Missouri Laws 21.430 – Disturbance of committee, how punished
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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 21.430
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
If any person, whether a member or not, disturbs the proceedings of any committee of either house, or is guilty of disorder in their presence, the house appointing the committee may punish the person as if the like offense were committed in the presence of the house; and if the disorder or offense is committed before a joint committee of both houses, the president of the senate shall issue process, and both houses in joint meeting proceed thereon.