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Disabilities

SB 0530 - Schneider - Modifies various provisions relating to crimes and punishment
SB 0576 - Maxwell - Prohibits financial exploitation of the elderly and the disabled
SB 0586 - Sims - Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans
SB 0622 - Clay - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0721 - Caskey - Establishes and revises several programs for disabled persons
SB 0927 - Stoll - Establishes education program for parents of children with disabilities
SB 0931 - Kinder - Provides additional state aid to school districts educating certain disabled students
SB 0935 - Caskey - Establishes assistive technology programs for disabled persons
SB 0957 - Johnson - Expands ability of Boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0974 - Bentley - Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons
SB 1010 - Childers - Establishes a blindness education and awareness program and fund
SB 1062 - Howard - Revises PSRS and NTRS disability benefits for Social Security purposes
HB 1085 - Selby - Exempts certain mental health facilities and programs from licensure
HB 1211 - Gross - Requires Director of Revenue to enter into recognition of disabled persons' license plates agreement with the federal
HB 1225 - Schilling - Prohibits sentencing a mentally retarded person to death
HB 1281 - Boucher - Mandates that Public Service Commission provide telecommunications equipment and access for the hearing and
HB 1318 - Patek - Allows local sheltered workshops to provide related services to handicapped individuals
HB 1323 - Pryor - Allows supervisors of sheltered workshops to perform production work
HB 1350 - Blunt - Adds caring for an incapacitated or disabled person to the list of reasons allowed for absentee voting
HB 1371 - Bray - Creates the Home Disability Tax Credit Program
HB 1386 - Britt - Prohibits financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person
HB 1411 - Stokan - Establishes the Assistive Technology Loan Program and creates a revolving fund to provide loans for the purchase
HB 1455 - Bray - Prohibits discrimination based on household status
HB 1543 - Smith (011) - Authorizes the court to authorize or orders acts intended to protect a mentally disabled protectee's estate from
HB 1561 - Carter - Makes various changes to the laws regarding sheltered workshops
HB 1564 - Wilson - Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental
HB 1565 - Hartzler - Creates a homestead exemption for disabled veterans and their surviving spouses
HB 1624 - Wagner - Requires the Missouri Assistive Technology Council to establish an assistive technology loan program and home
HB 1682 - Boucher - Establishes additional state purchasing preferences for products and services from the blind
HB 1754 - Froelker - Creates the blindness education, screening and treatment program
HB 1763 - Burton - Makes various changes regarding sheltered workshops
HB 2062 - Lakin - Gives American Sign Language equal stature to English spoken language in this state
HB 2063 - Levin - Creates an income tax deduction for amounts paid for custodial care and durable medical equipment to the extent
HB 2106 - Gibbons - Changes law on disabled license plates and windshield placards
HB 2113 - Foster - Clarifies that certain school retirees on disability are considered as receiving normal retirement allowances
HB 2148 - Merideth III - Establishes an office of deaf education
HB 2154 - Hanaway - Allows for the creation of a discretionary trust for the benefit of a disabled beneficiary
HCR 008 - Patek - Urges the U.s. Congress to enact legislation regarding the disciplinary provisions of Idea

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Domestic Relations

SB 0602 - Wiggins - Requires the Division of Family Services to make child abuse investigation records available to two additional groups
SB 0603 - Wiggins - Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0606 - Russell - Mandates insurance coverage for innocent coinsured for losses arising from domestic violence
SB 0722 - Caskey - Family access motions may be used to enforce all custody and visitation orders
SB 0744 - Klarich - Clarifies state policy is to recognize marriage only between a male and a female
SB 0979 - Kenney - Modifies domestic violence law
SB 0980 - Jacob - Extends domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
HB 1098 - Hosmer - Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation
HB 1187 - Gratz - Corrects a technical title defect for a marriage statute declared unconstitutional
HB 1216 - Kelly (027) - Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certifictes without a court order
HB 1247 - Graham - Changes court costs for providing funding for domestic violence shelters
HB 1311 - Dougherty - Requires all courts to order parties to a dissolution to attend educational sessions, except for good cause
HB 1312 - Dougherty - Makes certain police pensions subject to attachment for purposes of child support
HB 1334 - Dougherty - Repeals the statute of limitations for child support orders
HB 1374 - Graham - Changes rules concerning when local governments may impose certain fees on court cases
HB 1421 - Dougherty - Revises the statutory provisions regarding relocation of a child following dissolution of marriage
HB 1520 - Gaskill - Changes the waiting period for issuance of a marriage license
HB 1654 - Crawford - Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases
HB 1664 - Scheve - Revises various child protection laws
HB 1677 - Wilson - Amends or creates various domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
HB 1678 - Wilson - Amends various statutes relating to marriage by adding gender neutral language
HB 1776 - Sallee - Prohibits the court from awarding child visitation to a parent who has not had any meaningful contact with the
HB 1812 - Akin - Corrects a technical title defect in a statute that only recognizes a marriage between a man and a woman
HB 1819 - Scott - Corrects a technical title defect for a marriage statute declared unconstitutional
HB 1837 - Patek - Reverts section 452.377 regarding relocation back to the pre-Sb910 language
HB 1858 - Dougherty - Allows for the emancipation of minors in certain circumstances
HB 1865 - Fraser - Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services' adoption registry and allows biological
HB 1929 - Curls - Expands family access motions by allowing all persons granted child visitation to file such a motion
HB 1962 - Dougherty - Establishes a minimum foster care reimbursement rate
HB 1982 - Hartzler - Enacts the "parenting Alternatives Law" and provides for the transfer of temporary custody to the prospective
HB 2137 - Gross - Makes various changes to laws regarding domestic violence
HB 2142 - Dougherty - Creates a tax credit for donations made to sexual violence crisis service centers
HB 2156 - Patek - Adds the cohabitation or intended cohabitation of a parent as a relevant factor for the court to consider when

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Drugs and Controlled Substances

SB 0530 - Schneider - Modifies various provisions relating to crimes and punishment
SB 0571 - Ehlmann - Positive drug test constitutes misconduct connected with work for unemployment compensation benefit eligibility
SB 0580 - Westfall - Theft or attempted theft of anhydrous ammonia or liquid nitrogen is a Class D felony
SB 0639 - Steelman - Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens
SB 0774 - Caskey - Creates Drug Courts Coordinating Commission
SB 0889 - Howard - Allows registered professional nurses who are registered nurse anesthetists to dispense controlled substances
SB 0944 - Caskey - Revises prohibitions on drugs and weapons on school premises
SB 0949 - Howard - Allows psychologists to administer, order, and prescribe medications after obtaining specific tranining
SB 1083 - Bland - Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health
HB 1126 - Hosmer - Expands evidence of possession of a controlled substance
HB 1353 - Farnen - Opens coroner's reports to any person involved in a fatal accident
HB 1403 - Hosmer - Creates the drug court coordinating commission
HB 1497 - Barry - Allows registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe and administer certain drugs
HB 1635 - Troupe - Requires all health benfit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards
HB 1704 - Hosmer - Makes Gamma Hydroxybuterate (ghb) a schedule Ii controlled substance
HB 1834 - Levin - Exempts from sales and use tax all sales of over-the-counter drugs
HB 1839 - Backer - Creates the crime of unlawful drug transactions with a child
HB 1973 - Hosmer - Changes certain provisions of the controlled substances law
HB 2006 - Reid - Expands the number of persons eligible for the pharmaceutical income tax credit
HB 2041 - Loudon - Changes construction of employment sercurity law to "impartial" from "liberal"; adds drug abuse to definition
HB 2139 - Secrest - Revises certain employment laws
HB 2140 - Secrest - Decreases eligibility for employment security benefits for certain employees who test positive for drugs
HCR 033 - Ostmann - Opposes the Dea's decision to cut off state funding to cover the cost of cleaning up clandestine drug labs

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Drunk Driving/Boating

SB 0578 - Westfall - Lowers blood alcohol content to .08% for drunk driving arrests
SB 0579 - Westfall - Prohibits passengers from consuming or possessing open alcoholic beverages in a motor vehicle
HB 1236 - Ostmann - Requires the use of convicted repeat drunk driver license plates by prior and persistent drunk drivers

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Easements and Conveyances

SB 0555 - Singleton - Authorizes DNR acquisition of the Newtonia Battlefield
SB 0634 - Childers - Requires approval by General Assembly of certain federal land acquisitions
SB 0985 - Maxwell - Authorizes the conveyance of a small part of the property of the Mexico Veterans home
SB 1018 - Bentley - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey certain property
SB 1035 - Westfall - Authorizes a municipality to use condemnation to acquire natural gas service
SB 1036 - Johnson - Authorizes governor and MO Western State College to transfer land to St. Joseph and the Department of Transportation
SB 1059 - Westfall - Authorizes conveyance of a small portion of Nevada State Hospital to the City of Nevada
HB 1185 - Gratz - Authorizes conveyance of certain Lincoln University property to Jefferson City and part of Mexico Veterans Home property
HB 1186 - Gratz - Authorizes Governor to convey certain property in Cole County which is part of Church Farm Correctional Facility
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 2029 - Wright - Authorizes the board of governors of Southwest Missouri State University to convey certain lands
HB 2055 - Surface - Authorizes the conveyance of certain properties between the Missouri national guard and the city of Joplin
HB 2165 - Crawford - Authorizes various conveyances
HB 2166 - Crawford - Authorizes various easements and conveyances

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Economic Development

SB 0544 - Staples - Creates a commission to study highway projects and economic development
SB 0552 - Flotron - Revises law governing Missouri Certified Capital Companies and repeals Qualified Research Tax Credits
SB 0559 - Howard - Creates the Agribusiness Development Authority
SB 0561 - Johnson - Creates grants for communities with economies dependent on tobacco production
SB 0577 - Maxwell - Revises hazardous waste laws
SB 0596 - Steelman - Allows tourism tax for New Madrid, New Madrid Co., Stoddard Co., Bloomfield, Caruthersville and St. James
SB 0637 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0724 - Rohrbach - Changes several county-level tourism taxes
SB 0801 - Mathewson - Revises several tax credit and economic development programs
SB 0802 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing
SB 0827 - Scott - Creates Downtown Revitalization Act for St. Louis
SB 0865 - Goode - Creates the "Community Comeback Act" for eradication of blight and neighborhood revitalization in St. Louis County
SB 0867 - Maxwell - Various changes to Certified Capital Companies/tax credit programs; landlord registration in K.C. and St. Louis
SB 0894 - Quick - Numerous provisions relating to economic development, taxation and land use law
SB 0924 - Maxwell - Authorizes Kirksville to impose a sales tax for economic development to fund a transportation corporation
SB 0936 - Childers - Significant changes to tax, economic development and community development law
SB 0998 - Flotron - Authorizes the establishment of Business and Industrial Development Companies
SB 1008 - Scott - Tax relief in distressed communities
SB 1037 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
SB 1048 - Mathewson - Revises state economic development programs
SB 1052 - Goode - Creates the "Live Near Your Work" program to facilitate neighborhood redevelopment
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles
SB 1074 - Wiggins - Requires the Department of Economic Development to compile an annual report and analysis of all incentive programs
SB 1076 - Ehlmann - Makes numerous changes in laws affecting the City of St. Louis
HB 1238 - Hoppe - Numerous changes concerning urban affairs, taxation and economic programs
HB 1305 - Rizzo - Numerous changes to local government, economic development, cemetery, waste-handling and housing law
HB 1330 - Auer - Requires rezoning of property to other than agricultural before the use of eminent domain under the Tif statute
HB 1462 - Hegeman - Amends the definition of distressed communities to include cities located outside of a metropolitan area with a median
HB 1470 - Scheve - Amends the Missouri Certified Capital Company Law
HB 1483 - Merideth III - Increases the allowable population for enterprise zones not within metropolitan statistical area from twenty thousand
HB 1495 - Rizzo - Enacts the Missouri Small Business Promotion Act
HB 1566 - Bray - Revises numerous economic development programs
HB 1606 - Bray - Creates the Community Comeback Act
HB 1629 - Green - Limits the areas in which tax increment financing may be used
HB 1659 - Summers - Authorizes sales and tourism taxes for certain cities and counties
HB 1705 - Ford - Creates a St. Louis Riverfront Commission
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit
HB 1810 - Gibbons - Amends statutes authorizing tax credits for investments in small businesses
HB 1890 - Boucher - Includes religious and charitable organizations in the definition of community-based organizations for purposes of
HB 1915 - May (108) - Creates the Downtown Revitalization Act
HB 1945 - Kennedy - Expands property reuse fund to include brownfield site investigations by municipalities and counties, and urges
HB 2003 - Kennedy - Creates the "contiguous Property Redevelopment Fund"
HB 2085 - Kennedy - Allows the City of St. Louis Board of Aldermen to adopt a consolidation plan for all state-created City of St. Louis
HB 2087 - Kennedy - Enacts accountability provisions for recipients of economic incentives designed to promote public purposes

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Economic Development Dept.

SB 0536 - Banks - Modifies the licensure requirements of persons dealing with lead-bearing substances
SB 0544 - Staples - Creates a commission to study highway projects and economic development
SB 0552 - Flotron - Revises law governing Missouri Certified Capital Companies and repeals Qualified Research Tax Credits
SB 0553 - Singleton - Requires boxing promoters to file proof of health insurance of $100,000 for each boxer they promote
SB 0561 - Johnson - Creates grants for communities with economies dependent on tobacco production
SB 0588 - Childers - Requires Department of Economic Development to establish six rural housing development programs
SB 0631 - Kenney - Requires those who engage in profession of housemoving to become licensed and obtain permits for moves
SB 0637 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0656 - Ehlmann - Creates state income tax credit for donations to scholarship charitable organizations
SB 0662 - Bland - Authorizes an appropriation to the MO Housing Development Commission for grants to local housing development groups
SB 0780 - Mathewson - Clarifies law on small loans and changes bonding of mortgage brokers
SB 0801 - Mathewson - Revises several tax credit and economic development programs
SB 0802 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing
SB 0865 - Goode - Creates the "Community Comeback Act" for eradication of blight and neighborhood revitalization in St. Louis County
SB 0866 - Klarich - Provides a centralized filing system in the records of the Division of Finance
SB 0867 - Maxwell - Various changes to Certified Capital Companies/tax credit programs; landlord registration in K.C. and St. Louis
SB 0871 - Flotron - Allows taxpayers to claim a tax credit for the cost of lead abatement
SB 0879 - Bland - Modifies the licensure requirements of persons dealing with lead-bearing substances
SB 0882 - Flotron - Establishes retail electric consumer choice
SB 0903 - Flotron - Establishes the "Missouri Veterans' Business Council" within the Department of Economic Development
SB 0921 - Scott - Appointments to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts; Physicians' Health Program
SB 0936 - Childers - Significant changes to tax, economic development and community development law
SB 0937 - Staples - Changes the compensation of the advisory committee of acupuncturists
SB 0954 - Bentley - Creates a grant program for cultural tourism
SB 0958 - Sims - Authorizes a tax credit for research and development
SB 0998 - Flotron - Authorizes the establishment of Business and Industrial Development Companies
SB 1023 - Yeckel - Limits the total amount of tax credits available for qualified investments in Missouri small business
SB 1024 - Yeckel - Allows naturopathic practitioners to become certified
SB 1048 - Mathewson - Revises state economic development programs
SB 1049 - Caskey - Prohibits water companies from charging one service area for plant costs in another area
SB 1052 - Goode - Creates the "Live Near Your Work" program to facilitate neighborhood redevelopment
SB 1074 - Wiggins - Requires the Department of Economic Development to compile an annual report and analysis of all incentive programs
HB 1107 - Franklin - Appropriations for the Departments of Economic Development, Insurance and Labor and Industrial Relations
HB 1135 - Ward - Establishes a grant program for equipment and improvements for volunteer fire departments and certain other fire
HB 1287 - Reynolds - Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators
HB 1292 - Auer - Makes several changes to insurance law
HB 1424 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for fifty percent of costs of lead abatement projects by owners of certain real property
HB 1462 - Hegeman - Amends the definition of distressed communities to include cities located outside of a metropolitan area with a median
HB 1470 - Scheve - Amends the Missouri Certified Capital Company Law
HB 1495 - Rizzo - Enacts the Missouri Small Business Promotion Act
HB 1547 - Scheve - Amends the Missouri Certified Capital Company Law
HB 1566 - Bray - Revises numerous economic development programs
HB 1570 - Boucher - Amends the definition of a community-based organization
HB 1617 - Curls - Regulates check-cashing businesses
HB 1705 - Ford - Creates a St. Louis Riverfront Commission
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit
HB 1728 - Backer - Revises how Office of Administration makes purchases and requires agencies to provide services via the Internet
HB 1780 - Liese - Changes law regarding small loans
HB 1810 - Gibbons - Amends statutes authorizing tax credits for investments in small businesses
HB 1824 - Klindt - Creates an income tax credit foradvertising costs of Missouri retailers which promote value-added agricultural
HB 1848 - Treadway - Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of certain health practitioners
HB 1868 - Treadway - Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers
HB 1945 - Kennedy - Expands property reuse fund to include brownfield site investigations by municipalities and counties, and urges
HB 2051 - Kennedy - Creates a Board of Counselors and Therapists in lieu of the Committee for Professional Counselors and the State
HB 2087 - Kennedy - Enacts accountability provisions for recipients of economic incentives designed to promote public purposes

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Education, Elementary and Secondary

SB 0531 - Wiggins - Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities
SB 0539 - Russell - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide $80 per pupil for driver's education
SB 0541 - Mathewson - Allows school bus exhaust tailpipes to extend two inches beyond of the perimeter of the body or bumper
SB 0562 - Johnson - Includes charter school student performance in school district review
SB 0573 - House - Revises repayment of state school aid overpayment for certain districts
SB 0583 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools
SB 0584 - Bentley - Makes numerous changes to education law and creates several new programs.
SB 0590 - Yeckel - Creates crime of trespass of a school bus
SB 0591 - Yeckel - Establishes Year 2000 Classroom Fund with gaming proceeds
SB 0592 - Yeckel - Authorizes state income tax credit for cash contributions to school tuition organizations
SB 0599 - Schneider - Authorizes state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendance fees, supplies and transportation costs
SB 0623 - Clay - Establishes tax credit for donation of high technology equipment to schools
SB 0625 - Ehlmann - Revises Outstanding Schools Waivers
SB 0627 - Maxwell - Modifies the retirement annuity of certain Public School Retirement System members
SB 0630 - Kenney - Requires DESE to provide statewide assessment tests to districts without charge
SB 0654 - Ehlmann - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0656 - Ehlmann - Creates state income tax credit for donations to scholarship charitable organizations
SB 0659 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events to occur on scheduled days
SB 0660 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0672 - Childers - Makes West Plains Campus of Southwest MO State University an eligible school for all student aid established by state law
SB 0681 - Russell - Requires the Div. of Family Services to check the attendance records of children whose families are receiving TANF
SB 0689 - Bland - Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates
SB 0690 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0698 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0702 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0716 - Bentley - Establishes penalty for failure to report video sales tax revenue
SB 0726 - Clay - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for public school employees
SB 0729 - House - Revises laws regarding charter schools, teachers and school boards
SB 0733 - Maxwell - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0748 - Johnson - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0752 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0754 - Graves - Revises allowed uses of County School Fund revenues
SB 0766 - Sims - Revises alternative school laws
SB 0783 - Sims - Creating additional enforcement mechanisms for the Director of Revenue to quantify and collect the video rental tax
SB 0785 - Stoll - Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent and revises Line 14 categorical
SB 0816 - Stoll - Raises Maximum Benefit in Public School Retirement System
SB 0817 - Stoll - Revises Non-Teachers Retirement System
SB 0839 - Jacob - Creates commission to invest tobacco money for health and education
SB 0855 - Kinder - Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools
SB 0877 - Sims - Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
SB 0900 - Wiggins - Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official
SB 0911 - Stoll - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
SB 0918 - Ehlmann - Creates a reading assessment program
SB 0919 - House - Revises obsolete education provisions
SB 0926 - Stoll - Revises state school aid to certain districts
SB 0927 - Stoll - Establishes education program for parents of children with disabilities
SB 0931 - Kinder - Provides additional state aid to school districts educating certain disabled students
SB 0933 - Sims - Establishes State Public Charter School Board
SB 0944 - Caskey - Revises prohibitions on drugs and weapons on school premises
SB 0948 - Howard - Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program to teach military discipline
SB 0951 - Scott - Raises compulsory school attendance age to 17 years
SB 0961 - Stoll - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognition of veterans
SB 0975 - DePasco - Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System
SB 0987 - Ehlmann - Revises school operations
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 1013 - Stoll - Provides joint rule-making authority to school retirement systems
SB 1026 - Wiggins - Revises placement of Proposition C sales tax revenue from motor vehicles
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SB 1062 - Howard - Revises PSRS and NTRS disability benefits for Social Security purposes
SJR 039 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
SJR 041 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 045 - House - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority, freezes property tax for seniors
SJR 048 - Goode - Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement
SJR 049 - Jacob - Tobacco proceeds deposited into permanent trust or refunded to people
SJR 054 - Westfall - Reduces maximum amount school levy without voter approval to $1.25 per $100 assessed value
SR 1034 - Schneider - Federal funding for special education programs
SREM 03 - Ehlmann - Against the University of Missouri for failure to consider charter school applications
HB 1071 - Relford - Prohibits open containers of alcohol on school property
HB 1075 - Relford - Expands use of free textbook fund to include computers and software
HB 1076 - Relford - Raises minimum teacher salaries, creates a grant program, modifies school testing, affects school financing
HB 1089 - Scheve - Modifies organ and tissue donation law and allows for organ and tissue donation instructions in grades nine and ten
HB 1102 - Franklin - Appropriates money for the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 1134 - Relford - Allows districts serving nonresident students through alternative education to count such students as resident
HB 1154 - Boucher - Creates a special education parental training program
HB 1166 - Seigfreid - Changes when new school board takes office
HB 1183 - Days - Regulates employment of noncertificated school personnel
HB 1190 - Linton - Allows school boards to permit posting of certain historical documents in schools, regardless of religious
HB 1191 - Linton - Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students
HB 1192 - Linton - Limits access to student records
HB 1204 - Bartle - Mandates that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provide copies of academic assessments to school
HB 1205 - Bartle - Amends the manner in which assessed valuation is treated in the school foundation formula
HB 1217 - Dougherty - Creates the business dropout abatement program tax credit
HB 1220 - May (108) - Changes unlawful use of firearms law
HB 1221 - McClelland - Encourages school districts to adopt service learning programs
HB 1224 - Schilling - Increases minimum teacher salaries
HB 1255 - Troupe - Changes qualification, election and districting for St. Louis school board
HB 1257 - Bartle - Allows certain school districts to make additional transfers of operating funds for capital projects
HB 1261 - Kissell - Revises repayment of state school aid overpayment for certain districts
HB 1267 - Holand - Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income taxes for education and on retail sales
HB 1268 - Holand - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs
HB 1269 - Chrismer - Allows school districts to adopt prayer time or personal reflection time into the daily curriculum
HB 1270 - Chrismer - Allows debt repayment time extensions to financially stressed school districts
HB 1279 - Thompson - Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business premises
HB 1313 - Luetkemeyer - Establishes mandatory observance of Veterans' Day in state schools
HB 1327 - Dougherty - Requires student anger management, conflict resolution and peer mediation training for all undergraduate students in
HB 1359 - Loudon - Prohibits the overfunding of entitlements in the school foundation formula unless all categoricals are fully funded
HB 1361 - Fitzwater - Eliminates duplicative and obsolete education provisions
HB 1373 - Chrismer - Creates the pilot project challenge scholarship program
HB 1379 - Hollingsworth - Includes military-issued guardianships for purposes of student residency requirements for school districts
HB 1396 - Farnen - Revises higher education laws
HB 1405 - Scheve - Ensures timely payments of early childhood screening reimbursements to school districts
HB 1406 - Scheve - Establishes additional funding for parents as teachers programs that are not currently at the state average
HB 1407 - Scheve - Allows school boards to set their own calendars
HB 1408 - Scheve - Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers in adjacent states
HB 1409 - Scheve - Makes alternative education grants permanently renewable
HB 1410 - Scheve - Requires notification to schools when juvenile pupils are charged with a crime as an adult
HB 1412 - Graham - Designates February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
HB 1426 - Shields - Establishes the Kansas City education renewal commission
HB 1427 - Hosmer - Raises the age for compulsory school attendance to eighteen and conditions driving privileges upon school enrollment
HB 1436 - Patek - Prohibits certain funds from being paid to counselors not licensed in the state
HB 1469 - Scheve - Revises the foundation formula
HB 1474 - Kreider - Creates the "school Building Property Tax Relief Fund"
HB 1478 - Fraser - Eliminates the limit on the school year start date
HB 1489 - Kennedy - Requires children to receive additional immunizations unless appropriate objections are made
HB 1492 - Shields - Allows for "teacher shortage districts", which could employ up to twenty five percent noncertificated instructional
HB 1522 - Patek - Establishes the year 2000 classroom fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to such fund
HB 1524 - Patek - Creates an income tax credit of up to two hundred dollars per taxpayer for donations of high technology equipment to
HB 1525 - Shields - Allows accredited school districts to become waiver districts subject to charter school law as opposed to
HB 1526 - McClelland - Creates a categorical add-on for school violence prevention programs
HB 1527 - Patek - Includes non-juveniles in the disclosure to superintendents of criminal proceedings against pupils
HB 1528 - Patek - Clarifies unlawful use of weapons in schools
HB 1529 - Patek - Creates a suicide prevention grant program, to be administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary
HB 1530 - Shields - Allows additional expenditures for school safety and security equipment
HB 1531 - Patek - Includes expulsion from private school in existing law limiting the re-enrollment of previously expelled students
HB 1532 - Patek - Establishes a blue ribbon award for school safety and identifies the least safe schools for remediation
HB 1533 - Patek - Expands the causes for mandatory suspension or expulsion of students
HB 1534 - Patek - Establishes a pilot school uniform project in one school district
HB 1535 - Patek - Adds a crime reporting facet to the school facilities and safety portion of the Missouri School Improvement Program
HB 1537 - Patek - Requires the proceeds of forfeitures to be used for the creation and operation of safe schools and crime prevention
HB 1549 - Green - Makes late registration of students for school a class A misdemeanor
HB 1552 - Scheve - Increases available amount of school funding per pupil
HB 1553 - Scheve - Requires gambling boat proceeds deposited in an education fund to be distributed on a per pupil basis
HB 1563 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal inclusion in career ladder plans for teachers from other states
HB 1589 - Gross - Adds Cpi adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' state aid calculation
HB 1599 - Riley - Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act
HB 1610 - Reinhart - Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen
HB 1614 - Berkowitz - Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent, revises line 14 categorical
HB 1620 - Auer - Repeals multiyear student-teacher grade-level "looping"
HB 1621 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers from other states
HB 1644 - Hagan-Harrell - Revises Public School Retirement System and Non-Teachers Retirement System
HB 1653 - Hendrickson - Prohibits failed school bond issues from being resubmitted to the voters unless twelve months have passed since such
HB 1669 - Bennett - Prohibits state agencies from adopting rules requiring state certification from a public school program in certain
HB 1686 - Shelton (057) - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program and fund
HB 1687 - Shelton (057) - Creates an income tax credit of up to two hundred dollars for teacher's purchases of instructional materials for the
HB 1694 - Froelker - Raises minimum teacher salaries to twenty-two thousand dollars; establishes a fund to make up the difference
HB 1702 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula
HB 1709 - McClelland - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program
HB 1731 - Patek - Changes Map science test to grade 5
HB 1732 - Patek - Prohibits the scoring of assesment tests of English as a scond language students until five years of education with
HB 1752 - Ballard - Changes school financing
HB 1753 - Riley - Allows charter schools anywhere in the state and requires charter schools to meet same accreditation standards as
HB 1758 - Hegeman - Gives school districts the discretion to allow early entrance into kindergarten
HB 1761 - Summers - Changes substitute teacher certification
HB 1765 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows for optional year-round school calendars
HB 1784 - Auer - Establishes a teacher cadet program
HB 1785 - Auer - Changes the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen
HB 1786 - Auer - Creates the Missouri Incentive Award program for schools showing assesment and attendance improvement
HB 1787 - Auer - Creates an income tax credit for cash donations to school districts for high technology equipment or librarians, or
HB 1788 - Auer - Establishes the families in education incentive grant program
HB 1789 - Dougherty - Creates the office of school disciplinary hearings
HB 1792 - Davis - Allows teachers certified in certain life saving areas to obtain additional certification in certain circumstances
HB 1795 - Myers - Allows for separate school district zoning ordinances in certain counties
HB 1852 - Auer - Creates grants for public school teachers seeking to purchase homes in the districts in which they teach
HB 1853 - Auer - Encourages and assists paraprofessional teaching assistants in becoming professional teachers in certain districts
HB 1854 - Auer - Establishes a Public School Beautification Adoption Program, subject to appropriations
HB 1860 - Fitzwater - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula
HB 1867 - O'Toole - Allows City of St. Louis employees, required to live in the city, to enroll children in the St. Louis County special
HB 1873 - Scheve - Determines the method of calculating increases to available per-pupil funding based on the guaranteed tax base
HB 1876 - Campbell - Changes the manner of state aid payments to charter schools in school district buildings in desegregation districts
HB 1884 - Riley - Increases the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen
HB 1886 - Scheve - Requires one cent of the total sales tax on motor vehicles to go to the school district trust fund
HB 1888 - Wilson - Creates a student loan repayment assistance program for teachers
HB 1896 - Campbell - Makes various changes to charter school law
HB 1902 - Hollingsworth - Regulates manufactured housing used for educational purposes
HB 1923 - Ransdall - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, creates tax holiday
HB 1957 - Fraser - Creates an income tax credit for employers who grant employees paid leave to volunteer at public schools or to
HB 1958 - Hampton - Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements
HB 1993 - Bennett - Allows recall elections for all school board members
HB 1997 - Smith (011) - Amends various school safety provisions
HB 1999 - Gambaro - Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the department of elementary and secondary education
HB 2002 - Klindt - Allows a certain school district to perform an additional fund transfer
HB 2007 - Holand - Allows charter schools in the city of Springfield
HB 2022 - Davis - Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed orientation and training
HB 2023 - Gibbons - Creates crime of trespass on a school bus and requires phone in bumper stickers for school buses
HB 2038 - Bartle - Changes the school building revolving fund
HB 2058 - Reid - Enacts the Reading Instruction Act
HB 2081 - Hohulin - Permits termination of teacher or school employee contracts if the teacher or employee admits to illegal possession or
HB 2082 - Fraser - Creates a new teacher recruitment and mentoring grant program in the department of elementary and secondary
HB 2109 - Kennedy - Expands the application of the tax credit available for net expenditures made for the participation of students in a
HB 2118 - Britt - Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district
HB 2121 - Boucher - Requires programs receiving certain Gaming Commission Fund grants through Dese or Dss to be licensed pursuant to
HB 2145 - Barry - Adopts mandatory health assessments for public school students
HB 2146 - Linton - Creates an income tax credit for parents of children determined by an institution of higher learning to be
HB 2147 - Shields - Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools
HB 2148 - Merideth III - Establishes an office of deaf education
HB 2151 - Griesheimer - Increases the state sales tax by one cent to be used for school purposes and requires a roll-back of property taxes
HB 2155 - Fraser - Increases the number of days that retired teachers may substitute in a school year from sixty to seventy-five days
HB 2163 - Levin - Enacts the outstanding public schools accountability act
HB 2170 - Gaskill - Moves mandatory age for starting school down to age five
HCR 003 - Gross - Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to incorporate the Lewis and Clark expedition
HCR 006 - Abel - Establishes a committee to study the phenomenon of school-age children who are prescribed behavior control
HCR 008 - Patek - Urges the U.s. Congress to enact legislation regarding the disciplinary provisions of Idea
HCR 011 - Bennett - Requests the state treasurer and the department of revenue to deposit sales tax revenue derived from the rate of one
HJR 043 - Barry - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority in most elections
HJR 044 - Hosmer - Proposes constitutional amendment to change distribution of forfeiture proceeds
HJR 047 - Linton - Proposes constitutional amendment requiring that State Board of Education be elected

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Education, Higher

SB 0562 - Johnson - Includes charter school student performance in school district review
SB 0584 - Bentley - Makes numerous changes to education law and creates several new programs.
SB 0626 - Ehlmann - Revises funding to public community colleges
SB 0672 - Childers - Makes West Plains Campus of Southwest MO State University an eligible school for all student aid established by state law
SB 0687 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0689 - Bland - Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates
SB 0698 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0700 - Caskey - Renames certain facilities of Central Missouri State University
SB 0729 - House - Revises laws regarding charter schools, teachers and school boards
SB 0739 - Maxwell - Revises premium tax for Fire Education Fund
SB 0777 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
SB 0790 - Caskey - Transfers State Library and Wolfner Library to Coordinating Board for Higher Education
SB 0796 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0825 - Jacob - Governing boards of state colleges and universities: Revises non-voting representative and confidentiality provisions
SB 0839 - Jacob - Creates commission to invest tobacco money for health and education
SB 0855 - Kinder - Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools
SB 0875 - Kinder - State Supported colleges and universities shall ensure that instructors are fluent in English
SB 0877 - Sims - Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
SB 0897 - Jacob - Increases "Bright Flight" scholarship amount
SB 0900 - Wiggins - Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official
SB 0910 - Stoll - Revises local match funding provisions for public community colleges
SB 0911 - Stoll - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
SB 0933 - Sims - Establishes State Public Charter School Board
SB 0953 - Johnson - Removes prohibition on collection of "tuition" by the University of Missouri
SB 0981 - Jacob - Creates the "Video Gaming Machine Network" to generate Revenue for higher education
SB 0986 - Kenney - Creates spinal cord injury research grants, administered by a new advisory board created for that purpose
SB 1018 - Bentley - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey certain property
SB 1033 - Steelman - Grants and scholarships shall contain a notice that they are provided by the taxpayers of Missouri
SB 1036 - Johnson - Authorizes governor and MO Western State College to transfer land to St. Joseph and the Department of Transportation
SB 1066 - Bland - State colleges and universities to establish telecommunity centers
SB 1077 - Clay - Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents
SJR 049 - Jacob - Tobacco proceeds deposited into permanent trust or refunded to people
SREM 03 - Ehlmann - Against the University of Missouri for failure to consider charter school applications
HB 1094 - Gross - Changes manner of distribution of state aid to junior colleges
HB 1161 - Hosmer - Penalizes certain licensed professionals who default on student loans
HB 1179 - Hosmer - Establishes the promotion and cataloging of community service learning opportunities through the Coordinating
HB 1365 - Hosmer - Expands National Guard scholarship program to include all branches of military reserves
HB 1396 - Farnen - Revises higher education laws
HB 1412 - Graham - Designates February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
HB 1475 - Hosmer - Establishes a nonvoting faculty member representative for various boards of state colleges and universities
HB 1482 - Phillips - Prohibits college or university employee use of public facilities for election purposes
HB 1486 - Abel - Allows community colleges to share cost of certain expenses which currently the state must pay
HB 1578 - Shelton (057) - Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred per year
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1609 - Reinhart - Requires the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research
HB 1660 - Summers - Authorizes optional retirement program for employees of regional colleges and universities
HB 1820 - Scott - Allows theology and divinity students to be eligible for bright flight scholarships
HB 1893 - Barry - Establishes procedures encouraging English proficiency in college professors
HB 1916 - Farnen - Amends the language authorizing tuition and fees at the University of Missouri
HB 1923 - Ransdall - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, creates tax holiday
HB 2044 - Gaw - Establishes the Spinal Cord Injury Fund and creates a grant program through the University of Missouri for spinal cord
HB 2048 - Patek - Doubles the allowable number of Missouri resident students at the Umkc school of dentistry
HB 2116 - Wilson - Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents, except with student
HB 2119 - Howerton - Gives the various governing boards of colleges and universities the sole authority to name all campus
HB 2135 - McLuckie - Makes the state and all public colleges and universities establish codes of conduct with their manufacturers and

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Education, Proprietary

HB 1531 - Patek - Includes expulsion from private school in existing law limiting the re-enrollment of previously expelled students
HB 1845 - Campbell - Allows college, university or community college charter school sponsors to receive support funds, provided the
HB 1876 - Campbell - Changes the manner of state aid payments to charter schools in school district buildings in desegregation districts
HB 1896 - Campbell - Makes various changes to charter school law
HB 2007 - Holand - Allows charter schools in the city of Springfield
HB 2014 - Skaggs - Modifies the Kansas City public school retirement system

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Elderly

SB 0576 - Maxwell - Prohibits financial exploitation of the elderly and the disabled
SB 0585 - Sims - Exempts social security income from taxation
SB 0598 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting and investigation of abuse and neglect of in-home services clients
SB 0608 - Russell - Exempts from state income tax social security benefits included in federal gross income
SB 0635 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0639 - Steelman - Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens
SB 0644 - Wiggins - Exempts from sales/use tax sales of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults
SB 0649 - Russell - Exempts all pension income from taxation
SB 0710 - DePasco - Exempts from sales and use tax sales of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults
SB 0743 - Klarich - The Dept. of Revenue shall advise taxpayers that they are eligible for the pharmacy tax credit
SB 0764 - Kenney - Limits or freezes assessed valuation of residential property for certain senior citizens
SB 0854 - Sims - Terminates the Certificate of Need process for long-term care facilities
SB 0856 - Maxwell - Makes various changes to the managed care statutes
SB 0884 - Mathewson - The Revenue Department shall notify senior citizens of their eligibility for the pharmaceutical tax credit
SB 0890 - Howard - Provides a one-time tax credit to eligible veterans of World War II
SB 0898 - Bland - Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0908 - Kenney - Individuals sixty-five or older eligible for a tax credit up to $1000 for offsetting costs of medication
SB 0947 - Sims - Revises the licensure of home health care agencies under the Department of Health
SB 0952 - Stoll - The Attorney General may investigate the abuse and neglect of residents of long term care facilities
SB 0955 - Mathewson - Creates the Department of Health and Aging and transfers the duties of the Division of Aging to the new department
SB 0959 - Howard - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly
SB 0972 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 0974 - Bentley - Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons
SB 0992 - Sims - Pension exemption applies only when included in federal adjusted gross income
SB 1030 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 1071 - Sims - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and payment of penalties related to nursing home violations
SB 1081 - Howard - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and various nursing home violations
SCR 036 - Sims - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on the Transfer of the Division of Aging"
SCR 043 - Maxwell - Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on Care Options for the Disabled
SJR 033 - Banks - Exempts property owned by senior citizens from property tax
HB 1083 - Fraser - Allows for premium reductions, in certain cases, when senior citizens take an auto safety course
HB 1086 - Scheve - Creates the crime of financial exploitation of the elderly
HB 1087 - Scheve - Exempts Social Security benefits from state income tax
HB 1127 - Bonner - Allows persons 65 and older to obtain a free nondriver's license with or without a photo
HB 1143 - Scheve - Establishes the senior environmental corps
HB 1156 - Boucher - Freezes assessed value of real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older and used as a principal residence
HB 1174 - Gross - Creates a $150 state income tax credit for property taxes
HB 1176 - Gross - Freezes assessed value of real property used as a residence by person 65 years of age and older
HB 1231 - Long - Freezes the assessed value of real property used as a primary residence by persons 65 years of age and older
HB 1298 - Hanaway - Freezes, for property tax purposes, assessed valuations of homesteads owned by persons eighty years of age and older
HB 1386 - Britt - Prohibits financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person
HB 1401 - Stokan - Makes the shared care tax credit refundable
HB 1449 - Froelker - Exempts social security benefits and military retirement benefits from state income tax
HB 1450 - Froelker - Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Divsion of Aging
HB 1591 - Backer - Allows a nursing home administrator to retire his or her license
HB 1599 - Riley - Establishes the Seniors Teaching Students Program Act
HB 1615 - Hosmer - Modifies various provisions relating to protection of the elderly
HB 1618 - Lakin - Increases the maximum amount of the pharmaceutical income tax credit from two hundred to seven hundred fifty dollars
HB 1622 - Froelker - Increases the household income level for the pharmaceutical tax credit from fifteen to thirty-six thousand dollars
HB 1711 - Abel - Requires participating pharmacies in the Medicaid program to provide Medicare prescriptions at the Medicaid rate
HB 1832 - Levin - Eliminates the existing means test and creates new income caps for the circuit breaker
HB 1833 - Levin - Increases the dependency deduction to two thousand four hundred dollars
HB 1870 - Hendrickson - Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act
HB 1871 - Hendrickson - Reduces by 50% any fee imposed on a long-term care facility by the Division of Aging if such facility maintains
HB 1874 - Kissell - Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for hearing aids
HB 1938 - Gaw - Excludes, for purposes of the circuit breaker, social security and railroad retirement benefits from the
HB 1976 - Selby - Modifies the statutes relating to the qualification and disqualification of employees of the department of mental
HB 2006 - Reid - Expands the number of persons eligible for the pharmaceutical income tax credit
HB 2021 - McClelland - Increases the resource public assistance eligibility limits for single and married persons
HB 2063 - Levin - Creates an income tax deduction for amounts paid for custodial care and durable medical equipment to the extent
HB 2074 - Champion - Prohibits taxpayers from double-dipping under the pension exemption in section 143.124
HB 2141 - Gaskill - Exempts the first six thousand dollars of all public annuities, pensions and retirement income from state income
HJR 061 - Van Zandt - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses

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Elections

SB 0537 - Russell - Authorizes the creation of law enforcement districts
SB 0653 - Clay - Transfers control over St. Louis City's police board and election board from the governor to the mayor
SB 0702 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0717 - Schneider - The electronic campaign finance reporting system shall be maintained by the Office of Administration
SB 0718 - Schneider - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Ethics Commission
SB 0749 - Rohrbach - Any proposed county building code shall be submitted only to voters in the area governed by the code
SB 0752 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0760 - Klarich - Makes the St. Louis County auditor an elected official
SB 0768 - Stoll - Clarifies restriction on financial contributions to bond elections by interested parties
SB 0797 - Ehlmann - Prohibits political subdivisions from submitting the same question to the voters more than one time per year
SB 0800 - Ehlmann - Authorizes penalties for filing an incorrect campaign finance disclosure report with gross negligence
SB 0806 - Jacob - Requires elected sheriffs to become certified peace officers
SB 0904 - Johnson - Creates the separate office of Recorder of Deeds in third class counties
SB 0971 - Jacob - Establishes public campaign financing for legislative and statewide elected officials
SB 1056 - Howard - Members of political party committees may be replaced for non-attendance
SB 1057 - Rohrbach - Expands the number of counties that may dissolve a road district by popular vote
SJR 031 - Schneider - Revises term limits for members of the General Assembly
SJR 034 - Staples - Allows voters by petition to enable an officeholder, otherwise subject to term limits, to become a candidate
SJR 035 - Goode - Revises the authority of the Salary Commission
SJR 040 - Childers - Establishes an election process for selecting Public Servic Commissioners
SJR 041 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 045 - House - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority, freezes property tax for seniors
SJR 047 - Quick - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses
SJR 050 - Stoll - Revises requirements to be met by those involved in the management of bingo
SJR 052 - Johnson - Revises term limits to exclude certain partial terms of service in the General Assembly
SJR 054 - Westfall - Reduces maximum amount school levy without voter approval to $1.25 per $100 assessed value
HB 1263 - Hanaway - Requires Governor to call special election within thirty days of legislator resignation, vacancy or death
HB 1348 - Blunt - Reverts certain campaign contributions back to a twenty-five dollar limit
HB 1350 - Blunt - Adds caring for an incapacitated or disabled person to the list of reasons allowed for absentee voting
HB 1482 - Phillips - Prohibits college or university employee use of public facilities for election purposes
HB 1636 - Abel - Allows anyone to vote absentee; establishes an alternative single-ballot primary pilot project
HB 1637 - Abel - Requires the filing of additional campaign information disclosures with the Ethics Commission
HB 1717 - Akin - Prohibits gaming interest from making political contributions
HB 1934 - Bray - Establishes a public campaign financing system, with voluntary participation
HB 1936 - Monaco - Changes county committee district structure in Jackson County
HB 1986 - Blunt - Requires a tax effect statement for ballot questions
HB 1993 - Bennett - Allows recall elections for all school board members
HB 2028 - Reinhart - Requires family court judges and commissioners to be subject to a vote every four year to be retained in the
HB 2031 - Long - Includes state employees in the prohibition against expenditure of public funds on candidates or ballot
HB 2068 - Graham - Establishes procedures for fourth class cities to adopt ordinances by petition
HB 2164 - Blunt - Makes the attorney general responsible for the prosecution of all election offenses
HJR 043 - Barry - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority in most elections
HJR 061 - Van Zandt - Tobacco settlement funds are not total state revenues; designates uses

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Elementary and Secondary Education Dept.

SB 0562 - Johnson - Includes charter school student performance in school district review
SB 0573 - House - Revises repayment of state school aid overpayment for certain districts
SB 0584 - Bentley - Makes numerous changes to education law and creates several new programs.
SB 0590 - Yeckel - Creates crime of trespass of a school bus
SB 0591 - Yeckel - Establishes Year 2000 Classroom Fund with gaming proceeds
SB 0594 - Bland - Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission
SB 0623 - Clay - Establishes tax credit for donation of high technology equipment to schools
SB 0625 - Ehlmann - Revises Outstanding Schools Waivers
SB 0630 - Kenney - Requires DESE to provide statewide assessment tests to districts without charge
SB 0654 - Ehlmann - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0659 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events to occur on scheduled days
SB 0660 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0672 - Childers - Makes West Plains Campus of Southwest MO State University an eligible school for all student aid established by state law
SB 0690 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0698 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0702 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0716 - Bentley - Establishes penalty for failure to report video sales tax revenue
SB 0729 - House - Revises laws regarding charter schools, teachers and school boards
SB 0733 - Maxwell - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0748 - Johnson - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0752 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0754 - Graves - Revises allowed uses of County School Fund revenues
SB 0766 - Sims - Revises alternative school laws
SB 0785 - Stoll - Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent and revises Line 14 categorical
SB 0855 - Kinder - Adds additional eligible sponsors for charter schools
SB 0911 - Stoll - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
SB 0918 - Ehlmann - Creates a reading assessment program
SB 0919 - House - Revises obsolete education provisions
SB 0926 - Stoll - Revises state school aid to certain districts
SB 0927 - Stoll - Establishes education program for parents of children with disabilities
SB 0931 - Kinder - Provides additional state aid to school districts educating certain disabled students
SB 0933 - Sims - Establishes State Public Charter School Board
SB 0944 - Caskey - Revises prohibitions on drugs and weapons on school premises
SB 0948 - Howard - Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program to teach military discipline
SB 0951 - Scott - Raises compulsory school attendance age to 17 years
SB 0957 - Johnson - Expands ability of Boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0961 - Stoll - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognition of veterans
SB 0987 - Ehlmann - Revises school operations
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SJR 039 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
HB 1075 - Relford - Expands use of free textbook fund to include computers and software
HB 1076 - Relford - Raises minimum teacher salaries, creates a grant program, modifies school testing, affects school financing
HB 1089 - Scheve - Modifies organ and tissue donation law and allows for organ and tissue donation instructions in grades nine and ten
HB 1134 - Relford - Allows districts serving nonresident students through alternative education to count such students as resident
HB 1154 - Boucher - Creates a special education parental training program
HB 1204 - Bartle - Mandates that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provide copies of academic assessments to school
HB 1205 - Bartle - Amends the manner in which assessed valuation is treated in the school foundation formula
HB 1221 - McClelland - Encourages school districts to adopt service learning programs
HB 1257 - Bartle - Allows certain school districts to make additional transfers of operating funds for capital projects
HB 1261 - Kissell - Revises repayment of state school aid overpayment for certain districts
HB 1268 - Holand - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs
HB 1270 - Chrismer - Allows debt repayment time extensions to financially stressed school districts
HB 1299 - Hanaway - Creates a state income tax credit for contributions to qualified scholarship charities beginning in tax year 2001
HB 1318 - Patek - Allows local sheltered workshops to provide related services to handicapped individuals
HB 1327 - Dougherty - Requires student anger management, conflict resolution and peer mediation training for all undergraduate students in
HB 1361 - Fitzwater - Eliminates duplicative and obsolete education provisions
HB 1373 - Chrismer - Creates the pilot project challenge scholarship program
HB 1379 - Hollingsworth - Includes military-issued guardianships for purposes of student residency requirements for school districts
HB 1406 - Scheve - Establishes additional funding for parents as teachers programs that are not currently at the state average
HB 1407 - Scheve - Allows school boards to set their own calendars
HB 1409 - Scheve - Makes alternative education grants permanently renewable
HB 1410 - Scheve - Requires notification to schools when juvenile pupils are charged with a crime as an adult
HB 1436 - Patek - Prohibits certain funds from being paid to counselors not licensed in the state
HB 1469 - Scheve - Revises the foundation formula
HB 1472 - Smith (011) - Creates Juvenile Information Governance Commission; authorizes sharing of information
HB 1478 - Fraser - Eliminates the limit on the school year start date
HB 1492 - Shields - Allows for "teacher shortage districts", which could employ up to twenty five percent noncertificated instructional
HB 1522 - Patek - Establishes the year 2000 classroom fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to such fund
HB 1525 - Shields - Allows accredited school districts to become waiver districts subject to charter school law as opposed to
HB 1526 - McClelland - Creates a categorical add-on for school violence prevention programs
HB 1530 - Shields - Allows additional expenditures for school safety and security equipment
HB 1532 - Patek - Establishes a blue ribbon award for school safety and identifies the least safe schools for remediation
HB 1533 - Patek - Expands the causes for mandatory suspension or expulsion of students
HB 1534 - Patek - Establishes a pilot school uniform project in one school district
HB 1535 - Patek - Adds a crime reporting facet to the school facilities and safety portion of the Missouri School Improvement Program
HB 1536 - Patek - Clarifies that teachers are immune from civil liability when reporting violent acts at school
HB 1549 - Green - Makes late registration of students for school a class A misdemeanor
HB 1552 - Scheve - Increases available amount of school funding per pupil
HB 1553 - Scheve - Requires gambling boat proceeds deposited in an education fund to be distributed on a per pupil basis
HB 1563 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal inclusion in career ladder plans for teachers from other states
HB 1571 - Schilling - Requires persons under 18 to complete a driver's education course before receiving a driver's license
HB 1589 - Gross - Adds Cpi adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' state aid calculation
HB 1608 - Kreider - Revises the Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act
HB 1610 - Reinhart - Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen
HB 1614 - Berkowitz - Makes "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent, revises line 14 categorical
HB 1620 - Auer - Repeals multiyear student-teacher grade-level "looping"
HB 1621 - Patek - Establishes reciprocal certification for teachers from other states
HB 1669 - Bennett - Prohibits state agencies from adopting rules requiring state certification from a public school program in certain
HB 1686 - Shelton (057) - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program and fund
HB 1694 - Froelker - Raises minimum teacher salaries to twenty-two thousand dollars; establishes a fund to make up the difference
HB 1702 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula
HB 1709 - McClelland - Establishes a national teacher certification bonus program
HB 1713 - Lakin - Requires a minimum annual transfer of certain state sales tax revenues in an amount equal to three million dollars or
HB 1728 - Backer - Revises how Office of Administration makes purchases and requires agencies to provide services via the Internet
HB 1731 - Patek - Changes Map science test to grade 5
HB 1732 - Patek - Prohibits the scoring of assesment tests of English as a scond language students until five years of education with
HB 1753 - Riley - Allows charter schools anywhere in the state and requires charter schools to meet same accreditation standards as
HB 1758 - Hegeman - Gives school districts the discretion to allow early entrance into kindergarten
HB 1761 - Summers - Changes substitute teacher certification
HB 1765 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows for optional year-round school calendars
HB 1784 - Auer - Establishes a teacher cadet program
HB 1785 - Auer - Changes the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen
HB 1786 - Auer - Creates the Missouri Incentive Award program for schools showing assesment and attendance improvement
HB 1788 - Auer - Establishes the families in education incentive grant program
HB 1789 - Dougherty - Creates the office of school disciplinary hearings
HB 1845 - Campbell - Allows college, university or community college charter school sponsors to receive support funds, provided the
HB 1852 - Auer - Creates grants for public school teachers seeking to purchase homes in the districts in which they teach
HB 1853 - Auer - Encourages and assists paraprofessional teaching assistants in becoming professional teachers in certain districts
HB 1854 - Auer - Establishes a Public School Beautification Adoption Program, subject to appropriations
HB 1860 - Fitzwater - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the foundation formula
HB 1867 - O'Toole - Allows City of St. Louis employees, required to live in the city, to enroll children in the St. Louis County special
HB 1873 - Scheve - Determines the method of calculating increases to available per-pupil funding based on the guaranteed tax base
HB 1884 - Riley - Increases the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen
HB 1896 - Campbell - Makes various changes to charter school law
HB 1923 - Ransdall - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, creates tax holiday
HB 1958 - Hampton - Enacts optional minimum teacher salary requirements
HB 1997 - Smith (011) - Amends various school safety provisions
HB 1999 - Gambaro - Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the department of elementary and secondary education
HB 2002 - Klindt - Allows a certain school district to perform an additional fund transfer
HB 2007 - Holand - Allows charter schools in the city of Springfield
HB 2022 - Davis - Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed orientation and training
HB 2024 - Kreider - Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state
HB 2038 - Bartle - Changes the school building revolving fund
HB 2058 - Reid - Enacts the Reading Instruction Act
HB 2082 - Fraser - Creates a new teacher recruitment and mentoring grant program in the department of elementary and secondary
HB 2109 - Kennedy - Expands the application of the tax credit available for net expenditures made for the participation of students in a
HB 2118 - Britt - Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district
HB 2121 - Boucher - Requires programs receiving certain Gaming Commission Fund grants through Dese or Dss to be licensed pursuant to
HB 2145 - Barry - Adopts mandatory health assessments for public school students
HB 2147 - Shields - Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools
HB 2148 - Merideth III - Establishes an office of deaf education
HB 2155 - Fraser - Increases the number of days that retired teachers may substitute in a school year from sixty to seventy-five days
HB 2163 - Levin - Enacts the outstanding public schools accountability act
HB 2170 - Gaskill - Moves mandatory age for starting school down to age five
HCR 003 - Gross - Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to incorporate the Lewis and Clark expedition

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Emergencies

SJR 036 - Flotron - Voters to decide to include tobacco payments in total state revenue or to create trust fund

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Eminent Domain and Condemnation

SB 0529 - Schneider - Requires condemnors who abandon proceedings to pay the land owner's costs and expenses
SB 0634 - Childers - Requires approval by General Assembly of certain federal land acquisitions
SB 0990 - Howard - Allows a private property owner to seek compensation from the government for "regulatory taking"
SB 1035 - Westfall - Authorizes a municipality to use condemnation to acquire natural gas service
HB 1798 - Williams (159) - Enacts the Private Property Protection Act, which requires compensation from government entities when government
HB 2040 - Berkstresser - Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation proceedings

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Emblems

HB 1213 - Chrismer - Permits the public display of the Ten Commandments in certain public buildings
HB 1275 - Chrismer - Extends the requirement to display the United States and Pow/mia flags to all state buildings
HB 1775 - Sallee - Names the Missouri Foxtrotter as the state horse
HB 1825 - Klindt - Names Menfro soil as the official state soil

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Employees-Employers

SB 0533 - Wiggins - Modifies procedures for initiating a civil action on certain discriminatory practices
SB 0547 - Goode - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for employees of state and local governments
SB 0569 - Clay - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry
SB 0570 - Ehlmann - Allows excursion gambling boats to offer licensed child care services to employees only
SB 0571 - Ehlmann - Positive drug test constitutes misconduct connected with work for unemployment compensation benefit eligibility
SB 0589 - Childers - Allows certain political subdivisions to become exempt from the state prevailing wage
SB 0600 - Schneider - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for employees of state and local governments
SB 0621 - Clay - Modifies procedures for initiating a civil action on certain discriminatory practices
SB 0622 - Clay - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0709 - DePasco - Establishes a memorial for workers killed or injured on the job
SB 0714 - Schneider - Changes interest calculations for workers' compensation payments
SB 0726 - Clay - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for public school employees
SB 0748 - Johnson - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0798 - Ehlmann - Requires the State to award additional vacation time to state employees who mentor children
SB 0813 - House - Modifies public safety, peace officer, and peace officer employee rights
SB 0820 - Maxwell - Makes several changes to individual and small employer health insurance laws
SB 0821 - Caskey - Prohibits certain retirement benefits from certain claims
SB 0878 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund and interest payments in workers' claims
SB 0973 - Schneider - Creates a civil cause of action when there is a claim of malpractice for treatment of work-related injuries
SB 0978 - House - Allows political subdivisions to pay for health insurance for the dependents of retired or deceased employees
SB 1022 - Scott - Abolishes the state public employees deferred compensation commission
SB 1025 - Clay - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry
SB 1028 - Ehlmann - Establishes standard for vicarious liability of employer for harassment of employee by supervisor
SB 1039 - Westfall - Modifies health insurance provisions for small employers with respect to rates/renewability/preexisting conditions
SB 1044 - Goode - Limits the use of genetic information by insurance companies, employers and genetic testing laboratories
SB 1071 - Sims - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and payment of penalties related to nursing home violations
SB 1075 - Jacob - Denies benefits to anyone unemployed due to a listing on a state disqualification registry
SB 1081 - Howard - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and various nursing home violations
SCR 024 - Bentley - Encourages flexible working hours for employees
HB 1067 - Reynolds - Changes mandatory time-and-a-half compensation for amusement and entertainment workers from fifty-two hours to
HB 1183 - Days - Regulates employment of noncertificated school personnel
HB 1198 - Scheve - Prohibits noncompetition clauses in contracts with broadcast industry employees
HB 1232 - Ostmann - Changes penalty for criminal invasion of privacy
HB 1259 - Ridgeway - Redefines "owner" in workers' compensation statutes
HB 1316 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for employers who offer paid maternity leave
HB 1323 - Pryor - Allows supervisors of sheltered workshops to perform production work
HB 1369 - Bray - Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge
HB 1383 - Bray - Allows employees to inspect their personnel files, if any are maintained
HB 1392 - Kreider - Reduces the cost of premiums and restrictions on insurance through the health insurance pool and creates a tax credit
HB 1428 - Hickey - Establishes a memorial on the Capitol grounds for workers killed or injured on the job in the state
HB 1438 - McLuckie - Includes sexual orientation in the list of prohibited discriminatory characteristics
HB 1455 - Bray - Prohibits discrimination based on household status
HB 1485 - Abel - Makes various changes to the health insurance pool and small employer health insurance
HB 1488 - Kennedy - Requires certain food service establishments to pay the costs associated with employee or patron exposure to
HB 1569 - Bray - Enacts the "missouri Equal Pay Act"
HB 1650 - Akin - Makes food establishments liable up to $20,000 for the cost of treatment for hepatitis A exposure
HB 1669 - Bennett - Prohibits state agencies from adopting rules requiring state certification from a public school program in certain
HB 1707 - George - Grants employees rights to access their personnel files
HB 1835 - Levin - Prohibits the requirement of certain personal information
HB 1879 - Patek - Makes various changes in health insurance laws to comply with changes in the federal law
HB 1957 - Fraser - Creates an income tax credit for employers who grant employees paid leave to volunteer at public schools or to
HB 2020 - Gunn - Creates the Missouri Works Program in the Department of Social Services for welfare recipients
HB 2041 - Loudon - Changes construction of employment sercurity law to "impartial" from "liberal"; adds drug abuse to definition
HB 2045 - Kennedy - Prohibits licensed game retailers from selling or allowing their employees to sell lottery tickets to employees and
HB 2094 - Lakin - Creates income tax credits for day care
HB 2123 - Thompson - Requires peace officers' employment records to be available to hiring law enforcement agencies
HB 2140 - Secrest - Decreases eligibility for employment security benefits for certain employees who test positive for drugs
HCR 005 - Dougherty - Urges the United States Congress to amend certain Erisa provisions relating to insurance

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Employment Security

SB 0571 - Ehlmann - Positive drug test constitutes misconduct connected with work for unemployment compensation benefit eligibility
SB 0622 - Clay - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0864 - Caskey - Exempts township governments from certain penalties under the employment security law
HB 1461 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment
HB 2041 - Loudon - Changes construction of employment sercurity law to "impartial" from "liberal"; adds drug abuse to definition
HB 2139 - Secrest - Revises certain employment laws
HB 2140 - Secrest - Decreases eligibility for employment security benefits for certain employees who test positive for drugs

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Energy

SB 0727 - Goode - Revises sunset on closure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0781 - Goode - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0803 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes and authorizes replacement taxes
SB 0819 - Maxwell - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0848 - Stoll - Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
SB 0936 - Childers - Significant changes to tax, economic development and community development law
SJR 046 - Goode - Authorizes replacement taxes for various utility taxes
HB 1415 - Mays (050) - Replaces existing taxes on electricity and natural gas with a tax based on consumption
HB 2129 - McLuckie - Creates income tax credits designed to promote the use of renewable energy and the conservation of energy
HB 2157 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for the purchase of and conversion to a qualifying alternative motor fuel vehicle,
HCR 020 - Wright - Urging Opec to increase crude oil production
HCR 024 - Foster - Urges the President of the United States to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Energy to release crude oil
HCR 029 - Graham - Denounces the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to route nuclear waste through Missouri on I-70
HCR 036 - Gaw - Urges the U.s. Congress to address the issue of increased fuel prices by developing domestic sources to reduce our

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Engineers

SB 0776 - Mueller - Requires affidavits in civil suits against certain professionals
SB 0777 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
HB 1487 - Kreider - Allows counties of the third classification to adopt building codes in certain areas, subject to voter approval
HB 1573 - Hanaway - Requires affidavit from licensed professional in certain tort actions

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Environmental Protection

SB 0577 - Maxwell - Revises hazardous waste laws
SB 0723 - Goode - Creates Invasive Species Council
SB 0750 - Rohrbach - Certain DNR rules may be no stricter than federal regulations with exceptions
SB 0753 - DePasco - Kansas City may enact ordinances against dumping and littering
SB 0791 - Goode - Revises motor vehicle emissions inspections for certain areas
SB 0894 - Quick - Numerous provisions relating to economic development, taxation and land use law
SB 0966 - Kinder - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in programs
SB 0983 - Goode - Establishes a fee structure for fees collected for waste water treatment
SB 0995 - Goode - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions inspection program
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles
SCR 023 - Klarich - Directs Natural Resources Department to assess MBTE contamination of ground & surface water in St. Louis
SCR 042 - Rohrbach - EPA - proposed rules regarding the Clean Water Act
HB 1143 - Scheve - Establishes the senior environmental corps
HB 1307 - Rizzo - Allows Kansas City to enact ordinances and penalties for dumping and littering
HB 1414 - O'Toole - Establishes a mandatory one-call notification system for excavations
HB 1423 - Dougherty - Allows municipalities and counties to enact ordinances to allow for abatement of real property taxes on certain
HB 1424 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for fifty percent of costs of lead abatement projects by owners of certain real property
HB 1439 - Rizzo - Allows yard waste to be disposed in solid waste area if such disposal is part of municipally approved clean up
HB 1550 - Richardson - Prohibits Dnr rules from being stricter than federal regulations
HB 1619 - Smith (011) - Enacts additional notice and hearing requirements for surface mining permits
HB 1661 - Gambaro - Allows certain political subdivisions to have a mechanic's lien when they pay mechanics to perform abatement work on
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit
HB 1716 - Howerton - Creates an environmental audit privilege
HB 1734 - Riley - Adds criminal disposition of waste to Cafa activities
HB 1774 - Auer - Creates an income tax credit for certain lead abatement projects
HB 1801 - Myers - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas, allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in if they so
HB 1913 - Luetkenhaus - Extends clean water permit fee sunset until the end of 2003
HB 1927 - Wiggins - Revises water pollution permit requirements and permit fees
HB 1979 - Wiggins - Allows weed or trash control ordinances
HB 2025 - Kreider - Requires landfills to be open for at least four hours during the weekend
HB 2042 - Gaskill - Enacts a beverage container control law
HB 2067 - Selby - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions program
HB 2136 - Naeger - Amends various portions of on-site sewage system law
HCR 012 - Griesheimer - Urges the Sierra Club and the Missouri Coalition for the Environment to drop their lawsuit against the Epa
HCR 014 - Griesheimer - Urges the Governor to opt out of the Epa's reformulated gasoline program until a safer substitute for Mtbe is found
HCR 029 - Graham - Denounces the U.S. Department of Energy's decision to route nuclear waste through Missouri on I-70

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Entertainment, Sports and Amusements

SB 0913 - Ehlmann - Regulates resale of tickets to certain sporting events and concerts
HB 1067 - Reynolds - Changes mandatory time-and-a-half compensation for amusement and entertainment workers from fifty-two hours to
HB 1357 - Bonner - Allows for appropriation of Truman Sports Complex sales tax revenue to renovation and refurbishment of the Complex
HB 1434 - Skaggs - Regulation of amusement ride providers
HB 1435 - Skaggs - Amends regulations regarding boxing and wrestling and excludes "sparring" from such regulation
HB 1562 - Treadway - Creates a licensing and regulatory scheme for amusement machine operators
HB 1663 - Gambaro - Permits the sale of alcohol when Valentine's day is on Sunday
HB 1715 - Campbell - Creates special license plates for the St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield Zoos
HB 1725 - Dolan - Repeals section prohibiting ticket scalping
HB 1822 - Scott - Prohibits registered offenders from serving as sports coaches and referees
HB 1850 - Graham - Prohibts the supervisor of liquor control from barring certain persons from drinking at establishments
HB 1922 - Koller - Designates the portion of interstate highway 64 which is located in St. Louis as the "kurt Warner Rams Road"
HB 2005 - McKenna - Funds higher education with video gaming revenues and creates a licensing and regulatory scheme for
HB 2133 - Dougherty - Allows the City of St. Louis to establish a band fund
HCR 028 - Van Zandt - Declares June 3, 2000, as "KC 150 Day" to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Kansas City

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Estates, Wills and Trusts

SB 0542 - Mathewson - Changes the compensation of public administrators
SB 0859 - Jacob - Beneficiary designations made on or after August 28, 1989 shall be presumed revoked upon divorce
SB 0896 - Klarich - Modifies law regarding LLC's, LLP's, corporations, financial institutions and other financial arrangements
SB 0920 - Flotron - Repeals estate tax and creates income tax credit for federal estate taxes paid
SB 0997 - Caskey - Allows exemplary damages in probate cases where property has been improperly transferred from estate
HB 1386 - Britt - Prohibits financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person
HB 1388 - May (108) - Permits replacement of corporate trustee in event of sale or merger
HB 1543 - Smith (011) - Authorizes the court to authorize or orders acts intended to protect a mentally disabled protectee's estate from
HB 1592 - Liese - Clarifies that the provisions of section 461.051 only apply to beneficiary designations made after the 1989 initial
HB 1907 - Sallee - Allows public administrator to receive attorneys' fees when someone brings an unsuccessful action against him or her
HB 1978 - Lawson - Amends the method of distribution of a testator's estate
HB 1984 - Elliott - Increases the number of persons allowed to apply for a transfer of license plates
HB 2154 - Hanaway - Allows for the creation of a discretionary trust for the benefit of a disabled beneficiary

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Ethics

SB 0717 - Schneider - The electronic campaign finance reporting system shall be maintained by the Office of Administration
SB 0718 - Schneider - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Ethics Commission
SB 0800 - Ehlmann - Authorizes penalties for filing an incorrect campaign finance disclosure report with gross negligence
HB 1269 - Chrismer - Allows school districts to adopt prayer time or personal reflection time into the daily curriculum
HB 1627 - Carter - Limits the future employment of the chief information officer of the office of administration
HB 1636 - Abel - Allows anyone to vote absentee; establishes an alternative single-ballot primary pilot project
HB 1637 - Abel - Requires the filing of additional campaign information disclosures with the Ethics Commission
HB 1872 - Seigfreid - Makes various changes to ethics and campaign laws

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Evidence

SB 0546 - Goode - Creates crime of aggravated driving with excessive blood alcohol content
SB 0554 - Singleton - Increases penalties for possession of child pornography
SB 0567 - Clay - Creates right of compensation for wrongful imprisonment
SB 0578 - Westfall - Lowers blood alcohol content to .08% for drunk driving arrests
SB 0580 - Westfall - Theft or attempted theft of anhydrous ammonia or liquid nitrogen is a Class D felony
SB 0603 - Wiggins - Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0641 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0671 - Ehlmann - Amends felony stealing limit
SB 0707 - Singleton - Creates crime of evading law enforcement officer
SB 0757 - Maxwell - Revises various child protection laws
SB 0758 - Maxwell - Revises laws relating to computer crimes
SB 0872 - Flotron - Allows certain convicted felons to obtain post-conviction DNA testing
SB 0878 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund and interest payments in workers' claims
SB 0934 - Caskey - Revises laws regarding intoxication-related traffic offenses
SB 0942 - Rohrbach - Requires assessment to be filed with petition for civil commitment of sexually violent predators
SB 0980 - Jacob - Extends domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
SB 0988 - Westfall - Requires drivers to take certain actions when emergency vehicle approaching
SB 1006 - Yeckel - Revises child custory relocation
SB 1028 - Ehlmann - Establishes standard for vicarious liability of employer for harassment of employee by supervisor
SB 1031 - Sims - Revises and creates crimes regarding theft of merchandise
SB 1032 - Sims - Regulates sale of unused property (flea markets)
SB 1038 - Caskey - Clarifies procedure for instructions regarding lesser included offenses
SB 1043 - Mathewson - Creates crime of theft of service; revises stealing felony limit
SB 1047 - Rohrbach - Mentally retarded persons may not receive death penalty; provides hearing procedure
SB 1053 - Goode - Requires law enforcement agencies to prohibit racial profiling practices and report statistics
SB 1082 - Bland - Requires law enforcement agencies to prohibit racial profiling practices and report statistics
HB 1097 - Hosmer - Revises civil liability for trespass
HB 1215 - Smith (011) - Changes in statutory provisions dealing with computer crimes
HB 1386 - Britt - Prohibits financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person
HB 1676 - Wilson - Provides a testimonial privilege for domestic violence shelter workers and changes the detention period for
HB 1677 - Wilson - Amends or creates various domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
HB 1968 - Hendrickson - Creates a parent/child privilege

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Fairs

SB 0540 - Mathewson - Creates the State Fair Fee Fund

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Family Law

SB 0597 - Steelman - Creates the "Adoption Awareness Law" to promote adoption as an alternative parenting option
SB 0603 - Wiggins - Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0678 - Schneider - Makes several changes to court procedures; authorizes payments from Tort Victims' Fund
SB 0722 - Caskey - Family access motions may be used to enforce all custody and visitation orders
SB 0744 - Klarich - Clarifies state policy is to recognize marriage only between a male and a female
SB 0751 - Clay - Birth and adoption Unemployment Compensation Program
SB 0859 - Jacob - Beneficiary designations made on or after August 28, 1989 shall be presumed revoked upon divorce
SB 0980 - Jacob - Extends domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
SB 0993 - Maxwell - Creates Child Support Assurance Program
SB 1006 - Yeckel - Revises child custory relocation
SB 1046 - Sims - Recorder shall not issue marriage license to person less than 17 to anyone 21 or older
HB 1208 - Fitzwater - Allows the divorced spouse of a disabled person to remain the guardian in certain circumstances
HB 1230 - Long - Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to maintain a toll free information line
HB 1311 - Dougherty - Requires all courts to order parties to a dissolution to attend educational sessions, except for good cause
HB 1386 - Britt - Prohibits financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person
HB 1417 - Dougherty - The Division of Family Services may request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good
HB 1419 - Dougherty - Requires unclaimed lottery prizes to be used to fund the Casa program throughout the state
HB 1421 - Dougherty - Revises the statutory provisions regarding relocation of a child following dissolution of marriage
HB 1520 - Gaskill - Changes the waiting period for issuance of a marriage license
HB 1551 - Richardson - Requires both parties to a marriage license to disclose to the recorder of deeds any previous marriages and the state
HB 1592 - Liese - Clarifies that the provisions of section 461.051 only apply to beneficiary designations made after the 1989 initial
HB 1594 - Loudon - Includes interference with visitation in the crime of interference with custody
HB 1664 - Scheve - Revises various child protection laws
HB 1667 - Bennett - Allows courts to issue restraining orders against certain persons less than eighteen years of age
HB 1677 - Wilson - Amends or creates various domestic violence and criminal reporting laws
HB 1678 - Wilson - Amends various statutes relating to marriage by adding gender neutral language
HB 1776 - Sallee - Prohibits the court from awarding child visitation to a parent who has not had any meaningful contact with the
HB 1812 - Akin - Corrects a technical title defect in a statute that only recognizes a marriage between a man and a woman
HB 1819 - Scott - Corrects a technical title defect for a marriage statute declared unconstitutional
HB 1837 - Patek - Reverts section 452.377 regarding relocation back to the pre-Sb910 language
HB 1840 - Froelker - Requires custodial orders to permit all parents access to the child's health insurance provider
HB 1865 - Fraser - Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services' adoption registry and allows biological
HB 1929 - Curls - Expands family access motions by allowing all persons granted child visitation to file such a motion
HB 1935 - Monaco - Amends various statutes regarding the release and destruction of child abuse information obtained by the
HB 1946 - Dougherty - Prohibits the delay or denial of a child's placement in an adoptive home based on race, color or national origin
HB 1978 - Lawson - Amends the method of distribution of a testator's estate
HB 1980 - Hartzler - Provides scholarhships to certain former foster children who are adopted or have a legal guardian appointed after
HB 1981 - Hartzler - Expedites Tpr and adoption cases
HB 1982 - Hartzler - Enacts the "parenting Alternatives Law" and provides for the transfer of temporary custody to the prospective
HB 2000 - Luetkenhaus - Waives the Division of Family Services' sovereign immunity for cases of child abuse under their supervision which
HB 2077 - Dougherty - Establishes an incremental increase in the reimbursement rate for facilities that provide residential treatment
HB 2134 - Gibbons - Permits parents to leave their newborns at a medical facility without fear of prosecution for abandonment of
HB 2137 - Gross - Makes various changes to laws regarding domestic violence
HB 2156 - Patek - Adds the cohabitation or intended cohabitation of a parent as a relevant factor for the court to consider when

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Family Services Division

SB 0602 - Wiggins - Requires the Division of Family Services to make child abuse investigation records available to two additional groups
SB 0670 - Ehlmann - Creates the Community Partnership Program Pilot Project to address poverty issues and promote local volunteerism
SB 0681 - Russell - Requires the Div. of Family Services to check the attendance records of children whose families are receiving TANF
SB 0757 - Maxwell - Revises various child protection laws
SB 0823 - Clay - Establishes the Missouri Works Program to help welfare recipients prepare for permanent employment
SB 0891 - Howard - Raises the dollar amount of resources exempted from consideration when determining Medicaid eligibility
SB 0901 - Flotron - Raises dollar amount of resources exempted from consideration when determining Medicaid eligibility
HB 1230 - Long - Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to maintain a toll free information line
HB 1260 - Rizzo - Requires the Division of Family Services to make child abuse records available to two additional groups and waives
HB 1417 - Dougherty - The Division of Family Services may request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good
HB 1420 - Dougherty - Enacts the Children's Product Safety Act
HB 1615 - Hosmer - Modifies various provisions relating to protection of the elderly
HB 1664 - Scheve - Revises various child protection laws
HB 1673 - Bennett - Requires the Division of Family Services to withhold public assistance payments from persons with outstanding arrest
HB 1712 - McKenna - Adds the Jefferson County child assessment centers to the list of centers eligible for funding through the Department
HB 1719 - Naeger - Requires Dfs to post a sign in every division office alerting the public to the expiration date of the Mc+
HB 1728 - Backer - Revises how Office of Administration makes purchases and requires agencies to provide services via the Internet
HB 1865 - Fraser - Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services' adoption registry and allows biological
HB 1910 - Hollingsworth - Provides for a proportional reduction in state-funded child care assistance for persons whose income or assets exceed
HB 1935 - Monaco - Amends various statutes regarding the release and destruction of child abuse information obtained by the
HB 1943 - Schilling - Adds jail and detention center personnel to the list of mandatory child abuse reporters
HB 1946 - Dougherty - Prohibits the delay or denial of a child's placement in an adoptive home based on race, color or national origin
HB 1962 - Dougherty - Establishes a minimum foster care reimbursement rate
HB 1980 - Hartzler - Provides scholarhships to certain former foster children who are adopted or have a legal guardian appointed after
HB 1982 - Hartzler - Enacts the "parenting Alternatives Law" and provides for the transfer of temporary custody to the prospective
HB 2000 - Luetkenhaus - Waives the Division of Family Services' sovereign immunity for cases of child abuse under their supervision which
HB 2046 - Dougherty - Permits each county or city not within a county to establish a child care resources and referral agency
HB 2077 - Dougherty - Establishes an incremental increase in the reimbursement rate for facilities that provide residential treatment
HB 2120 - Schwab - Prohibits the granting of a liquor license for liquor sales within one hundred feet of a daycare center
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