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-SECOND REGULAR SESSION
-HOUSE BILL NO. 1861
-103RD GENERAL ASSEMBL Y
-INTRODUCED BY REPRESENT A TIVE BUTZ.
-4651H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
-AN ACT
-T o repeal sections 57.010 and 57.530, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections
-relating to the sheriff of the City of St. Louis.
-Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
-Section A. Sections 57.010 and 57.530, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections
-2 enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 57.010 and 57.530, to read as follows:
-57.010. 1. At the general election to be held in 1948, and at each general election
-2 held every four years thereafter , the voters in every county in this state shall elect some
-3 suitable person sherif f. No person shall be eligible for the office of sherif f who has been
-4 convicted of a felony . Such person shall be a resident taxpayer and elector of said county ,
-5 shall have resided in said county for more than one whole year next before filing for said
-6 of fice and shall be a person capable of ef ficient law enforcement. When any person shall be
-7 elected sheriff , such person shall enter upon the dischar ge of the duties of such person's of fice
-8 as chief law enforcement of ficer of that county on the first day of January next succeeding
-9 said election.
-10 2. No person shall be eligible for the of fice of sheriff who does not hold a valid peace
-11 of ficer license pursuant to chapter 590. Any person filing for the of fice of sheriff shall have a
-12 valid peace officer license at the time of filing for of fice. This subsection shall not apply to
-13 the sheriff of any county of the first classification with a charter form of government with a
-14 population over nine hundred thousand [ or of any city not within a county ].
-15 3. The sheriff of any city not within a county shall be required to hold a valid peace
-16 of ficer license pursuant to chapter 590 within two years of being elected as sheriff .
-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.
-57.530. The sheriff of the City of St. Louis shall, with the approval of a majority of
-2 the circuit judges of the circuit court of said city , appoint as many deputies and assistants as
-3 may be necessary to perform the duties of his or her of fice[ , and ] . The sheriff shall fix the
-4 compensation for [ their services ] deputy assistants , which compensation, however , shall not
-5 in any case exceed the annual rate of compensation fixed by the board of aldermen of the City
-6 of St. Louis therefor . The annual compensation for sherif f's deputies shall be no less than
-7 fifty thousand dollars per year .
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+HB 1861 -- SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS
+SPONSOR:  Butz
+Currently, sheriffs other than the sheriff of the City of St.
+Louis and of St. Louis County are required to hold a valid peace
+officer license to be eligible to hold the office of sheriff.
+This bill repeals the provision excluding the sheriff of the City
+of St. Louis, thus requiring him or her to have a valid peace
+officer license to qualify to be sheriff.
+The bill also requires the sheriff of the City of St. Louis to
+set the compensation for deputy assistants without the approval
+of the circuit judges.
+This bill is similar to HB 529 (2025).