FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 599

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BURNETT, CARNAHAN, YATES, PRATT,

HARRIS (23) AND JOHNSON (90).

         Read 1^st time March 5, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2^nd time March 6, 2003, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary March 6, 2003.

                  Reported from the Committee on Judiciary March 13, 2003, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

                  Perfected by Consent March 19, 2003.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

2087L.01P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 488, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to municipal court costs.

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

            Section A. Chapter 488, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 488.2220, to read as follows:

            488.2220. 1. In addition to all other court costs for municipal ordinance violations any home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county may provide for additional court costs in an amount up to five dollars per case for each municipal ordinance violation case filed before a municipal division judge or associate circuit judge.

            2. The judge may waive the assessment of the cost in those cases where the defendant is found by the judge to be indigent and unable to pay the costs.

            3. Such cost shall be calculated by the clerk and disbursed to the city at least monthly. The city shall use such additional costs only for the procurement, installation, maintenance, consulting services, and upkeep of a court information and records management system.