SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1368

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CLAYTON.

Read 1st time January 6, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal sections 2.030 and 116.340, RSMo 1994, and sections 2.040, 2.050 and 2.060, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to session laws, and to enact in lieu thereof five new sections relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.




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

Section A. Sections 2.030 and 116.340, RSMo 1994, and sections 2.040, 2.050 and 2.060, RSMo Supp. 1999, are repealed and five new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.030, 2.040, 2.050, 2.060 and 116.340, to read as follows: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 all laws and resolutions of the session and all measures approved by the people since the last publication of the 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 published pursuant to the concurrent resolution 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, 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[,] and 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] to distribute copies without cost [in the same number and] to the same officers, institutions and agencies who are entitled to copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri under section 3.130, RSMo.

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 [statute] 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.]

116.340. When a statewide ballot measure is approved by the voters, the [secretary of state] revisor of statutes shall publish it with the laws enacted by the following session of the general assembly[, and the revisor of statutes] and shall include it in the next edition or supplement of the revised statutes of Missouri. Each of the measures printed [above] shall include the date of the proclamation or statement of approval [under] pursuant to section 116.330.

Section B. Because immediate action is necessary in order to clarify the duties of the committee on legislative research regarding the publication and distribution of the session laws, 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 this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.



Missouri House of Representatives