HB 3229

                                 SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                    HOUSE BILL NO. 3229
                           103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                         INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE HARDWICK.
 7078H.01I  JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
                                            AN ACT
 To repeal section 478.700, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
        circuit judges in the twenty-fifth judicial circuit.
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
         Section A. Section 478.700, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 478.700, to read as follows:
         478.700. 1. There shall be [two] three circuit judges in the twenty-fifth judicial
2 circuit [consisting of the counties of Maries, Phelps, Pulaski and Texas]. These judges shall
3 sit in divisions numbered one [and], two, and three.
42. The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1980. The circuit judge in
5 division one shall be elected in 1982. The circuit judge appointed by the governor in 2025
6 for division three shall serve until January 1, 2029. A circuit judge for division three
7 shall be elected in 2028 for a four-year term and in 2032 for a full six-year term, and
8 every six years thereafter.
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 EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is
 intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.