L1770.02T

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     Section A. Sections 2.040 and 2.050, RSMo 1994, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.040 and 2.050, to read as follows: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] 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 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 cause the completed laws, resolutions and constitutional amendments 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 [the secretary of state] 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.

     2.060. 1. The [secretary of state] revisor of statutes may sell copies of the laws and resolutions, not required by this chapter to be distributed without charge, at actual cost of printing and binding, as determined by the secretary of state, plus the cost of delivery and the money received therefor shall be paid to the director of revenue and deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the [general revenue] statutes revision fund.

     2. The [secretary of state] revisor of statutes shall also supply the clerk of the circuit court of each county order blanks in a number sufficient to meet the public demand. The blanks may be used by the public to order copies which shall be sold by the [secretary of state] revisor of statutes as provided in subsection 1.