FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 101

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES REINHART AND RIDGEWAY (Co-sponsors).

Pre-filed December 6, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 487, RSMo, relating to family courts by adding thereto one new section relating to the retention of family court commissioners.



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

Section A. Chapter 487, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 487.025, to read as follows:

487.025. 1. Each family court commissioner shall be placed on the ballot at every presidential election to be retained as a family court commissioner.

2. The ballot shall read as follows:

"Shall Commissioner ........... of the (title of court) ........... be retained as the Family Court Commissioner?".

3. If a majority of those voting on the question vote against retaining the commissioner, the commissioner shall be removed from the family court on December thirty-first following such election.


Missouri House of Representatives