SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1638

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSON (90).

         Read 1^st time March 8, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 21.260, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to itemization of appropriations.

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

            Section A. Section 21.260, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 21.260, to read as follows:

            21.260. Appropriations for the operation and maintenance of departments shall be separately itemized; and separate appropriations shall be made for each item of extraordinary operation and maintenance expenditure and for each major capital expenditure. Every appropriation law shall distinctly specify the amount and purpose of the appropriation without reference to any other law to fix the amount or purpose; provided, however, that no such law shall make appropriations in a single lump-sum amount to any one executive department, except as provided by the Missouri Constitution.