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Disabilities

SB 0637 - Caskey - State consents to ADA suits in state court only
SB 0653 - Johnson - Expands ability of SB 40 Boards to fund other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0702 - Caskey - Creates the Older Visually Impaired Missourians Fund
SB 0736 - Dougherty - Prohibits the refusal of residential treatment services to children with mental disorders or addiction
SB 0757 - Westfall - Creates the Head Injury Fund for use by the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council
SB 0835 - Bland - Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0846 - Singleton - Changes name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf
SB 0847 - Singleton - Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit
SB 0860 - Rohrbach - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0861 - Rohrbach - Modifies definition of American Sign Language to include that it is the native language for many deaf Missourians
SB 0874 - Bentley - Prescribes additional guidelines concerning service delivery for special education services
SB 0878 - Sims - Modifies law relating to the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0882 - Sims - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0920 - Caskey - Makes rehabilitation services for the blind the Division of Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
SB 0982 - Kennedy - Creates a tax credit for modifying a house to accommodate a disabled person
SB 0986 - Steelman - Allows the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to pay interpreter certification evaluators for their services
SB 0991 - Kinder - Provides funding for the education of certain disabled students
SB 1059 - Bentley - Generates numerous modifications to the state's education policy
SB 1069 - Sims - Requires Medicaid eligibility & benefits for home- and community-based services to be equal to institutional care
SB 1156 - Steelman - Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for individuals age 65 and older and children
SB 1246 - Yeckel - Provides that alternate assessments may be given to special education students
HB 1231 - Harding - Establishes the rights of persons who use service animals.
HB 1247 - Thompson - Requires health insurance coverage for scalp prostheses for persons with alopecia.
HB 1315 - Graham - Allows the state of Missouri to be sued under the Americans with disabilities act.
HB 1354 - Reynolds - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
HB 1356 - Merideth III - Establishes the Missouri family training program for special education.
HB 1385 - Bray - Provides a tax credit for assistance and care for the disabled.
HB 1396 - Graham - Provides insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.
HB 1401 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children who are not attending Missouri School for the Deaf.
HB 1711 - Graham - Generates numerous changes to the state's education policy including modifications concerning the foundation formula
HB 1715 - Moore - Expands the use of state-funded interpreters for the deaf in judicial proceedings
HB 1740 - Cunningham - Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.
HB 1783 - Lowe - Modifies various provisions relating to the deaf and hard of hearing
HB 1784 - Lowe - Amends the definition of American Sign Language to declare it to be the native language of many deaf Missourians.
HB 1817 - Franklin - Makes numerous changes to the state's education policy
HB 1893 - Barry - Changes the name the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
HB 2083 - Boucher - Funds the Utilicare stabilization program by transferring funds in the custody of circuit courts.
HB 2092 - Reynolds - Allows public school students who complete course work in American Sign Language to receive foreign language academic
HB 2093 - Reynolds - Requires all television stations with three million dollars in gross revenue to provide real time captioning for
HB 2094 - Reynolds - Changes the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
HB 2117 - Boucher - Modifies the provisions regarding access to information technology by state departments and agencies
HB 2167 - Burton - Allows a not-for-profit provider to operate multiple living units for the mentally retarded and developmentally
HB 2169 - Cooper - Creates a tax credit for disabled dependent care costs.
HB 2170 - Holand - Limits the number of regional centers for the provision of comprehensive mental retardation and developmental
HCR 005 - Reynolds - Urges the Governor to declare a week in September as "Deaf Awareness Week"
HCR 030 - Boucher - Endorses and encourages the use of universal design in new home construction.

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Domestic Relations

SB 0698 - Cauthorn - Allows covenant marriages
SB 0740 - Wiggins - Creates the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0916 - Dougherty - Modifies various court fees
SB 1192 - Gross - Modifies grandparent visitation provisions
SB 1247 - Quick - Requires the Kansas City Firefighters Pension Fund to recognize domestic relations orders
HB 1072 - Hosmer - Allows for the termination of spousal maintenance based on cohabitation
HB 1168 - Crowell - Requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to modify child custody
HB 1814 - Monaco - Modifies various provisions relating to orders of protection
HB 1878 - Roark - Establishes covenant marriages in this state.
HB 2142 - Wilson - Makes technical modifications to paternity provisions.

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Drainage and Levee Districts

SB 0941 - DePasco - Allows owners of business property to appoint representative in matters involving drainage districts
HB 1085 - Mays (050) - Allows owners of business property to appoint representative in matters involving drainage district

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Drugs and Controlled Substances

SB 0707 - Russell - Disqualifies individuals for unemployment compensation for failing or refusing to take a drug test
SB 0764 - Bland - Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health
SB 1005 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
SB 1095 - Cauthorn - Creates the "Missouri Sheriff Methamphetamine Relief Team" (MoSMART)
SB 1134 - Yeckel - Creates a stamp tax on controlled substances
HB 1029 - Phillips - Creates the crime of tampering with pharmaceuticals
HB 1079 - Portwood - Expands eligibility for the Missouri Senior Rx Program to include seniors with catastrophic drug costs
HB 1082 - Fraser - Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians
HB 1133 - Walton - Requires health care professionals to inform their patients about Edta chelation therapy
HB 1280 - Secrest - Eliminates workers' compensation benefits to employee using drugs at the time of an accident.
HB 1295 - Troupe - Requires pharmacies to notify the Board of Pharmacy of any known mistakes in prescriptions.
HB 1296 - Troupe - Establishes a Medicaid Pharmacy Management Program in the Department of Social Services and a Joint Committee on
HB 1440 - Wilson - Requires health insurers to provide coverage for mental health conditions
HB 1546 - Crowell - Denies workers' compensation benefits for workers whose injuries are caused by voluntary intoxication of drugs or
HB 1592 - Hickey - Indian tribes may be employers; creates the workers memorial fund; testing positive for drug/alcohol is misconduct
HB 2195 - Secrest - Denies employment benefits for employees who test positive for illegal drugs.
HB 2221 - Naeger - Enacts the Pharmacy Benefit Management Regulation Act.
HCR 027 - Reynolds - Urges Congress to pass legislation imposing price controls on the sale of prescription drugs in the United States.
HCR 032 - Barry - Endorses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on the

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Drunk Driving/Boating

SB 1123 - Staples - Modifies various watercraft laws regarding water patrol duties and watercraft violations
SB 1216 - Bland - Requires persons guilty of boating while intoxicated to complete the SATOP program
HB 2062 - Hosmer - Revises various provisions relating to restricted driving privilege

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Easements and Conveyances

SB 0768 - Wiggins - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property to the Children's Mercy Hospital
SB 1168 - Russell - Authorizes the conveyance of a clear zone easement to the city of Lebanon and the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1413 - Burcham - Authorizes a conveyance of state property to the St. Francois County Habitat for Humanity.
HB 1795 - Berkowitz - Authorizes conveyances of certain state property to private ownership
HB 1811 - Gambaro - Authorizes various conveyances of property
HB 1849 - Barnitz - Authorizes conveyance of state property to the Crawford County Commission
HB 1861 - Burcham - Authorizes a conveyance of state property to the Habitat for Humanity of St. Francois County
HB 2194 - May (149) - Authorizes a conveyance of property to the Gingerbread House in Rolla.
HB 2222 - Villa - Authorizes a conveyance of property to the General Services Administration.

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Economic Development

SB 0669 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
SB 0772 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0856 - Russell - Authorizes a new enterprise zone for Wright County and for the city of Carl Junction in Jasper County
SB 0885 - Bentley - Allows satellite economic development zones in Springfield
SB 0887 - Sims - Requires municipalities to provide additional notice about industrial development projects
SB 0924 - Sims - Regulates not-for-profit corporations providing dental services
SB 0973 - Klindt - Creates the Missouri Biomass Technology Commission
SB 0988 - Caskey - Expands the Kansas City commercial zone to include the City of Harrisonville
SB 0992 - Johnson - Authorizes Buchanan County to seek a grant from the Contiguous Property Redevelopment Fund
SB 1023 - Bentley - Changes economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 1040 - Gibbons - Requires an approved plan of development for industrial development projects
SB 1045 - Bland - Authorizes a 2-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 1117 - Dougherty - Revises economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 1129 - Johnson - Allows for collection of fee on car rentals for economic development
SB 1162 - Wiggins - Authorizes an appropriation for the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Cultural District
SB 1164 - Coleman - Creates the Sports Center Redevelopment Authority Act
SB 1167 - Gibbons - Allows fire protection districts to be reimbursed for emergency services in municipal redevelopment areas
SB 1203 - Yeckel - Creates a tax exemption for property leased or transferred by certain interstate compact agencies
SB 1249 - Mathewson - Requires additional information regarding department of economic development contracts for financial assistance
SB 1279 - Kinder - Creates several community development projects
HB 1144 - Willoughby - Allows not-for-profit industrial development authorities to finance child and day care centers
HB 1192 - Harding - Allows not-for-profit organizations to finance child and adult day care facilities
HB 1238 - Hegeman - Allows a city or county to submit a ballot question on whether maintenance levies should be assessed before full
HB 1350 - Liese - Modifies board of directors for community improvement districts
HB 1370 - Merideth III - Increases population ranges for establishing enterprise zones outside of metropolitan statistical areas.
HB 1376 - Rizzo - Changes procedures for restoring possession of rehabilitated property.
HB 1377 - Rizzo - Provides additional guidelines for recipients of economic incentives.
HB 1439 - Myers - Authorizes a tax credit for investments in certain eligible new generation cooperatives.
HB 1480 - Dempsey - Requires school board approval of tax increment financing plans for areas with residential or multifamily properties.
HB 1496 - Green - Revises tax increment financing in St. Louis metropolitan area
HB 1516 - Hosmer - Prohibits non-competition agreements in employment contracts.
HB 1630 - Johnson - Increases the amount of reimbursement a district can receive for providing emergency services.
HB 1649 - Bowman - Creates the Urban Conservation Commission.
HB 1848 - Hegeman - Requires certain tax credits administered by the Department of Economic Development to be capped per fiscal year.
HB 1851 - Curls - Revises the composition and selection of the Kansas City housing commissioners
HB 1886 - Rizzo - Enacts the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act.
HB 1961 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in certain counties and cities.
HB 2000 - Quinn - Allows directors of industrial development corporations in certain municipalities to live outside the municipality.
HB 2063 - Seigfreid - Authorizes a sales tax for funding rural economic development.
HB 2111 - Kelly (144) - Authorizes a state enterprise zone for Wright County.
HB 2141 - Villa - Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.
HB 2210 - Bland - Removes the sunset on the Task Force on Trade and Investment.

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Economic Development Dept.

SB 0668 - Bentley - Establishes a math grant program, the CAES program, & allows school districts to create after school & summer programs
SB 0723 - Bentley - Creates a grant and loan program to promote cultural tourism
SB 0772 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0782 - Bland - Authorizes an appropriation to the MO Housing Development Commission for grants to housing development groups
SB 0786 - Goode - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
SB 0799 - Westfall - Includes departments of Agriculture, Economic Development and Revenue in merit system
SB 0833 - Schneider - Requires certain departments to notify the Attorney General's office before entering into certain contracts
SB 0862 - DePasco - Creates a home builders licensure board to license and regulate residential home builders
SB 0877 - Sims - Moves the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators to the Division of Professional Registration
SB 0885 - Bentley - Allows satellite economic development zones in Springfield
SB 0887 - Sims - Requires municipalities to provide additional notice about industrial development projects
SB 0892 - Kenney - Allows certain additional services to be prepurchased from cemeteries
SB 0926 - Kenney - Revises numerous provisions relating to the sale of motor vehicles and vessels
SB 0933 - Yeckel - Regulates the licensing of amusement machine operators
SB 0952 - Loudon - Requires state to use lowest qualified bidder
SB 0965 - Stoll - Authorizes certain subpoena power for the board of pharmacy
SB 0980 - Singleton - Revises reciprocal licensing procedures for physical therapists
SB 0992 - Johnson - Authorizes Buchanan County to seek a grant from the Contiguous Property Redevelopment Fund
SB 1007 - Stoll - Changes name of the MO Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors & Landscape Architect
SB 1023 - Bentley - Changes economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 1045 - Bland - Authorizes a 2-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 1075 - Caskey - Creates the Breimyer Center for Sustainable Food and Farming Systems
SB 1080 - Bland - Creates a braider classification requiring licensing by the Board of Cosmetology
SB 1085 - Yeckel - Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine
SB 1088 - Foster - Creates State Board of Auctioneers to oversee licensing of persons engaged in practice of auctioneering
SB 1117 - Dougherty - Revises economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 1162 - Wiggins - Authorizes an appropriation for the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Cultural District
SB 1164 - Coleman - Creates the Sports Center Redevelopment Authority Act
SB 1187 - Kennedy - Creates licensure requirements for private investigators
SB 1202 - Westfall - Transfers various powers to the Department of Transportation to implement Governor's Executive Order
SB 1205 - Yeckel - Creates the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as liaison between agencies and small businesses
SB 1226 - Kennedy - Revises the regulation and licensing of professional addiction counselors
SB 1249 - Mathewson - Requires additional information regarding department of economic development contracts for financial assistance
SB 1279 - Kinder - Creates several community development projects
HB 1090 - Reynolds - Requires tanning facilities to be licensed
HB 1144 - Willoughby - Allows not-for-profit industrial development authorities to finance child and day care centers
HB 1192 - Harding - Allows not-for-profit organizations to finance child and adult day care facilities
HB 1334 - Troupe - Relating to holistic medicine.
HB 1370 - Merideth III - Increases population ranges for establishing enterprise zones outside of metropolitan statistical areas.
HB 1376 - Rizzo - Changes procedures for restoring possession of rehabilitated property.
HB 1377 - Rizzo - Provides additional guidelines for recipients of economic incentives.
HB 1378 - Treadway - Relating to definitions used in the practice of chiropractic.
HB 1484 - Johnson - Relating to the creation of the board of private investigators.
HB 1496 - Green - Revises tax increment financing in St. Louis metropolitan area
HB 1505 - Treadway - Alters the definitions that apply to limited and dual real estate agents.
HB 1517 - Treadway - Clarifies the laws controlling accountants.
HB 1616 - Johnson - Renames the board for architects, engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects the "missouri Professional Board
HB 1682 - Treadway - Sets procedures for the review of licenses and certificates that allow persons to practice dentistry.
HB 1688 - O'Connor - Creates the Missouri Motor Vehicle Board.
HB 1689 - Treadway - Modifies numerous provisions relating to professional licensing
HB 1706 - Treadway - Applies the definitions of section 335.016 to all of chapter 335>.
HB 1723 - Boucher - Creates a board responsible for licensing home inspectors.
HB 1784 - Lowe - Amends the definition of American Sign Language to declare it to be the native language of many deaf Missourians.
HB 1787 - Treadway - Allows any agent licensed by the board of state board of embalmers and funeral directors to inspect the premises of
HB 1808 - Holand - Allows physicians to be disciplined for actions that arise out of collaborative practice agreements.
HB 1835 - Treadway - Alters licensing requirements for the registered board of geologists.
HB 1843 - Johnson - Adds psychotherapy service to definition of practice of professional counseling.
HB 1848 - Hegeman - Requires certain tax credits administered by the Department of Economic Development to be capped per fiscal year.
HB 1873 - Shoemyer - Gives the state board of pharmacy the power to serve a subpoena duces tecum.
HB 1886 - Rizzo - Enacts the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act.
HB 1919 - Treadway - Creates a board of counselors and therapists.
HB 1937 - Barry - Modifies provisions for the licensure of clinical perfusionists
HB 1961 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in certain counties and cities.
HB 2001 - Hegeman - Allows the dental board to enter into diversion agreements with licensees in lieu of formal disciplinary action
HB 2090 - Bearden - Prohibits disclosure of home addresses of professional licensees or applicants without written consent.
HB 2102 - Johnson - Creates the Missouri Council on Electrolysis to establish standards and an ethical code for the practice of
HB 2111 - Kelly (144) - Authorizes a state enterprise zone for Wright County.

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Education, Elementary and Secondary

SB 0659 - House - Revises charter school laws
SB 0661 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0665 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools and creates RCFL and crime of enticement of a child
SB 0666 - Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0667 - Bentley - Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification
SB 0668 - Bentley - Establishes a math grant program, the CAES program, & allows school districts to create after school & summer programs
SB 0674 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0678 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0679 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SB 0680 - Bland - Creates the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity
SB 0681 - Stoll - Revises line 14 of the Foundation Formula
SB 0692 - Gross - School boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom
SB 0697 - Cauthorn - Creates more funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools
SB 0718 - House - Mandates weekly Pledge of Allegiance for school children
SB 0719 - Westfall - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
SB 0722 - Bentley - Renders alterations to policies regarding teachers' licenses and permits temporary administrator certificates
SB 0735 - Steelman - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charities
SB 0755 - Westfall - Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities
SB 0756 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0765 - Steelman - Establishes a School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0767 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0783 - Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
SB 0788 - Yeckel - Revises distribution of gaming tax proceeds for schools
SB 0791 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0794 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0811 - Dougherty - Salary schedule credit for public school teachers
SB 0829 - Dougherty - Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools
SB 0831 - Loudon - Establishes December 15th as Bill of Rights Day
SB 0847 - Singleton - Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit
SB 0858 - Dougherty - Allows certain metropolitan school districts to change the compulsory attendance age
SB 0859 - Russell - Modifies A+ program's three-year attendance requirement and gives supremacy to tuition reimbursements over school grants
SB 0860 - Rohrbach - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0861 - Rohrbach - Modifies definition of American Sign Language to include that it is the native language for many deaf Missourians
SB 0863 - Gross - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold" harmless school districts' school aid
SB 0864 - Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
SB 0874 - Bentley - Prescribes additional guidelines concerning service delivery for special education services
SB 0879 - Steelman - Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements
SB 0882 - Sims - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0889 - Dougherty - Allows administrators in metropolitan school districts to come out of retirement and keep their benefits up to 4 years
SB 0890 - Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0897 - Dougherty - Creates the Urban Flight Scholarship Program
SB 0898 - Dougherty - Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special ed. field
SB 0899 - Dougherty - Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs
SB 0900 - Goode - Allows for aggregate purchasing of natural gas by public school districts & PSC to refund ratepayers certain amounts
SB 0914 - Jacob - Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period
SB 0934 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0935 - Foster - Alters the process by which teachers' certificates of license may be revoked
SB 0936 - Foster - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohi- bited from participating in regular programs of instruction
SB 0937 - Foster - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony
SB 0944 - Goode - Increases sales tax by one quarter percent and puts a surcharge on corporate income to fund education
SB 0949 - Bentley - Raises the admission fee for each person embarking on an excursion gambling boat from two dollars to four dollars
SB 0951 - Loudon - Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications
SB 0975 - Steelman - Creates a sales tax holiday for school supplies, clothing and computers for nine days in August
SB 0991 - Kinder - Provides funding for the education of certain disabled students
SB 1033 - Kennedy - Creates the public school beautification adoption program
SB 1034 - Kennedy - Mandates that all schools in Missouri receiving public moneys shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance
SB 1050 - Foster - Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes
SB 1051 - Foster - Alters the terms by which a school district may transfer moneys from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund
SB 1053 - Bentley - Establishes pilot projects for the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals
SB 1059 - Bentley - Generates numerous modifications to the state's education policy
SB 1136 - Bentley - Alters definitions concerning the state school funding formula
SB 1172 - Yeckel - Modifies child abuse investigation procedures that involve a school or child care facility
SB 1183 - Bentley - Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs
SB 1206 - Bentley - Grants the state board of education authority to lapse certain provisionally accredited school districts
SB 1223 - Jacob - Allows certain part-time employees to receive creditable service from the public school retirement system
SB 1233 - Yeckel - Makes various changes to the charter school laws
SB 1237 - Stoll - Establishes the "Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement" (MOSISE)
SB 1246 - Yeckel - Provides that alternate assessments may be given to special education students
SB 1248 - Mathewson - Modifies various provisions related to collection and refund procedures of sales and income taxes
SB 1250 - Yeckel - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 1256 - Steelman - Teacher education students employed for at least 2 years as teacher assistants may bypass student teaching requirement
SB 1276 - Gibbons - Provides option for judicial review if board of arbitrators renders negative decision regarding school dist. boundaries
SCR 045 - Gross - Relating to student prayer in schools
SCR 072 - Bland - Establishes a planning commission for the Kansas City School District
SCR 073 - Bland - After school activities & summer programs for Public School Systems
SJR 027 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 030 - Cauthorn - Would allow school districts private school pupils transportation
HB 1031 - Portwood - Revises the method of distribution of certain gambling and lottery funds to schools
HB 1033 - Portwood - Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing
HB 1034 - Portwood - Raises the minimum amount of school construction projects requiring competitive bids
HB 1036 - Willoughby - Allows school boards to establish daily observance of one minute of silence
HB 1040 - Luetkemeyer - Requires school districts to spend a class period observing the meaning of Veteran's Day
HB 1043 - Bearden - Requires school boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom
HB 1056 - Byrd - Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent
HB 1062 - Bray - Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment
HB 1063 - Bray - Requires school board members in certain districts to be residents and registered voters in such district for one
HB 1066 - Bray - Establishes guidelines for student publications, liability for school districts, and requires faculty advisors to
HB 1068 - Bray - Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools
HB 1080 - Bearden - Allows school board members in any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election
HB 1081 - Bearden - Creates a deduction from Missouri adjusted gross income for qualified education expenses
HB 1083 - Fraser - Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts
HB 1084 - Fraser - Revises requirements for opening date of school year
HB 1096 - Relford - Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board
HB 1126 - Wilson - Allows the school district of Kansas City to start school prior to September 1
HB 1130 - Hosmer - Requires State Board of Education to promote the adoption of service-learning programs and projects among school
HB 1135 - Bonner - Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board
HB 1160 - Reinhart - Raises compulsory age for school attendance from sixteen to eighteen
HB 1180 - Gaskill - Creates a tax credit for amounts teachers spend on teaching supplies
HB 1191 - Davis - Requires school board members to complete orientation and training and provide proof to election authority prior to
HB 1199 - Bowman - Requires foreign language instruction in every public elementary school
HB 1200 - Bowman - Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student
HB 1212 - Bartle - Requires public schools to perform the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem daily
HB 1218 - Shields - Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools
HB 1221 - Shields - Allows school districts to impose an income tax of one percent if approved by the voters
HB 1222 - Shields -
HB 1224 - Shields - Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district.
HB 1233 - Harding - Designates the eighth day of May of each year as "missouri Day".
HB 1246 - Thompson - Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business
HB 1264 - Gratz - Establishes minute of silence in all public schools.
HB 1266 - Davis - Revises determination of eligibility to receive state aid for school districts.
HB 1267 - Murphy - Requires State Board of Education to appoint to board of arbitration current or retired circuit or associate circuit
HB 1278 - Gambaro - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charity
HB 1281 - Willoughby - Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions; requires certain personnel to report
HB 1287 - Davis - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.
HB 1318 - George - Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.
HB 1322 - Bartelsmeyer - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency.
HB 1335 - Troupe - Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District.
HB 1336 - Troupe - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.
HB 1338 - Relford - Provides basis for State Board of Education to refuse to issue or renew certificates to teach
HB 1340 - Ballard - Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain
HB 1345 - Naeger - Requires school to provide transportation for certain nonpublic school students.
HB 1352 - Troupe - Revises the qualifications, election, and districting of the members of the City of St. Louis School Board.
HB 1356 - Merideth III - Establishes the Missouri family training program for special education.
HB 1364 - Scheve - Removes gambling boat proceeds from foundation formula and distributes them on a per-pupil basis.
HB 1365 - Scheve - Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding, depending on formula funding levels and
HB 1366 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations. .
HB 1367 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.
HB 1392 - Holand - Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes
HB 1401 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children who are not attending Missouri School for the Deaf.
HB 1419 - Shields - Allows a tax credit for qualified contributions to schools.
HB 1448 - Kelly (027) - Allows persons with restricted driving privileges due to Dwi to drive to and from his or her formal program of
HB 1460 - Hilgemann - Allows St. Louis public schools the power to raise the compulsory attendance age for that district from 16 to 17
HB 1480 - Dempsey - Requires school board approval of tax increment financing plans for areas with residential or multifamily properties.
HB 1491 - Shelton (057) - Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred dollars; increases the amount from two thousand
HB 1512 - Johnson - Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.
HB 1515 - Burton - Extends provisions of the honorary high school diploma program for veterans to include POWs
HB 1521 - Shields - Creates the Year 2002 Classroom Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund.
HB 1551 - Linton - Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.
HB 1553 - Linton - Limits the psychiatric and psychological evaluation of students.
HB 1554 - Linton - Allows a tax credit related to a dependent child's reading level.
HB 1555 - Linton - Revises law on privacy of elementary and secondary student records.
HB 1557 - Merideth III - Allows eligible school districts to make transfers from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund.
HB 1558 - Holand - Raises fees charged by excursion gambling boat licensees from two dollars to five dollars, with the increase to be
HB 1566 - Copenhaver - Establishes the Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Act and board.
HB 1574 - Cunningham - Requires public schools and public institutions of higher education to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the
HB 1584 - Kreider - Provides funding for education and transportation purposes.
HB 1593 - Gratz - Requires persons running for sheriff to have a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma and a minimum of two
HB 1623 - Luetkenhaus - Requires the school boards of each school district to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in
HB 1625 - Carnahan - Creates a character education grant program and fund.
HB 1626 - Kreider - Establishes the "school Building Property Tax Relief Fund", to be funded by a sales tax increase, with an accompanying
HB 1628 - Luetkenhaus - Mandates weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance for school children.
HB 1638 - Wright - Creates a tax credit for educational readiness test scores and purchase of educational readiness materials.
HB 1651 - Copenhaver - Revises funding of grants awarded pursuant to the A+ program.
HB 1666 - Holt - Requires Pledge of Allegiance to be recited in all public schools during at least one class no less than once per
HB 1699 - Hosmer - Raises the age requirements on various school and motor vehicle laws from sixteen to eighteen.
HB 1703 - Bowman - Creates a tax credit for amounts teachers spend on teaching supplies.
HB 1704 - Bowman - Creates tax credits for donations by business firms to schools.
HB 1709 - Boykins - Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs.
HB 1710 - Boykins - Establishes the "urban Flight Scholarship Program".
HB 1711 - Graham - Generates numerous changes to the state's education policy including modifications concerning the foundation formula
HB 1721 - Shelton (057) - Creates a public school beautification adoption program.
HB 1725 - Walton - Creates the "missouri Urban Tutoring Core Pilot Program".
HB 1726 - Walton - Provides guidelines for local school districts in establishing a written policy prohibiting bullying
HB 1736 - Johnson - Creates the "missouri Special Education Teachers' Loan Repayment Assistance Program".
HB 1739 - Cunningham - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship or educational charities.
HB 1740 - Cunningham - Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.
HB 1783 - Lowe - Modifies various provisions relating to the deaf and hard of hearing
HB 1793 - Shields - Revises minimum teacher salaries.
HB 1809 - Brooks - Creates procedures under which Kansas City school board members may be removed from office in a recall election
HB 1817 - Franklin - Makes numerous changes to the state's education policy
HB 1825 - Merideth III - Allows display of various documents in public schools upon completion of certain conditions.
HB 1828 - Cunningham - Raises the minimum amount of various school projects requiring minimum bids.
HB 1845 - Copenhaver - Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.
HB 1877 - Foley - Creates the Schools of the Future Fund and establishes various funding sources
HB 1899 - Gratz - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.
HB 1901 - Franklin - Establishes the "missouri Paraprofessional-to-Teacher Assistance Program".
HB 1916 - Franklin - Requires Kansas City school board members running for election from a subdistrict to reside in that subdistrict
HB 1940 - Mayer - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony, regardless of prosecution as an
HB 1941 - Mayer - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohibited from participating in a regular program of
HB 1960 - Monaco - Imposes a sales tax on tobacco products for education and other purposes.
HB 1963 - Franklin -
HB 1973 - Bowman - Requires Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education to conduct a study relating to economics & personal finance ed.
HB 1978 - Bartle - Reduces foundation formula deduction for local property taxes.
HB 1980 - Bartle - Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.
HB 1991 - Naeger - Requires school districts to provide transportation to private and parochial students and allows them to charge
HB 1992 - Hendrickson - Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues.
HB 1993 - Copenhaver - Allows the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals based on level of education.
HB 2010 - Cunningham - Creates the "teacher Choice Compensation Package" and fund.
HB 2012 - Cunningham - Establishes the "missouri Healthy Schools Fund".
HB 2013 - Walton - Allows school board members of any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.
HB 2018 - Bartle - Requires county clerk of Jackson County to forward tax books for school districts by June 15
HB 2023 - Franklin - Alters definitions regarding special education services and provisions concerning disciplinary changes of placement
HB 2024 - Relford - Revises provisions relating to the lapse of a school district's corporate organization.
HB 2092 - Reynolds - Allows public school students who complete course work in American Sign Language to receive foreign language academic
HB 2098 - Walton - Creates the Missouri Commission on African-American Education and fund.
HB 2116 - Johnson - Prohibits public or private schools from joining or retaining membership in any statewide activities
HB 2136 - Shields - Creates the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.
HB 2141 - Villa - Exempts certain transitional school districts from tax abatement and tax increment allocation financing.
HB 2152 - Kelly (036) - Raises compulsory age for school attendance to eighteen years of age.
HB 2153 - Kelly (036) - Allows school districts by majority vote of the school board to increase the mandatory age of attendance from
HB 2158 - Berkstresser - Allows public schools to display the motto "in God We Trust" in any classroom, auditorium, and cafeteria.
HB 2178 - Fraser - Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school.
HB 2182 - Davis - Revises provisions relating to payment of tuition and transportation for students who live in a district that
HB 2229 - Behnen - Creates additional funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools.
HCR 019 - Jetton - Urges Congress to take up and pass the proposed amendment to the U.s. Constitution to permit voluntary prayer in
HCR 040 - Walton - Creates a Joint Interim Committee on After-School Programs.
HJR 027 - Johnson - Proposes a constitutional amendment revising the composition of the State Board of Education.
HJR 032 - Barry - Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow school districts to pass bond issues by simple majority vote.
HJR 036 - Bartle - Proposes a constitutional amendment increasing from 15% to 25% the limitation on indebtedness by school districts.
HJR 039 - Linton - Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the State Board of Education to be elected.
HJR 055 - Bearden - Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing public school students the right to pray.

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Education, Higher

SB 0659 - House - Revises charter school laws
SB 0678 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0685 - Steelman - Revises the Sunshine Law
SB 0709 - Goode - Revises the Sunshine Law
SB 0767 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0776 - House - Personally identifiable information of participants in the Higher Education Savings Program shall be confidential
SB 0790 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0813 - Mathewson - Modifies appropriations procedures for community college districts
SB 0853 - Stoll - Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program
SB 0859 - Russell - Modifies A+ program's three-year attendance requirement and gives supremacy to tuition reimbursements over school grants
SB 0864 - Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
SB 0873 - House - Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship" program
SB 0880 - Steelman - Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR
SB 0897 - Dougherty - Creates the Urban Flight Scholarship Program
SB 0898 - Dougherty - Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special ed. field
SB 0903 - Klindt - Increases the membership of the Northwest Missouri State University's Board of Regents from seven to nine
SB 0914 - Jacob - Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period
SB 0947 - Klindt - Revises community colleges' property tax rates, capital improvement subdistricts, & MOHEFA direct deposit agreements
SB 0975 - Steelman - Creates a sales tax holiday for school supplies, clothing and computers for nine days in August
SB 0979 - Singleton - Changes the name of MO Southern State College, MO Western State College and Southwest MO State University
SB 1048 - Kenney - Makes a technical correction to section 304.027 regarding the spinal cord injury fund
SB 1075 - Caskey - Creates the Breimyer Center for Sustainable Food and Farming Systems
SB 1176 - Loudon - Authorizes the University of Missouri-Columbia to study gambling in Missouri
SB 1212 - Mathewson - Allows college students called into military service to qualify for tuition refunds & incomplete grades
SB 1219 - Singleton - Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund
SB 1229 - Gibbons - Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the nursing student loan program
SB 1233 - Yeckel - Makes various changes to the charter school laws
SB 1237 - Stoll - Establishes the "Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement" (MOSISE)
SB 1256 - Steelman - Teacher education students employed for at least 2 years as teacher assistants may bypass student teaching requirement
SCR 036 - Bentley - Continuation of the Joint Interim Committee on Education Funding
HB 1068 - Bray - Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools
HB 1071 - Hosmer - Subjects student loan defaulters to penalties relating to professional licensing
HB 1086 - Harlan - Requires confidentiality concerning information of participants in MO Higher Education Savings Program
HB 1131 - Hosmer - Requires Coordinating Board for Higher Education to promote and catalogue service learning opportunities available in
HB 1186 - Hosmer - Creates faculty representative positions on all university boards of governors and makes other changes to higher
HB 1321 - Selby - Revises the Public Service Officer's or Employee's Child Survivor Grant Program.
HB 1406 - Barnett - Increases the membership of the Northwest Missouri State University's board of regents from seven to nine
HB 1421 - McKenna - Excludes capital appropriations from appropriations for maintenance & operating funds for community college district
HB 1424 - Smith (011) - Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing tuition, fees, and surcharges after the opening
HB 1441 - Harlan - Allows members of Missouri Higher Education Savings Program Board to designate a proxy, and requires confidentiality of
HB 1477 - Farnen - Junior colleges allowed same access as school districts to participate in MOHEFA direct deposit agreements
HB 1522 - Bearden - Establishes the "challenge Scholarship Program".
HB 1527 - Graham - Revises the composition of the Board of Curators of the University of MO, Truman State and Southwest MO State
HB 1785 - Liese - Exempts from state tax assets and earnings of any higher education savings program qualified by the Internal Revenue
HB 1799 - Burton - Changes the names of several state colleges.
HB 1986 - Hosmer - Allows for a faculty representative on all university boards of governors, and creates other minor changes to the boards
HB 1994 - Hosmer - Changes the name of various state colleges and universities
HB 2018 - Bartle - Requires county clerk of Jackson County to forward tax books for school districts by June 15
HB 2022 - Richardson - Reenacts section 178.870 and allows the establishment of community college capital improvement subdistricts
HB 2047 - Ransdall - Expands criteria for college students called into military service to qualify for tuition refunds & incomplete grades
HB 2075 - Walton - Allows Lincoln University to provide education to local A+ students.
HB 2077 - Hanaway - Clarifies that income tax deduction for higher education savings program is $8,000 for single taxpayers and $16,000
HB 2164 - Kelly (027) - Establishes a funding formula for higher education.
HB 2190 - Legan - Revises transfer process for students of public institutions of higher education.
HB 2208 - Bland - Allows public institutions of higher education to establish local telecommunity centers.
HCR 013 - Bowman - Urges Congress to pass the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families reauthorization legislation.
HCR 024 - Kreider - Approves funding for an agricultural research and demonstration center for the CMSU campus
HCR 034 - Wilson - Approves the Curators of the University of Missouri to enter into a ground lease for the purpose of construction

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Education, Proprietary

HB 1096 - Relford - Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board
HB 1224 - Shields - Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district.
HB 1278 - Gambaro - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charity

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Elderly

SB 0663 - Klarich - Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures
SB 0670 - Sims - Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly
SB 0684 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision of in-home services to the elderly
SB 0691 - Gross - Exempts the homestead of those aged 65 and older from increases in property tax assessments
SB 0702 - Caskey - Creates the Older Visually Impaired Missourians Fund
SB 0716 - House - Exempts residential property owned by the elderly from certain increases in assessed valuation
SB 0759 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuations for senior citizens at local option
SB 0793 - Bland - Modifies the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program
SB 0810 - Dougherty - Modifies provisions relating to supplemental assistance payments for the elderly and disabled
SB 0824 - Cauthorn - Exempts residential property owned by the elderly from certain increases in assessed valuation
SB 0877 - Sims - Moves the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators to the Division of Professional Registration
SB 1029 - Sims - Modifies the certificate of need law
SB 1042 - Bland - Dedicates additional revenue to the energy assistance program
SB 1052 - Sims - Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state
SB 1069 - Sims - Requires Medicaid eligibility & benefits for home- and community-based services to be equal to institutional care
SB 1082 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 1094 - Russell - Extends the sunset on the nursing facility reimbursement allowance and exempts PACE projects from HMO requirements
SB 1146 - Schneider - Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state
SB 1149 - Singleton - Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products and creates the "Fund for Lifelong Health"
SB 1175 - Kennedy - Requires certain elder care facilities to provide influenza and pneumonia immunizations to elderly residents
SB 1180 - Jacob - Modifies various provisions relating to long-term care insurance
SB 1190 - Schneider - Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need law
SB 1192 - Gross - Modifies grandparent visitation provisions
SB 1240 - Steelman - Requires the division of medical services to annually recalculate the Medicaid nursing home reimbursement amount
HB 1048 - Ward - Freezes property valuation for those 65 and older if they meet income levels
HB 1053 - Ward - Excludes up to five thousand dollars of total cash value for life insurance policies from the definition of
HB 1060 - Griesheimer - Allows an exemption from property taxes for homestead property owned by senior citizens
HB 1079 - Portwood - Expands eligibility for the Missouri Senior Rx Program to include seniors with catastrophic drug costs
HB 1087 - Linton - Revises property tax assessment laws
HB 1157 - Relford - Bases funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served in
HB 1206 - Boucher - Allows taxpayers 65 and older to receive the maximum exemption on pensions regardless of income
HB 1210 - Boucher - Exempts all pension amounts for taxpayers 70 1/2 years of age or older
HB 1229 - Johnson - Creates various sexual misconduct crimes.
HB 1230 - Portwood - Creates a homestead exemption from property tax.
HB 1268 - Boucher - Exempts all public and private retirement allowances from taxation.
HB 1325 - Reynolds - Provides a homestead property exemption.
HB 1358 - Scheve - Creates a homestead exemption from property tax.
HB 1359 - Scheve - Excludes social security benefits from state income taxation.
HB 1360 - Scheve - Changes the eligibility requirements for public assistance.
HB 1362 - Scheve - Makes various changes regarding Medicaid eligibility and nursing home requirements.
HB 1379 - Boucher - Provides income tax exemption for pensions for veterans 65 and older.
HB 1467 - Hendrickson - Allows a homestead exemption from property tax assessments for seniors.
HB 1469 - Hosmer - Creates parity between institutional and noninstitutional eligibility for Medicaid.
HB 1564 - Bartle - Freezes property assessment for property owners 65 and older.
HB 1575 - Treadway - Raises the maximum upper limit for circuit breaker relief for the elderly.
HB 1604 - Froelker - Excludes certain amounts of Social Security and military retirement benefits from taxation.
HB 1618 - Bearden - Limits increases in real property assessments to the percentage of change in Missouri personal income.
HB 1654 - Hosmer - Makes numerous changes designed to protect the elderly
HB 1669 - Holt - Bases assessment value of certain real property on the date the property the property was sold or conveyed.
HB 1701 - Luetkenhaus - Modifies various provisions regarding long-term care insurance
HB 1781 - Green - Extends the sunset on the nursing facility reimbursement allowance to September 30, 2005
HB 1798 - Hilgemann - Creates a senior citizen property tax deferral.
HB 1887 - Baker - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provisions of in-home services to the elderly.
HB 1945 - Barry - Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need laws.
HB 2044 - Merideth III - Changes circuit breaker limits for senior citizen property tax relief.
HB 2049 - Baker - Allows programs for all-inclusive care for the elderly (pace) projects an exemption from the certificate of
HB 2083 - Boucher - Funds the Utilicare stabilization program by transferring funds in the custody of circuit courts.
HB 2161 - Baker - Modifies the requirements for supplemental nursing payments.
HB 2224 - Naeger - Exempts pension and retirement income of seniors from state income tax.

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Elections

SB 0675 - Yeckel - Revises election laws
SB 0744 - Caskey - Allow Cass County to elect a county surveyor
SB 0749 - Goode - Specifies the effective dates for laws passed by initiative and vetoed bills when veto is overridden
SB 0760 - Yeckel - Fire district board members may be recalled for misconduct in office or criminal convictions
SB 0766 - Steelman - Regulates inaugural and congressional reapportionment committees and provisions of campaign finance disclosure law
SB 0962 - Wiggins - Allows Kansas City to designate Jackson county election authority as verification board for the city
SB 1114 - Singleton - Provides for the joint election of governor & lt. governor
SB 1120 - Yeckel - Regulates committees organized to influence congressional apportionment
SB 1121 - Yeckel - Revises certain campaign finance requirements
SB 1218 - Coleman - Modifies time for election authority to complete verification of initiative or referendum petition signatures
SB 1232 - Singleton - Authorizes voter petition to dissolve road district in Jasper County
SJR 022 - Schneider - Revises term limits for members of the General Assembly
SJR 024 - Johnson - Revises term limits to exclude certain partial terms of service in the General Assembly
SJR 027 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 035 - Jacob - Repeals legislative term limits
HB 1030 - Farnen - Requires election authority to accept faxed applications for absentee ballots
HB 1080 - Bearden - Allows school board members in any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election
HB 1169 - Crowell - Creates a gubernatorial inaugural committee
HB 1326 - Seigfreid - Establishes reporting requirements for lobbyists and candidates for office.
HB 1342 - Farnen - Provides that no election must be held for party committee- man or woman if only one person files prior to the deadline
HB 1348 - Myers - Makes numerous changes to agricultural programs
HB 1461 - Seigfreid - Revises election and campaign finance laws
HB 1470 - Hosmer - Creates parity between institutional and noninstitutional eligibility for Medicaid.
HB 1486 - Crawford - Changes residency requirements for fire protection district directors.
HB 1492 - Seigfreid - Changes campaign finance disclosure report deadlines
HB 1494 - Seigfreid - Permits the ethics commission to impose a fee in ethics proceeding investigations.
HB 1495 - Seigfreid - Changes filing exemption statement requirements
HB 1636 - Hoppe - Allows Kansas City to designate Jackson County election authority as verification board for the city
HB 1670 - Holt - Removes each voter's date of birth from voter registration lists available for public use or inspection.
HB 1809 - Brooks - Creates procedures under which Kansas City school board members may be removed from office in a recall election
HB 1840 - Seigfreid - Establishes an electronic reporting system for lobbyist reports
HB 1853 - Wagner - Changes reporting requirements for filing financial interest statements for certain political subdivisions.
HB 1860 - Hendrickson - Changes procedures for electing presidential electors.
HB 1981 - Shields - Prohibits members of the Public Service Commission from establishing or maintaining a campaign finance committee.
HB 2013 - Walton - Allows school board members of any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election.
HB 2035 - Reinhart - Retention of family court commissioners in Clay County is required to be placed on ballot at every presidential
HB 2108 - Bartelsmeyer - Requires the state to pay election costs for elections in which the state participates.
HB 2202 - Paone - Changes requirements for nominating committees for candidates for office in special elections.
HJR 038 - Linton - Proposes a constitutional amendment removing authorization to revise property tax levies to adjust for inflation.

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Elementary and Secondary Education Dept.

SB 0653 - Johnson - Expands ability of SB 40 Boards to fund other services for persons with developmental disabilities
SB 0659 - House - Revises charter school laws
SB 0661 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0666 - Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0667 - Bentley - Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification
SB 0668 - Bentley - Establishes a math grant program, the CAES program, & allows school districts to create after school & summer programs
SB 0674 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0676 - Yeckel - Modifies the WW2 medallion program and funding to the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund
SB 0678 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0679 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SB 0697 - Cauthorn - Creates more funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools
SB 0719 - Westfall - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
SB 0756 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0765 - Steelman - Establishes a School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0767 - Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0783 - Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
SB 0791 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0794 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0847 - Singleton - Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit
SB 0860 - Rohrbach - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0861 - Rohrbach - Modifies definition of American Sign Language to include that it is the native language for many deaf Missourians
SB 0863 - Gross - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold" harmless school districts' school aid
SB 0864 - Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
SB 0882 - Sims - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
SB 0890 - Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0914 - Jacob - Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period
SB 0934 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0991 - Kinder - Provides funding for the education of certain disabled students
SB 1033 - Kennedy - Creates the public school beautification adoption program
SB 1034 - Kennedy - Mandates that all schools in Missouri receiving public moneys shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance
SB 1053 - Bentley - Establishes pilot projects for the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals
SB 1059 - Bentley - Generates numerous modifications to the state's education policy
SB 1136 - Bentley - Alters definitions concerning the state school funding formula
SB 1183 - Bentley - Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs
SB 1206 - Bentley - Grants the state board of education authority to lapse certain provisionally accredited school districts
SB 1233 - Yeckel - Makes various changes to the charter school laws
SB 1246 - Yeckel - Provides that alternate assessments may be given to special education students
SB 1250 - Yeckel - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 1256 - Steelman - Teacher education students employed for at least 2 years as teacher assistants may bypass student teaching requirement
SCR 072 - Bland - Establishes a planning commission for the Kansas City School District
HB 1031 - Portwood - Revises the method of distribution of certain gambling and lottery funds to schools
HB 1034 - Portwood - Raises the minimum amount of school construction projects requiring competitive bids
HB 1036 - Willoughby - Allows school boards to establish daily observance of one minute of silence
HB 1040 - Luetkemeyer - Requires school districts to spend a class period observing the meaning of Veteran's Day
HB 1043 - Bearden - Requires school boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom
HB 1062 - Bray - Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment
HB 1066 - Bray - Establishes guidelines for student publications, liability for school districts, and requires faculty advisors to
HB 1068 - Bray - Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools
HB 1080 - Bearden - Allows school board members in any school district to be removed by the voters in a recall election
HB 1083 - Fraser - Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts
HB 1084 - Fraser - Revises requirements for opening date of school year
HB 1126 - Wilson - Allows the school district of Kansas City to start school prior to September 1
HB 1130 - Hosmer - Requires State Board of Education to promote the adoption of service-learning programs and projects among school
HB 1135 - Bonner - Revises election process for members of the Kansas City School Board
HB 1160 - Reinhart - Raises compulsory age for school attendance from sixteen to eighteen
HB 1191 - Davis - Requires school board members to complete orientation and training and provide proof to election authority prior to
HB 1199 - Bowman - Requires foreign language instruction in every public elementary school
HB 1200 - Bowman - Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student
HB 1212 - Bartle - Requires public schools to perform the Pledge of Allegiance or the national anthem daily
HB 1218 - Shields - Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools
HB 1233 - Harding - Designates the eighth day of May of each year as "missouri Day".
HB 1246 - Thompson - Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates a penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business
HB 1264 - Gratz - Establishes minute of silence in all public schools.
HB 1266 - Davis - Revises determination of eligibility to receive state aid for school districts.
HB 1267 - Murphy - Requires State Board of Education to appoint to board of arbitration current or retired circuit or associate circuit
HB 1281 - Willoughby - Changes notice and resolution of teacher certification disciplinary actions; requires certain personnel to report
HB 1287 - Davis - Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.
HB 1318 - George - Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.
HB 1322 - Bartelsmeyer - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency.
HB 1335 - Troupe - Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District.
HB 1336 - Troupe - Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.
HB 1338 - Relford - Provides basis for State Board of Education to refuse to issue or renew certificates to teach
HB 1340 - Ballard - Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain
HB 1345 - Naeger - Requires school to provide transportation for certain nonpublic school students.
HB 1356 - Merideth III - Establishes the Missouri family training program for special education.
HB 1365 - Scheve - Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding, depending on formula funding levels and
HB 1366 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations. .
HB 1367 - Scheve - Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.
HB 1392 - Holand - Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes
HB 1401 - Merideth III - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children who are not attending Missouri School for the Deaf.
HB 1460 - Hilgemann - Allows St. Louis public schools the power to raise the compulsory attendance age for that district from 16 to 17
HB 1491 - Shelton (057) - Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred dollars; increases the amount from two thousand
HB 1512 - Johnson - Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.
HB 1515 - Burton - Extends provisions of the honorary high school diploma program for veterans to include POWs
HB 1521 - Shields - Creates the Year 2002 Classroom Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund.
HB 1551 - Linton - Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.
HB 1555 - Linton - Revises law on privacy of elementary and secondary student records.
HB 1557 - Merideth III - Allows eligible school districts to make transfers from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund.
HB 1558 - Holand - Raises fees charged by excursion gambling boat licensees from two dollars to five dollars, with the increase to be
HB 1566 - Copenhaver - Establishes the Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Act and board.
HB 1574 - Cunningham - Requires public schools and public institutions of higher education to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the
HB 1584 - Kreider - Provides funding for education and transportation purposes.
HB 1623 - Luetkenhaus - Requires the school boards of each school district to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in
HB 1625 - Carnahan - Creates a character education grant program and fund.
HB 1628 - Luetkenhaus - Mandates weekly recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance for school children.
HB 1651 - Copenhaver - Revises funding of grants awarded pursuant to the A+ program.
HB 1666 - Holt - Requires Pledge of Allegiance to be recited in all public schools during at least one class no less than once per
HB 1699 - Hosmer - Raises the age requirements on various school and motor vehicle laws from sixteen to eighteen.
HB 1704 - Bowman - Creates tax credits for donations by business firms to schools.
HB 1709 - Boykins - Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs.
HB 1710 - Boykins - Establishes the "urban Flight Scholarship Program".
HB 1711 - Graham - Generates numerous changes to the state's education policy including modifications concerning the foundation formula
HB 1721 - Shelton (057) - Creates a public school beautification adoption program.
HB 1725 - Walton - Creates the "missouri Urban Tutoring Core Pilot Program".
HB 1726 - Walton - Provides guidelines for local school districts in establishing a written policy prohibiting bullying
HB 1736 - Johnson - Creates the "missouri Special Education Teachers' Loan Repayment Assistance Program".
HB 1740 - Cunningham - Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.
HB 1783 - Lowe - Modifies various provisions relating to the deaf and hard of hearing
HB 1793 - Shields - Revises minimum teacher salaries.
HB 1809 - Brooks - Creates procedures under which Kansas City school board members may be removed from office in a recall election
HB 1817 - Franklin - Makes numerous changes to the state's education policy
HB 1825 - Merideth III - Allows display of various documents in public schools upon completion of certain conditions.
HB 1828 - Cunningham - Raises the minimum amount of various school projects requiring minimum bids.
HB 1845 - Copenhaver - Establishes procedure for termination of teachers' contracts.
HB 1877 - Foley - Creates the Schools of the Future Fund and establishes various funding sources
HB 1893 - Barry - Changes the name the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
HB 1899 - Gratz - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.
HB 1901 - Franklin - Establishes the "missouri Paraprofessional-to-Teacher Assistance Program".
HB 1916 - Franklin - Requires Kansas City school board members running for election from a subdistrict to reside in that subdistrict
HB 1940 - Mayer - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony, regardless of prosecution as an
HB 1941 - Mayer - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohibited from participating in a regular program of
HB 1960 - Monaco - Imposes a sales tax on tobacco products for education and other purposes.
HB 1963 - Franklin -
HB 1973 - Bowman - Requires Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education to conduct a study relating to economics & personal finance ed.
HB 1978 - Bartle - Reduces foundation formula deduction for local property taxes.
HB 1980 - Bartle - Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.
HB 1991 - Naeger - Requires school districts to provide transportation to private and parochial students and allows them to charge
HB 1993 - Copenhaver - Allows the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals based on level of education.
HB 2010 - Cunningham - Creates the "teacher Choice Compensation Package" and fund.
HB 2012 - Cunningham - Establishes the "missouri Healthy Schools Fund".
HB 2023 - Franklin - Alters definitions regarding special education services and provisions concerning disciplinary changes of placement
HB 2024 - Relford - Revises provisions relating to the lapse of a school district's corporate organization.
HB 2092 - Reynolds - Allows public school students who complete course work in American Sign Language to receive foreign language academic
HB 2098 - Walton - Creates the Missouri Commission on African-American Education and fund.
HB 2116 - Johnson - Prohibits public or private schools from joining or retaining membership in any statewide activities
HB 2136 - Shields - Creates the Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.
HB 2152 - Kelly (036) - Raises compulsory age for school attendance to eighteen years of age.
HB 2153 - Kelly (036) - Allows school districts by majority vote of the school board to increase the mandatory age of attendance from
HB 2158 - Berkstresser - Allows public schools to display the motto "in God We Trust" in any classroom, auditorium, and cafeteria.
HB 2178 - Fraser - Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school.
HB 2182 - Davis - Revises provisions relating to payment of tuition and transportation for students who live in a district that
HB 2229 - Behnen - Creates additional funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools.
HCR 018 - Wilson - Requests the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to impanel teachers to address various curriculum
HCR 019 - Jetton - Urges Congress to take up and pass the proposed amendment to the U.s. Constitution to permit voluntary prayer in
HJR 027 - Johnson - Proposes a constitutional amendment revising the composition of the State Board of Education.
HJR 039 - Linton - Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the State Board of Education to be elected.

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Emergencies

SB 0712 - Singleton - Modifies provisions relating to terrorism
SB 0714 - Singleton - Allows the state to temporarily license certain health care practitioners during a state public health emergency
SB 0726 - Childers - September 11th is Emergency Services Day
SB 0795 - Schneider - Creates Emergency Communications Systems Fund for use of counties and allows certain board to set and collect fees
SB 0983 - Sims - Creates a Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security
SB 1000 - Dougherty - Increases state emergency health powers
SB 1107 - Childers - Revises laws relating to ambulance districts, fire protection districts and ambulance services
SB 1112 - Caskey - Enacts various provisions relating to terrorism
SB 1167 - Gibbons - Allows fire protection districts to be reimbursed for emergency services in municipal redevelopment areas
SB 1184 - Steelman - Requires further accountability of first responders and emergency medical technicians
SB 1230 - Gibbons - Modifies provisions relating to air ambulance services
SB 1231 - Gibbons - Reimburses fire protection and emergency services districts from the special allocation fund
SB 1280 - Rohrbach - Expands the applicability of the emergency powers of the governor to acts of bioterrorism
HB 1082 - Fraser - Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians
HB 1155 - Shields - Requires drivers of motor vehicles to use passing lane to overtake stationary emergency vehicle parked on shoulder
HB 1259 - Champion - Makes it a crime to fail to obey lawful order of police while at an accident scene.
HB 1308 - Williams (121) - Establishes requirements for overtaking stationary emergency vehicles on two lane and four lane highways.
HB 1432 - Foley - Modifies laws relating to emergency services
HB 1434 - Monaco - Allows emergency personnel to seek recovery and damages from people who by their acts, ommissions, or willful or
HB 1479 - Baker - Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.
HB 1531 - Hoppe - Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services and personnel.
HB 1544 - Hoppe - Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services.
HB 1630 - Johnson - Increases the amount of reimbursement a district can receive for providing emergency services.
HB 1668 - Holt - Establishes September 11th of each year as Emergency Personnel Appreciation Day
HB 1771 - Barry - Modifies various provisions regarding declared states of emergency.
HB 1777 - Johnson - Enacts various provisions relating to terrorism
HB 1882 - Luetkenhaus - Specifies that personnel of organized fire protection districts are in charge of accident scenes to which the
HB 1948 - Reid - Collection of statutes dealing with terrorism.
HB 2143 - Clayton - Permits certain counties to impose a county sales tax for emergency services without reorganizing the existing board
HB 2151 - Kreider - Provides additional regulations for collecting taxes imposed for emergency telephone service.
HB 2193 - Dolan - Modifies various provisions regarding air ambulance service.

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Eminent Domain and Condemnation

SB 0711 - Goode - Gives the power of eminent domain to towns and villages
SB 0797 - Westfall - Allows municipalities in certain counties to use condem- nation in order to construct or acquire natural gas service
HB 1716 - Bowman - Establishes condemnation proceedings for towns or villages.
HB 1892 - Berkstresser - Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation cases.

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Emblems

HB 1390 - Gaskill - Desecration of the United States national flag shall be considered abandonment and any person may take possession
HB 1988 - Kelly (144) - Makes the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse the official horse of Missouri

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Employees-Employers

SB 0641 - Russell - Exempts certain employees from union membership, prohibits payroll deductions for, and the requirement of, service fees
SB 0705 - Russell - Allows departments and divisions to exempt certain employees from union membership
SB 0717 - House - Regulates contracts for services formerly delivered by public bodies
SB 0754 - House - Provides limited due process rights for certain law enforcement officers
SB 0772 - Goode - Creates a grant program for employees who purchase homes in areas of economic decline near where they work
SB 0799 - Westfall - Includes departments of Agriculture, Economic Development and Revenue in merit system
SB 0835 - Bland - Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0878 - Sims - Modifies law relating to the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0934 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0954 - Loudon - Modifies the definition of "totally unemployed" to include certain suspended workers
SB 1003 - Steelman - Requires ambulance service owners to carry liability insurance to cover negligent care by their employees
SB 1005 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
SB 1070 - Gibbons - Allows Highway Patrol to provide information on persons registered under "Megan's Law"
SB 1091 - Loudon - Establishes the open contracting act for state and local public works projects
SB 1105 - Loudon - Excludes from compensation personal health conditions, injury from idiopathic causes and preexisting conditions
SB 1139 - Sims - Modifies certain provisions of the child labor laws
SB 1160 - Sims - Requires the use of national medical support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage in child support orders
SB 1173 - Yeckel - Requires income tax to be withheld by Missouri venues where professional entertainers perform
SCR 068 - Mathewson - Relating to state employee health insurance coverage
HB 1054 - Selby - Prohibits termination of employees who are absent from work because they are volunteer firefighters
HB 1067 - Bray - Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge
HB 1069 - Bray - Enacts the Equal Pay Act
HB 1091 - Reynolds - Revises law on overtime for amusement and recreation employees
HB 1092 - Reynolds - Permits additional classes of public employees to form and join labor organizations
HB 1139 - Byrd - Subjects the state to law suits concerning discrimination under the workers compensation law
HB 1173 - Hickey - Enacts the Equal Pay Act
HB 1219 - Shields - Creates a state income tax credit for certain small employers who provide health insurance for eligible
HB 1273 - Secrest - Requires denial of workers' compensation payments if an employee has an accident due to alcohol or illicit drugs.
HB 1274 - Secrest - Revises the application of the common law rule of liberal construction for workers' compensation laws.
HB 1276 - Secrest - Revises workers' compensation law.
HB 1277 - Secrest - Revises workers' compensation law.
HB 1280 - Secrest - Eliminates workers' compensation benefits to employee using drugs at the time of an accident.
HB 1318 - George - Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.
HB 1349 - Seigfreid - Requires all state employees who have accrued more than forty hours of compensatory time to be paid for any
HB 1516 - Hosmer - Prohibits non-competition agreements in employment contracts.
HB 1546 - Crowell - Denies workers' compensation benefits for workers whose injuries are caused by voluntary intoxication of drugs or
HB 1592 - Hickey - Indian tribes may be employers; creates the workers memorial fund; testing positive for drug/alcohol is misconduct
HB 1675 - Scheve - Prevents broadcasting industry employers from requiring noncompetition clauses.
HB 1773 - Shelton (057) - Modifies the compensation, vacation, and holidays of members of the City of St. Louis Police Department
HB 1822 - Walton - Employees charged military leave only for hours which they would have otherwise worked, in one hour increments
HB 1974 - Bowman - Makes various changes to the laws controlling child labor.
HB 2166 - Scott - Relating to unemployment taxes for Indian tribes in compliance with the federal mandate.
HB 2195 - Secrest - Denies employment benefits for employees who test positive for illegal drugs.
HB 2209 - Bland - Prohibits private employers from using state funds to assist, promote, or deter union organizing.

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Employment Security

SB 0954 - Loudon - Modifies the definition of "totally unemployed" to include certain suspended workers
SB 1005 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
HB 1592 - Hickey - Indian tribes may be employers; creates the workers memorial fund; testing positive for drug/alcohol is misconduct
HB 1932 - George - Revises calculation of state taxable wage base and provides for Indian tribes as employers for employment security
HB 2166 - Scott - Relating to unemployment taxes for Indian tribes in compliance with the federal mandate.
HB 2195 - Secrest - Denies employment benefits for employees who test positive for illegal drugs.

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Energy

SB 0810 - Dougherty - Modifies provisions relating to supplemental assistance payments for the elderly and disabled
SB 0821 - Dougherty - Allows division of design and construction to contract for guaranteed energy cost savings
SB 0872 - Dougherty - Creates the Consumer Clean Energy Act to promote energy efficiency
SB 0888 - Gross - PSC must set ratemaking principles before new generation is constructed and DNR must act on permits within 180 days
SB 0900 - Goode - Allows for aggregate purchasing of natural gas by public school districts & PSC to refund ratepayers certain amounts
SB 0973 - Klindt - Creates the Missouri Biomass Technology Commission
SB 1012 - Caskey - Extends the period of payments from 10 to 20 years on guaranteed energy cost savings contracts
SB 1013 - Steelman - Allows for transfers of generation of electrical corporations to an affiliated party
SB 1100 - Childers - Creates the "Consumer Clean Energy Act"
SB 1116 - Dougherty - Allows PSC to consider ability to pay as a factor in setting rates
HB 1319 - Burton - Relating to tax credits for building coal fired electric generating plants fitted with pollution control devices.
HB 1402 - Burton - Modifies provisions relating to utility projects
HB 1482 - Mays (050) - Authorizes Public Service Commission to direct allocation of certain sums to gas ratepayers.
HB 1599 - Lowe - Encourages the use of renewable resources.
HB 1837 - Berkowitz - Modifies the distribution of the Missouri Qualified Fuel Ethanol Producer Incentive Fund and farm equipment buyback
HB 1875 - Mays (050) - Allows the Psc to consider a customers' ability to pay when setting utility rates.
HB 2087 - Whorton - Allows energy cost savings contracts
HCR 028 - Willoughby - Establishes a Joint Committee on Utility Regulation and Infrastructure Investment.

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Engineers

SB 0786 - Goode - Authorizes certain design and build contracts when the contractor is not licensed in Missouri
SB 0880 - Steelman - Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR
SB 1007 - Stoll - Changes name of the MO Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors & Landscape Architect
HB 1317 - Hanaway - Relating to procedures for causes against licensed professionals.
HB 1409 - Campbell - Relating to design-build contracts.
HB 1414 - Treadway - Alters the exemptions for licensed professionals.
HB 1616 - Johnson - Renames the board for architects, engineers, land surveyors and landscape architects the "missouri Professional Board
HB 1835 - Treadway - Alters licensing requirements for the registered board of geologists.
HB 2127 - Campbell - Provides guidelines for elevator safety and inspection.
HB 2171 - Crawford - Revises and adds provisions relating to design-build contracts.

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Enterprise Zones

SB 0856 - Russell - Authorizes a new enterprise zone for Wright County and for the city of Carl Junction in Jasper County
SB 0885 - Bentley - Allows satellite economic development zones in Springfield
SB 1254 - Steelman - Creates enterprise zones in certain locations
HB 1143 - Rizzo - Revises various provisions relating to economic development
HB 1370 - Merideth III - Increases population ranges for establishing enterprise zones outside of metropolitan statistical areas.
HB 1848 - Hegeman - Requires certain tax credits administered by the Department of Economic Development to be capped per fiscal year.
HB 1961 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in certain counties and cities.
HB 2111 - Kelly (144) - Authorizes a state enterprise zone for Wright County.

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Entertainment, Sports and Amusements

SB 0634 - Wiggins - Authorizes additional annual funding for Kansas City sports stadiums
SB 0664 - Klarich - Earmarks state sales tax revenues for St. Louis multipurpose facilities
SB 0733 - Steelman - Exempts from state and local sales taxes all sales to athletic events and dues for health and fitness centers
SB 0739 - Wiggins - Establishes the Uniform Athlete Agents Act
SB 0809 - Gross - Exempts movie tickets from state and local sales taxes
SB 0913 - Rohrbach - Relating to the crime of promoting or providing a Mexican poker contest
SB 1018 - Westfall - Expands "ticket price" to allow seller to recoup additional charges assessed without being guilty of scalping
SB 1019 - Stoll - Posting requirements regarding the use of pool tables
SB 1158 - Rohrbach - Clarifies classification of nonresident professional athletes for income tax purposes
SB 1225 - Bentley - Extends the taxation of nonresident professional athletes & entertainers to 2015
SCR 059 - Steelman - Urges Major League Baseball & its Players to address serious problems existing within professional baseball
HB 1089 - Reynolds - Reduces the number of state fair commissioners who may be from one congressional district
HB 1091 - Reynolds - Revises law on overtime for amusement and recreation employees
HB 1166 - Crowell - Provides exemption from motorcycle helmet requirement for public parades
HB 1600 - Treadway - Alters provisions regarding accountants, the executive board of nursing, and placards in pool halls
HB 1609 - Robirds - Grants immunity from liability for injuries or death resulting from risks of paddlesports.
HB 1629 - Hollingsworth - Creates crime of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager, or sports official.
HB 1672 - Gambaro - Modifies the law regarding income tax liability of professional entertainers and athletes
HB 1675 - Scheve - Prevents broadcasting industry employers from requiring noncompetition clauses.
HB 1889 - Foley - Creates the Sports Center Redevelopment Authority.
HB 1946 - Bonner - Authorizes appropriation to project fund for Kansas/missouri metropolitan cultural district.
HB 2116 - Johnson - Prohibits public or private schools from joining or retaining membership in any statewide activities
HJR 044 - Copenhaver - Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to hunt, fish, and harvest game.
HJR 048 - Murphy - Proposes a constitutional amendment which requires voter approval of appropriations or bonding for sports stadiums.

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Environmental Protection

SB 0649 - Goode - Creates the Invasive Species Council
SB 0708 - Mathewson - Revises membership of Clean Water Commission
SB 0715 - Rohrbach - Creates the Environmental Regulation Consistency Act
SB 0829 - Dougherty - Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools
SB 0881 - Steelman - Creates the Environmental Hearing Commission
SB 0971 - Klindt - Requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis be prepared when certain environmental rules are promulgated
SB 0984 - Steelman - Revises various provisions relating to the Department of Natural Resources
SB 0985 - Steelman - Relates to bond authorization for water, sewer and stormwater projects
SB 1008 - Stoll - Streamlines the process and oversight of cleanups and encourages voluntary cleanup sites
SB 1011 - Caskey - Removes references to used tires from the waste tire law and sets emission limits for use of tire derived fuel
SB 1072 - Childers - Revises provisions relating to water permitting for aquaculture facilities
SB 1144 - Dougherty - Modifies provisions of the air conservation statutes relating to enacting stricter standards than the EPA
SB 1163 - Steelman - Clarifies provisions in the air emissions banking and trading program
SB 1165 - Mathewson - Creates the "Pesticide Project Fund"
HB 1134 - Relford - Revises numerous provisions relating to conservation practices
HB 1149 - Hegeman - Establishes the Environmental Hearing Commission within the office of administration
HB 1319 - Burton - Relating to tax credits for building coal fired electric generating plants fitted with pollution control devices.
HB 1341 - Marble - Establishes an environmental audit privilege.
HB 1395 - Ransdall - Adopts a preference for state purchasing of recycled toner cartridges.
HB 1472 - Whorton - Requires Missouri Department of Transportation to implement a program that provides for use of alternative fuels in its
HB 1569 - Davis - Removes used tires from the provisions relating to the regulation of waste tires by Department of Natural Resources
HB 1599 - Lowe - Encourages the use of renewable resources.
HB 1650 - Hoppe - Modifies various provisions regarding water resources
HB 1690 - Smith (011) - Makes various revisions relating to hazardous waste management.
HB 1748 - Ransdall - Revises various provisions relating to water resources
HB 1750 - Lawson - Prohibits sale or storage of any gasoline within this state to contain more than one-half of one percent by volume of
HB 1754 - Gratz - Creates the Environmental Regulation Consistency Act.
HB 1782 - Shoemyer - Revises limitation on rural water grants.
HB 1806 - Shelton (057) - Prohibits the transportation of hazardous materials through any highway tunnel in this state.
HB 1810 - Holt - Requires department of natural resources to give preference to applications by municipalities for grants for the
HB 1863 - Whorton - Creates the "missouri Biodiesel Incentive Fund".
HB 2004 - Naeger - Creates the Environmental Regulation Consistency Act.
HB 2036 - Hoppe - Regulates installation and maintenance of underground liquid storage systems.
HB 2040 - Bray - Establishes a permitting process for the construction or modification of chip mills.
HB 2087 - Whorton - Allows energy cost savings contracts
HB 2198 - Ward - Creates a sub-account within the state highways and transportation department fund for the purpose of paying
HCR 011 - Clayton - Supports improved flood protection, navigation, and projects to improve environmental quality
HCR 031 - Enz - Requests the State Auditor to conduct an audit of the Gateway Clean Air Program that is implementing the vehicle

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Estates, Wills and Trusts

SB 0742 - Caskey - Makes technical correction to trusts and estates law
SB 1197 - Gibbons - Reinstates the Dead Man's Act which prohibits introduction of statement from deceased person in trials
SB 1251 - Gibbons - Allows for designation of next of kin
HB 1151 - Smith (011) - Corrects an erroneous internal cross-reference in the law on administration of trusts
HB 1537 - Clayton - Allows estate value to be offset by debt in determining whether the small estate administration statutes apply
HB 1634 - Hoppe - Allows requisition of additional funds by land trusts if insufficient funds exist to pay expenses

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Ethics

SB 0766 - Steelman - Regulates inaugural and congressional reapportionment committees and provisions of campaign finance disclosure law
SB 1035 - Yeckel - Revises laws related to lobbyists, the Missouri Ethics Commission and campaign finance disclosure
SB 1120 - Yeckel - Regulates committees organized to influence congressional apportionment
HB 1127 - Smith (011) - Requires lobbyists to wear identification badges
HB 1169 - Crowell - Creates a gubernatorial inaugural committee
HB 1326 - Seigfreid - Establishes reporting requirements for lobbyists and candidates for office.
HB 1328 - Robirds - Requires Ethics Commission to send notices of late filing fee assessments within five business days of due date.
HB 1492 - Seigfreid - Changes campaign finance disclosure report deadlines
HB 1493 - Seigfreid - Requires the ethics commission to provide a copy of the commission's reporting files to the general assembly.
HB 1494 - Seigfreid - Permits the ethics commission to impose a fee in ethics proceeding investigations.
HB 1840 - Seigfreid - Establishes an electronic reporting system for lobbyist reports
HB 1853 - Wagner - Changes reporting requirements for filing financial interest statements for certain political subdivisions.
HB 1981 - Shields - Prohibits members of the Public Service Commission from establishing or maintaining a campaign finance committee.

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Evidence

SB 0631 - Schneider - Modifies certain provisions of the Second Injury Fund
SB 0657 - House - Limits the ability of the Government to interfere with the exercise of religion
SB 0662 - Westfall - Allows Sheriff to seize misappropriated property held by a pawnbroker; revises felony theft limit to $500
SB 0700 - Wiggins - Revises dram shop liability
SB 0704 - Caskey - Revises numerous theft crimes to reflect new felony limit of $500
SB 0721 - Westfall - Amends several provisions of law regulating traffic offenses
SB 0740 - Wiggins - Creates the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0766 - Steelman - Regulates inaugural and congressional reapportionment committees and provisions of campaign finance disclosure law
SB 0817 - Gross - Revises dram shop liability
SB 0819 - Bentley - Raises age limit for death penalty from 16 to 18
SB 0832 - Schneider - Modifies workers' compensation and second injury fund provisions
SB 0875 - Gross - Revises crime of possession of child pornography
SB 0931 - Klarich - Makes several changes regarding business and commerce
SB 0958 - Kinder - Limits the ability of the government to interfere with the exercise of religion
SB 0978 - Kinder - Revises dram shop liability
SB 1021 - Wiggins - Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act
SB 1113 - Caskey - Revises law related to coroner's inquests
SB 1121 - Yeckel - Revises certain campaign finance requirements
SB 1197 - Gibbons - Reinstates the Dead Man's Act which prohibits introduction of statement from deceased person in trials
SB 1252 - Bland - Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system
HB 1461 - Seigfreid - Revises election and campaign finance laws
HB 1532 - Hoppe - Revises dram shop liability
HB 1722 - Hosmer - Requires mentally retarded persons to be represented during interrogations
HB 1888 - Barnitz - Revises pawnbroker provisions, theft crime felony limits, third offense stealing charges and bad check costs
HB 1955 - Hilgemann - Neighborhood/community groups may present evidence at a sentencing hearing for a controlled substance offense
HB 2002 - Farnen - Revises provisions concerning coroner's inquests

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Family Law

SB 0693 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rates over a three-year period
SB 0694 - Dougherty - Does not require the court to make reasonable efforts if a child is abused by a person other than the parent
SB 0740 - Wiggins - Creates the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
SB 0743 - Caskey - Rulings on termination of parental rights shall be final for purposes of appeal
SB 0828 - Dougherty - Details rights and responsibilities of foster parents
SB 0830 - House - Allows adopted persons over age 50 to obtain their original birth certificate
SB 1192 - Gross - Modifies grandparent visitation provisions
SB 1247 - Quick - Requires the Kansas City Firefighters Pension Fund to recognize domestic relations orders
HB 1055 - Byrd - Waives the state's sovereign immunity for purposes of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act
HB 1072 - Hosmer - Allows for the termination of spousal maintenance based on cohabitation
HB 1168 - Crowell - Requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to modify child custody
HB 1195 - Selby - Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certificates without a court order
HB 1243 - Ostmann - Modifies various provisions regarding grandparent visitation.
HB 1244 - Robirds - Limits parental liability for the damages caused by the acts of seventeen year old children.
HB 1263 - Gratz - Allows a parent to leave a child less than thirty days old in the custody of certain professionals without subjecting
HB 1303 - Troupe - Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.
HB 1384 - Harlan - Establishes the Parental Child Support Responsibility Program in the Department of Social Services.
HB 1443 - Barry - Modifies provisions relating to child abandonment
HB 1454 - Johnson - Amends the notice provisions regarding liens on bank accounts for child support arrearages.
HB 1481 - Bray - Delineates the rights and responsibilities of foster parents.
HB 1485 - Johnson - Modifies various provisions regarding the investigation of child abuse.
HB 1780 - Green - Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to use the National Medical Support notice to enforce health
HB 1814 - Monaco - Modifies various provisions relating to orders of protection
HB 1878 - Roark - Establishes covenant marriages in this state.
HB 1902 - Kelley (047) - Relieves a parent of financial responsibility for seventeen year old minors who do not reside with their parents with
HB 2017 - Kelly (027) - Allows adopted persons over the age of 50 to obtain their original birth certificates.
HB 2035 - Reinhart - Retention of family court commissioners in Clay County is required to be placed on ballot at every presidential
HB 2121 - Campbell - Establishes procedures for the designation of a standby guardian for a child.
HB 2142 - Wilson - Makes technical modifications to paternity provisions.

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Family Services Division

SB 0640 - Russell - Adds a regional child assessment center in Camden county
SB 0684 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision of in-home services to the elderly
SB 0687 - Gibbons - Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a hospital
SB 0693 - Dougherty - Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rates over a three-year period
SB 0694 - Dougherty - Does not require the court to make reasonable efforts if a child is abused by a person other than the parent
SB 0724 - Bentley - Requires certain facilities for children to show proof of accreditation or compliance with safety standards
SB 0732 - Bland - Requires the Division of Family Services to provide an annual report on the status of welfare reform in Missouri
SB 0793 - Bland - Modifies the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program
SB 0820 - Bentley - Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on their state income tax returns
SB 0828 - Dougherty - Details rights and responsibilities of foster parents
SB 0917 - Dougherty - Allows the Division of Family Services to request license- exempt foster care facilities for reasons for exemption
SB 0923 - Sims - Modifies various provisions relating to children and families
SB 1111 - Quick - Extends the sunset for the Children's Health Insurance Program to July 1, 2007
SB 1160 - Sims - Requires the use of national medical support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage in child support orders
SB 1172 - Yeckel - Modifies child abuse investigation procedures that involve a school or child care facility
SCR 046 - Dougherty - Relating to the TANF Reauthorization Act of 2001
SCR 053 - Cauthorn - Establishes a Joint Committee to analyze the child abuse and neglect hotline system
HB 1052 - Ward - Allows the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit food pantries operating
HB 1263 - Gratz - Allows a parent to leave a child less than thirty days old in the custody of certain professionals without subjecting
HB 1303 - Troupe - Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.
HB 1384 - Harlan - Establishes the Parental Child Support Responsibility Program in the Department of Social Services.
HB 1443 - Barry - Modifies provisions relating to child abandonment
HB 1444 - Smith (011) - Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes, residential care facilities, and child placing
HB 1454 - Johnson - Amends the notice provisions regarding liens on bank accounts for child support arrearages.
HB 1481 - Bray - Delineates the rights and responsibilities of foster parents.
HB 1485 - Johnson - Modifies various provisions regarding the investigation of child abuse.
HB 1902 - Kelley (047) - Relieves a parent of financial responsibility for seventeen year old minors who do not reside with their parents with
HB 2161 - Baker - Modifies the requirements for supplemental nursing payments.
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