Section 484.125

Title XXXII COURTS

Chapter 484

Effective - 28 Aug 2025, see footnote   

  484.125.  Criminal background check, fingerprint submission. — 1.  The Missouri supreme court may require that fingerprint submissions be made as part of an application of licensure for admission or reinstatement to the Missouri Bar in order to engage in the practice of law or law business, as such terms are defined in section 484.010.

  2.  If the Missouri supreme court requires that fingerprint submissions be made as part of such application, the Missouri supreme court shall submit the fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal history background check.

  3.  The fingerprints and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's central repository.  The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540.  The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the Missouri supreme court of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the Missouri supreme court.

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(L. 2025 S.B. 71 merged with S.B. 81 & 174)