SECOND REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH (118) (Sponsor), BOUGH, RUESTMAN, DIXON,
HOBBS, REINHART, SUTHERLAND, DUSENBERG, HOLAND AND SMITH (14) (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 26, 2004, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 2.030, 2.040, 2.050, 2.060, and 3.130, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof five new sections relating to statutory revision, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 2.030, 2.040, 2.050, 2.060, and 3.130, RSMo, are repealed and five new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.030, 2.040, 2.050, 2.060, and 3.130, to read as follows:
2.030. The [sixty-fourth general assembly and each general assembly thereafter, whether in regular or extraordinary session, shall by concurrent resolution adopted by both houses, provide for collating, indexing, printing and binding] joint committee on legislative research shall annually collate, index, print, and bind all laws and resolutions [of the session] passed or adopted by the general assembly and all measures approved by the people since the last publication of the session laws [and resolutions in the manner directed by the resolution. The general assembly may by concurrent resolution require that all laws passed by the general assembly and all resolutions adopted prior to any recess of the general assembly for a period of thirty days or more shall be collated, indexed, bound and distributed as provided by law, and]. Any edition of the session laws published pursuant to [the concurrent resolution] this section is a part of the official laws and resolutions of the general assembly at which the laws and resolutions were passed.
2.040. The joint committee on legislative research shall provide copies of all laws, measures and resolutions duly enacted by the general assembly and all amendments to the constitution and all measures approved by the people since the last publication of [such laws and resolutions] the session laws pursuant to section 2.030, giving the date of the approval or adoption thereof [for printing in accordance with the directions of the general assembly as given by concurrent resolution]. The joint committee on legislative research shall [edit,] headnote, collate, index the laws, resolutions and constitutional amendments, and [shall] compare the proof sheets of the printed copies with the original rolls[, note all errors which have been committed, if any, and cause errata thereof to be annexed to the completed printed copies, and]. The revisor of statutes shall insert therein an attestation under the revisor's hand that the revisor has compared the laws, resolutions, constitutional amendments and measures therein contained with the original rolls and copies in the office of the secretary of state and that the same are true copies of such laws, measures, resolutions and constitutional amendments as the same appear in the original rolls in the office of the secretary of state. The joint committee on legislative research shall cause the completed laws, resolutions and constitutional amendments to be printed and bound.
2.050. The complete printed copies of laws, resolutions, constitutional amendments and measures when printed and bound shall be delivered to the revisor of statutes who shall distribute [copies without cost in the same number and to the same] one copy without cost to each member of the general assembly and one copy each, without cost, to every county circuit clerk, circuit judge, prosecuting attorney, and sheriff. One copy each, without cost, shall be delivered to other officers, institutions and agencies who are entitled to copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri under section 3.130, RSMo, if requested.
2.060. [1.] The revisor of statutes may sell copies of the laws and resolutions, not required by this chapter to be distributed without charge, at actual cost of printing and binding, as determined by the [secretary of state] joint committee on legislative research, plus the cost of delivery, and the money received therefor shall be paid to the director of revenue and deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the statutory revision fund.
[2. The revisor of statutes shall also supply the clerk of the circuit court of each county order blanks in a number sufficient to meet the public demand. The blanks may be used by the public to order copies which shall be sold by the revisor of statutes as provided in subsection 1.]
3.130. 1. Such number of copies of each volume of each edition of the revised statutes of Missouri and annotations thereto and such number of the supplements or pocket parts thereto as may be necessary to meet the demand as determined by the committee shall be printed[,] and bound, and also produced in an electronic format, and delivered to the revisor of statutes, who shall execute and file a receipt therefor with the director of revenue. The revisor of statutes shall distribute the copies, in either version or combination, without charge as follows:
(1) To each state department, and each division and bureau thereof, one copy as requested in writing specifying the version;
(2) To each member of the general assembly when first elected, [three copies] one bound version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version; and at each general assembly thereafter, [three copies] one printed version and one copy in the electronic version if so requested in writing; each member to receive [three copies] one printed version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version of each supplement and of each new edition of the revised statutes when published;
(3) To each judge of the supreme court, the court of appeals and to each judge of the circuit courts, except municipal judges, one copy in either version;
(4) To the probate divisions of the circuit courts of Jackson County, St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis, four additional copies each in either version or combination, and to the probate divisions of the circuit courts of those counties where the judge of the probate division sits in more than one city, one additional copy each in either version;
(5) To the law library of the supreme court, ten copies in either version or combination;
(6) To the law libraries of each district of the court of appeals, six copies each in either version or combination;
(7) To the library of the United States Supreme Court, one copy in either version;
(8) To the United States district courts and circuit court of appeals for Missouri, two copies each in either version or combination;
(9) To the state historical society, two copies in either version or combination;
(10) To the libraries of the state university at Columbia, at St. Louis, at Kansas City and at Rolla, [three copies] one bound version and one electronic version each;
(11) To the state colleges, Lincoln University, the [junior] community colleges, Missouri Western State College, Linn State Technical College, and Missouri Southern State College, [four copies] one bound version and one electronic version each;
(12) To the public school library of St. Louis, two copies in either version or combination;
(13) To the Library of Congress, one copy in either version;
(14) To the Mercantile Library of St. Louis, [two copies] one bound version and one electronic version;
(15) To each public library in the state, if requested, one copy in either version;
(16) To the law libraries of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and St. Joseph, [three copies] one bound version and one electronic version each;
(17) To the law schools of the state university, St. Louis University, and Washington University, [three copies] one bound version and one electronic version each;
(18) To the circuit clerk of each county of the state for distribution [of one copy] to each county officer, to be by him or her delivered to his or her successor in office, one copy in either version as requested in writing;
(19) To the director of the committee on legislative research, such number of copies in either version or combination as may be required by such committee for the performance of its duties;
(20) To any county law library, when requested by the circuit clerk, [two copies] one bound version and one electronic version;
(21) To each county library, one copy of either version, when requested in writing;
(22) To any committee of the senate or house of representatives, as designated and requested by the accounts committee of the respective house.
2. The revisor of statutes shall also provide the librarians of the supreme court library[, of] and the committee on legislative research[, of the law schools of the state university] such copies in either version or combination as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-one each, to enable them to exchange the copies for like compilations or revisions of the statute laws of other states and territories.
Section B. Because of the need to relieve the general assembly of time consumed with routine functions of legislative committees in order to devote time to public debate and discussion, section A of this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace, and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.