Missouri SB 304: Modifies provisions on the preservation of records by the Secretary of State

Bill Text

FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 304
100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR RIDDLE.
Read 1st time January 24, 2019, and ordered printed.
ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary.
1252S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 2.020, 2.110, and 193.225, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three
new sections relating to the preservation of records by the secretary of state.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 2.020, 2.110, and 193.225, RSMo, are repealed and
2 three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 2.020, 2.110,
3 and 193.225, to read as follows:
2.020. As soon as practicable after the laws passed at any session of the
2 general assembly are printed and delivered, the secretary of state shall [cause the
3 original rolls to be bound in a strong and substantial manner and properly
4 labeled, and shall make therein a typewritten index referring to each act and the
5 subject matter of the same and shall] preserve and make available to the
6 public for inspection the [volumes thus bound] original rolls safely in his or
7 her office using archival best practice.
2.110. The secretary of state, as soon as practicable after [the effective
2 date of this section and every four years thereafter if during any such period] any
3 amendments have been adopted, shall [reprint, issue and distribute forty-five
4 thousand] make available in print and online, copies of the Constitution of
5 the state of Missouri in the form contained in "Report No. 5" of the committee on
6 legislative research, together with the amendments that have been adopted since
7 the preceding publication.
193.225. To preserve vital records, the state registrar is authorized to
2 prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic, or other reproductions of vital
3 statistics certificates or reports. Such reproducing material shall be of durable
4 material and the device used to reproduce the records shall be as to accurately
EXPLANATION--Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted in the law.

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5 reproduce and perpetuate the original records in all details ensuring their proper
6 retention and integrity in accordance with standards established by the state
7 records commission. Such reproductions when certified by the state registrar
8 shall be accepted as the original records. Death records over [fifty] twenty-five
9 years old from which permanent reproductions have been made and verified shall
10 be transferred to the Missouri state archives.
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