SECOND REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CROWELL (Sponsor), DUSENBERG, BAKER, SANDER,
EMERY, RUESTMAN, MYERS, PHILLIPS, ICET AND STEFANICK (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time February 19, 2004, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 172.280, 174.160, 174.630, and 175.040, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to college and university diplomas.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 172.280, 174.160, 174.630, and 175.040, RSMo, are repealed and four new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 172.280, 174.160, 174.630, and 175.040, to read as follows:
172.280. 1. The curators shall have the authority to confer, by diploma, under their common seal, on any person whom they may judge worthy thereof, such degrees as are known to and usually granted by any college or university.
2. Each diploma conferred shall include "in the year of our Lord", "Anno Domini", or "A.D." within the date listed on the diploma.
174.160. 1. The board of regents of each state college and each state teachers college shall have power and authority to confer upon students, by diploma under the common seal, such degrees as are usually granted by such colleges.
2. Each diploma conferred shall include "in the year of our Lord", "Anno Domini", or "A.D." within the date listed on the diploma.
174.630. 1. The board of governors of the Truman State University shall organize in the manner provided by law for the board of curators of the State University of Missouri. The powers, duties, authority, responsibilities, privileges, immunities, liabilities and compensation of the board of governors of the Truman State University in regard to the Truman State University shall be the same as those prescribed by statute for the board of curators of the State University of Missouri in regard to the State University of Missouri, except that the Truman State University shall be operated only as an institution of liberal arts and sciences. Degree programs offered by the Truman State University prior to January 1, 1986, may be continued by the new board of governors, who shall submit to the coordinating board for higher education by January 1, 1987, a three-year plan outlining admissions requirements, fees, and program changes appropriate to a liberal arts and sciences mission. Pursuant to section 173.005, RSMo, the coordinating board shall approve all proposed new degree programs contained within the three-year plan.
2. Each diploma conferred shall include "in the year of our Lord", "Anno Domini", or "A.D." within the date listed on the diploma.
175.040. 1. It is hereby provided that the board of curators of the Lincoln University shall organize after the manner of the board of curators of the state University of Missouri; and it is further provided, that the powers, authority, responsibilities, privileges, immunities, liabilities and compensation of the board of curators of the Lincoln University shall be the same as those prescribed by statute for the board of curators of the state University of Missouri, except as stated in this chapter.
2. Each diploma conferred shall include "in the year of our Lord", "Anno Domini", "A.D." within the date listed on the diploma.