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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 3468
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE BLACK.
7463H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
T o repeal section 478.003, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
treatment courts.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 478.003, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu
2 thereof, to be known as section 478.003, to read as follows:
478.003. 1. In any judicial circuit of this state, a majority of the judges of the circuit
2 court may designate a judge to hear cases arising in the circuit subject to the provisions of
3 sections 478.001 to 478.009. In lieu thereof and subject to appropriations or other funds
4 available for such purpose, a majority of the judges of the circuit court may appoint a person
5 or persons to act as treatment court commissioners. Each commissioner shall be appointed
6 for a term of four years, but may be removed at any time by a majority of the judges of the
7 circuit court. The qualifications, compensation, and retirement benefits of the commissioner
8 shall be the same as that of an associate circuit judge. If the compensation of a commissioner
9 appointed pursuant to this section is provided from other than state funds, the source of such
10 fund shall pay to and reimburse the state for the actual costs of the salary and benefits of the
11 commissioner . The commissioner shall have all the powers and duties of a circuit judge,
12 except that any order , judgment or decree of the commissioner shall be confirmed or rejected
13 by an associate circuit or circuit judge by order of record entered within the time the judge
14 could set aside such order , judgment or decree had the same been made by the judge. If so
15 confirmed, the order , judgment or decree shall have the same ef fect as if made by the judge on
16 the date of its confirmation.
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 2. The Missouri supreme court may assign a treatment court commissioner to serve in
18 the treatment court division of a circuit other than the circuit in which the commissioner is
19 appointed. The transfer shall only be ordered with the consent and approval of the presiding
20 judge of the circuit to which the commissioner is to be assigned.
21 3. A treatment court commissioner may serve as a commissioner in any treatment
22 court as designated by the treatment court coordinating commission, subject to local court
23 rules.
24 4. In each circu it having a tr eatment court division, on appr oval of a majority of
25 the court en banc and subject to appr opriations or other funds available for such
26 purpose, the court shall employ a tr eatment court administrator or coordinator .
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