FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 826

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FLOOK.

                  Read 1st time February 8, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

2062L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 488.2250, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to court reporter fees.

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

            Section A. Section 488.2250, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 488.2250, to read as follows:

            488.2250. For all transcripts of testimony given or proceedings had in any circuit court, the court reporter shall receive the sum of [one dollar and fifty] two dollars and twenty-five cents per twenty-five line page for the original of the transcript, and the sum of [thirty-five] seventy cents per twenty-five line page for each carbon copy thereof; the page to be approximately eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in size, with left-hand margin of approximately one and one-half inches and the right-hand margin of approximately one-half inch; answer to follow question on same line when feasible; such page to be designated as a legal page. Any judge, in [his] the judge's discretion, may order a transcript of all or any part of the evidence or oral proceedings, and the court reporter's fees for making the same shall be paid by the state upon a voucher approved by the court, and taxed against the state. In criminal cases where an appeal is taken by the defendant, and it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is unable to pay the costs of the transcript for the purpose of perfecting the appeal, the court shall order the court reporter to furnish three transcripts in duplication of the notes of the evidence, for the original of which [he] the court reporter shall receive [one dollar and fifty] two dollars and twenty-five cents per legal page and for the copies [twenty] seventy cents per page. The payment of court reporter's fees provided in this section shall be made by the state upon a voucher approved by the court.

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