210.1014. Amber alert system oversight committee created, duties, members, compensation--rulemaking authority. - Missouri Statutes

Amber alert system oversight committee created, duties, members,compensation--rulemaking authority.

210.1014. 1. There is hereby created the "Amber Alert SystemOversight Committee", whose primary duty shall be to develop criteria andprocedures for the Amber alert system and shall be housed within thedepartment of public safety. The committee shall regularly review thefunction of the Amber alert system and revise its criteria and proceduresin cooperation with the department of public safety to provide forefficient and effective public notification. As soon as practicable, thecommittee shall adopt criteria and procedures to expand the Amber alertsystem to provide urgent public alerts related to homeland security,criminal acts, health emergencies, and other imminent dangers to the publichealth and welfare.

2. The Amber alert system oversight committee shall consist of tenmembers of which seven members shall be appointed by the governor with theadvice and consent of the senate. Such members shall represent thefollowing entities: two representatives of the Missouri Sheriffs'Association; two representatives of the Missouri Police Chiefs Association;one representative of small market radio broadcasters; one representativeof large market radio broadcasters; one representative of televisionbroadcasters. The director of the department of public safety shall alsobe a member of the committee and shall serve as chair of the committee.Additional members shall include one representative of the highway patroland one representative of the department of health and senior services.

3. Members of the oversight committee shall serve a term of fouryears, except that members first appointed to the committee shall havestaggered terms of two, three, and four years and shall serve until theirsuccessor is duly appointed and qualified.

4. Members of the oversight committee shall serve withoutcompensation, except that members shall be reimbursed for their actual andnecessary expenses required for the discharge of their duties.

5. The Amber alert system oversight committee shall promulgate rulesfor the implementation of the Amber alert system. Any rule or portion of arule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is createdunder the authority delegated in this section shall become effective onlyif it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536,RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with thegeneral assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay theeffective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently heldunconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any ruleproposed or adopted after August 28, 2003, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 2003 H.B. 185 merged with S.B. 30)