Read 1st time February 27, 1997, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time March 4, 1997, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Reported from the Committee March 6, 1997, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

Taken up April 2, 1997. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

L1770.01P

To repeal sections 2.040 and 2.050, RSMo 1994, relating to session laws, 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     Section A. Sections 2.040 and 2.050, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.040 and 2.050, to read as follows:

     2.040. The secretary of state, in cooperation with the joint committee on legislative research, shall provide copies of all laws, measures and resolutions duly enacted by the general assembly and all amendments to the constitution and all measures approved by the people since the last publication of such laws and resolutions, giving the date of the approval or adoption thereof for printing in accordance with the directions of the general assembly as given by concurrent resolution. [When the secretary of state is required by concurrent resolution to] The joint committee on legislative research shall, at the direction of the secretary of state, edit, headnote, collate, index [and cause to be printed and bound] the laws, resolutions and constitutional amendments, [he] and shall compare the proof sheets of the printed copies with the original rolls, note all errors which have been committed, if any, and cause errata thereof to be annexed to the completed printed copies, and the revisor of statutes shall insert therein an attestation under [his] the revisor's hand that [he] the revisor has compared the laws, resolutions, constitutional amendments and measures therein contained with the original rolls and copies in [his] the office of the secretary of state and that the same are true copies of such laws, measures, resolutions and constitutional amendments as the same appear in the original rolls in [his] the office of the secretary of state. The joint committee on legislative research shall deliver the completed laws, resolutions and constitutional amendments to the secretary of state, who shall cause them to be printed and bound.

     2.050. The complete printed copies of laws, resolutions, constitutional amendments and measures when printed and bound shall be delivered [to] by the secretary of state to the revisor of statutes who shall distribute copies without cost in the same number and to the same officers, institutions and agencies who are entitled to copies of the Revised Statutes of Missouri under section 3.130, RSMo.