FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES NIEVES (Sponsor), DEEKEN, YATES, ERVIN, NOLTE, WILDBERGER, DAY, FISHER, SMITH (14), DAVIS, RICHARD, SANDER, DENISON, QUINN (7), SCHARNHORST, WILSON (130), NANCE, LOEHNER, DUSENBERG, MAY, McGHEE, SATER, RUESTMAN, SMITH (150), WILSON (119), MUSCHANY, AVERY, DIXON, MOORE, SCHAD, LEMBKE, ROBB, KRAUS, RUZICKA, ONDER, STREAM, HUNTER, PEARCE, DETHROW, COOPER (155), FUNDERBURK, BEARDEN, SCHOELLER, SELF, TILLEY, SCHLOTTACH, MUNZLINGER AND BRUNS (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 8, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
JOINT RESOLUTION
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article I of the Constitution of Missouri, relating to English as the official state language.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:
That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2008, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article I of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:
Section A. Article I, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 34, to read as follows:
Section 34. That English shall be the language of all official proceedings in this state.
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