FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 474
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BARTLE.
Read 1st time February 11, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time February 13, 2003, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence.
Reported from the Committee February 24, 2003, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 4, 2003. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1634S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 488.426, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to surcharges in civil case filings.
Section A. Section 488.426, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 488.426, to read as follows:
488.426. 1. The judges of the circuit court, en banc, in any circuit in this state may require any party filing a civil case in the circuit court, at the time of filing the suit, to deposit with the clerk of the court a surcharge in addition to all other deposits required by law or court rule. Sections 488.426 to 488.432 shall not apply to proceedings when costs are waived or are to be paid by the county or state or any city.
2. The surcharge in effect on August 28, 2001, shall remain in effect until changed by the circuit court. The circuit court in any circuit, except the circuit court in Jackson County may change the fee to any amount not to exceed fifteen dollars. The circuit court in Jackson County may change the fee to any amount not to exceed twenty dollars. A change in the fee shall become effective and remain in effect until further changed [beginning on January first if the office of state courts administrator is notified of the proposed change not later than the preceding September first].
3. Sections 488.426 to 488.432 shall not apply to proceedings when costs are waived or are paid by the county or state or any city.