to the opportunities for employment in their respective counties and shall aid and assist in any practical way in securing employment for the unemployed in his county.]

          [205.920. The county superintendent of public welfare and his assistants may be deputized by the director of the inspection section of the department of labor and industrial relations, as his agent or agents, and when they are so deputized by the director, they shall have the same powers and authority as deputy industrial inspectors.]

          [205.930. The county superintendent of public welfare shall investigate the conditions of living among the poor, sick and delinquent in the county and examine thoroughly into causes of crime and poverty in the county and shall make recommendations from time to time to the proper state department, and to proper local authorities as to any change in conditions or in legislation necessary to prevent or reduce poverty, crime or distress in the state.]

          [205.940. The records of cases handled and business transacted by the county superintendent of public welfare shall be kept in such manner and form as may be prescribed by the department of social services.]

          [205.950. The county superintendent of public welfare shall each year prepare and keep on file, a full report of his work and proceedings during the year, and shall file a copy with the county commission and with the secretary of the department of social services.]

          [208.015. 1. The division of family services shall grant general relief benefits to those persons determined to be eligible under this chapter and the applicable rules of the division. The director may adopt such additional requirements for eligibility for general relief, not inconsistent with this chapter, which he deems appropriate.

          2. General relief shall not be granted to any person:

          (1) Who has been approved for federal supplemental security income and was not on the general relief rolls in December, 1973; or

          (2) Who is a recipient of:

          (a) Aid to families with dependent children benefits;

          (b) Aid to the blind benefits;

          (c) Blind pension benefits; or

          (d) Supplemental aid to the blind benefits.

          3. A person shall not be considered unemployable, under this section, if unemployability is due to school attendance.

          4. Persons receiving general relief in December, 1973, and who qualify for supplemental security income shall continue to receive a general relief grant if necessary to prevent a reduction in the total cash income received by such person in December, 1973, which general relief grant shall not exceed the amount of general relief provided by law.

          5. In providing benefits to persons applying for or receiving general relief, benefits shall not be provided to any member of a household if the claimant is employable as defined by rule of the division of family services; or if certain specified relatives living in the household of the claimant are employed and have income sufficient to support themselves and their legal dependents and to meet the needs of the claimant as defined by rule of the division. "Specified relatives" shall be defined as the spouse, mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, and grandparents of the claimant, as well as the spouses of these relatives, if living in the home.

          6. General relief paid to an unemployable person shall not exceed one hundred dollars a month.]

          [251.470. Sections 251.470 to 251.485 shall be known and may be cited as the "Missouri Main Street Program Act".]

          [251.473. As used in sections 251.470 to 251.485, the following terms mean:

     (1) "City", any city or town in this state with a population of fifty thousand or under;

     (2) "Program", the Missouri main street program, established under the provisions of sections 251.470 to 251.485.]

          [251.476. There is hereby established within the department of economic development the "Missouri Main Street Program". The program shall provide technical assistance and training for cities' governments, business organizations, and merchants and property owners to accomplish community and economic revitalization and development of older central business districts and neighborhoods. The program shall attempt to ensure that the business districts of Missouri's small cities remain essential elements to their sense of community and to the state's economy. The program shall also operate to increase the ability of small business and property owners in cities to renovate and enhance their commercial and residential properties.]

          [251.479. The program shall employ techniques developed by the national trust for historic preservation's main street center which are designed to stimulate business reinvestment, restore building facades, retain existing small business, strengthen the local tax base, create employment opportunities, promote new business in downtown areas, and help to create a renewed sense of community pride.]

          [251.481. 1. The program shall operate according to a plan developed by the department of economic development and the department of natural resources with the assistance of organizations representing merchants and governments of cities, historic preservation interests, financial institutions and economic development groups. The plan required by this section shall describe the objectives of the program, how the program will be coordinated with existing federal, state, local and private sector small business development and historic preservation efforts, and methods of selecting and providing assistance to participating cities.

          2. The department shall select ten pilot cities in which to initiate the program.]

          [251.483. The duties of the department of economic development in implementing the program shall include, but not be limited to the following:

          (1) Contract with the National Trust for Historic Preservation to assist in accomplishing the program's objectives, to provide technical assistance to the department, and to assist in developing criteria for the selection of participating cities;

          (2) Develop criteria for selecting participating cities which shall include evidence of interest and commitment to downtown economic development and historic preservation by both the private and public sectors, evidence of potential private investment in the downtown area, and evidence of organizational and financial commitment to implement a long-term economic revitalization program which includes a commitment to employ a professional project manager with an operating budget.]

          [251.485. There is hereby established in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the "Missouri Main Street Program Fund", which shall consist of all moneys which may be appropriated to it by the general assembly, and also any gifts, contributions, grants or bequests received from federal, private or other sources. Money in the Missouri main street program fund shall be used to carry out the provisions of sections 251.470 to 251.485 and for no other purpose. Moneys for main street programs established under the provisions of sections 251.470 to 251.485 shall be obtained from appropriations made by the general assembly from the Missouri main street program fund. Any moneys remaining in the Missouri main street program fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not lapse to the general revenue fund, as provided in section 33.080, RSMo, but shall remain in the Missouri main street program fund.]

     Section B. Because immediate action in necessary to ensure the receipt of the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.