Bill Text: MO HB1730 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds a circuit judge in the 45th Judicial Circuit to be elected in 2010
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Judiciary (H) [HB1730 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB1730-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHIEFFER.
4044L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 478, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the forty-fifth judicial circuit, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 478, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 478.740, to read as follows:
478.740. Beginning January 1, 2011, there shall be two circuit judges in the forty-fifth judicial circuit. These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one and two. The circuit judge who sat in this circuit on December 31, 2010, shall sit in division one until a successor is duly elected in 2012. The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 2010.
Section B. To allow filing for the 2010 general election, section A of this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and approval.
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