Bill Text: MO HB1781 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a candidate for public office to file any required disclosure reports and to pay any assessed fees by the Missouri Ethics Commission before filing for an office or taking office
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-01 - Public Hearing Scheduled, Bill not Heard (H) [HB1781 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2012-HB1781-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE NASHEED.
5871L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 130.071, RSMo, and section 130.071, as truly agreed to and finally passed by conference committee substitute no. 3 for house committee substitute no. 2 for senate bill no. 844, ninety-fifth general assembly, second regular session, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to candidates for public office, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 130.071, RSMo, and section 130.071, as truly agreed to and finally passed by conference committee substitute no. 3 for house committee substitute no. 2 for senate bill no. 844, ninety-fifth general assembly, second regular session, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 130.071, to read as follows:
130.071. 1. If [a] any successful candidate, or the treasurer of [his candidate committee] each of the successful candidate's existing committees, or any successful candidate who is or has served as the treasurer or deputy treasurer of any committee, fails to file the [disclosure] reports which are required by this chapter, the candidate shall not take office until such reports are filed and all fees assessed by the commission are paid.
2. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, no person may file for any office in a subsequent election until [he or the treasurer of his existing candidate committee has filed] all required campaign disclosure reports for all prior elections and all fees assessed by the commission have been filed and paid by the person seeking to file for office, by the treasurer of each of the person's existing committees, or by the person seeking to file for office if such person is or has served as the treasurer or deputy treasurer of any committee.
[130.071. 1. If a successful candidate, or the treasurer of his candidate committee, or the successful candidate who also has served as a treasurer or deputy treasurer of any committee defined by section 130.011 fails to file the reports which are required by this chapter, the candidate shall not take office until such reports are filed and all fees assessed by the commission are paid.
2. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, no person may file for any office in a subsequent election until he or the treasurer of his existing candidate or any committee defined by section 130.011 in which he is a treasurer or deputy treasurer has filed all required campaign disclosure reports for all prior elections and paid all fees assessed by the commission.]
Section B. Because immediate action is necessary to reenact provisions requiring candidates for public office to file disclosure reports and pay ethics fees before filing for and taking office that were held to be unconstitutional by the Missouri Supreme Court, this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace, and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.
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