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FIRST REGULAR SESSION
                        HOUSE BILL NO. 1343
                               103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


                              INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HARBISON.

     2891H.01I                                                                    JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk


                                                AN ACT
     To amend chapter 1, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to state department
           revenue from management of state natural resources.


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

             Section A. Chapter 1, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be
 2   known as section 1.226, to read as follows:
             1.226. 1. As used in this section, "state department" means each department,
 2   division, office, board, bureau, commission, or other unit of the executive branch of state
 3   government.
 4           2. Each state department that receives any revenues in the course of such
 5   department's management of the state's natural resources shall remit the amount of
 6   such revenues that is above the amount authorized by statute for such department to
 7   retain for administrative purposes and as provided in subsection 3 of this section to the
 8   county in which such natural resources are located as provided in this section.
 9           3. A state department may retain twenty-five percent of such amounts described
10   in subsection 2 of this section. The remaining seventy-five percent shall be remitted to
11   counties as follows:
12           (1) To the county general fund of the county in which such natural resources are
13   located, fifty percent; and
14           (2) To each school district in which such natural resources are located, twenty-
15   five percent.
16           4. This section shall become effective beginning on January first of the year
17   immediately following the passage and approval by the voters of a constitutional

     EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
     intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
HB 1343                                       2

18 amendment submitted to them by the general assembly regarding authorization for the
19 general assembly to enact laws to provide for the method and proportion of remittances
20 of state department revenues from management of state natural resources.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced (2891H.01): 1.226