Read 1st time January 12, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 478.513, RSMo 1994, relating to the thirty-first judicial circuit, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 478.513, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.513, to read as follows:
478.513. 1. Beginning January 1, 2003, there shall be [five] nine circuit judges in the thirty-first judicial circuit consisting of the county of Greene. [These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one, two, three, four and five.]
2. [The circuit judge in division three shall be elected in 1980. The circuit judges in divisions one, four and five shall be elected in 1982. The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1984.] The four additional circuit judges shall be elected in 2002.
3. Effective January 1, 2003, there shall be four less associate circuit judges in Greene County than is provided
pursuant to section 478.320.
Missouri House of Representatives