HB 2019 Summary

• Appropriates $74,254,046 total for state government planning and capital improvements for fiscal year July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.

• Allocates $7,500,000 from Surplus Revenue Fund for voting machine purchases for county clerk operations.

• Provides $4,000,000 from General Revenue Fund for political convention expenses in a home rule city with over 400,000 inhabitants spanning multiple counties.

• Funds multiple University of Missouri campus projects including a Free Enterprise Center at Kansas City ($7,400,000), College of Business Administration Building at St. Louis ($10,000,000), Laferre Hall renovation at Columbia ($6,125,000), and experimental mine at Rolla ($1,200,000), all requiring 50/50 local matching funds.

• Appropriates $38,004,046 from Higher Education Capital Fund for various construction and renovation projects at universities and community colleges statewide, all requiring 50/50 local matching funds under Section 173.480, RSMo.