FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 747
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CROWELL.
Read 1st time February 12, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 130, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to contributions and expenses for gubernatorial inaugurations, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Chapter 130, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 130.077, to read as follows:
130.077. 1. Any person who is inaugurated governor at the regularly allotted time following his or her election, pursuant to section 26.015, RSMo, shall report all received contributions for and all expenses associated with such inauguration to the ethics commission, on forms created by the ethics commission for such purpose, by the fifteenth day of February in the year such person is inaugurated. Such report shall include:
(1) A list of all moneys, whether used or unused as of the date of the submission of the report, which were donated by any committee, person or other entity for the funding of such inauguration, and the source of all such moneys, including the name and mailing address of any such committee, person or other entity and the amount contributed by any such committee, person or entity;
(2) A list of all moneys transferred from any of such person's campaign funds, or from the funds of any other committee, which were used or intended to be used for the funding of such inauguration, and the name and mailing address of any such committee as well as the amount contributed by such committee; and
(3) An itemized documentation of all expenditures put toward such inauguration, with a list of the cost of each individual expenditure; and
(4) A list of any other moneys collected for or expended on such inauguration, including the names and mailing addresses of any such donees and the amount contributed by such donees.
2. It shall be a violation of this section to expend moneys solicited or collected for inaugural activities, or any interest derived therefrom, on anything other than inaugural activities. On or after March first of any inaugural year, the attorney general shall file an action in circuit court to collect, on behalf of the state, all remaining moneys solicited or collected for inaugural activities, or any interest derived therefrom, which were not expended on inaugural activities.
3. A violation of this section shall be punishable pursuant to section 130.081.
4. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to this section shall take effect unless such rule has been
promulgated pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo.
Missouri House of Representatives