EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 154
102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR TRENT.
0725S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 485.060, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the
compensation of court reporters.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 485.060, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 485.060, 2
to read as follows:3
485.060. 1. Each court reporter for a circuit judge 1
shall receive an annual salary of twenty -six thousand nine 2
hundred dollars beginning January 1, 1985, until December 3
31, 1985, and beginning January 1, 1986, an annual salary of 4
thirty thousand dollars. 5
2. Such annual salary shall be modified by any salary 6
adjustment provided by section 476.405. 7
3. Beginning January 1, 2022, the annual salary, as 8
modified under section 476.405, shall be adjusted upon 9
meeting the minimum number of cumulative years of s ervice as 10
a court reporter with a circuit court of this state by the 11
following schedule: 12
(1) For each court reporter with zero to five years of 13
service: the annual salary shall be increased only by any 14
salary adjustment provided by section 476.40 5; 15
(2) For each court reporter with six to ten years of 16
service: the annual salary shall be increased by the whole 17 SB 154 2
sum of five and one-quarter percent in addition to the 18
increase provided by subdivision (1) of this subsection ; 19
(3) For each court reporter with eleven to fifteen 20
years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by 21
the whole sum of eight and one-quarter percent in addition 22
to the increase provided by subdivision (2) of this 23
subsection; 24
(4) For each court reporter with sixteen to twenty 25
years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by 26
the whole sum of eight and one-half percent in addition to 27
the increase provided by subdivision (3) of this subsection ; 28
or 29
(5) For each court reporter with twenty -one or more 30
years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by 31
the whole sum of eight and three-quarters percent in 32
addition to the increase provided by subdivision (4) of this 33
subsection. 34
[A court reporter may receive multiple adjustments under 35
this subsection as his or her cumulative years of service 36
increase, but only one percentage listed in subdivisions (1) 37
to (5) of this subsection shall apply to the annual salary 38
at a time.] 39
4. Salaries shall be payable in equal monthly 40
installments on the certification of the judge of the court 41
or division in whose court the reporter is employed. If 42
paid by the state, the salaries of such court reporters 43
shall be paid in semimonthly or monthly installments, as 44
designated by the commissioner o f administration. 45