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MO SB444
Bill
Status
1/4/2012
Primary Sponsor
William Stouffer
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AI Summary
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Repeals section 226.095, RSMo, which required negligence actions against the Missouri Department of Transportation to be arbitrated by a panel of three arbiters under chapter 435.
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Enacts new section 226.131 allowing the Missouri Department of Transportation commission to delegate authority to designated hearing examiners and/or appeals boards to conduct hearings and render final decisions in contested case administrative hearings required by federal or state law.
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Authorizes the commission to adopt rules and regulations to implement the new section, with all rules subject to chapter 536 provisions and effective only if compliant with those provisions.
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Makes section 226.131 and chapter 536 nonseverable, rendering all rulemaking authority and rules proposed or adopted after August 28, 2012, invalid and void if any General Assembly powers to review, delay, or disapprove rules are held unconstitutional.
Legislative Description
Repeals a provision of law that requires MoDOT to submit to binding arbitration in negligence actions and allows the commission to delegate to designated hearing examiners the authority to conduct hearings and render final decisions
Last Action
Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee
2/1/2012