FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 456

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

     Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence, April 12, 2005, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

1036S.02C

AN ACT

To repeal section 540.031, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to duties of grand juries.

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

            Section A.  Section 540.031, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 540.031, to read as follows:

            540.031.  A grand jury may make inquiry into and return indictments for all grades of crimes and shall make inquiry into all possible violations of the criminal laws as the court may direct.  The grand jury [shall] may examine public buildings and report on their conditions.

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