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SB 585 - Currently, the Thirty-Eighth Judicial Circuit consists of Christian and Taney counties. The act provides that the Thirty-Eighth Judicial Circuit shall consist of only Christian County and creates a new Forty-Sixth Judicial Circuit consisting of Taney County. Currently, the Thirty-Eighth Judicial Circuit has one circuit judge, and the act provides that the circuit shall have two with the new second judge being elected in 2016. The Forty-Sixth Judicial Circuit shall have one circuit judge also elected in 2016. Juvenile officers employed in a multicounty circuit which switches to a first class single county circuit on or after August 28, 2016, are state employees and shall receive state-provided benefits. This act contains an emergency clause and is similar to provisions contained in SS/SCS/HB 799 (2015). JESSI BAKER
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