FIRST REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MORRIS, KUESSNER, HOLAND, MOORE,
BRINGER AND RANSDALL (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 28, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 650, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to a statewide crime laboratory system.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 650, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 650.070, to read as follows:
650.070. The Missouri department of public safety shall subject to appropriation develop and establish a "Statewide Crime Laboratory System". The primary purpose of the statewide crime laboratory system shall be to support criminal justice services in local communities throughout this state in processing evidence in criminal cases and to coordinate funding between federal, state, regional and local agencies. This establishment shall be accomplished through consultation with the Kansas City, Missouri, regional crime laboratory, Missouri state highway patrol crime laboratory, St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan crime laboratory, St. Louis county crime laboratory, southeast Missouri regional crime laboratory, Springfield regional crime laboratory, Missouri state highway patrol troop C satellite crime laboratory, and the Missouri Southern State College police academy regional crime lab.