SECOND REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 956

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MAY (Sponsor), TAYLOR, QUINN, MOORE, HILGEMANN,

 MUNZLINGER, HOBBS, WILSON (119), VIEBROCK AND JETTON (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1^st time January 7, 2004, and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2^nd time January 8, 2004, and referred to the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources February 5, 2004.

                  Reported from the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources March 3, 2004, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

                  Perfected by Consent March 11, 2004.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

3451L.01P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 10, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the official state grass.

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

            Section A. Chapter 10, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 10.150, to read as follows:

            10.150. The Missouri native grass (Andropogon gerardii) known as "Big Bluestem" is selected for, and shall be known as, the official grass of the state of Missouri.