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General Assembly House and Senate Bills | |||
1995-present |
House and Senate bills in full text with indexes. Search provides bill text, bill summaries, amendments, fiscal notes, calendars, committee reports and courtesy resolutions. |
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1981-1999
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MU's Special Collections department holds microfilmed bills from the 81st General Assembly 1st session (1981), through the 90th General Assembly 1st session (1999.) Bill summaries and calendars are in print format under call number GA.Ho11/2. Fiscal notes are under call number GA.Ho11/3. Indexing available:
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1960-1980
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House - MU ANNEX J87.M8 D4 Indexing available:
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1895-current | State Historical Society of Missouri | ||
General Assembly House and Senate Journals |
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Legislative journals document votes on bills, committee actions, action taken on motions, and governor's addresses to the General Assembly. Journals are arranged by date. There might be a subject index at the back, or published separately. Historical note: appendixes to early journals (1840s-1953) included annual and biennial reports from selected state agencies. |
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Internet |
1996-2018 |
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Microform |
1986-1996 |
83rd-88th General Assembly journals kept in Government Documents |
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1842-1985 | House Journals - MU ELLIS J 87 .M8 | ||
1838-1985 | Senate Journals - MU ELLIS J 87 .M8b | ||
Print & Microform | 1805-current | State Historical Society of Missouri | |
Missouri Revised Statutes (title varies) Link to current web version | |||
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The single, cumulated source for all Missouri laws in effect as of a given year. Updated with annual supplements. | ||
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MU ELLIS REFERENCE KFM7830 2000 .A252 |
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1994, 1986, 1978, 1969 | MU ELLIS KFM7830 [date] .A2 | |
1959, 1949, 1939, 1929, 1919, 1909 | MU ELLIS (Click on year to get call number) |
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1899, 1889, 1879, 1870, 1866, 1855, 1845, 1835, 1825 | MU ELLIS Special Collections (Click on year to get call number) |
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Session Laws of Missouri |
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These annual volumes each contain only the laws passed during individual sessions of the General Assembly. Laws, referendum bills, vetoed bills, proposed constitutional amendments, and concurrent resolutions are included. There is a cumulated index to Missouri laws from 1804-1868. |
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2000-2010 | MU DOCS REFERENCE K .M692 | ||
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MU ELLIS K .M692 |
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MU LAW RARE KFM7830 .A2 1813 (four volumes) |
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HathiTrust Digital Library |
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HathiTrust Digital Library |
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Code of State Regulations Full text for current edition * MERLIN |
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Arranged by "titles" corresponding to state agencies, the code compiles rules and regulations for operations of the state government. The Code is updated twice monthly by the Missouri Register.
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Governor's Executive Orders Full text for 1984-present |
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Orders are arranged by year then numerically. |
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1921-1986 (incomplete) | MU ELLIS JK5430 .A33 | ||
Missouri Constitution link to web version
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Missouri has operated under four constitutions: 1820, 1865, 1875 and 1945. It is continually revised and amended. Find past versions printed in editions of the Missouri Revised Statutes. |
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Missouri Roster Full text for current edition* MERLIN |
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This source is useful for its contact information for state and county officials and departmental divisions. Like the Blue Book (Official Manual), it also describes departments, shows election results, and provides town statistics. | |||
Voting Records |
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Voting records for U.S. senators and representatives from Missouri are readily available through Project Vote-Smart. You can use this website to find a legislator's voting record by subject. Unfortunately, voting records for legislators in the Missouri state House and Senate are not arranged either by legislator or by subject in the Missouri legislative journals. Rather, the journals are arranged chronologically. To see how a legislator voted, first you must identify a bill that interests you. Next, determine the date that the bill came to a vote. Finally, locate that date in the legislative journals and browse until you find the roll call vote. |