FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 711

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GREEN (73).

Read 1st time February 8, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 302.536, RSMo 2000, relating to payment of court costs and attorney fees by the department of revenue upon successful appeal of a driving while intoxicated offense, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



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

Section A. Section 302.536, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 302.536, to read as follows:

302.536. If the judge upholds the department's ruling to suspend or revoke a person's license after a hearing conducted pursuant to subsection 1 of section 302.535, and the person appeals such ruling, the department shall, subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, pay any court costs and attorney fees the person incurs pursuant to such appeal if the court reverses the department's ruling to suspend or revoke such person's license.


Missouri House of Representatives