FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 20

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES QUINN (Sponsor), SHIVELY, TODD, SCHAD, SCAVUZZO, HARRIS, KOMO, FALLERT, AULL, SCHIEFFER, McCLANAHAN, MUNZLINGER, ATKINS, McGHEE AND NANCE (Co-sponsors).

0980L.02I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

JOINT RESOLUTION

Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri, an amendment to article I of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to handfishing.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring therein:

            That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, 2010, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article I of the Constitution of the state of Missouri:

            Section A. Article I, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 35, to read as follows:

            Section 35. That the people of this state shall be allowed a regulated season from June first through July thirty-first of each year to practice the sport of handfishing for catfish in the waters of the state.

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