2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 191 Health and Welfare
191.937. Rulemaking authority, procedure.

191.937. 1. The director of the department of health and senior services may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of sections 191.925, 191.928 and 191.934. The director of the department of elementary and secondary education may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of section 191.931. The directors of the departments of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration and social services may promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of section 376.685, RSMo.

2. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in sections 191.925 to 191.937 or section 376.685, RSMo, shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. All rulemaking authority delegated prior to August 28, 1999, is of no force and effect and repealed. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to repeal or affect the validity of any rule filed or adopted prior to August 28, 1999, if it fully complied with all applicable provisions of law. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any 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 a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 1999, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 1999 H.B. 401 § 191.265)