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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                        HOUSE BILL NO. 3163
                               103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


                               INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE ELLIOTT.

     6894H.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. The department may retain fifty percent of such amounts described in
10   subsection 2 of this section. The remaining fifty percent shall be remitted to counties as
11   follows:
12           (1) Twenty-five percent to the county general fund of the county in which such
13   natural resources are located; and
14           (2) Twenty-five percent to each school district where such natural resources are
15   located, to be distributed to such districts equitably on a weighted average daily
16   attendance basis.


     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.
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17           4. This section shall become effective beginning on January first of the year
18   immediately following the passage and approval by the voters of a constitutional
19   amendment submitted to them by the general assembly regarding authorization for the
20   general assembly to enact laws to provide for the method and proportion of remittances
21   of state department revenues from management of state natural resources.
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Statutes affected: 
Introduced (6894H.01): 1.226