FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 680

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MAY (Sponsor), WILSON (119), STEVENSON, WALLACE, DOUGHERTY, MUNZLINGER, McGHEE, SMITH (150), MOORE, WASSON, RICHARD, DEMPSEY, HOBBS AND HAYWOOD (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time January 31, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

                  Read 2nd time February 1, 2007 and referred to the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources February 14, 2007.

                  Reported from the Committee on Conservation and Natural Resources February 28, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f).

                  Reported from the Committee on Rules March 6, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

                  Perfected by Consent March 13, 2007.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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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.

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