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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 2166
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE DOLAN.
5229H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o repeal section 56.265, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the
compensation of prosecuting attorneys.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 56.265, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 56.265, to read as follows:
56.265. 1. The county prosecuting attorney in any county , other than in a chartered
2 county , shall receive an annual salary computed using the following schedule, when
3 applicable. The assessed valuation factor shall be the amount thereof as shown for the year
4 immediately preceding the year for which the computation is done.
5 (1) For a full-time prosecutor the prosecutor shall receive compensation equal to the
6 compensation of an associate circuit judge;
7 (2) For a part-time prosecutor:
8 Assessed V aluation Amount
9 $18,000,000 to 40,999,999 $37,000
10 41,000,000 to 53,999,999 38,000
11 54,000,000 to 65,999,999 39,000
12 66,000,000 to 85,999,999 41,000
13 86,000,000 to 99,999,999 43,000
14 100,000,000 to 130,999,999 45,000
15 131,000,000 to 159,999,999 47,000
16 160,000,000 to 189,999,999 49,000
EXPLANA TION — 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.
17 190,000,000 to 249,999,999 51,000
18 250,000,000 to 299,999,999 53,000
19 300,000,000 or more 55,000
20 2. T wo thousand dollars of the salary shall be payable to any prosecuting attorney
21 only if the prosecuting attorney has completed at least twenty hours of classroom instruction
22 each calendar year relating to the operations of the prosecuting attorney's of fice when
23 approved by a professional association of the county prosecuting attorneys of Missouri unless
24 exempted from the training by the professional association. The professional association
25 approving the program shall provide a certificate of completion to each prosecuting attorney
26 who completes the training program and shall send a list of certified prosecuting attorneys to
27 the treasurer of each county or city not within a county . Expenses incurred for attending the
28 training session may be reimbursed to the prosecuting attorney in the same manner as other
29 expenses as may be appropriated for that purpose.
30 3. Each calendar year , five thousand dollars of the salary shall be payable to any
31 prosecuting attorney only if the prosecuting attorney has collected the data described in
32 subsection 2 of section 56.750 in a manner approved by the prosecutors coordinators training
33 council and makes the data described in subsection 2 of section 56.750 readily accessible to
34 the Missouri of fice of prosecution services. The Missouri office of prosecution services shall
35 provide a certificate of compliance to each prosecuting attorney who complies with this
36 subsection and shall send a list of any certified prosecuting attorney to the respective treasurer
37 of each county or city not within a county .
38 4. For each calendar year , three thousand dollars of the salary shall be payable to any
39 prosecuting attorney only if the prosecuting attorney has provided discovery to criminal
40 defense attorneys who have entered an appearance on behalf of a defendant in a manner
41 approved by the prosecutors coordinators training council. The Missouri off ice of
42 prosecution services shall provide a certificate of compliance to each prosecuting attorney
43 who complies with this subsection and shall send a list of any certified prosecuting attorney to
44 the respective treasurer of each county or city not within a county .
45 5. As used in this section, the term "prosecuting attorney" includes the circuit attorney
46 of any city not within a county .
47 6. The prosecuting attorney of any county which becomes a county of the first
48 classification during a four -year term of of fice or a county which passed the proposition
49 authorized by subsection 1 of section 56.363 shall not be required to devote full time to such
50 of fice pursuant to section 56.067 until the beginning of the prosecuting attorney's next term of
51 of fice or until the proposition otherwise becomes effecti ve.
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52 7. The provisions of section 56.066 shall not apply to full-time prosecutors who are
53 compensated pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of this section.
54 8. The state shall reim burse, thr ough an appr opriation, at least thirty per cent of
55 the salary of the pr osecuting attorney in each county of the third classification as
56 computed under this section.
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