HB 482 -- APPOINTED COUNSEL FUND (Jones, 89)

COMMITTEE OF ORIGIN:  Committee on Judiciary

This bill allows municipal courts to create an appointed counsel
fund to pay the reasonable attorney fees approved by the court of
any attorney appointed to represent a defendant who is indigent
and unable to pay for legal representation when prescribed by
Supreme Court rules.

Moneys for the fund will come from the $1 fee collected on each
case which currently is deposited into a judicial education fund.
The court will determine the allocation of the fees between the
accounts, but no court can retain more than $1,500 in the
judicial education fund for each judge, administrator, or clerk
of the court and no more than $5,000 in the appointed counsel
fund.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds in FY 2010, FY 2011, and
FY 2012.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated November 17, 2009 at 9:24 am