FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 848

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DIXON (Sponsor), SCHOELLER, MARSH, VIEBROCK AND WASSON (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 13, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 478.513, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to circuit court judges.

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

            Section A. Section 478.513, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.513, to read as follows:

            478.513. 1. There shall be five 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.

            3. Beginning January 1, 2008, there shall be one additional circuit judge position in the thirty-first judicial circuit to be known as division six.

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