Missouri HB 1994: Modifies provisions relating to funding for the Kansas City Police Department

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1994
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE RICHEY.
4413H.01I DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 84.730, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the
Kansas City board of police, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 84.730, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 84.730, to read as follows:
84.730. It shall be the duty of the board, on the fifteenth day of January of each year,
2 to prepare, in writing, a budget estimating the sum of money which will be necessary for the
3 next fiscal year, to enable the board to discharge the duties hereby imposed upon it, and to
4 meet the expenses of the police department, which it shall forthwith certify to the governing
5 body of such cities, and the budget shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization
6 units, activities, functions, and character classes in not less detail than "personal services",
7 "contractual services", "commodities", and "capital outlays", and shall in any event be
8 prepared in form and detail similar to the form and detail in which budgets for the various
9 departmentsofsuchcitygovernmentareprepared. Thegoverningbodyofthecitiesishereby
10 required to appropriate the total amount so certified, payable out of the revenue of the cities
11 after first having deductedthe amount necessary to pay the interest on the indebtedness ofthe
12 cities, the amount necessary for lighting the city, and any sum required by law to be placed to
13 the credit of the sinking fund of the cities, and if the board shall be required to call out extra
14 policeforceandtheexpensethereofshallnothavebeencontemplatedintheirestimateforthe
15 fiscal year during which the extra police force is called out, it shall immediately certify the
16 expense of such additional force, and the additional amount so required shall be appropriated
17 for that purpose, except that in no event shall the governing body of the cities be required to
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.

18 appropriatefortheuseofthepoliceboardinanyfiscalyearanamountinexcessof[one-fifth]
19 one-fourth of the general revenue fund of such year, which shall include all revenue
20 collected by the city regardless of whether the revenue is from a tax, fee, orother source
21 of funding and regardless if the revenue is deposited into another fund other than
22 general revenue.
Section B. Because immediate action is necessary to ensure police protection of the
2 community, the repeal and reenactment of section 84.730 of this act is deemed necessary for
3 the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace, and safety, and is hereby
4 declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and the repeal and
5 reenactment of section 84.730 of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and
6 approval.
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