SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1318

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RIDDLE (Sponsor), HOUGHTON, OXFORD, DAVIS, McGHEE, GRISAMORE, REIBOLDT AND PACE (Co-sponsors).

4793L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 630, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to employees of certain mental health facilities.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 630, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 630.945, to read as follows:

            630.945. No state employee, regardless of job classification, who is working in a maximum or medium security mental health facility or any portion of a mental health facility which has maximum or medium security shall be mandated to work more than twelve hours in any twenty-four hour period unless it is under a state of emergency declared by the governor.

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