HB 3494

                                 SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                    HOUSE BILL NO. 3494
                           103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                            INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CATON.
 7509H.01I  JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
                                            AN ACT
 To repeal section 115.017, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
        boards of election commissioners.
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
         Section A. Section 115.017, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 115.017, to read as follows:
         115.017. There shall be a board of election commissioners:
2(1) In each county which has or hereafter has over nine hundred thousand inhabitants;
3(2) In each city not situated in a county;
4(3) [In each city which has over three hundred thousand inhabitants on January 1,
5 1978, and is situated in more than one county;
6(4)] In each county of the first classification containing any part of a city which has
7 over three hundred thousand inhabitants; provided that the county commission of a county
8 which becomes a county of the first classification after December 31, 1998, may, prior to such
9 date, adopt an order retaining the county clerk as the election authority. The county may
10 subsequently establish a board of election commissioners as provided in subdivision (5) of
11 this section;
12[(5)] (4) In each county of the first class which elects to have such a board through
13 procedures provided in section 115.019.
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 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.