FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 305
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WALTON.
Read 1st time January 10, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 162, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the creation of subdistricts in certain school districts.
Section A. Chapter 162, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 162.386, to read as follows:
162.386. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in any seven-director school district which includes all of any village with a population of more than two thousand nine hundred but less than three thousand two hundred fifty inhabitants that is located within a county of the first classification with a charter form of government having a population of more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants, the state board of education shall, on or before December 1, 2001, and every ten years thereafter, establish subdistricts for such district. The subdistricts established by the state board shall be compact, contiguous and as nearly equal in population as practicable.
2. All board members elected or appointed in any such district shall be elected or appointed to represent one of the subdistricts, beginning with the first municipal general election after December 1, 2001. Each member shall reside in the subdistrict from which he or she is elected, or, in the case of a vacancy, the subdistrict from which he or she is appointed.
3. Elected members of the board in office on December 1, 2001, shall hold office for the length of term for which they were elected, and any members appointed to fill vacancies in office occurring after December 1, 2001, shall serve for the remainder of the term to which the replaced member was elected.
4. At the first municipal general election to occur after December 1, 2001, the elections for the seats of any expiring terms of at-large board members shall be filled by persons elected from the lowest-numbered subdistricts, as those subdistricts are created and numbered by the state board of education. The second such municipal general election shall be for the lowest-numbered subdistricts not filled at the prior election, and the third such election shall be for the remaining subdistricts not filled at the prior two elections.
5. The law governing school districts and seven-director school districts shall continue to apply to any district
described in this section, except as expressly provided in this section.
Missouri House of Representatives