Bill Text: MO HB2206 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Repeals the requirement to provide a hard copy of the Revised Statutes of Missouri at no charge to certain persons and entities and allows the statutes to be produced in a web-based electronic format
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Special Standing Committee on General Laws (H) [HB2206 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB2206-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BURLISON (Sponsor), SCHOELLER, SILVEY, PARKINSON, McNARY, RIDDLE, ALLEN, EMERY, FUNDERBURK, LARGENT, DIEHL AND KOENIG (Co-sponsors).
5055L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 2.030, 3.130, 3.140, and 3.142, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the revised statutes of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 2.030, 3.130, 3.140, and 3.142, RSMo, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.030, 3.130, and 3.140, to read as follows:
2.030. The joint committee on legislative research shall annually collate[,] and index, and may print[,] and bind and/or produce in a web-based electronic format all laws and resolutions passed or adopted by the general assembly and all measures approved by the people since the last publication of the session laws. Any edition of the session laws published pursuant to this section is a part of the official laws and resolutions of the general assembly at which the laws and resolutions were passed.
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] at the price determined by the committee under section 3.140.
[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.]
3.140. [1.] The committee on legislative research may, through the revisor of statutes, sell copies of the revised statutes of Missouri, and any supplement or edition of pocket parts thereto, [not required by this chapter to be distributed without charge,] in print and/or in a web-based electronic format at a price to be determined by the committee, taking into account the cost of printing and binding, producing the statutes and maintaining the website, including the cost of delivery, and the money received therefor shall be paid to the director of revenue and deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.
[2. The revisor of statutes shall also supply to the clerk of the circuit court of each county order blanks in a number sufficient to meet the public demand. The blanks may be used by the public to order copies which shall be sold by the committee as provided in subsection 1.]
[3.142. 1. There is hereby established in the state treasury a revolving fund known as the "Statutory Revision Fund", and which shall receive funds paid to the revisor of statutes for sales of the revised statutes of Missouri or any supplement thereto, whether in printed, electronic, magnetic, or other form and funds received for any other service for which there is a fee charged by the committee on legislative research. The committee on legislative research shall determine the form and any fees or charges for the statutes or services. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund and shall make disbursements from the fund for enhancing or producing the electronic form of the revised statutes in a computer readable form, enhancing the electronic processing of computerized legislative drafting and such other purposes authorized by the joint committee on legislative research upon appropriation by the general assembly. Moneys in the fund may also be used at the direction of the committee on legislative research to provide the revised statutes of Missouri and any supplement thereto to public libraries of this state in a computer readable format for use by patrons of the libraries.
2. Any unexpended balance in the fund at the end of any biennium not to exceed twice the cost of providing the annual supplement to the revised statutes of Missouri is exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, relating to transfer of unexpended balances to the ordinary revenue fund.]
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