FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BAKER (123).
Read 1st time January 26, 2005 and copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 27, 2005 and referred to the Committee on Local Government February 10, 2005.
Reported from the Committee on Local Government March 3, 2005 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f).
Reported from the Committee on Rules March 7, 2005 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass with no time limit for debate.
Taken up for Perfection April 12, 2005. Bill ordered Perfected and printed, as amended.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 205.010, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to county health centers and nursing home districts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 205.010, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 198.345 and 205.010, to read as follows:
198.345. Nothing in sections 198.200 to 198.350 shall prohibit a nursing home district from establishing and maintaining apartments for seniors that provide, at a minimum, housing, food services, and emergency call buttons in any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than twenty-eight thousand two hundred inhabitants but fewer than twenty-eight thousand three hundred inhabitants or any county of the third classification without a township form of government and with more than nine thousand five hundred fifty but fewer than nine thousand six hundred fifty inhabitants.
205.010. Any county, subject to the provisions of the Constitution of the state of Missouri, may establish, maintain, manage and operate a public health center in the following manner: Whenever the county commission shall be presented with a petition signed by at least ten percent or more of the voters of the county, as determined by the number of votes cast for governor at the preceding general election, asking that an annual tax not in excess of forty cents on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of property in the county, be levied for the establishment, maintenance, management and operation of a county health center and the maintenance of the personnel required for operation of the health center, or by majority vote of the county commission in any county of the first classification with more than eighty-two thousand but fewer than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants, the county commission shall submit the question to the voters of the county at an election.