To repeal section 33.120, RSMo 1994, relating to claims and warrants, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

     Section A. Section 33.120, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 33.120, to read as follows:

     33.120. Persons having claims against the state shall exhibit the same, with the evidence in support thereof, to the commissioner of administration, for [his] the commissioner's approval, within two years after such claims shall accrue, and not thereafter.

     2. Any claim against the state which accrues during a fiscal year in which the governor reduces an allotment of appropriations pursuant to section 33.290 shall be paid at such reduced rate regardless of the fiscal year in which the claim is submitted, if such claim is for an item identified by the governor as being subject to reduction.