Missouri Laws Subject Guide
Laws | Regulations | Court Cases | Electronic Resources
LAWS
Constitution, State of Missouri. Jefferson City: Office of the Secretary of State, 1945- . Irregular.
REF DESK KFM 8201 1945 .A3, and freely available online at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/pubs/missouri_constitution.pdf
The basis for Missouri’s governmental system, it provides for regulation of the internal affairs of the state.
Bills and Slip Laws.
Copies of the bills and slip laws are no longer distributed in paper. Access to these materials is now online via the Missouri General Assembly. See listing below under Electronic Resources.
Index, House and Senate Bills, and Joint Resolutions. Jefferson City: Committee on Legislative Research and Office of Administration, 1978-2002. Annual.
REF LAW KFM 7810 .M67x
An index arranged by subject, bill number, and sponsor for proposed legislation in the Missouri House and Senate. Each volume covers one legislative session. Access for 2003 forward is now online via the Missouri General Assembly. See listing below under Electronic Resources.
Laws of Missouri. Jefferson City: Office of the Secretary of State, [1874? - Annual.
REF LAW KFM 7825
Provides the text of bills passed in each session, a list of vetoed bills, and a subject index.
Missouri Legislative Service. Jefferson City, Mo.: Missouri Chamber of Commerce, 1993- 1999.
REF LAW KFM 8221 .A6 M5x
Former title: Missouri. Chamber of Commerce. Special Legislative Report Service. Includes a broad subject index for each house, a calendar for each house, summaries of proposed bills for each house and the members of the legislative committees. Access for 2003 forward is now online via the Missouri General Assembly. See listing below under Electronic Resources.
Missouri Revised Statutes.
REF LAW KFM 7830 2000 .A25
Revised statutes of the state of Missouri, 2000 : comprising all statute laws of a general and permanent nature, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Missouri and appendices / compiled, arranged, classified, and indexed under direction of Joint Committee on Legislative Research, 1999-2000.
An online version is available at: http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutesearch/
Vernon’s Annotated Missouri Statutes. 46 vols. St. Paul, Minn: West Pub. Co., c1951- . Annual.
REF LAW KFM 7830 .A4 V4x
Contains the statutes of the State of Missouri with additional notes of decisions of the state and federal courts construing the laws, the Constitution and court rules of Missouri. Supplemented by annual pocket parts, pamphlets and Vernon’s Missouri Legislative Service.
Vernon's Missouri Legislative Service St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co. [1995- ].
REF LAW KFM 7830 .A4 V44x
Provides text of laws passed by the Missouri General Assembly. Pamphlets are issued during and immediately after each session.
REGULATIONS
State of Missouri Code of State Regulations. 12 vols. Jefferson City: Office of the Secretary of State. [1988-].
REF LAW KFM 7835 yr .A23
Rules and regulations of state agencies which implement state laws. Brings together all rules for each agency that are currently in effect. Updated by the Missouri Register.
Available online at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/adrules/csr/csr.asp
Missouri Register. [Jefferson City: Office of the Secretary of State] May 3, 1976- .
REF LAW KFM 7834 .A2 S4 Current Issues in Reference.
Updates the…Code of State Regulations.
COURT CASES
Missouri Digest, 1821 to date. 32 vols. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., [c1930-1984(?)]
UMS TJ COM1 KFM 7857 .M53x
West’s Missouri Digest 2nd. 54 vols. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., c1983- . Annual?
REF LAW KFM 7857 .M53x 1983
The Missouri and West’s digests provide a subject approach to Missouri cases from state and local courts. Kept up-to-date by cumulative annual pocket parts and replacement vols. The Missouri Digest for cases prior to 1930. West's covers 1930-.
Shepard's Missouri Citations : a Compilation of Citations to Missouri Cases… 5 vols. 6th ed. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill, 1987.
UMS TJ COM1 KFM 7859 .S5 1987. Lexis/Nexis has a Shepard's Citation component.
A compilation of citations to Missouri cases reported in the Missouri Supreme Court Reports, Missouri Appeal Reports, and the Southwestern Reporter. Comprised of the Case edition and the Statute edition. Each citing case has been analyzed to determine its effect on the cited case.
Shepard’s Acts and Cases by Popular Names, Federal and State. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill, 1968- . Bimonthly since 1992.
REF LAW KF 80 .S5
"A compilation of popular names by which Federal and state acts and cases have been referred to or cited, together with an identification of each act in terms of its constitutional or statutory references and each case in terms of the volume and page reference where the text of the decision may be found."
West’s Missouri cases Reported in South Western reporter, Second Series. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1988- . Weekly with regular cumulations.
REF LAW KFM 7857 .S68x
Better known as the Southwestern Reporter 2nd and/or Missouri cases…, these volumes contain Missouri Supreme Court and appellate court decisions, with annotations and tables of statutes construed.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
LexisNexis™ Academic: online
It is possible to access state high court & appellate decisions, statutory laws and court rules from Missouri (and other states), and Attorneys General opinions from Missouri (and other states) by using the LexisNexis™ Academic database, Legal Research segment. Basic searching is by keyword.
Missouri General Assembly: http://www.moga.mo.gov
The Missouri Senate and House of Representatives provide a Joint Bill Tracking service which allows you to search for legislation from 1995 to the present by bill number, keyword, or sponsor-cosponsor. Information includes the text of the bill, names of sponsors and cosponsors, committee(s) to which the bill was referred, and actions taken - up to including signature by the governor for truly agreed to and finally passed versions.