FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 553

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH (14), PARKER, SUTHERLAND, SMITH (118), PAGE (Co-sponsors), WILSON (119), BROWN, SCHLOTTACH, JOHNSON (47), WOOD, ENGLER, DEEKEN, TAYLOR, MARSH, GREEN, THRELKELD, BEARDEN, MILLER, AVERY, BEHNEN, CROWELL, MUNZLINGER, JACKSON AND SELF.

         Read 1^st time February 25, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2^nd time February 26, 2003, and referred to the Committee on Retirement February 27, 2003.

                  Reported from the Committee on Retirement March 10, 2003, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

                  Perfected by Consent March 17, 2003.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 67.210, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to health insurance benefits for officers and employees of political subdivisions.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 67.210, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.210, to read as follows:

            67.210. Any political subdivision which provides or pays for health insurance benefits for its officers and employees may also provide or pay for all or part of such benefits, as may be determined by the governing body of the political subdivision, for the dependents of its officers and employees, and for retired officers and employees and their dependents and the dependents of deceased officers and employees of the political subdivision.