Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 23

Committee on Legislative Research

←23.250

Section 23.253.1

23.256→

August 28, 2015

New programs to sunset, when--definitions--reauthorized programs, effect of--review of programs, when.

23.253. 1. As used in sections 23.250 to 23.298, the following terms

mean:



(1) "Agency", any department, division, or agency of the state

responsible for the administration of a program;



(2) "Committee", the committee on legislative research established in

Section 35, Article III, Constitution of Missouri and section 23.010;



(3) "Program", a distinct and coherent set of activities authorized by

the general assembly through the legislative process intended to affect a

clearly definable target group, problem, or issue and which can be

appropriated through the budget process or nonappropriated, as in the case of

tax credits;



(4) "Sunset", the termination of legislative authorization of a program.



2. After August 28, 2003, any new program authorized by the general

assembly shall sunset not more than six years after its effective date unless

reauthorized by an act of the general assembly. No funds may be expended on

a program after its authorization has terminated. Legislation passed after

August 28, 2003, shall indicate whether it contains a program subject to the

Missouri sunset act. Any such program shall have a sunset clause clearly

indicating the date of termination without reauthorization.



3. Any program reauthorized by the general assembly pursuant to this

section shall include a provision specifying that the program shall sunset at

a date not more than twelve years from the effective date of the program's

reauthorization.



4. Any program to which money was appropriated prior to August 28, 2003,

may at any time be subject to review of the committee by a majority vote of

its members for the purpose of recommending to the general assembly its

continuation or sunset. The committee shall conduct public hearings

concerning but not limited to the application to the program of the criteria

provided in section 23.268, and shall issue a report pursuant to subsection 1

of section 23.271. The committee may recommend to the general assembly by a

majority vote of its members that a program under review, to which money was

appropriated prior to August 28, 2003, be sunset, continued, or reorganized.

The committee shall submit such recommendation to all members of the general

assembly within thirty calendar days of the vote in which such recommendation

is made.



(L. 2003 S.B. 299 & 40)







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