SCS SB 1202 -- Motor Carrier Services Unit (One-Stop Shop)

Sponsor:  Westfall

This substitute transfers various agencies or powers to a newly
created Motor Carrier Services Unit within the Department of
Transportation.  The substitute is created to implement the
Governor's Executive Order 02-03 (February 7, 2002) which
transfers these agencies to the Department of Transportation so
that commercial truck drivers can obtain licenses and other
services from one department.  The concept is often referred to
as a "One-Stop Shop."

The substitute transfers the motor carrier and railroad functions
of the various entities, Division of Motor Carrier Services,
Highway Reciprocity, and Department of Natural Resources, the
licensing of transporting hazardous waste to the Department of
Transportation.  The Division of Motor Carrier and Railroad
Safety and the Highway Reciprocity Commission are abolished.  The
personnel of those respective entities are transferred to the
Department of Transportation.  The substitute also transfers the
Motor Carrier's administrative law judge to the Administrative
Hearing Commission and extends jurisdiction to the Administrative
Hearing Commission to conduct hearings on motor carrier and
railroad matters.

The substitute also allows employees transferred to the
Department of Transportation who are currently under the Missouri
State Employees Retirement System (MOSERS) to elect into the
Highway and Transportation Employees and Highway Patrol
Retirement System.  This election must occur within 90 days of
the effective date of the substitute.  Any election to choose the
highways retirement plan will result in the forfeiture of any
rights or benefits in the MOSERS plan.  If the employees choose
not to elect this option, the employees will remain in the MOSERS
plan.  MOSERS must pay to the highways retirement plan an amount
actuarially determined to equal the liability transferred from
the MOSERS plan.  No employee will receive service credit for the
same period of service under more than one retirement system.

The substitute has an emergency clause and will be effective upon
passage and approval, or July 1, 2002, whichever later occurs.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:04 am