HOUSE BILL NO. 1252 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WEST.
2779H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To amend chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to reporting requirements of prosecuting attorneys.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 27 and 56, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto two new 2 sections, to be known as sections 27.120 and 56.910, to read as follows: 27.120. The attorney general shall compile a statewide report summarizing the 2 information provided by each prosecuting and circuit attorney under section 56.910 in a 3 uniform fashion and sortable by offense and jurisdiction, make the report available to 4 the public, and submit the report to the governor, the speaker of the house of 5 representatives, who shall distribute the report to the chair of the committee on crime 6 prevention and public safety of the house of representatives or any successor committee, 7 and the president pro tempore of the senate, who shall distribute the report to the chair 8 of the committee on judiciary and civil and criminal jurisprudence or any successor 9 committee. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney shall, to assist the attorney general in 10 compiling a uniform report, comply with any requests by the attorney general to 11 provide additional, disaggregated, or clarifying information. 56.910. Each prosecuting and circuit attorney's office shall share an annual 2 report by the first of March of each year with the governor and the attorney general. 3 Such report shall be made available to the public upon request. Each report shall 4 contain, at a minimum, for the previous year, all aggregate, nonpersonally identifying 5 data in each category of offense regarding the handling of cases by the office including:
EXPLANATION — 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. HB 1252 2
6 (1) Intake processes, including the number of arrests or referrals made for each 7 category of offense and: 8 (a) The number accepted for prosecution; 9 (b) The number referred to a diversion program before charging; and 10 (c) The number dismissed with a categorical description of why the case was so 11 dismissed; 12 (2) Disposals for each category of offense, including the number of cases: 13 (a) Disposed of by a diversion program; 14 (b) Adjudicated guilty by a plea agreement, or dismissed due to a guilty plea to a 15 different charge; 16 (c) Dismissed for prosecution by another authority; 17 (d) Dismissed due to suppression of evidence; 18 (e) Dismissed due to other legal defect; 19 (f) Dismissed due to refusal of one or more witnesses to cooperate; 20 (g) Dismissed for any other reason; 21 (h) Adjudicated by trial to the court, with the number of people who were 22 convicted; 23 (i) Adjudicated by jury trial, with the number of people who were convicted; and 24 (3) Disposition for each category of offense, including the number of people: 25 (a) Sentenced to incarceration; 26 (b) Sentenced to a county jail, with the average length of such sentence; 27 (c) Sentenced to a state correctional center, with the average length of such 28 sentence; and 29 (d) Sentenced to probation. ✔
Statutes affected: