2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title III LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Chapter 23 Committee on Legislative Research
23.030. Legislative library--reference service.

23.030. The legislative library room located on the third floor of the capitol building and in a northerly position between the senate chamber and the house chamber is set aside as a legislative library quarters under the direction and control of the committee on legislative research. Out of an appropriation made for that purpose, the committee on legislative research shall maintain a reference service which shall be available to the general assembly and the public. This service may include the following specific functions:

(1) Maintain a legislative library and purchase for the library any printed or written reference material relating to problems of the state or political subdivisions as would in the judgment of the committee aid the members of the general assembly;

(2) Secure and file copies of all bills, resolutions, amendments, memorials, reports of committees, journals and other documents printed by order of either house of the general assembly; and collect, catalogue and index material as soon as practicable after it has been printed;

(3) Keep an index or digest of the action on each bill, resolution, and memorial by either body of the general assembly and the governor, the digest to be printed and distributed at intervals the committee deems practicable.

(RSMo 1939 § 14743, A.L. 1943 p. 632, A.L. 1957 p. 595)