CCS HCS SCS SB 1202 -- MOTOR CARRIER SERVICES UNIT

This bill transfers various agencies and powers to a newly
created Motor Carrier Services Unit within the Department of
Transportation.  The bill implements the Governor's Executive
Order 02-03 (February 7, 2002) which transferred these agencies
to the Department of Transportation so that commercial truck
drivers can obtain licenses and other services from one
department.

The bill transfers the motor carrier and railroad functions of
the Division of Motor Carrier Services, Highway Reciprocity, and
the Department of Natural Resources to the Motor Carrier Services
Division in 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.  The bill also
transfers the Motor Carrier administrative law judge to the
Administrative Hearing Commission and extends jurisdiction to the
commission to conduct hearings on motor carrier and railroad
matters.

The bill also allows employees transferred to the department who
are currently under the Missouri State Employees Retirement
System (MOSERS) to elect into the Highway and Transportation
Employees and Highway Patrol Retirement System.  Election must
occur within 90 days of the effective date of the bill.  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 bill contains an emergency clause and will be effective upon
passage and approval, or July 1, 2002, whichever occurs later.

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