S3021.01T

To repeal sections 2.080 and 2.091, RSMo 1994, relating to journals of the senate and the house of representatives, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Sections 2.080 and 2.091, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.080 and 2.091, to read as follows:

2.080. 1. Copies of the journals of the proceedings of each house of the general assembly shall be compiled under the superintendence and direction of the secretary of [state] the senate and chief clerk of the house, in such number as may be determined to be necessary by the committee on legislative research, to be distributed as directed by the committee. After each session of the general assembly, the secretary of [state] the senate and chief clerk of the house shall examine and correct the proof sheets of the journals of their respective chambers and prepare a table of the errata, if any errors have been made, and shall prepare an index of the journals. The secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house shall develop and use a common indexing system for the journals.

2. Copies of the journals may be printed and bound into books, may be microphotographed, or may otherwise be copied so as to preserve the record of proceedings and to facilitate the use and storage of the journals.

2.091. The secretary of [state] the senate and chief clerk of the house shall deliver, upon request, one copy of the journal of [each house] their respective chambers to [the secretary of the senate, the clerk of the house of representatives,] the judge of any court of record, any member of either house of the general assembly, the head of any state department, bureau or state institution, the state university, the Missouri state historical society and any public library in the state, two copies of each to the law library association of St. Louis, and three copies of each to the Library of Congress at Washington, D.C. The remaining copies shall be preserved, subject to the orders of the general assembly.