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Disabilities

SB 0032 - Kinder - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
SB 0048 - Sims - Modifies the Family Care Safety Registry and other provisions of the law relating to children
SB 0098 - Bentley - Revises various criminal provisions
SB 0111 - Gross - Revenue Department to cooperate in federal-state agreement to recognize disabled persons license plates
SB 0184 - Johnson - Expands ability of boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0236 - Sims - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0275 - Sims - Allows the placement of a deaf or hearing impaired notation on driver's licenses
SB 0283 - Steelman - Requires Missouri television stations to provide captioning of news, sports and weather
SB 0284 - Steelman - Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education institutions
SB 0318 - Sims - Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level
SB 0321 - Westfall - Revises laws pertaining to sheltered workshops
SB 0336 - Caskey - Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students
SB 0419 - Sims - Makes certain disabled workers eligible for Medicaid
SB 0447 - Carter - Provides that assessments may be given to special education students at appropriate levels
SB 0452 - DePasco - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0465 - Dougherty - Prohibits the refusal of residential treatment services to persons with mental disorders or addiction
SB 0550 - Sims - The state grants consent to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act
HB 0125 - Long - Removes the fee for placards for the permanently and temporarily disabled
HB 0142 - Hosmer - Expands the Missouri Kidney Program at the University of Missouri to provide assistance for immunosuppressive
HB 0265 - Hosmer - Revises death penalty law as it pertains to mentally retarded persons
HB 0329 - Hollingsworth - Expands eligibility for medical assistance to include persons who are aged, blind or disabled with annual incomes
HB 0341 - Holt - Mandates health insurance coverage for hearing aids
HB 0343 - Graham - Requires all local news, weather and sports broadcasts by television stations to have real-time captioning
HB 0404 - Graham - Makes various changes to the laws regarding sheltered workshops
HB 0435 - Merideth III - Recognizes American Sign Language or any other generally accepted means of communication used by the deaf community
HB 0512 - Baker - Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act
HB 0539 - Baker - Provides that the shared care income tax credit shall be refundable.
HB 0590 - Graham - The directors of the departments of economic development and revenue shall jointly administer the ADA tax credit
HB 0612 - Baker - Provides additional protections and services for persons with disabilities
HB 0630 - Wilson - Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental
HB 0643 - Bray - Creates a state income tax credit for taxpayers incurring costs for assistive technology and housing access
HB 0650 - Shields - Makes various changes regarding the sheltered workshop laws
HB 0755 - Boucher - Creates volunteer disabled parking enforcement program
HB 0869 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
HB 0915 - Graham - The state of Missouri consents to be sued in state court under the Americans with Disabilities Act
HB 0919 - Kennedy - Requires the court to excuse from jury duty certain primary care givers where the court finds that no reasonable
HB 0946 - Merideth III - Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education
HB 0969 - Graham - Excludes the State Capitol Building from the definition of "state property" for purposes of giving priority to blind
HB 1004 - Monaco - Requires certain construction standards for buildings constructed after July 1, 2002, to provide accessibility
HCR 010 - Holand - Urges Congress to fully fund the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975

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Domestic Relations

SB 0135 - Wiggins - Revises the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement law
SB 0180 - Klarich - State policy is to recognize marriage only between a male and a female
SB 0296 - Gross - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0473 - Dougherty - Makes various changes regarding children's services
SB 0539 - Yeckel - Limits child custody relocation notice requirement to a move of sixty miles or more
SB 0571 - Dougherty - Requires distribution of marriage license fees to the Department of Public Safety for domestic violence shelters
SB 0628 - Jacob - Allows restraining orders against minors
HB 0032 - Gaskill - Changes the waiting period for a marriage license
HB 0123 - Dougherty - Allows the Division of Family Services to request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth
HB 0143 - Hosmer - Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation
HB 0422 - Froelker - Creates heirloom birth certificates an marriage licenses suitable for display
HB 0461 - Ostmann - Modifies the grandparent visitation provisions
HB 0537 - Ostmann - Amends various statutes relating to marriage by adding gender neutral language
HB 0759 - Kelly (027) - Repeals the current child relocation statute and reenacts and earlier version of this section

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Drugs and Controlled Substances

SB 0022 - Singleton - Creates the Pharmaceutical Assistance Program to allow the elderly to purchase pharmaceutical insurance
SB 0037 - Westfall - Classifies attempted theft of anhydrous ammonia as a crime; owner immunity
SB 0089 - Kinder - Creates and amends crimes relating to controlled substances and anhydrous ammonia
SB 0106 - Steelman - Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens
SB 0156 - Goode - Modifies alcohol licensing and reporting procedures through the Department of Public Safety
SB 0163 - Bland - Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health
SB 0233 - Wiggins - Creates cause of action for damages resulting from another's drug use
SB 0279 - Staples - Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act - Establishes treatment requirements for nonviolent drug offenders
SB 0342 - Jacob - Position of Boone County drug commissioner eliminated and associate judge added
SB 0514 - Singleton - Requires compliance with federal law in drug labeling
SB 0559 - Singleton - Requires long term care facilities to return unused medications to pharmacies for reuse and reimbursement
SB 0597 - Singleton - Revises the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly
SB 0600 - Singleton - Revises the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly
SB 0608 - Yeckel - Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine
SJR 008 - Steelman - Presents dual questions regarding tobacco settlement funds
HB 0072 - Scheve - Increases the pharmaceutical income tax credit from two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars and decreases the
HB 0119 - Clayton - Establishes a pharmaceutical relief program for senior citizens in the department of social services
HB 0153 - Troupe - Requires all health benefit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards
HB 0169 - Froelker - Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Division of Aging
HB 0209 - Hosmer - Changes certain provisions of the controlled substances law
HB 0370 - Crowell - Imposes minimum sentences for manufacturers of methamphetamine
HB 0371 - Crowell - Creates crime of possessing anhydrous ammonia and increases penalties for current ammonia crimes
HB 0471 - Jolly - Adds the drug "ecstasy" to drug trafficking statutes
HB 0565 - Monaco - Requires disclosure by landlords and sellers of prior methamphetamine activities on their real property
HB 0653 - Robirds - Requires applicants for unemployment insurance benefits to submit to drug test
HB 0757 - Shoemyer - Amends various provisions of law regarding the practice of pharmacy
HB 0796 - Hosmer - Requires compliance with the current federal labeling requirements in the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act
HB 0824 - Abel - Creates a Pharmaceutical Investment Program for Seniors to help defray the cost of pharmaceuticals
HB 0835 - Britt - Revises numerous provisions relating to crimes
HB 0970 - Naeger - For purposes of worker compensation law, makes positive tests for drug use proximate cause of injuries resulting to
HB 1012 - Mayer - Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine
HB 1015 - Secrest - Deems a 4-week suspension or a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work

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Drunk Driving/Boating

SB 0036 - Westfall - Provides for .08 DWI/BAC and increases collateral consequences
HB 0302 - Hosmer - Lowers blood alcohol content from .10 to .08 and revises other measures related to alcohol related offenses

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Easements and Conveyances

SB 0252 - Singleton - Authorizes the Missouri National Guard and the City of Joplin to exchange two parcels of property
SB 0301 - Johnson - Allows Missouri Western to convey property to the Extension Council of Buchanan County
SB 0383 - Johnson - Authorizes the Governor to sell certain property in Platte County
SB 0394 - Bentley - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey a certain piece of property
SB 0544 - Johnson - Authorizes the Missouri Veterans' Commission to grant an easement to Spectra Communications
SB 0553 - Klindt - Authorizes Northwest Missouri State to lease property to the City of Maryville and the National Guard
SB 0568 - Mathewson - Authorizes certain property exchanges
SB 0619 - Mathewson - Changes provisions for emergency care service providers; state easement to City of Sedalia
HB 0283 - Ward - Authorizes a conveyance of certain property in St. Francois County to the American Legion
HB 0361 - Shoemyer - Authorizes the Governor to convey the rights to certain water held in Mark Twain Lake
HB 0408 - Kelley (047) - Authorizes conveyances of graves in public cemeteries back to the county or municipality
HB 0409 - Surface - Authorizes a conveyance between the Missouri national guard and the city of Joplin
HB 0502 - Ward - Authorizes a conveyance of certain property in St. Francois County to the American Legion
HB 0600 - Hosmer - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey a certain piece of property
HB 0742 - Harding - Authorizes the Governor to sell certain property in Platte County
HB 0779 - Barnett - Authorizes Northwest Missouri State to lease property to the City of Maryville and the National Guard
HB 0808 - Gratz - Authorizes the conveyance of property located in Cole County to Jefferson City and the Governor Hotel, LLC
HB 0851 - Black - Authorizes a conveyance of property in Scott County
HB 0879 - Black - Authorizes conveyance of property in Scott County to Village of Commerce
HB 0909 - Davis - Authorizes exchange of property interests between the Department of Natural Resources and the City of Lexington
HB 0922 - Gaskill - Authorizes city of Monett to annex municipal airport
HB 0951 - Gratz - Authorizes a conveyance of property in Cole County
HB 0961 - Hosmer - Authorizes an exchange of property interests between the Missouri National Guard and the City of Springfield

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Economic Development

SB 0079 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing in certain areas
SB 0125 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
SB 0139 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0171 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0230 - Childers - Authorizes Taney, Stone, Barry and Ozark counties to impose a sales tax for economic development programs
SB 0280 - Yeckel - Allows a tax credit for persons who contribute to unplanned pregnancy resource centers
SB 0293 - Steelman - Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce
SB 0323 - Childers - Authorizes certain political subdivisions to enact a sales tax, upon voter approval, for specific purposes
SB 0373 - Gibbons - Changes tax credits for investment in small businesses and distressed communities
SB 0392 - Kenney - Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility
SB 0500 - Mathewson - Revises certain job training programs
SB 0531 - Gross - Changes tax credits for CAPCO investments
SB 0589 - Russell - Allows Economic Development to authorize an enterprise zone in Wright County
SB 0626 - Bentley - Allows three satellite economic development zones in Springfield
HB 0044 - Bonner - Authorizes the designation of a satellite enterprise zone in the city of Sugar Creek
HB 0210 - Liese - Changes the terms of community improvement district board members to either three or four years, at the district's
HB 0215 - Bray - Reallocates tax credits and amends various other provisions pertaining to distressed communities. Repeals the Missouri
HB 0338 - Ford - Establishes a St. Louis Riverfront Commission
HB 0387 - Gambaro - Increases eligibility for brownfield remediation to include non-brownfield property on or adjacent to brownfield
HB 0434 - Merideth III - Increases the allowable population for enterprise zones not within metropolitan statistical areas from twenty thousand
HB 0436 - Merideth III - Enacts Missouri Airport Protection Act to provide new airport safety regulation
HB 0447 - Luetkenhaus - Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce
HB 0488 - Koller - Authorizes a variety of local sales taxes for tourism and economic development purposes
HB 0596 - Kennedy - Makes a technical change in statute dealing with planned industrial expansion in St. Louis
HB 0599 - Green - Further regulates the use of tax increment financing in the St. Louis metropolitan area
HB 0617 - Gambaro - Reallocates unused income tax credits for community improvement
HB 0621 - Gratz - Creates Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission
HB 0780 - Scheve - Revises certain economic development programs
HB 0810 - Carnahan - Establishes the Metropolitan St. Louis Growth Management Advisory Council
HB 0875 - Barnitz - Revises certain definitions for purposes of enterprise zones
HB 0898 - Hilgemann - Enacts the Uniform Planned Community Act
HB 0904 - Merideth III - Expands the MO Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990 to include more recent agroforestry practices
HB 0930 - Hollingsworth - Authorizes county commissions in certain counties to issue special or conditional use permits
HB 0963 - Bowman - Delineates the duties of a Urban Conservation Commission and Department of Urban Conservation, contingent upon the
HB 1010 - Rizzo - Enacts the Tax Credit Responsibility Act of 2001
HCR 033 - Lawson - Urges the USDA to provide a waiver for Agramarke Quality Grains, Inc
HJR 019 - Bowman - Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish the Department of Urban Conservation

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Economic Development Dept.

SB 0051 - Childers - Requires Department of Economic Development to establish six rural housing development programs
SB 0079 - Goode - Revises criteria used to evaluate redevelopment projects funded by tax increment financing in certain areas
SB 0095 - Kenney - Requires those who engage in the profession of housemoving to become licensed and obtain permits for moves
SB 0139 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0159 - Bland - Authorizes an appropriation to Missouri Housing Development Commission for grants to local housing development groups
SB 0167 - Bland - Modifies the licensure requirements of persons dealing with lead-bearing substances
SB 0171 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0186 - Klarich - Changes provisions pertaining to entities regulated by the Division of Finance
SB 0210 - DePasco - Creates a home builders licensure board to license and regulate residential home builders
SB 0216 - Scott - Clarifies appointments to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
SB 0229 - Jacob - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
SB 0246 - Caskey - Licenses bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents
SB 0250 - Bentley - Creates a grant and loan program to promote cultural tourism
SB 0293 - Steelman - Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce
SB 0317 - Stoll - Exempts used manufactured homes and certain used modular units from complying with manufactured housing codes
SB 0327 - Yeckel - Allows the certification of naturopathic practitioners
SB 0329 - Yeckel - Prohibits release of financial information by financial institutions
SB 0340 - Stoll - Establishes the "Missouri Veterans' Business Council" within the Department of Economic Development
SB 0355 - Steelman - Extends unlawful merchandising practices law to those regulated by Dept. of Insurance and Div. of Credit Unions
SB 0357 - Schneider - Modifies licensing provisions for psychologists and professional counselors
SB 0382 - Yeckel - Prohibits release of nonpublic information by financial institutions
SB 0384 - House - Adds additional criteria for the denial or revocation of dietitians' licenses
SB 0385 - Mathewson - Enacts new licensure requirements for accountants
SB 0392 - Kenney - Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility
SB 0489 - Bentley - Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers
SB 0492 - Westfall - Includes departments of Agriculture, Economic Development and Revenue in merit system
SB 0500 - Mathewson - Revises certain job training programs
SB 0518 - DePasco - Creates State Board of Auctioneers to regulate auctioneers
SB 0538 - Yeckel - Allows residential mortgage brokers to post bond instead of providing annual audits
SB 0589 - Russell - Allows Economic Development to authorize an enterprise zone in Wright County
SB 0617 - Steelman - Modifies current tax incentives for community economic development
SB 0626 - Bentley - Allows three satellite economic development zones in Springfield
SJR 006 - Childers - Establishes an election process for selecting Public Service Commissioners
HB 0007 - Green - Appropriations for the departments of Economic Development, Insurance and Labor and Industrial Relations
HB 0044 - Bonner - Authorizes the designation of a satellite enterprise zone in the city of Sugar Creek
HB 0066 - Reynolds - Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators
HB 0069 - Ward - Creates grants for volunteer fire protection associations and for certain low revenue fire protection districts
HB 0105 - Johnson - Exempts hair braiders from the licensing requirements in chapter 329
HB 0215 - Bray - Reallocates tax credits and amends various other provisions pertaining to distressed communities. Repeals the Missouri
HB 0243 - Treadway - Modifies the licensure requirements for cosmetologists, haridressers and manicurists
HB 0245 - Treadway - Enacts the Missouri Accountancy Act
HB 0249 - Treadway - Requires licenses for amusement machine operators
HB 0288 - Campbell - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
HB 0293 - Kennedy - Creates the contiguous property redevelopment fund for compiling and initially redeveloping contiguous properties
HB 0314 - Treadway - Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers
HB 0338 - Ford - Establishes a St. Louis Riverfront Commission
HB 0387 - Gambaro - Increases eligibility for brownfield remediation to include non-brownfield property on or adjacent to brownfield
HB 0396 - Barry - Creates the Board of Ionizing Radiation Technology
HB 0400 - Treadway - Redefines the supervision of physician assistants by physicians
HB 0434 - Merideth III - Increases the allowable population for enterprise zones not within metropolitan statistical areas from twenty thousand
HB 0447 - Luetkenhaus - Creates Advisory Committee for Electronic Commerce
HB 0462 - Foley - Makes various amendments regarding the practice of pharmacy
HB 0469 - Selby - Requires certificates of registration for physicians to be easily readable from a reasonable distance
HB 0484 - Luetkenhaus - Establishes an Advisory Commission for Dental Hygienists
HB 0567 - Treadway - Revises provisions for various boards and professions under the Division of Professional Registration
HB 0568 - Treadway - Amends various provisions regarding professional registration
HB 0588 - Rizzo - Establishes the qualifications for persons performing spinal manipulation
HB 0599 - Green - Further regulates the use of tax increment financing in the St. Louis metropolitan area
HB 0617 - Gambaro - Reallocates unused income tax credits for community improvement
HB 0631 - Johnson - Amends various provisions regarding licensed dietitians
HB 0640 - Johnson - Creates board of private investigator examiners and regulates private investigators
HB 0675 - Richardson - Regulates deferred presentment services
HB 0695 - Shoemyer - Revises the licensing and regulatory scheme for dentists and dental hygienists
HB 0716 - Treadway - Amends various licensure provisions for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants
HB 0738 - Liese - Modifies financial services law, particularly unsecured consumer loans and banking
HB 0744 - Treadway - Makes various revisions regarding the licensure of professional counselors
HB 0752 - Johnson - Amends various provisions regarding the practice of cosmetology
HB 0780 - Scheve - Revises certain economic development programs
HB 0801 - Liese - Prohibits release of nonpublic information by financial institutions
HB 0806 - Troupe - Establishes certification procedures for naturopaths
HB 0817 - Kennedy - Provides procedures for the licensure of addiction counselors
HB 0875 - Barnitz - Revises certain definitions for purposes of enterprise zones
HB 0899 - Gratz - Establishes procedures for the licensure of auctioneers
HB 1010 - Rizzo - Enacts the Tax Credit Responsibility Act of 2001
HB 1016 - Hoppe - Allows psychologists to administer, order and prescribe medications after obtaining certification and training

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Education, Elementary and Secondary

SB 0023 - Singleton - Allows voter approval of charter schools in a school district
SB 0026 - Johnson - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War I or II veterans
SB 0032 - Kinder - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
SB 0042 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors; creates summer academy at UMR; and modifies child care program safety requirements
SB 0053 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0056 - Stoll - Renames A+ Schools Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program"
SB 0058 - Stoll - Establishes a Bird Appreciation Day
SB 0061 - Steelman - Authorizes countywide education sales taxes
SB 0068 - Gross - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0074 - Wiggins - Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities
SB 0078 - Russell - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide $80.00 per pupil for driver's education
SB 0084 - Singleton - Allows public school choice within a school district
SB 0089 - Kinder - Creates and amends crimes relating to controlled substances and anhydrous ammonia
SB 0097 - Bentley - Establishes a grant program for improving mathematics instruction
SB 0101 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0115 - Wiggins - Income tax deductions for certain elementary and secondary school expenses
SB 0126 - Bentley - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans
SB 0133 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0134 - Loudon - Requires full funding of categorical programs prior to over- funding of state aid formula
SB 0137 - Wiggins - Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official
SB 0145 - Bland - Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates
SB 0146 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0153 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0177 - Schneider - Authorizes state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendance fees, supplies and transportation costs
SB 0201 - Sims - Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
SB 0221 - Westfall - Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities
SB 0239 - Stoll - Creates new reading test and summer school reading program
SB 0242 - Kenney - Establishes school building construction and renovation fund
SB 0262 - Stoll - Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions
SB 0263 - Stoll - Establishes excess benefit plan in school retirement systems
SB 0284 - Steelman - Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education institutions
SB 0303 - Johnson - Allows school districts to directly enter into lease purchases with vendors
SB 0316 - Stoll - Requires school retirement systems to promulgate joint rules
SB 0319 - Carter - Revises assessments of public school students
SB 0332 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0333 - DePasco - Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System
SB 0336 - Caskey - Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students
SB 0353 - Johnson - Revises "recalculated levy" used to determine state aid for certain school districts
SB 0362 - House - Creates Missouri Tobacco Settlement Fund and allocates a portion to education
SB 0363 - Scott - Raises school compulsory attendance age to seventeen
SB 0399 - Sims - Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund
SB 0402 - Jacob - Revises funding for certain scholarships by removing the gaming boat loss limit
SB 0413 - Scott - Revises St. Louis Public School Retirement System laws
SB 0423 - Yeckel - Adds state school aid COLA for hold harmless districts
SB 0425 - Loudon - Establishes December 15 as Bill of Rights Day
SB 0438 - Bentley - Revises teacher compensation
SB 0447 - Carter - Provides that assessments may be given to special education students at appropriate levels
SB 0454 - Kinder - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Attorney Compensation Act
SB 0457 - Stoll - Revises state school aid to certain districts
SB 0463 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0466 - Dougherty - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive reward program and fund
SB 0475 - Yeckel - Revises distribution of gaming tax proceeds for schools
SB 0480 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0481 - Foster - Modifies portions of the Public School Retirement System
SB 0483 - Dougherty - Salary schedule credit for public schools
SB 0494 - Stoll - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0497 - Westfall - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
SB 0502 - Jacob - Changes public school retirement benefits for divorced members
SB 0510 - Kenney - Revises charter school laws
SB 0512 - House - Revises Charter School Laws
SB 0543 - Foster - Revises school district transfers of funds for capital purposes
SB 0547 - Wiggins - Relating to the election of board members of certain school districts
SB 0574 - Dougherty - Authorizes state tax credit for contribution to authorized dropout abatement programs
SB 0575 - Caskey - Revises public school reporting requirements
SB 0576 - Kinder - Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities
SB 0595 - Westfall - Retired certificated and non-certificated employees may be hired by school districts for 2 yrs. without losing benefits
SB 0598 - Singleton - Prohibits possession of tobacco products by minors
SB 0603 - Jacob - Exempts income of certain elementary and secondary school teachers from taxation
SB 0607 - Johnson - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 0614 - Gross - Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for students attending four year institutions
SB 0615 - Foster - Allows school districts to contract with new generation cooperatives for the purchase of biodiesel fuel
SB 0616 - Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
SB 0630 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SCR 003 - Gross - Requests a special curriculum to recognize the Lewis and Clark Expedition
SJR 003 - Goode - Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement
SJR 005 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
SJR 011 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
HB 0002 - Green - Appropriations for the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 0026 - Wilson - Creates loan repayment assistance program for qualified teachers
HB 0029 - Wilson - Provides bonuses for teachers who either receive national certification or act as mentors in approved teacher
HB 0035 - Gaskill - Moves the mandatory age for starting school down to age five
HB 0050 - Relford - Revises various laws regarding public schools
HB 0079 - Kennedy - Allows the sponsorship and mentoring program tax credit to offset the annual tax on insurance premiums tax and
HB 0081 - Relford - Restricts the ability of persons with criminal histories from obtaining or maintaining teacher certificates
HB 0091 - Scheve - Removes gambling boat proceeds from the foundation formula and distributes them on a per-pupil basis
HB 0092 - Scheve - Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding; depending on formula funding levels and
HB 0094 - Shields - Provides honorary high school diplomas to Wwii veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United
HB 0095 - Wilson - Allows urban school districts to start school prior to September 1st
HB 0097 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations
HB 0098 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations
HB 0112 - Boykins - Requires subdistrict residency for St. Louis school board members; clarifies that even-numbered board district
HB 0128 - Fraser - Repeals the mandatory September first start date for elementary and secondary schools
HB 0131 - Holand - Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income
HB 0132 - Gambaro - Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 0164 - Troupe - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules
HB 0165 - Troupe - Changes the qualifications, election and districting of the members of the city of St. Louis school board
HB 0176 - Thompson - Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business
HB 0198 - Wagner - Makes "bird Day" a state holiday, to be observed at the elementary and secondary schools of this state
HB 0199 - Davis - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs
HB 0200 - Davis - Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed education and training
HB 0208 - George - Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees
HB 0235 - Dougherty - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules; requires public universities to conduct student
HB 0244 - Treadway - Provides honorary high school diplomas to Wwii veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United
HB 0250 - Reid - Makes developmentally appropriate phonics instruction available for all public primary school age students
HB 0252 - Hosmer - Raises the age requirements on various school and motor vehicle laws from sixteen to eighteen
HB 0262 - Linton - Limits access to personally identifiable student records
HB 0263 - Linton - Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students
HB 0264 - Linton - Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content
HB 0271 - Fraser - Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs
HB 0273 - Fraser - Adds two secondary school student members to the State Board of Education
HB 0274 - Shields - Revises school calendar requirements for the 2000-2001 school year
HB 0290 - Troupe - Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District
HB 0300 - Ostmann - Creates incentives for national teacher certification
HB 0305 - Walton - Establishes subdistricts in the school district of Riverview Gardens
HB 0322 - Campbell - Transfers control of the Kansas City school district to the state board of education until new governance or
HB 0325 - Marble - Exempts twenty-five percent of all newly approved bond moneys from salary compliance; allocates all of such moneys
HB 0326 - Portwood - Creates Classroom Trust Fund; places all gambling, lottery, and unclaimed lottery prize revenue in fund; phased in over
HB 0334 - Davis - Revises "recalculated levy" provision of state school aid formula
HB 0352 - Hosmer - Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs
HB 0385 - Franklin - Makes several changes to public school retirement systems
HB 0413 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment
HB 0415 - Hendrickson - Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues
HB 0424 - Wilson - Prohibits certain disclosures to parents of students in postsecondary education
HB 0427 - Hampton - Adopts a new voluntary five-level minimum teacher salary plan
HB 0429 - Kelly (036) - Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits
HB 0435 - Merideth III - Recognizes American Sign Language or any other generally accepted means of communication used by the deaf community
HB 0441 - Holt - Allows World War I, World War II and Korean War veterans to receive a high school diploma
HB 0475 - Froelker - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0486 - Davis - Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of
HB 0487 - Davis - Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund; dedicates at least twenty-five percent of fund proceeds to
HB 0505 - Johnson - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund
HB 0506 - Johnson - Ccreates the parents in education grant program and fund
HB 0508 - Johnson - Creates state income tax credits for employers who contribute to school dropout abatement programs
HB 0509 - Johnson - Creates a state income tax credit of up to five thousand dollars per year for any employer who grant its employees
HB 0535 - Bowman - Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school
HB 0536 - Bowman - Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student
HB 0559 - Van Zandt - Creates the classroom technology trust fund program and commission; uses funds otherwise reverting to general
HB 0560 - Wright - Creates state income tax credits for taxpayers with pre-first-grade children who score at least 70% on an
HB 0584 - Bartle - Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund in the state treasury
HB 0598 - Shelton (057) - Creates incentives for special education teachers
HB 0604 - Hilgemann - Creates a character education grant program and fund
HB 0625 - Treadway - Adopts national certification bonuses for teachers, speech language pathologists and audiologists
HB 0637 - Bray - Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment
HB 0649 - Shields - Authorizes school districts to adopt a voter-approved supplemental income tax for the purpose of reducing
HB 0658 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows for optional year-round school calendars
HB 0665 - Shields - Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students
HB 0666 - Shields - Creates the Kansas City education renewal commission
HB 0668 - Shields - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0669 - Shields - Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district
HB 0725 - Britt - Allows certain districts to transfer additional funds for capital purposes
HB 0735 - Shields - Creates the Classroom Trust Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund
HB 0751 - Kennedy - Creates state income tax credits for expenditures of teachers for instructional materials for the classroom
HB 0754 - Franklin - Establishes teacher salary supplements for national board teacher certification
HB 0763 - Shields - Prevents penalties from being assessed for noncompliance with certain educational expenditure ratios when
HB 0769 - Harlan - Makes personally-identifiable Higher Education Savings Program records confidential
HB 0775 - Bray - Defines rights and liabilities surrounding student publications sponsored by public schools
HB 0794 - Bartle - Establishes the school building construction and renovation fund
HB 0795 - Copenhaver - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
HB 0814 - Shields - Provides for reciprocal interstate teacher certification and fast-track teacher certification
HB 0859 - Hilgemann - Establishes housing grant program for new public school teachers
HB 0864 - Dempsey - Adds Cpi adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
HB 0865 - Davis - Revises public school reporting requirements
HB 0869 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
HB 0872 - Naeger - Transportation of certain nonpublic school students
HB 0878 - Ballard - Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain
HB 0903 - Bartelsmeyer - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
HB 0925 - Walton - Creates an After School Retreat Grant Program and Fund
HB 0926 - Walton - Establishes grant program to involve families and communities in education
HB 0935 - Roark - Dedicates income tax revenue resulting from gaming winnings to educational uses
HB 0940 - Ballard - Prohibits scheduling of certain teacher activities during the regular school day
HB 0946 - Merideth III - Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education
HB 0948 - Boucher - Requires school districts to implement Chemis 4.0 risk management system for handling potentially hazardous
HB 0952 - Haywood - Makes Dese responsible for all interdistrict transfers of funding of students not attending their home districts
HB 0967 - Reinhart - Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen
HB 0972 - Byrd - Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent
HB 0979 - Bearden - Allows for recall elections of school district board members
HB 0981 - Willoughby - Grants immunity for teachers; waives sovereign immunity for workers' comp, family leave
HB 0998 - Merideth III - Creates "missouri Family Training Program for Special Education."
HB 1026 - Kennedy - Creates a public school beautification adoption program
HCR 010 - Holand - Urges Congress to fully fund the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975
HCR 027 - Ballard - Declares the first day of May, 2001, to be a Statewide Prayer Day in Missouri
HJR 005 - Barry - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority at certain elections
HJR 006 - Hosmer - Changes distribution of forfeiture proceeds
HJR 009 - Linton - Requires the State Board of Education to be elected
HJR 018 - Johnson - Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing the number of members of the State Board of Education
HJR 023 - Kreider - Requires funds from legal settlements to be used for health care and education

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Education, Higher

SB 0019 - Goode - Revises the standard of proof and other aspects of the Sunshine Law
SB 0025 - Johnson - Removes prohibition on collection of "tuition" by the University of Missouri
SB 0033 - Kinder - Public colleges and universities must certify proficiency of teaching faculty in written and spoken English
SB 0041 - Kenney - Creates spinal cord injury research grants, administered by a new advisory board created for that purpose
SB 0046 - Bentley - Modifies the law relating to dentists, dental hygienists and dental care for the needy
SB 0053 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0056 - Stoll - Renames A+ Schools Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program"
SB 0108 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
SB 0133 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0137 - Wiggins - Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official
SB 0145 - Bland - Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates
SB 0154 - Bland - State colleges and universities to establish telecommunity centers
SB 0155 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0201 - Sims - Governor shall declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month
SB 0202 - Wiggins - Enacts the Uniform Athlete Agents Act
SB 0262 - Stoll - Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions
SB 0276 - Sims - Allows foster children to receive a "balance scholarship" to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0284 - Steelman - Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education institutions
SB 0295 - Stoll - Revises use of capital funds for public community colleges
SB 0301 - Johnson - Allows Missouri Western to convey property to the Extension Council of Buchanan County
SB 0364 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0375 - Steelman - Revises the Sunshine Law
SB 0389 - Scott - Creates a defined contribution plan for certain employees of state colleges and universities
SB 0394 - Bentley - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey a certain piece of property
SB 0402 - Jacob - Revises funding for certain scholarships by removing the gaming boat loss limit
SB 0429 - Dougherty - Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0456 - Stoll - Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents
SB 0485 - Loudon - Authorizes MU to study gambling in Missouri
SB 0500 - Mathewson - Revises certain job training programs
SB 0510 - Kenney - Revises charter school laws
SB 0512 - House - Revises Charter School Laws
SB 0532 - Foster - Creates the Large Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program
SB 0553 - Klindt - Authorizes Northwest Missouri State to lease property to the City of Maryville and the National Guard
SB 0593 - Klindt - Creates the Interstate Agri-market Development Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia
SB 0614 - Gross - Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for students attending four year institutions
HB 0026 - Wilson - Creates loan repayment assistance program for qualified teachers
HB 0042 - Bonner - Prohibits colleges in this state from restricting employees who reside outside Missouri from occupying public office in
HB 0064 - Reynolds - Expands the classes of public employees that may join labor organizations
HB 0077 - Reinhart - Authorizes the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research
HB 0166 - Troupe - Revises minority teaching scholarships
HB 0192 - Hosmer - Enacts penalties on professional licensees who fail to repay their student loans
HB 0235 - Dougherty - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules; requires public universities to conduct student
HB 0285 - Wilson - Requires the department of health to designate centers of excellence in women's health
HB 0309 - McKenna - Revises uses of capital funds for public community colleges
HB 0351 - Hosmer - Promotes higher education community service learning programs
HB 0456 - Monaco - Reduces the minimum age of eligibility for jury service from 21 to 18 years and excuses from jury service full-time
HB 0489 - Selby - Expands college grant program for permanently injured or killed workers' spouses or children to include volunteer
HB 0600 - Hosmer - Authorizes Southwest Missouri State University to convey a certain piece of property
HB 0683 - Boykins - Disseminates information to, and enacts protections for, college students regarding consumer credit and
HB 0779 - Barnett - Authorizes Northwest Missouri State to lease property to the City of Maryville and the National Guard
HB 0834 - Barry - Changes the name of the Medical School Loan Repayment Program to the Health Professional Student Loan Repayment
HB 0866 - Boucher - Revise certain provisions related to excursion boat gaming, and increases funding for Bright Flight scholarships
HB 0904 - Merideth III - Expands the MO Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990 to include more recent agroforestry practices

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Education, Proprietary

HB 0395 - Skaggs - Provides for charter school employees retirement benefits
HB 0669 - Shields - Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district
HB 0705 - Gambaro - Allows participation of charter school employees in the St. Louis Public School Retirement System

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Elderly

SB 0022 - Singleton - Creates the Pharmaceutical Assistance Program to allow the elderly to purchase pharmaceutical insurance
SB 0040 - Klarich - Limits or freezes assessed valuation of real property under specified conditions
SB 0043 - Kenney - Individuals sixty-five or older eligible for a tax credit up to $1000 for offsetting costs fo medication
SB 0046 - Bentley - Modifies the law relating to dentists, dental hygienists and dental care for the needy
SB 0048 - Sims - Modifies the Family Care Safety Registry and other provisions of the law relating to children
SB 0049 - Sims - Requires the MO Consolidated Health Care Plan to contract for a long-term care insurance option for state employees
SB 0060 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision of in-home services to the elderly
SB 0067 - Gross - Exempts the homestead of those aged 65 and older from increases in property tax assessments
SB 0106 - Steelman - Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens
SB 0147 - Wiggins - Exempts the sale of coffins, caskets, burial cases and burial vaults from sales/use tax
SB 0164 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 0204 - House - Exempts residential property owned by the elderly from certain increases in assessed valuation
SB 0225 - Mathewson - Creates the Department of Health and Senior Services and transfers the duties of Division of Aging to new department
SB 0235 - Sims - Repeals certificate of need law and enacts law regarding "review certification"
SB 0281 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0296 - Gross - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0318 - Sims - Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level
SB 0326 - Bland - Dedicated additional revenue to the energy assistance program
SB 0344 - Rohrbach - Allows the estimation of contingent liabilities in order to fix the creditor's claim in a liquidation estate
SB 0386 - Singleton - Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products to fund the Missouri Pharmaceutical Assistance Program
SB 0449 - Sims - Promotes Alzheimer's Awareness through public recognition and increased training
SB 0551 - Sims - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0559 - Singleton - Requires long term care facilities to return unused medications to pharmacies for reuse and reimbursement
SB 0584 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens at local option
SB 0597 - Singleton - Revises the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly
SB 0600 - Singleton - Revises the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly
SCR 010 - Staples - Asks Congress to approve the Railroad Retirement and Survivors Improvement Act
SJR 008 - Steelman - Presents dual questions regarding tobacco settlement funds
HB 0056 - Ward - Increases property tax credits for the elderly, exempts the elderly from sales tax on food and enhances Medicaid and
HB 0059 - Boucher - Exempts from state income tax all pensions received by persons sixty-five years of age and older
HB 0071 - Scheve - Allows Modot to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit elderly and handicapped transportation
HB 0072 - Scheve - Increases the pharmaceutical income tax credit from two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars and decreases the
HB 0075 - Scheve - Freezes the assessed value of certain real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older which is used as a
HB 0119 - Clayton - Establishes a pharmaceutical relief program for senior citizens in the department of social services
HB 0137 - Hosmer - Requires counties to allow elderly, disabled and low income persons to pay current real and personal property taxes
HB 0169 - Froelker - Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Division of Aging
HB 0171 - Froelker - Exempts social security benefits and military retirement benefits which are included in federal adjusted gross
HB 0329 - Hollingsworth - Expands eligibility for medical assistance to include persons who are aged, blind or disabled with annual incomes
HB 0349 - Hosmer - Makes various changes regarding protection of the elderly laws
HB 0366 - Champion - Disallows a state income tax deduction for retirement benefits to the extent the same are otherwise excluded or
HB 0414 - Hegeman - Requires facilities licensed by the Division of Aging to employ a food services director and requires long-term care
HB 0452 - Gratz - Allows retired state employees access to goods and services provided by the Vocational Enterprises Program
HB 0482 - Luetkenhaus - Freezes the assessed value of certain real property owned by persons 65 years of age and older which is used as a
HB 0494 - Levin - Increases the maximum property tax credit for the elderly to two thousand dollars and increases eligibility for the
HB 0533 - Johnson - Makes it a crime for an owner or employee of a nursing home to solicit sexual favors from residents
HB 0555 - Foley - Creates a life sciences research program and distributes tobacco settlement proceeds
HB 0556 - Hendrickson - Creates "the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act."
HB 0591 - Baker - Requires the Division of Aging to create and distribute a publication that provides a comprehensive listing of
HB 0603 - Hilgemann - Promotes Alzheimer's awareness and creates the Department of Health and Senior Services
HB 0633 - Boucher - A durable power of attorney cannot be executed until every member of the immediate family consent
HB 0746 - Baker - Amends various provisions regarding in-home care for the elderly
HB 0824 - Abel - Creates a Pharmaceutical Investment Program for Seniors to help defray the cost of pharmaceuticals
HB 0857 - Koller - Revises driver's licensing provisions for those over age 70
HB 0910 - Kelley (047) - Revises pharmaceutical income tax credit
HB 0931 - Brooks - Creates a centralized employee disqualification list for the state
HB 0953 - Thompson - Exempts retired veterans from all taxes
HB 0987 - Relford - Bases the funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served
HJR 017 - Scheve - Proposes a constitutional amendment which creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and an endowment

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Elections

SB 0028 - Rohrbach - Prohibits poll watchers and challengers in presidential primary elections from collecting certain information
SB 0062 - Carter - Requires that employers give employees time off to serve as election judges
SB 0063 - Carter - Allows election authorities the option of providing early voting (voting before the election)
SB 0148 - Goode - Specifies the effective dates for laws passed by initiative and vetoed bills when veto is overridden
SB 0182 - Loudon - Requires run-off elections when no candidate receives more than fifty percent of the votes in certain contests
SB 0191 - Goode - St. Louis County third class cities to fill vacancies by appointment; eliminates office of marshal for certain cities
SB 0198 - Staples - Authorizes Ripley, Oregon and Shannon counties to impose a law enforcement sales tax of up to one percent
SB 0254 - Gross - Eliminates Missouri's motor voter registration program
SB 0286 - Mathewson - Increases sales tax to fund transportation projects and requires director to be elected rather than appointed
SB 0294 - Steelman - Commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the nonpartisan court plan is used
SB 0323 - Childers - Authorizes certain political subdivisions to enact a sales tax, upon voter approval, for specific purposes
SB 0341 - Jacob - Requires sheriffs to become certified peace officers
SB 0427 - Loudon - Modifies selection of members of boards of election commissioners
SB 0476 - Yeckel - Revises election laws
SB 0478 - Stoll - Election authorities must accept absentee ballot applications by fax
SB 0486 - Yeckel - Fire district board members in St. Louis County may be recalled for misconduct in office or criminal convictions
SB 0491 - Rohrbach - Modifies election process for nursing home district directors
SB 0536 - Schneider - Commission on Judicial Resources shall determine number of judges allocated to any circuit
SB 0537 - Stoll - Sole caretakers of homebound voters may vote absentee
SB 0547 - Wiggins - Relating to the election of board members of certain school districts
SB 0583 - Yeckel - Modifies lobbyist regulations and campaign finance laws
SB 0586 - Klindt - Enacts new congressional districts
SCR 015 - Yeckel - Asks Congress to declare the November general election day a a national holiday
SCR 016 - Yeckel - Asks Congress to adopt a comprehensive military voting rights act
SJR 001 - Schneider - Revises term limits for members of the General Assembly
SJR 004 - Johnson - Revises term limits to exclude certain partial terms of service in the General Assembly
SJR 006 - Childers - Establishes an election process for selecting Public Service Commissioners
SJR 011 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 012 - Singleton - Eliminates the Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials (Salary Commission)
SJR 017 - Schneider - Commission on Judicial Resources shall determine number of judges allocated to any circuit
SJR 018 - Singleton - Revises term limits for elected officials
HB 0042 - Bonner - Prohibits colleges in this state from restricting employees who reside outside Missouri from occupying public office in
HB 0099 - Johnson - Enacts civil protections for election judges
HB 0100 - Johnson - Enacts procedures for absentee voting at election authorities and allows election authorities to provide for
HB 0101 - Reinhart - Requires that family court commissioners be placed on the ballot at every presidential election for purposes of a
HB 0109 - Skaggs - Allows local election authorities to establish early voting procedures
HB 0197 - Wagner - Enacts additional petition requirements for the question of retaining the city manager form of government in third
HB 0200 - Davis - Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed education and training
HB 0228 - Walton - Changes process of nominating and electing presidential electors to district by district method with two statewide
HB 0247 - Seigfreid - Establishes mandatory two-week early voting procedures
HB 0281 - Walton - Clarifies that all candidates for nomination to public office may contest primary elections; allows candidates for
HB 0282 - Walton - Changes legislative district committee membership
HB 0297 - Green - Adopts a single-ballot open primary system
HB 0301 - Wagner - Enacts weekend voting procedures for all elections, ending August 31, 2004
HB 0491 - George - Eliminates office of marshall in third classification cities contracting for police services
HB 0498 - Wagner - Changes the petitioning provisions for opting out of the city manager form of government for certain cities
HB 0538 - Abel - Creates a single ballot primary pilot project
HB 0541 - Abel - Enacts additional disclosures for campaign materials and broadcasts
HB 0577 - Bray - Prohibits persons or entities from making aggregate contributions to political party committees in excess of
HB 0627 - Hendrickson - Changes the election of presidential electors to a district by district method, with the two at-large electors going to
HB 0637 - Bray - Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment
HB 0638 - Farnen - Requires election authorities to accept absentee ballot applications by fax, within the limits of the technology
HB 0652 - Robirds - Requires candidates for offices requiring bonds to show proof of ability to obtain the bond prior to filing as a
HB 0696 - Monaco - Changes the county political party committee district structure in Jackson County
HB 0710 - Lowe - Requires the listing of an address or phone number on all election literature
HB 0727 - Hoppe - Regulates the voting rights of persons in public water supply districts
HB 0772 - Linton - Requires the stating of voters' names prior to receipt of a ballot
HB 0782 - Troupe - Makes absentee ballot lists available to the public
HB 0867 - Walton - Changes process of nominating and electing presidential electors to district by district method with two statewide
HB 0923 - Wiggins - Amends various public water supply district proceedings laws
HB 0979 - Bearden - Allows for recall elections of school district board members
HB 1000 - Kreider - Changes the composition of congressional districts
HJR 001 - Ward - Imposes 12-year legislative term limits
HJR 005 - Barry - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority at certain elections

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Elementary and Secondary Education Dept.

SB 0023 - Singleton - Allows voter approval of charter schools in a school district
SB 0026 - Johnson - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War I or II veterans
SB 0032 - Kinder - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
SB 0053 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0056 - Stoll - Renames A+ Schools Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program"
SB 0061 - Steelman - Authorizes countywide education sales taxes
SB 0068 - Gross - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0084 - Singleton - Allows public school choice within a school district
SB 0097 - Bentley - Establishes a grant program for improving mathematics instruction
SB 0101 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0105 - Bland - Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission
SB 0126 - Bentley - Allows the State Board of Education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans
SB 0133 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0134 - Loudon - Requires full funding of categorical programs prior to over- funding of state aid formula
SB 0146 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0153 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0184 - Johnson - Expands ability of boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0239 - Stoll - Creates new reading test and summer school reading program
SB 0242 - Kenney - Establishes school building construction and renovation fund
SB 0262 - Stoll - Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions
SB 0284 - Steelman - Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education institutions
SB 0303 - Johnson - Allows school districts to directly enter into lease purchases with vendors
SB 0319 - Carter - Revises assessments of public school students
SB 0321 - Westfall - Revises laws pertaining to sheltered workshops
SB 0332 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0336 - Caskey - Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students
SB 0353 - Johnson - Revises "recalculated levy" used to determine state aid for certain school districts
SB 0363 - Scott - Raises school compulsory attendance age to seventeen
SB 0423 - Yeckel - Adds state school aid COLA for hold harmless districts
SB 0438 - Bentley - Revises teacher compensation
SB 0447 - Carter - Provides that assessments may be given to special education students at appropriate levels
SB 0457 - Stoll - Revises state school aid to certain districts
SB 0463 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0466 - Dougherty - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive reward program and fund
SB 0480 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0494 - Stoll - Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax
SB 0497 - Westfall - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
SB 0502 - Jacob - Changes public school retirement benefits for divorced members
SB 0510 - Kenney - Revises charter school laws
SB 0512 - House - Revises Charter School Laws
SB 0543 - Foster - Revises school district transfers of funds for capital purposes
SB 0547 - Wiggins - Relating to the election of board members of certain school districts
SB 0575 - Caskey - Revises public school reporting requirements
SB 0607 - Johnson - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 0614 - Gross - Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for students attending four year institutions
SB 0616 - Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
SB 0630 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SJR 005 - Childers - Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution
HB 0026 - Wilson - Creates loan repayment assistance program for qualified teachers
HB 0029 - Wilson - Provides bonuses for teachers who either receive national certification or act as mentors in approved teacher
HB 0035 - Gaskill - Moves the mandatory age for starting school down to age five
HB 0045 - Farnen - Removes the one-year residency requirement for the Commissioner of Education
HB 0050 - Relford - Revises various laws regarding public schools
HB 0081 - Relford - Restricts the ability of persons with criminal histories from obtaining or maintaining teacher certificates
HB 0091 - Scheve - Removes gambling boat proceeds from the foundation formula and distributes them on a per-pupil basis
HB 0092 - Scheve - Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding; depending on formula funding levels and
HB 0095 - Wilson - Allows urban school districts to start school prior to September 1st
HB 0097 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations
HB 0098 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations
HB 0112 - Boykins - Requires subdistrict residency for St. Louis school board members; clarifies that even-numbered board district
HB 0128 - Fraser - Repeals the mandatory September first start date for elementary and secondary schools
HB 0132 - Gambaro - Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 0164 - Troupe - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules
HB 0165 - Troupe - Changes the qualifications, election and districting of the members of the city of St. Louis school board
HB 0176 - Thompson - Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business
HB 0198 - Wagner - Makes "bird Day" a state holiday, to be observed at the elementary and secondary schools of this state
HB 0199 - Davis - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs
HB 0200 - Davis - Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed education and training
HB 0208 - George - Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees
HB 0235 - Dougherty - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules; requires public universities to conduct student
HB 0244 - Treadway - Provides honorary high school diplomas to Wwii veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United
HB 0250 - Reid - Makes developmentally appropriate phonics instruction available for all public primary school age students
HB 0263 - Linton - Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students
HB 0264 - Linton - Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content
HB 0271 - Fraser - Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs
HB 0273 - Fraser - Adds two secondary school student members to the State Board of Education
HB 0274 - Shields - Revises school calendar requirements for the 2000-2001 school year
HB 0290 - Troupe - Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District
HB 0300 - Ostmann - Creates incentives for national teacher certification
HB 0305 - Walton - Establishes subdistricts in the school district of Riverview Gardens
HB 0322 - Campbell - Transfers control of the Kansas City school district to the state board of education until new governance or
HB 0325 - Marble - Exempts twenty-five percent of all newly approved bond moneys from salary compliance; allocates all of such moneys
HB 0326 - Portwood - Creates Classroom Trust Fund; places all gambling, lottery, and unclaimed lottery prize revenue in fund; phased in over
HB 0334 - Davis - Revises "recalculated levy" provision of state school aid formula
HB 0352 - Hosmer - Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs
HB 0415 - Hendrickson - Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues
HB 0424 - Wilson - Prohibits certain disclosures to parents of students in postsecondary education
HB 0427 - Hampton - Adopts a new voluntary five-level minimum teacher salary plan
HB 0429 - Kelly (036) - Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits
HB 0435 - Merideth III - Recognizes American Sign Language or any other generally accepted means of communication used by the deaf community
HB 0441 - Holt - Allows World War I, World War II and Korean War veterans to receive a high school diploma
HB 0475 - Froelker - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0486 - Davis - Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of
HB 0505 - Johnson - Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund
HB 0506 - Johnson - Ccreates the parents in education grant program and fund
HB 0535 - Bowman - Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school
HB 0536 - Bowman - Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student
HB 0559 - Van Zandt - Creates the classroom technology trust fund program and commission; uses funds otherwise reverting to general
HB 0598 - Shelton (057) - Creates incentives for special education teachers
HB 0604 - Hilgemann - Creates a character education grant program and fund
HB 0625 - Treadway - Adopts national certification bonuses for teachers, speech language pathologists and audiologists
HB 0649 - Shields - Authorizes school districts to adopt a voter-approved supplemental income tax for the purpose of reducing
HB 0658 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows for optional year-round school calendars
HB 0666 - Shields - Creates the Kansas City education renewal commission
HB 0668 - Shields - Increases minimum teachers' salaries
HB 0669 - Shields - Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district
HB 0725 - Britt - Allows certain districts to transfer additional funds for capital purposes
HB 0735 - Shields - Creates the Classroom Trust Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund
HB 0751 - Kennedy - Creates state income tax credits for expenditures of teachers for instructional materials for the classroom
HB 0754 - Franklin - Establishes teacher salary supplements for national board teacher certification
HB 0763 - Shields - Prevents penalties from being assessed for noncompliance with certain educational expenditure ratios when
HB 0769 - Harlan - Makes personally-identifiable Higher Education Savings Program records confidential
HB 0775 - Bray - Defines rights and liabilities surrounding student publications sponsored by public schools
HB 0794 - Bartle - Establishes the school building construction and renovation fund
HB 0795 - Copenhaver - Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board
HB 0814 - Shields - Provides for reciprocal interstate teacher certification and fast-track teacher certification
HB 0859 - Hilgemann - Establishes housing grant program for new public school teachers
HB 0860 - Hilgemann - Allows school districts to change the mandatory date of school attendance to seventeen
HB 0864 - Dempsey - Adds Cpi adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
HB 0865 - Davis - Revises public school reporting requirements
HB 0868 - Merideth III - Allows school districts to contract with eligible new generation cooperatives for the purchase of biodiesel to
HB 0869 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
HB 0872 - Naeger - Transportation of certain nonpublic school students
HB 0878 - Ballard - Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain
HB 0903 - Bartelsmeyer - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
HB 0925 - Walton - Creates an After School Retreat Grant Program and Fund
HB 0926 - Walton - Establishes grant program to involve families and communities in education
HB 0940 - Ballard - Prohibits scheduling of certain teacher activities during the regular school day
HB 0946 - Merideth III - Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education
HB 0948 - Boucher - Requires school districts to implement Chemis 4.0 risk management system for handling potentially hazardous
HB 0952 - Haywood - Makes Dese responsible for all interdistrict transfers of funding of students not attending their home districts
HB 0967 - Reinhart - Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen
HB 0972 - Byrd - Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent
HB 0979 - Bearden - Allows for recall elections of school district board members
HB 0981 - Willoughby - Grants immunity for teachers; waives sovereign immunity for workers' comp, family leave
HB 0998 - Merideth III - Creates "missouri Family Training Program for Special Education."
HB 1026 - Kennedy - Creates a public school beautification adoption program
HCR 029 - Boatright - Urges the member schools of the Missouri State High School Activities Association to adopt an amendment to its bylaws
HJR 009 - Linton - Requires the State Board of Education to be elected
HJR 018 - Johnson - Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing the number of members of the State Board of Education

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Emergencies

SB 0422 - Steelman - Extends the fee collection period for the State Emergency Management Agency
SB 0619 - Mathewson - Changes provisions for emergency care service providers; state easement to City of Sedalia
HB 0280 - Hoppe - Enacts various laws regulating emergency services and their funding
HB 0983 - Selby - Prohibits the firing of employees who miss work due to providing emergency services as a volunteer firefighter

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Eminent Domain and Condemnation

SB 0002 - Schneider - Requires condemnors who abandon proceedings to pay the landowner's costs and expenses
SB 0278 - Westfall - Allows a municipality to use condemnation in order to construct or acquire natural gas service
HB 0399 - Berkstresser - Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation proceedings

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Employees-Employers

SB 0062 - Carter - Requires that employers give employees time off to serve as election judges
SB 0085 - Rohrbach - State employees' home addresses and phone numbers are to be confidential
SB 0102 - Childers - Exempts certain political subdivisions from the state prevailing wage law
SB 0114 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work
SB 0120 - Goode - Establishes good faith employee negotiations for certain public employees
SB 0139 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0289 - Sims - Requires insurers to provide annual claims reports to group policyholders
SB 0380 - House - Makes technical changes in industrial classification system for employer unemployment contributions
SB 0381 - Klarich - Makes nonsolicitation agreements enforceable as they relate to certain employment practices
SB 0392 - Kenney - Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility
SB 0416 - Stoll - Requires employers to keep records regarding child employees and makes technical changes to child labor chapter
SB 0417 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund and interest payments in workers' claims
SB 0419 - Sims - Makes certain disabled workers eligible for Medicaid
SB 0428 - Loudon - Establishes standard for vicarious liability of employer for harassment of employee by supervisor
SB 0452 - DePasco - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0453 - Dougherty - Provides tax credits for employers who grant their employees paid maternity leave
SB 0467 - House - Broadens liability for employers who do not file or pay withholding taxes to the Department of Revenue
SB 0476 - Yeckel - Revises election laws
SB 0480 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0481 - Foster - Modifies portions of the Public School Retirement System
SB 0492 - Westfall - Includes departments of Agriculture, Economic Development and Revenue in merit system
SB 0493 - Westfall - Includes Agriculture Department in merit system
SB 0500 - Mathewson - Revises certain job training programs
SB 0505 - Loudon - Expands meaning of "owner-operator" of a vehicle for hire for purposes of workers' compensation
SB 0513 - House - Regulates contracts for services formerly delivered by public bodies
SB 0550 - Sims - The state grants consent to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act
SB 0555 - House - Prohibits non-compete clauses in employment contracts within the broadcast industry
SB 0580 - Loudon - Modifies some workers' compensation provisions
SB 0590 - Russell - Licensing of certain construction personnel
SB 0596 - Loudon - Establishes the Open Contracting Act for state and local public works projects
HB 0063 - Reynolds - Changes mandatory time-and-a-half compensation for amusement and entertainment workers from fifty-two hours to
HB 0064 - Reynolds - Expands the classes of public employees that may join labor organizations
HB 0099 - Johnson - Enacts civil protections for election judges
HB 0115 - Hickey - Enacts the Missouri Equal Pay Act
HB 0160 - Bray - "public Employee Due Process Act," creating procedural rights for termination, demotion, or discipline of public
HB 0162 - Bray - Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge of an employee
HB 0201 - Shields - Creates a state income tax credit for certain small employers who provide health insurance for eligible
HB 0413 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment
HB 0445 - Luetkenhaus - Corrects certain statutory cross-references in Chapter 288 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri
HB 0446 - Luetkenhaus - Revises the industrial classification system for determination of unemployment contributions
HB 0452 - Gratz - Allows retired state employees access to goods and services provided by the Vocational Enterprises Program
HB 0512 - Baker - Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act
HB 0570 - Green - Allows unemployment beneifts for workers enrolled in an approved, unpaid full-time training program
HB 0586 - Wagner - Repeals obsolete labor law and updates and reorganizes existing sections concerning the Department of Labor and
HB 0587 - Wagner - Revises child labor laws
HB 0634 - Scheve - Prohibits certain noncompetition contracts in the broadcasting industry
HB 0653 - Robirds - Requires applicants for unemployment insurance benefits to submit to drug test
HB 0661 - Wagner - Repeals obsolete labor law and updates and reorganizes existing sections concerning the Department of Labor and
HB 0712 - Hilgemann - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
HB 0720 - Bray - Revises pay equity law
HB 0771 - Secrest - Revises unlawful employment practices section
HB 0839 - Secrest - Requires impartial, rather than liberal, interpretation of workers' compensation law
HB 0840 - Secrest - Makes evidence of intoxication conclusively presumed proximate cause of workers' compensation injuries
HB 0841 - Secrest - Revises workers' compensation law
HB 0842 - Secrest - Modifies workers' compensation law to determine relative contributions to injury by multiple employers, and gives
HB 0895 - Naeger - Revises small claims court procedure
HB 0931 - Brooks - Creates a centralized employee disqualification list for the state
HB 0949 - Barry - Clarifies whistleblower protection for health care employees
HB 0970 - Naeger - For purposes of worker compensation law, makes positive tests for drug use proximate cause of injuries resulting to
HB 0971 - Secrest - Revises provisions related to dismissal of workers' compensation cases
HB 0974 - Levin - Prohibits insurers from using genetic information to discriminate and makes it unlawful to require a person to
HB 0983 - Selby - Prohibits the firing of employees who miss work due to providing emergency services as a volunteer firefighter
HB 0989 - Rizzo - Authorizes extra unemployment compensation benefits for persons laid off from certain employers
HB 0993 - Lawson - Modifies the statutes relating to the qualification and disqualification of employees of the Department of Mental
HB 0997 - Byrd - Waives sovereign immunity for purposes of worker compensation and prohibits the state from retaliatory
HB 1015 - Secrest - Deems a 4-week suspension or a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work

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Employment Security

SB 0114 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work
SB 0338 - House - Allows unemployment benefits for workers enrolled in an approved, unpaid full-time training program
SB 0366 - House - Corrects statutory cross-references in Chapter 288, Revised Statutes of MO
SB 0452 - DePasco - Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation
SB 0550 - Sims - The state grants consent to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act
HB 0413 - Hegeman - Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment
HB 0445 - Luetkenhaus - Corrects certain statutory cross-references in Chapter 288 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri
HB 0446 - Luetkenhaus - Revises the industrial classification system for determination of unemployment contributions
HB 0570 - Green - Allows unemployment beneifts for workers enrolled in an approved, unpaid full-time training program
HB 0653 - Robirds - Requires applicants for unemployment insurance benefits to submit to drug test
HB 0720 - Bray - Revises pay equity law
HB 0970 - Naeger - For purposes of worker compensation law, makes positive tests for drug use proximate cause of injuries resulting to
HB 0983 - Selby - Prohibits the firing of employees who miss work due to providing emergency services as a volunteer firefighter
HB 0989 - Rizzo - Authorizes extra unemployment compensation benefits for persons laid off from certain employers
HB 1014 - Secrest - Revises worker's compensation law
HB 1015 - Secrest - Deems a 4-week suspension or a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work

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Energy

SB 0080 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes
SB 0157 - Goode - Revises the sunset on disclosure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0331 - DePasco - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
SB 0387 - Goode - Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs impacted by fuel or purchased power price increases
SB 0422 - Steelman - Extends the fee collection period for the State Emergency Management Agency
SB 0432 - Stoll - Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
SB 0451 - Goode - Allows spending of the Energy Set-aside Program Fund for ad- ministration of DNR's energy responsibilities and activities
SB 0455 - Kinder - Revises laws relating to electric utilities
SB 0499 - Mathewson - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0501 - Goode - Allows transfer of electric generating plant to wholesale affiliate and allows limited retail electric choice
SB 0519 - Foster - Extends the period in which a wood energy producer can claim a tax credit from 5 years to 10 years
SB 0529 - Dougherty - Creates the Consumer Clean Energy Act to promote energy efficiency
SCR 018 - Goode - Establishes a joint legislative committee on Telecommunications and Energy
HB 0102 - Mays (050) - Establishes state penalties for violation of the federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act; makes municipalities that
HB 0239 - Smith (011) - Enacts additional notice and hearing requirements for surface mining permits
HB 0425 - O'Toole - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
HB 0576 - Willoughby - Authorizes the general assembly, for 2001, to make a one-time transfer of up to five million dollars to the
HB 0597 - Lawson - Requires various gasoline specifications
HB 0676 - Mays (050) - Regulates the transfer of utility generation assets; amends utility taxation and rate laws
HB 0717 - Burton - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for sales of natural gas to industrial and commercial customers for the months
HB 0723 - Mays (050) - Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs impacted by natural gas prices
HB 0763 - Shields - Prevents penalties from being assessed for noncompliance with certain educational expenditure ratios when
HB 0766 - Bray - Requires electrical and gas providers to increase use of renewable energy resources
HB 0778 - Boucher - Requires natural gas companies to submit a mitigation strategy for natural gas pricing to the Psc for approval
HB 0911 - Carnahan - Enacts the Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
HB 1003 - Burton - Allows a tax credit for coal-generated plants built with pollution control devices
HCR 011 - Haywood - Directs the Psc to freeze all utility rates at their current levels until the utility cost crises is over
HCR 012 - Haywood - Urges Congress to establish federal energy policy delegating emergency power to individual states
HCR 019 - Burton - Urges the political subdivisions of this state to suspend imposition of the gross receipts tax on natural gas sales
HCR 024 - Boucher - Urges the U.S. Congress to address the issue of increased fuel prices by developing domestic sources

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Engineers

SB 0108 - Steelman - Creates MO Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers
SB 0229 - Jacob - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
SB 0625 - Stoll - Allows consolidation of sewer districts
HB 0288 - Campbell - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
HB 0760 - Campbell - Clarifies exemption from state elevator safety law, by virtue of following specific professional codes, for Kansas
HB 0995 - Hosmer - Establishes default building codes for design professionals in areas of the state where there are no applicable state

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Enterprise Zones

SB 0392 - Kenney - Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility
SB 0589 - Russell - Allows Economic Development to authorize an enterprise zone in Wright County
SB 0617 - Steelman - Modifies current tax incentives for community economic development
SB 0626 - Bentley - Allows three satellite economic development zones in Springfield
HB 0327 - Rizzo - Extends the life of the Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund and changes board duties

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Entertainment, Sports and Amusements

SB 0086 - Rohrbach - Authorizes certain counties to impose building codes and modifies other provisions of law pertaining to counties
SB 0112 - Loudon - Prohibits ticket scalping for entertainment events
SB 0128 - Childers - Grants immunity from liability for injuries or death resulting from risks of paddlesport activities
SB 0249 - Wiggins - New baseball stadium in St. Louis; funding for several stadiums in Kansas City & St. Louis
SB 0430 - Dougherty - Allows St. Louis City to levy property tax for musical services
SB 0523 - Scott - Expands power of sports authority to construct and finance a new major league baseball stadium in St. Louis
SB 0567 - Gross - Exempts movie tickets from state and local sales taxes
HB 0041 - Bonner - Enacts various laws regarding sports authorities in certain counties
HB 0062 - Reynolds - Changes the makeup of the State Fair Commission
HB 0063 - Reynolds - Changes mandatory time-and-a-half compensation for amusement and entertainment workers from fifty-two hours to
HB 0066 - Reynolds - Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators
HB 0114 - Hickey - Excludes charges of mandatory gratuities incident to the serving of food and drink from the definition of gross
HB 0185 - Legan - Authorizes certain counties to impose building codes and modifies other provisions of law pertaining to counties
HB 0190 - Ford - Removes $500 loss limit on gaming boats and prohibits gaming commission from limiting amount of time an
HB 0232 - Dougherty - Allows the City of St. Louis to establish a band fund
HB 0249 - Treadway - Requires licenses for amusement machine operators
HB 0313 - Liese - Revises certain gaming definitions
HB 0619 - Froelker - Places moratorium on new types of gaming and commissions study of effects of gaming on the state
HB 0624 - Villa - Authorizes the City of St. Louis to levy a tax for free band concerts
HB 0837 - Foley - Expands the powers of the Greater St. Louis Sports Authority
HB 0890 - Hendrickson - Authorizes municipalities to regulate adult establishments
HB 1022 - Kennedy - Exempts movie tickets from state and local sales taxes
HCR 025 - Graham - Authorizes revenue bonds for the state's share of the construction of a sports arena at the Univ. of MO-Columbia
HCR 029 - Boatright - Urges the member schools of the Missouri State High School Activities Association to adopt an amendment to its bylaws

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Environmental Protection

SB 0015 - Mathewson - Revises membership of Clean Water Commission
SB 0020 - Goode - Creates the Non-native Species Council
SB 0127 - Childers - Revises permit approval process for certain wastewater treatment facilities
SB 0149 - Goode - Revises motor vehicle emissions inspections for certain areas
SB 0300 - Rohrbach - Certain DNR rules shall be no stricter than federal regulations with exceptions
SB 0310 - Quick - Revises expiration of Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund and changes certain board functions
SB 0312 - Caskey - Allows appeal of water pollution permit decisions by affected third parties
SB 0331 - DePasco - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
SB 0335 - Kinder - Establishes audit privileges for voluntary internal environmental audits
SB 0368 - Childers - Creates a program to promote sustainable forestry
SB 0374 - Steelman - Establishes a program of air pollution emissions banking and trading
SB 0415 - House - Revises land reclamation permits and procedures for certain substances, not including coal
SB 0435 - Goode - Exempts registered historic vehicles from emissions testing
SB 0527 - Dougherty - Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for using alternative fuels
SCR 009 - Loudon - Requests the Governor to opt out of reformulated gas program for St. Louis
SCR 017 - Steelman - Relating to Environmental Protection Agency standards for ozone pollution
SJR 002 - Goode - Exempts fees collected by Natural Resources Department from definition of revenues used to calculate total state revenue
HB 0124 - Long - Prohibits the possession or use of glass containers within 50 feet of any navigable waterway in the state of Missouri
HB 0205 - Relford - Modifies various provisions relating to conservation
HB 0233 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which
HB 0234 - Dougherty - Allows governing bodies to abate certain property taxes of owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied
HB 0239 - Smith (011) - Enacts additional notice and hearing requirements for surface mining permits
HB 0259 - Koller - Makes the Department of Conservation financially liable for damage caused by wild elk
HB 0327 - Rizzo - Extends the life of the Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund and changes board duties
HB 0410 - Holt - Allows expanded weed removal procedures in the city of St. Peter's
HB 0423 - Dougherty - Creates a state income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase zero emissions vehicles and super-ultra-low
HB 0425 - O'Toole - Revises the operation and participation of the one call notification center for excavators
HB 0437 - Griesheimer - Amends the laws regarding vehicle emission testing
HB 0453 - Ransdall - Modifies various provisions relating to commerce
HB 0501 - Bowman - Increases the authorization for water pollution bonds; changes sewer district provisions for certain districts
HB 0580 - Hohulin - Exempts agricultural land from any state law, rule or regulation, or any local city or county ordinance that
HB 0609 - Gratz - Prohibits certain Dnr rules from being any stricter than federal regulations
HB 0613 - Luetkenhaus - Allows fourth class cities in counties of the first classification to participate in the state weed and grass
HB 0698 - Luetkenhaus - Allows fourth class cities in counties of the first classification to participate in the state weed and grass
HB 0701 - Berkowitz - Allows interested parties to appeal a permit denial for a water containment or point source
HB 0721 - Walton - Expands optional one-year motor vehicle emissions inspection to entire state
HB 0758 - Green - Provides a procedure for filing a claim for a refund of an erroneously paid surcharge on petroleum products
HB 0786 - Marble - Establishes an environmental audit privilege
HB 0802 - Ransdall - Establishes the Missouri Air Emission Banking and Trading Program
HB 0804 - McKenna - Allows more counties to enact ordinances for the abatement and removal of debris on real property
HB 0868 - Merideth III - Allows school districts to contract with eligible new generation cooperatives for the purchase of biodiesel to
HB 0873 - Naeger - Amends various portions of the on-site sewage system law
HB 0904 - Merideth III - Expands the MO Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990 to include more recent agroforestry practices
HB 0914 - Berkstresser - Prohibits persons from applying fertilizers with phosphorus in certain counties
HB 0941 - Ballard - Requires forty-eight hour notice prior to the application of pesticides, insecticides or herbicides in or around
HB 0948 - Boucher - Requires school districts to implement Chemis 4.0 risk management system for handling potentially hazardous
HB 0964 - Carnahan - Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health
HB 0985 - Abel - Modifies the emissions testing fee and establishes a complaint procedure for vehicle damage claims during
HB 1003 - Burton - Allows a tax credit for coal-generated plants built with pollution control devices
HB 1024 - Williams (121) - Allows counties of the fourth classification to place on the ballot a measure to impose a landfill fee
HCR 016 - Green - Urges the EPA to provide the St. Louis area with the promised time to meet the ozone standards for air quality
HCR 017 - Purgason - Urges the Forest Service to withdraw its proposal to set aside 100,000 acres of national forest for the Indiana bat
HCR 031 - Ballard - Strongly recommends that precautions be taken prior to the application of insecticides and herbicides in or around

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Estates, Wills and Trusts

SB 0227 - Jacob - Life insurance beneficiary designations made after August 28 shall not be presumed revoked upon divorce
SB 0304 - Klarich - Permits removal of a trustee upon petition of the settlor, co-trustee or any beneficiary
SB 0370 - Caskey - Revises Principal and Income Act and the rule against perpetuities
SB 0468 - Kenney - Repeals Missouri estate tax upon repeal of federal estate tax
SB 0508 - Cauthorn - Repeals state estate tax if federal estate tax is repealed
HB 0241 - Smith (011) - Revises the principal and income act and the rule against perpetuities; revises estate tax
HB 0644 - Burton - Life insurance beneficiary designations made after August 28 shall not be presumed revoked upon divorce

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Ethics

SB 0583 - Yeckel - Modifies lobbyist regulations and campaign finance laws
HB 0541 - Abel - Enacts additional disclosures for campaign materials and broadcasts
HB 0678 - Seigfreid - Amends various ethics and campaign finance laws
HB 0697 - Treadway - Requires the Ethics Commission to immediately notify persons against whom a complaint has been filed

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Evidence

SB 0010 - Caskey - Modifies judicial procedures for expiration of qualified domestic relations orders
SB 0016 - Mathewson - Creates crime of theft of transportation of property service
SB 0021 - Goode - Revises the Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act
SB 0029 - Rohrbach - Allows certain convicted felons to obtain post-conviction DNA testing
SB 0036 - Westfall - Provides for .08 DWI/BAC and increases collateral consequences
SB 0075 - Wiggins - Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act
SB 0081 - Goode - Creates crime of aggravated driving with excessive blood alcohol content
SB 0087 - Rohrbach - Requires assessment to be filed with petition for civil commitment of sexually violent predators
SB 0089 - Kinder - Creates and amends crimes relating to controlled substances and anhydrous ammonia
SB 0091 - Westfall - Requires drivers to take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching
SB 0098 - Bentley - Revises various criminal provisions
SB 0100 - Childers - Provides civil immunity to certain crime victims and Good Samaritans for injuries to perpetrators
SB 0129 - Childers - Modifies joint and several liability, the collateral source rules of evidence, and punitive damages
SB 0135 - Wiggins - Revises the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement law
SB 0183 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0192 - Schneider - Prohibits capital punishment of a mentally retarded person and restricts use of evidence obtained from such a person
SB 0214 - Gross - Revises crime of possession of child pornography
SB 0223 - Caskey - Clarifies procedure for court instructions regarding lesser included offenses
SB 0232 - Gross - The murder of a child age 12 or less is aggravating factor for a sentence of death
SB 0233 - Wiggins - Creates cause of action for damages resulting from another's drug use
SB 0248 - Wiggins - Revises dram shop liability
SB 0282 - Klarich - Authorizes certain post-conviction DNA testing of evidence
SB 0297 - DePasco - Allows self-service storage facilities to collect late fees
SB 0337 - House - Limits the ability of the government to interfere with the exercise of religion
SB 0370 - Caskey - Revises Principal and Income Act and the rule against perpetuities
SB 0381 - Klarich - Makes nonsolicitation agreements enforceable as they relate to certain employment practices
SB 0428 - Loudon - Establishes standard for vicarious liability of employer for harassment of employee by supervisor
SB 0433 - Kinder - Revises dram shop liability
SB 0458 - Caskey - Revises numerous theft crimes to reflect new felony limit of $500
SB 0496 - Schneider - Modifies Second Injury Fund provisions
SB 0539 - Yeckel - Limits child custody relocation notice requirement to a move of sixty miles or more
SB 0560 - Caskey - Authorizes permits for concealable weapons
SB 0579 - Loudon - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0608 - Yeckel - Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine
HB 0241 - Smith (011) - Revises the principal and income act and the rule against perpetuities; revises estate tax
HB 0421 - Graham - Revises dram shop liability
HB 0835 - Britt - Revises numerous provisions relating to crimes
HB 0927 - Henderson - Creates a limited privilege for internal insurance compliance audits performed by insurers

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Fairs

SB 0619 - Mathewson - Changes provisions for emergency care service providers; state easement to City of Sedalia

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Family Law

SB 0010 - Caskey - Modifies judicial procedures for expiration of qualified domestic relations orders
SB 0044 - Bentley - Promotes adoption awareness and expedites the adoption of foster children
SB 0135 - Wiggins - Revises the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement law
SB 0180 - Klarich - State policy is to recognize marriage only between a male and a female
SB 0219 - Mathewson - Allows a surviving spouse to obtain an autopsy report
SB 0227 - Jacob - Life insurance beneficiary designations made after August 28 shall not be presumed revoked upon divorce
SB 0236 - Sims - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0264 - Steelman - Division of benefits in divorce may begin on agreed upon date
SB 0296 - Gross - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0314 - Steelman - Mandates time limitations for custody decisions
SB 0348 - Sims - Modifies procedures for the adoption of foster childern
SB 0361 - Bentley - Creates CASA fund for court-appointed special advocates for children
SB 0410 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rates over a three-year period
SB 0453 - Dougherty - Provides tax credits for employers who grant their employees paid maternity leave
SB 0473 - Dougherty - Makes various changes regarding children's services
SB 0528 - Dougherty - Does not require the court to make reasonable efforts if a child is abused by a person other than a parent
SB 0539 - Yeckel - Limits child custody relocation notice requirement to a move of sixty miles or more
SB 0571 - Dougherty - Requires distribution of marriage license fees to the Department of Public Safety for domestic violence shelters
SB 0628 - Jacob - Allows restraining orders against minors
SCR 019 - Sims - Declares Child Citizenship Day
HB 0032 - Gaskill - Changes the waiting period for a marriage license
HB 0108 - Clayton - Establishes the Missouri Casa Fund
HB 0123 - Dougherty - Allows the Division of Family Services to request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth
HB 0143 - Hosmer - Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation
HB 0347 - Troupe - Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases
HB 0349 - Hosmer - Makes various changes regarding protection of the elderly laws
HB 0355 - Kelly (027) - Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certificates without a court order
HB 0357 - Wilson - Creates the Family and Community Trust
HB 0365 - Champion - Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the six-month waiting period
HB 0418 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement rate to the rate established by the U.s. Department of Agriculture
HB 0422 - Froelker - Creates heirloom birth certificates an marriage licenses suitable for display
HB 0454 - Monaco - Allows a guardian and conservator who is the spouse of ward to remain guardian or conservator after divorce
HB 0464 - Smith (011) - Removes from the original jurisdiction of the juvenile/family courts cases involving violations of
HB 0537 - Ostmann - Amends various statutes relating to marriage by adding gender neutral language
HB 0589 - Monaco - Removes from the banking statute the common law presumption that real and personal marital property is titled as
HB 0626 - Hosmer - Removes the Social Security number requirement on marriage licenses for applicants who do not have a SSN
HB 0644 - Burton - Life insurance beneficiary designations made after August 28 shall not be presumed revoked upon divorce
HB 0651 - Robirds - Limits parental liability for the damages caused by the acts of their seventeen year old children
HB 0759 - Kelly (027) - Repeals the current child relocation statute and reenacts and earlier version of this section
HB 0847 - Fraser - Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services adoption registry and allows biological
HB 0870 - Merideth III - Relating to the grandparents as foster parents program
HB 0908 - Hollingsworth - Expands the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts to include paternity, permanent guardianship and dissolution of

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Family Services Division

SB 0044 - Bentley - Promotes adoption awareness and expedites the adoption of foster children
SB 0045 - Bentley - Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on their income tax return
SB 0060 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision of in-home services to the elderly
SB 0066 - Gibbons - Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a hospital
SB 0174 - Bland - Requires the Division of Family Services to provide an annual report on the status of welfare reform in Missouri
SB 0236 - Sims - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
SB 0276 - Sims - Allows foster children to receive a "balance scholarship" to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0318 - Sims - Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level
SB 0348 - Sims - Modifies procedures for the adoption of foster childern
SB 0361 - Bentley - Creates CASA fund for court-appointed special advocates for children
SB 0410 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rates over a three-year period
SB 0429 - Dougherty - Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0448 - Sims - Extends Medicaid or insurance coverage for breast, cervical and prostate cancer
SB 0528 - Dougherty - Does not require the court to make reasonable efforts if a child is abused by a person other than a parent
SB 0551 - Sims - Modifies provisions relating to children and families
HB 0061 - Ward - Allows the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit food pantries operating
HB 0123 - Dougherty - Allows the Division of Family Services to request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth
HB 0339 - Barry - Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001
HB 0345 - Ostmann - Increases the resource limits for public assistance eligibility for single and married persons
HB 0365 - Champion - Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the six-month waiting period
HB 0418 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement rate to the rate established by the U.s. Department of Agriculture
HB 0847 - Fraser - Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services adoption registry and allows biological
HB 0870 - Merideth III - Relating to the grandparents as foster parents program
HB 0978 - Merideth III - Adds the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence to the list of regional child assessment centers to be
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