FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NOS. 132, 173, 117 & 48
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Reported from the Committee on Education, February 12, 2003, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for House Bill Nos. 132, 173, 117 & 48 Do Pass.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 174.020 and 174.241, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to certain state institutions of higher education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 174.020 and 174.241, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 174.020 and 174.241, to read as follows:
174.020. 1. State institutions of higher education governed by sections 174.020 to [174.320] 174.500 shall be named and known as follows: the institution at Warrensburg, Johnson County, shall hereafter be known as the "Central Missouri State University"; the institution at Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, shall hereafter be known as the "Southeast Missouri State University"; the institution at Springfield, Greene County, shall hereafter be known as the "[Southwest] Missouri State University"; the institution at Maryville, Nodaway County, shall hereafter be known as the "Northwest Missouri State University"; the [college] institution at St. Joseph, Buchanan County, shall hereafter be known as the "Missouri Western State [College] University"; the [college] institution at Joplin, Jasper County, shall hereafter be known as the "Missouri Southern State [College] University-Joplin"; and the college in the city of St. Louis shall be known as "Harris-Stowe State College".
2. References in the statutes in this state to such institutions whether denominated colleges or universities in such statutes or whether said institutions are renamed in subsection 1 of this section shall continue to apply to the applicable institution.
3. Any costs incurred with respect to modifications of the names of the state colleges and universities specified in subsection 1 of this section shall not be paid from state funds. The name change for Missouri State University shall not authorize establishment of new degree programs by procedures other than as established by statute, including approval by the coordinating board for higher education.
[3.] 4. When the conditions set forth in section 178.631, RSMo, are met, the technical college located in Osage County, commonly known as the East Campus of Linn Technical College, shall be known as "Linn State Technical College".
174.241. 1. The board of regents of Missouri Western State [College] University and the board of regents for Missouri Southern State [College] University-Joplin shall consist of six members each, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall be responsible for the administration of its college. All persons appointed to either board of regents shall be citizens of the United States and shall have been residents of the state of Missouri for two successive years next preceding the date of their appointment[, shall be residents of the district in which the college is located,] and not more than three members of either board of regents shall belong to the same political party.
2. Persons appointed to the board of regents of Missouri Western State University shall be residents of the district in which the institution is located. Persons appointed to the board of regents of Missouri Southern State University-Joplin shall be residents of the area within a sixty-mile radius of the district in which the institution is located.
[2.] 3. The term of service of the members of both boards of regents shall be six years, the term of one member expiring each year, except that of the members first appointed, one shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of five years, and one for a term of six years. The governor shall first appoint members to each board of regents prior to October 13, 1975.