Bill Text: MO HB1300 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the Revisor of Statutes to make all copies of laws, resolutions, and constitutional measures available electronically to the public and eliminates the printing of certain state documents

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Special Standing Committee on General Laws (H) [HB1300 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB1300-Introduced.html

SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1300

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LAMPE (Sponsor), ROORDA, WEBB, NORR, FISCHER (107), BURLISON AND STILL (Co-sponsors).

3695L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk


 

AN ACT

To repeal sections 2.050, 3.130, and 11.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof five new sections relating to the paper reduction act.




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


            Section A. Sections 2.050, 3.130, and 11.020, RSMo, are repealed and five new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.050, 3.130, 11.020, 21.237, and 1, to read as follows:

            2.050. The complete printed copies of laws, resolutions, constitutional amendments and measures when printed and bound shall be delivered to the revisor of statutes who shall [distribute one copy without cost to each member of the general assembly and one copy each, without cost, to every county circuit clerk, circuit judge, associate circuit judge, prosecuting attorney, and sheriff. One copy each, without cost, shall be delivered to other officers, institutions and agencies who are entitled to copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri under section 3.130, RSMo, if requested] make such printed copies available electronically to the public.

            3.130. 1. Such number of copies of each volume of each edition of the revised statutes of Missouri and annotations thereto and such number of the supplements or pocket parts thereto as may be necessary to meet the demand as determined by the committee shall be printed and bound, and also produced in an electronic format, and delivered to the revisor of statutes, who shall execute and file a receipt therefor with the director of revenue. The revisor of statutes shall [distribute the copies, in either version or combination, without charge as follows:

            (1) To each state department, and each division and bureau thereof, one copy as requested in writing specifying the version;

            (2) To each member of the general assembly when first elected, one bound version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version; and at each general assembly thereafter, one printed version and one copy in the electronic version if so requested in writing; each member to receive one printed version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version of each supplement and of each new edition of the revised statutes when published;

            (3) To each judge of the supreme court, the court of appeals and to each judge of the circuit courts, except municipal judges, one copy in either version;

            (4) To the probate divisions of the circuit courts of Jackson County, St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis, four additional copies each in either version or combination, and to the probate divisions of the circuit courts of those counties where the judge of the probate division sits in more than one city, one additional copy each in either version;

            (5) To the law library of the supreme court, ten copies in either version or combination;

            (6) To the law libraries of each district of the court of appeals, six copies each in either version or combination;

            (7) To the library of the United States Supreme Court, one copy in either version;

            (8) To the United States district courts and circuit court of appeals for Missouri, two copies each in either version or combination;

            (9) To the state historical society, two copies in either version or combination;

            (10) To the libraries of the state university at Columbia, at St. Louis, at Kansas City and at Rolla, one bound version and one electronic version each;

            (11) To the state colleges, Lincoln University, the community colleges, Missouri Western State College, Linn State Technical College, and Missouri Southern State College, one bound version and one electronic version each;

            (12) To the public school library of St. Louis, two copies in either version or combination;

            (13) To the Library of Congress, one copy in either version;

            (14) To the Mercantile Library of St. Louis, one bound version and one electronic version;

            (15) To each public library in the state, if requested, one copy in either version;

            (16) To the law libraries of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and St. Joseph, one bound version and one electronic version each;

            (17) To the law schools of the state university, St. Louis University, and Washington University, one bound version and one electronic version each;

            (18) To the circuit clerk of each county of the state for distribution to each county officer, to be by him or her delivered to his or her successor in office, one copy in either version as requested in writing;

            (19) To the director of the committee on legislative research, such number of copies in either version or combination as may be required by such committee for the performance of its duties;

            (20) To any county law library, when requested by the circuit clerk, one bound version and one electronic version;

            (21) To each county library, one copy of either version, when requested in writing;

            (22) To any committee of the senate or house of representatives, as designated and requested by the accounts committee of the respective house] make the revised statutes of Missouri available electronically to the public.

            2. The revisor of statutes shall also provide the librarians of the supreme court library and the committee on legislative research such copies in either version or combination as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-one each, to enable them to exchange the copies for like compilations or revisions of the statute laws of other states and territories.

            11.020. The secretary of state shall [biennially] every four years, as soon as practicable after the organization of each general assembly, prepare and publish forty thousand copies of the Missouri manual, to contain historical, official, political, statistical and other information in regard to the national and state governments, such as is found in the manuals of 1907 and 1908. The manuals shall be distributed by the secretary of state, to the members of the general assembly, the state, judicial and county officers, each high school and each elementary school within the state and to the newspapers of the state and the surplus volumes shall be distributed throughout the state upon proper applications made therefor. Each member of the senate shall receive two hundred volumes and each member of the house of representatives shall receive one hundred volumes of the manual.

            21.237. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or house or senate rule to the contrary, all bills, resolutions, and amendments of the general assembly shall be made available to the public electronically and shall be printed only upon request.

            Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all state agency reports prepared and submitted as required by statute shall be submitted in an electronic format only.

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