Terms Used In Missouri Laws 105.058

  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

No state agency and no state official, including the joint committee on legislative research and the oversight division, shall, by agency policy, executive order, ethics codes or any other means, prohibit any state employee from communicating with the state auditor or his or her state representative or state senator, nor shall such agency or official require any such employee to provide any record or other information regarding any communications with the state auditor or his or her state representative or state senator, except when such communications are directly related to the primary employment duties of such employee.