FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AN ACT
To repeal sections 162.695, 162.990, 162.995, 163.083, and 189.085, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to school district census requirements.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 162.695, 162.990, 162.995, 163.083, and 189.085, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 163.083 and 189.085, to read as follows:
163.083. When distributing the state aid authorized by the provisions of sections 162.935, 162.975, 162.980, 162.985, 162.900, [162.990,] 163.031, 163.161, RSMo, and all other moneys distributed by the state department of elementary and secondary education, the state treasurer may, in any year if requested by a school district, disregard the provision in section 30.180, RSMo, requiring the treasurer to convert the warrant requesting payment into a check or draft and wire transfer the amount to be distributed to the school district directly to the school district's designated depositary for credit to the school district's account.
189.085. The department shall develop and maintain appropriate records of services and financial transactions relating to sections 189.010 to 189.085. Disclosure of such information shall be restricted to purposes directly connected with the administration of this health services program. The center for health statistics of the department and the providers shall coordinate record systems and related programs to insure that information needed by the department for the purposes of this program shall be efficiently and economically provided. Records concerning applicants and recipients of health services shall be kept confidential, provided, however, that nothing shall prohibit the department from providing the department of elementary and secondary education access to all records maintained pursuant to this section. The department and the department of elementary and secondary education shall coordinate record systems and related programs to insure that information needed by the department for the purpose of evaluation of this program will be available. The department shall assist the department of elementary and secondary education by providing information required by the department of elementary and secondary education to discharge responsibility for the developmentally disabled and other handicapped children as provided for in [section 162.695, RSMo, and] subsection 2 of section 162.700, RSMo. The department shall have access to all records or information obtained pursuant to [section 162.695, RSMo, and] subsection 2 of section 162.700, RSMo.
[162.695. 1. The board of education of each school district, including school districts which are part of a special school district, shall take or cause to be taken annually a special census of handicapped and severely handicapped children under the age of twenty-one residing in the district or whose parent or guardian resides in the district. The census shall include the name of the child, the parent or guardian's name and address, the birth date and the age of the child, and the handicapping condition or conditions. Where medical or other information is available it shall be used in establishing the handicapping condition or conditions or, if such information is not available, the statement of parents or other qualified observers of the child shall be accepted for the census report pending competent medical, psychological or other recognized evaluation. The census report shall be in a format provided or approved by the state department of elementary and secondary education and shall be forwarded annually to the division of special education at the time prescribed by the department of elementary and secondary education. If the school district is in a special school district, a copy shall also be sent to the special school district. Should a district fail to make and submit such a census in the required form, the state board of education may withhold any state aid under either sections 162.670 to 162.995 or chapter 163, RSMo, until such time as the census is received.
2. State agencies collecting or otherwise maintaining information on handicapped and severely handicapped children shall cooperate with local districts, special school districts, and the department of elementary and secondary education in making available to those respective authorities information required to meet the provisions of this act.
3. An annual review of the census report shall be made by the department of elementary and secondary education in cooperation with local and special school districts to determine the appropriateness of information requested in this report.]
[162.990. For each child under the age of twenty-one enumerated annually on the census of handicapped and severely handicapped children, the district shall receive one dollar.]
[162.995. In no event shall any sum in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars be expended from the state school moneys fund to implement the provisions of sections 162.670, 162.675, 162.680, 162.685, and 162.690 and 162.695 prior to July 1, 1974.]