HB 2112 Summary

• Requires public owners to consider whether construction managers are local businesses when selecting contractors for projects.

• Allows "lowest and best bidder" determinations in state and local purchasing to include the locality of the prospective supplier as a consideration factor.

• Expands fingerprinting and criminal history record requirements to all political subdivisions, not just municipalities and counties, with approval from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

• Creates a new transient guest tax authority for a specific third-class county (up to 6 percent per occupied room per night) with voter approval, with revenue used solely for tourism promotion.

• Extends the expiration date of the Regional Jail District Sales Tax provision from September 30, 2015 to September 30, 2027, and allows municipal annexations approved by property owners and municipal ordinance to proceed without boundary commission review under specified conditions.