Section 130.044

Title IX SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

Chapter 130

Effective - 28 Aug 2010, 3 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  *130.044.  Certain contributions to be reported within forty-eight hours of receipt — electronic reporting, when — rulemaking authority. — 1.  All individuals and committees required to file disclosure reports under section 130.041 shall electronically report any contribution by any single contributor which exceeds five thousand dollars to the Missouri ethics commission within forty-eight hours of receiving the contribution.

  2.  Any individual currently holding office as a state representative, state senator, or any candidate for such office or such individual's campaign committee shall electronically report any contribution exceeding five hundred dollars made by any contributor to his or her campaign committee during the regular legislative session of the general assembly, within forty-eight hours of receiving the contribution.

  3.  Any individual currently holding office as the governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, attorney general, secretary of state or auditor or any candidate for such office or such person's campaign committee shall electronically report any contribution exceeding five hundred dollars made by any contributor to his or her campaign committee during the regular legislative session or any time when legislation from the regular legislative session awaits gubernatorial action, within forty-eight hours of receiving the contribution.

  4.  Reports required under this section shall contain the same content required under section 130.041 and shall be filed in accordance with the standards established by the commission for electronic filing and other rules the commission may deem necessary to promulgate for the effective administration of this section.

  5.  Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028.  This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2008, shall be invalid and void.

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(L. 2008 S.B. 1038, A.L. 2010 S.B. 844)

*Revisor's Note: This section was declared unconstitutional in Legends Bank v. State, see annotation below.

(2012)  Senate Bill 844 provision declared unconstitutional as a violation of the original purpose requirement of Art. III, Sec. 21, Constitution of Missouri.  Legends Bank v. State, 361 S.W.3d 383 (Mo. banc).