Effective - 28 Aug 1985
23.080. Director of committee on legislative research — how employed, compensation, qualifications — staff — oversight division supervision — library expenditures authorized. — 1. The committee may regularly employ and fix the compensation of a director of research who is competent to assume administration of the necessary activities of the committee under the direction of the committee. The committee may also employ other attorneys, research assistants, clerks and other persons as it deems necessary within the limits of the appropriation made therefor to carry out the provisions of this chapter or to provide assistance for the members and committees of the general assembly. Except for those employees assigned to the oversight division, all employees of the committee shall be under the supervision of the director of research, and he shall, as directed by the committee, assign and supervise all work projects of those employees and keep all necessary personnel records for those employees and others of the committee if so directed. All employees of the oversight division shall be under the supervision of the director of the oversight division, and he shall, as directed by the subcommittee, assign and supervise all work projects of the employees of that division.
2. The committee may provide necessary legal reports and other publications to be kept in the library of the committee and pay for same out of any appropriations made to the committee. The secretary of state and the revisor of statutes shall furnish the librarian, without charge, the number of Missouri statutes and session laws as is desired by the committee to enable it to exchange the statutes and session laws for those of other states.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14746, A.L. 1943 p. 632, A.L. 1957 p. 595, A.L. 1977 S.B. 419, A.L. 1985 S.B. 354)