FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 182

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MAY, VIEBROCK, MOORE (Co-sponsors), QUINN,

WALKER AND WHORTON.

         Read 1^st time January 14, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2^nd time January 15, 2003, and referred to the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources January 21, 2003.

                  Reported from the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources March 20, 2003, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass.

                  Taken up for Perfection April 2, 2003. Bill ordered Perfected and Printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

0731L.01P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 10, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the official state grass.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 10, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 10.150, to read as follows:

            10.150. The Missouri native grass (Andropogon gerardii) known as "Big Bluestem" is selected for, and shall be known as, the official grass of the state of Missouri.