This Fiscal Note is not an official copy and should not be quoted or cited. Oversight assumes the changes made by this proposal are permissive and only provides alternative methods of providing essential services for political subdivisions. Political subdivisions affected by this proposal would be sewer districts, water districts, and municipalities.
Oversight assumes no fiscal impact to local governments.
No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal. This proposal makes changes to law relating to joint utility commissions and public water supply districts. Provisions of Chapters 386 and 393, RSMo, are amended to permit joint municipal utility commissions to contract between participating cities and sewer districts for the provision of sewer services. Such contracting for water, gas and electric services are already permissible. A utility commission is prohibited from selling water within the jurisdiction of a privately owned water company unless it is also within the boundaries of a contracting municipality or public water supply district.