HOUSE BILL NO. 2884 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HOVIS.
6036H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 86.213, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to police retirement systems for certain cities.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 86.213, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu 2 thereof, to be known as section 86.213, to read as follows: 86.213. 1. The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation 2 of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of sections 86.200 to 86.366 3 are hereby vested in a board of trustees of nine persons. The board shall be constituted as 4 follows: 5 (1) The comptroller of the city, ex officio. If the comptroller is absent from any 6 meeting of the board of trustees for any cause whatsoever, the comptroller may be represented 7 by either the deputy comptroller or the first assistant comptroller who in such case shall have 8 full power to act as a member of the said board of trustees; 9 (2) Two members to be appointed by the mayor of the city, provided that, effective 10 October 1, 2026, the mayor shall appoint one member to serve a term of one year and 11 one to serve a term of two years and thereafter, each appointee to serve for a term of two 12 years, except the mayor shall not appoint the police chief of the municipal police force or the 13 city's director of public safety; 14 (3) Three members who are actively commissioned officers of the municipal 15 police force of any city not within a county to be elected by [the] those members of the 16 retirement system who are actively commissioned officers of the municipal police force of 17 [the] any city not within a county for a term of three years; provided, however, that the term
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 2884 2
18 of office of the first three members so elected shall begin immediately upon their election and 19 one such member's term shall expire one year from the date the retirement system becomes 20 operative, another such member's term shall expire two years from the date the retirement 21 system becomes operative and the other such member's term shall expire three years from the 22 date the retirement system becomes operative; provided, further, that such members shall be 23 members of the system and hold office only while members of the system; 24 (4) Three members who shall be retired members of the retirement system to be 25 elected by [the] those retired members of the retirement system for a term of three years; 26 except that, the term of office of the first two members so elected shall begin immediately 27 upon their election and one such member's term shall expire two years from the date of 28 election and the other such member's term shall expire three years from the date of election. 29 2. Any member elected chairman of the board of trustees may serve without term 30 limitations. 31 3. Each actively commissioned elected trustee shall be granted travel time by the St. 32 Louis metropolitan police department to attend any and all functions that have been 33 authorized by the board of trustees of the police retirement system of St. Louis. Travel time, 34 with compensation, for a trustee shall not exceed thirty days in any board fiscal year. 35 4. Members appointed by the mayor of the city pursuant to subdivision (2) of 36 subsection 1 of this section shall continue to serve until their successors have been 37 appointed. ✔
Statutes affected: