FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 472
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CASKEY.
Read 1st time February 13, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1934S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 488.2250 and 488.2253, RSMo 2000, relating to fees for court transcripts, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 488.2250 and 488.2253, RSMo 2000, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 488.2250 and 488.2253, to read as follows:
488.2250. For all transcripts of testimony given or proceedings had in any circuit court, the court reporter shall receive the sum of [one dollar and fifty] three dollars and twenty-five cents per twenty-five line page for the original of the transcript, and the sum of [thirty-five] seventy-five cents per twenty-five line page for each carbon copy thereof; the page to be approximately eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in size, with left-hand margin of approximately one and one-half inches and the right-hand margin of approximately one-half inch; answer to follow question on same line when feasible; such page to be designated as a legal page. Any judge, in his discretion, may order a transcript of all or any part of the evidence or oral proceedings, and the court reporter's fees for making the same shall be paid by the state upon a voucher approved by the court, and taxed against the state. In criminal cases where an appeal is taken by the defendant, and it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is unable to pay the costs of the transcript for the purpose of perfecting the appeal, the court shall order the court reporter to furnish three transcripts in duplication of the notes of the evidence, for the original of which he shall receive [one dollar and fifty] three dollars and twenty-five cents per legal page and for the copies [twenty] seventy-five cents per page. The payment of court reporter's fees provided in this section shall be made by the state upon a voucher approved by the court.
488.2253. In every contested case, or case in which the evidence is to be preserved, except for the collection of delinquent or back taxes, before any circuit judge when an official court reporter is appointed, the clerk of said court shall tax up the sum of [fifteen] twenty-five dollars, to be collected as other costs, and paid by said clerk to the director of revenue of the state.