115.074. Voting process and equipment, grants to upgrade or improve, award procedure--rulemaking authority. - Missouri Statutes

Voting process and equipment, grants to upgrade or improve, awardprocedure--rulemaking authority.

115.074. 1. Subject to appropriation from federal funds, thesecretary of state shall administer a grant, loan, or other aid program forthe purposes of providing funds to election authorities to upgrade orimprove the voting process or equipment. Such funding may be in the formof matching grants. The secretary of state when awarding grants shall givepriority to jurisdictions which have the highest number of residentsaccording to the most recent federal census, with an income below thefederal poverty level as established by the federal department of healthand human services or its successor agency. The secretary of state maypromulgate rules to effectuate the provisions of this section.

2. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in thissection shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject toall of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and ifany of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536,RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul arule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemakingauthority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2002, shall beinvalid and void.

(L. 2002 S.B. 675, A.L. 2003 H.B. 511)