Missouri SB 120: Modifies provisions relating to military affairs

Bill Text

EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 120
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2021
0943S.06T
AN ACT
To repeal sections 36.020, 143.121, 143.124, 302.188, 379.122, 620.2005, 620.2010, and 650.005,
RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof fifteen new sections relating to military affairs, with
an emergency clause for certain sections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 36.020, 143.121, 143.124, 302.188, 1
379.122, 620.2005, 620.2010, and 650.005, RSMo, are repealed 2
and fifteen new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known 3
as sections 9.297, 36.020, 36.221, 41.035, 41.201, 42.390, 4
105.1204, 143.121, 143.124, 160.710, 302.188, 379.122, 5
620.2005, 620.2010, and 650.005, to read as follows:6
9.297. The month of November is hereby designated as 1
"Military Family Month" in Missouri. The citizens of this 2
state are encouraged to participate in appropriate events 3
and activities to honor the daily sacrifices of all military 4
families who support their loved ones serving our country. 5
36.020. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, 1
the following terms mean: 2
(1) "Agency", "state agency" or "agency of the state", 3
each department, board, commission or office of the state 4
except for offices of the elected officials, the general 5
assembly, the judiciary and academic institutions; 6

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(2) "Appointing authority", an officer or agency 7
subject to this chapter having power to make appointments; 8
(3) "Board", the personnel advisory board as 9
established by section 36.050; 10
(4) "Broad classification band", a grouping of 11
positions with similar levels of responsibility or expertise; 12
(5) "Class", "class of positions", or "job class", a 13
group of positions subject to this chapter sufficiently 14
alike in duties, authority and responsibilities to justify 15
the same qualifications and the same schedule of pay to all 16
positions in the group; 17
(6) "Director", the director of the division of 18
personnel of the office of administration; 19
(7) "Disabled veteran", a veteran who has served on 20
active duty in the Armed Forces at any time who receives 21
compensation as a result of a service-connected disability 22
claim allowed by the federal agency responsible for the 23
administration of veteran's affairs, or who receives 24
disability retirement or disability pension benefits from a 25
federal agency as a result of such a disability or a 26
National Guard veteran who was permanently disabled as a 27
result of active service to the state at the call of the 28
governor; 29
(8) "Division of service" or "division", a state 30
department or any division or branch of the state, or any 31
agency of the state government, all the positions and 32
employees in which are under the same appointing authority; 33
(9) "Eleemosynary or penal institutions", an 34
institution within state government holding, housing, or 35
caring for inmates, patients, veterans, juveniles, or other 36
individuals entrusted to or assigned to the state where it 37
is anticipated that such individuals will be in residence 38

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for longer than one day. Eleemosynary or penal institutions 39
shall not include elementary, secondary, or higher education 40
institutions operated separately or independently from the 41
foregoing institutions; 42
(10) "Eligible", a person whose name is on a register 43
or who has been determined to meet the qualifications for a 44
class or position; 45
(11) "Employee", shall include only those persons 46
employed in excess of thirty-two hours per calendar week, 47
for a duration that could exceed six months, by a state 48
agency and shall not include patients, inmates, or residents 49
in state eleemosynary or penal institutions who work for the 50
state agency operating an eleemosynary or penal institutions; 51
(12) "Examination" or "competitive examination", a 52
means of determining eligibility or fitness for a class or 53
position; 54
(13) "Open competitive examination", a selection 55
process for positions in a particular class, admission to 56
which is not limited to persons employed in positions 57
subject to this chapter pursuant to subsection 1 of section 58
36.030; 59
(14) "Promotional examination", a selection process 60
for positions in a particular class, admission to which is 61
limited to employees with regular status in positions 62
subject to this chapter pursuant to subsection 1 of section 63
36.030; 64
(15) "Register of eligibles", a list, which may be 65
restricted by locality, of persons who have been found 66
qualified for appointment to a position subject to this 67
chapter pursuant to subsection 1 of section 36.030; 68
(16) "Regular employee", a person employed in a 69
position described u