SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1258
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LOUDON.
Read 1st time February 28, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
4909S.02I
AN ACT
To repeal section 28.160, RSMo, relating to fees charged by the state, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 28.160, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 28.160, to read as follows:
28.160. 1. The state shall be entitled to fees for services to be rendered by the secretary of state as follows:
For issuing commission to notary public $15.00
For countersigning and sealing certificates of
official character 10.00
For all other certificates 5.00
For copying archive and state library records,
papers or documents, for each page 8 1/2 x 14
inches and smaller, not more than .10
For duplicating microfilm, for each roll 15.00
For copying all other records, papers or documents,
for each page 8 1/2 x 14 inches and
smaller, not more than. .10
For certifying copies of records and papers or
documents 5.00
For causing service of process to be made 10.00
For electronic telephone transmittal, per page 2.00
2. There is hereby established the "Secretary of State's Technology Trust Fund Account" which shall be administered by the state treasurer. All yield, interest, income, increment, or gain received from time deposit of moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the secretary of state's technology trust fund account shall be credited by the state treasurer to the account. The provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrary notwithstanding, moneys in the fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of a biennium exceeds five million dollars. In any such biennium the amount in the fund in excess of five million dollars shall be transferred to general revenue.
3. The secretary of state may collect an additional fee of ten dollars for the issuance of new and renewal notary commissions which shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the secretary of state's technology trust fund account.
4. The secretary of state may ask the general assembly to appropriate funds from the technology trust fund for the purposes of establishing, procuring, developing, modernizing and maintaining:
(1) An electronic data processing system and programs capable of maintaining a centralized database of all registered voters in the state;
(2) Library services offered to the citizens of this state;
(3) Administrative rules services, equipment and functions;
(4) Services, equipment and functions relating to securities;
(5) Services, equipment and functions relating to corporations and business organizations;
(6) Services, equipment and functions relating to the Uniform Commercial Code;
(7) Services, equipment and functions relating to archives; and
(8) Services, equipment and functions relating to record services.
5. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the secretary of state shall not collect fees, for processing apostilles prior to the placement of a child for adoption, in excess of one hundred dollars per child per visit, or per multiple children to be adopted at the same time.