SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1132

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SKAGGS (Sponsor),

WILLOUGHBY AND BISHOP (Co-sponsors).Read 1st time January 15, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

3828L.01I

 

AN ACT

To repeal section 9.040, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to Missouri Day.




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


            Section A. Section 9.040, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 9.040, to read as follows:

            9.040. The [third Wednesday of October] eighth day of May of each year is known and designated as "Missouri Day" and is set apart as a day commemorative of Missouri history to be observed by the teachers and pupils of schools with the appropriate exercises. The people of the state of Missouri, and the educational, commercial, political, civic, religious and fraternal organizations of the state of Missouri are requested to devote some part of the day to the methodical consideration of the products of the mines, fields, and forests of the state and to the consideration of the achievements of the sons and daughters of Missouri in commerce, literature, statesmanship, science and art, and in other departments of activity in which the state has rendered service to mankind.