FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 252
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR ROHRBACH.
Read 1st time January 12, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S1012.02I
AN ACT
To repeal section 478.625, RSMo 1994, relating to the nineteenth judicial circuit, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 478.625, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.625, to read as follows:
478.625. 1. Beginning on January 1, 2003, there shall be [two] three circuit judges in the nineteenth judicial circuit consisting of the county of Cole. [These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one and two.]
2. [The] One circuit judge [in division one] shall be first elected in 1982. The second circuit judge [in division two] shall be first elected in 1984. The third circuit judge shall be first elected in 2002.
3. Effective January 1, 2003, there shall be one less associate circuit judge in Cole county than is provided pursuant to section 478.320.