To repeal section 476.405, RSMo 1994, relating to circuit clerks, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 476.405, RSMo 1994, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 476.405 and 483.163, to read as follows:

476.405. 1. Within the limits of any appropriation made for this purpose, the salary fixed by sections 211.381, 211.393, 477.130, 478.013, 478.018, 483.083, 483.163, and 485.060, RSMo, may be adjusted in any one year by a salary adjustment. The salary adjustment shall not exceed the salary adjustment for the executive department contained in the pay plan applicable to other state employees at a similar salary level for that fiscal year. If no salary adjustment or a lower salary adjustment is granted pursuant to this section than is granted the executive department in any year, then the salary adjustment granted pursuant to this section in the next fiscal year may exceed the salary adjustment of the executive department by the amount of the difference in the prior year.

2. The amount of a salary adjustment to be approved pursuant to this section shall be stated in a separate line item of the appropriation bill. A salary adjustment approved pursuant to this section shall be added to the statutory salary and the sum of these amounts shall be the statutory salary of the office for all purposes. This statutory salary shall be included in the appropriation bill in the same manner as any other personal service appropriation involving a statutory salary.

3. The office of administration shall maintain a compensation schedule for each fiscal year indicating the highest statutory salary paid for each office specified in sections 211.381, 211.393, 477.130, 478.013, 478.018, 483.083, 483.163, and 485.060, RSMo, and the salary adjustment contained in the pay plan applicable to other state employees generally. The schedule shall be open for public inspection and shall be annually included in the Missouri Register and an appendix to the Revised Statutes of Missouri. For each office for which a salary adjustment is approved pursuant to this section, the revisor of statutes shall place a revisor's note following each section providing compensation for the office referencing the reader to the compensation index.

483.163. 1. Each circuit clerk, except the circuit clerk in any city not within a county, shall cooperate with the prosecuting attorney and division of child support enforcement in the investigation and documentation of possible criminal nonsupport under section 568.040, RSMo, which involves any case or cases for which the clerk is trustee.

2. Other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, for the performance of the duties prescribed in subsection 1 of this section, each circuit clerk, except the circuit clerk in any city not within a county, in addition to any other compensation provided by law, shall receive five thousand dollars per year beginning January 1, 1997. Such compensation shall be payable in equal installments in the same manner and at the same time as other compensation is paid to the circuit clerk.

3. For every year beginning July 1, 1998, the amount of increased compensation established in subsection 2 of this section shall be adjusted by any salary adjustment authorized under section 476.405, RSMo.