SB 733 - This act provides that when an annual judicial performance report indicates for three consecutive years that a judicial circuit with a population of one hundred thousand people or more is in need of four or more full-time judicial positions then, subject to appropriations, there shall be one additional circuit judge position authorized in that circuit. The act also repeals sections of law referencing the appointment of a janitor-messenger in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis.
The act is similar to provisions in CCS/HCS/SCS/SB 578 (2016), SCS/HCS/HB 1759 (2016), HCS/SS/SCS/SB 663 (2016), SB 614 (2014)and identical to SB 81 (2015).
JESSI BAKER