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Disabilities

SB 0044 - Dougherty - Allows employees to take six weeks of paid leave for family or medical reasons
SB 0046 - Kennedy - Provides a tax credit for modifying a home for a disabled person
SB 0087 - Dougherty - Eliminates time restrictions for special needs children under Missouri's Health Insurance Program for children
SB 0225 - Klindt - Enumerates the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0266 - Shields - Requires the department of mental health to develop plans for children and persons on waiting lists
SB 0311 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0343 - Dolan - Revises disabled license plate law and creates numerous special license plates
SB 0493 - Kennedy - Modifies the law relating to the screening of genetic diseases and birth defects
SB 0573 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the Missouri Family Trust
HB 0059 - Johnson - Requires the department of mental health to develop a state suicide prevention plan and creates a council on pain mgt.
HB 0098 - Graham - Allows the state of Missouri to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
HB 0191 - Fares - Increases circuit breaker limits.
HB 0196 - Sager - Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of
HB 0258 - Haywood - Establishes lists of specific crimes which if motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual
HB 0297 - Stevenson - American Sign Language courses offered in educational institutions in the State of Missouri shall be regarded as
HB 0310 - Walker - Recognizes and encourages the teaching, study, and learning of American Sign Language.
HB 0317 - Skaggs - Establishes the rights of persons who utilize service animals.
HB 0517 - Lembke - Establishes the MO Homestead Preservation Act and modifies the rebate amount for the Senior Rx Program
HB 0547 - Merideth III - Revises list of persons disqualified from jury service.
HB 0655 - Wilson - Revises certain special education services
HB 0679 - Hanaway - Modifies various provisions of the law relating to foster care and protective services for children
HB 0737 - Wilson - Integrity of justice act.
HB 0739 - Viebrock - Removes the two million dollar cap on the special needs child adoption tax credit and eliminates the credit for
HB 0747 - Cooper - Eliminates the two million dollar cap on the tax credits for nonrecurring adoption expenses.

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Domestic Relations

SB 0044 - Dougherty - Allows employees to take six weeks of paid leave for family or medical reasons
SB 0306 - Steelman - Requires courts to appoint a guardian ad litem where there are substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect
HB 0154 - Roark - Establishes covenant marriages in this state.
HB 0196 - Sager - Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of
HB 0360 - Mayer - Revises the crime of domestic assault in the third degree by making violation of subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of
HB 0379 - Viebrock - Revises the definition of dangerous felonies to include assault of a law enforcement officer in the first degree,
HB 0581 - Pratt - Creates new rights for men in the establishment of paternity.
HB 0690 - Holand - Amends the requirements for the Missouri family trust.

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Drugs and Controlled Substances

SB 0039 - Cauthorn - Revises numerous provisions relating to emergency services
SB 0166 - Bland - Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health
SB 0185 - Wheeler - Creates the Missouri Office of Pharmaceutical Reporting
SB 0190 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
SB 0307 - Steelman - Modifies the rebate amount for prescription drugs in the Missouri Senior Prescription Program
SB 0404 - Nodler - Makes manufacturing a controlled substance within 2,000 ft. of a school a class A felony
SB 0433 - Yeckel - Requires sale of certain methamphetamine drugs from behind the counter
SB 0442 - Gross - Requires ephedrine and ephedrine-based products to be behind the counter
SB 0557 - Shields - Modifies the law relating to pharmacists, pharmacies, pharmaceutical services and drug distributors
SB 0610 - Yeckel - Creates a stamp tax on controlled substances
SCR 009 - Shields - Urges Congress to enact out-patient prescription drug coverage as part of the federal Medicare program
SCR 019 - Bland - Establishes a Hepatitis C Task Force to examine the impact of the Hepatitis C virus in Missouri
HB 0037 - Johnson - Establishes the Missouri Rx card program to provide prescription drug discounts to certain Medicare-eligible
HB 0047 - Portwood - Modifies the rebate amounts given for prescription drugs under the Senior Rx Program.
HB 0067 - Bringer - Revises section 568.045 to include "distribute and deliver", to include engaging in conduct that violates
HB 0102 - Phillips - Modifies the standards for disciplining the licenses of pharmacists and pharmacies.
HB 0123 - Luetkemeyer - Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for cancer clinical trials.
HB 0192 - Luetkemeyer - Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer.
HB 0233 - Holand - Requires health insurers to treat mental health in the same manner as other medical services.
HB 0286 - Bearden - Modifies provisions relating to the federal reimbursement allowance, Senior Rx Program, and pharmacy provider tax
HB 0350 - Wilson - Expands current mandated health insurance coverage to include coverage for chemical dependency.
HB 0470 - Mayer - Modifies various crimes and criminal procedures
HB 0517 - Lembke - Establishes the MO Homestead Preservation Act and modifies the rebate amount for the Senior Rx Program
HB 0644 - Walker - Legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

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Drunk Driving/Boating

SB 0091 - Coleman - Requires law enforcement officers to provide specified notice before administering portable chemical test
SB 0161 - Bland - Requires persons guilty of boating while intoxicated to complete the SATOP program
SB 0490 - Dolan - Requires alcohol related reports submitted by law enforcement officers to be certified
HB 0327 - Lipke - Enacts various provisions relating to transportation and operation of motor vehicles
HB 0410 - Schaaf - Modifies various provisions relating to the substance abuse traffic offender program

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Easements and Conveyances

SB 0007 - Mathewson - Authorizes conveyance of state property in Pettis County
SB 0130 - Gross - Authorizes conveyance of state property along Knaust Road in St. Charles County
SB 0224 - Vogel - Authorizes easement on state property to the city of Fulton
SB 0232 - Cauthorn - Authorizes conveyance of state property in Thousand Hills State Park
SB 0239 - Mathewson - Authorizes conveyance of National Guard Armory in Sedalia to the Sedalia School District Foundation
SB 0275 - Russell - Addresses authority of governor to convey certain state property in Cole County
SB 0505 - Clemens - Limits taking farmland by eminent domain
SB 0562 - Griesheimer - Authorizes conveyance of state property located in St. Louis County to the City of Pacific
SB 0576 - Vogel - Conveys state property in Cole County to the Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission
SB 0577 - Shields - Authorizes the conveyance of an easement in the form of a right-of-way in the City of St. Joseph
SB 0578 - Shields - Authorizes the conveyance of land owned by the state in Platte County
SB 0606 - Coleman - Allows the department of natural resources to convey state land in certain situations
SB 0674 - Gross - Authorizes the conveyance of Marshall Habilitation Center and Midtown Habilitation Center
HB 0093 - Moore - Authorizes the conveyance of land owned by the state in Callaway County to the City of Fulton
HB 0278 - Davis - Authorizes conveyance of state property along Knaust Road in St. Charles County
HB 0447 - Townley - Regulates the taking of farmland and easements by eminent domain.
HB 0572 - Bruns - Authorizes a conveyance of state property to the Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission.
HB 0574 - Jackson - Authorizes the conveyance of certain land owned by the state to the City of Pacific

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Economic Development

SB 0020 - Yeckel - Creates a tax exemption for property leased or transferred by certain interstate compact agencies
SB 0038 - Klindt - Creates the "Missouri Biomass Technology Commission"
SB 0151 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0172 - Goode - Revises regulation of tax increment financing
SB 0229 - Bray - Makes changes to economic development distressed communities and small business investment tax credit programs
SB 0235 - Quick - Considers the value of a redevelopment area when calculating local indebtedness limit
SB 0244 - Russell - Creates the Exhibition Center and Recreation Facility District Act for certain counties
SB 0249 - Shields - Revises laws on economic development
SB 0253 - Steelman - Creates the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act
SB 0272 - Bland - Revises law concerning redevelopment of distressed communities
SB 0284 - Loudon - Includes certain pro bono attorneys in legal expense fund
SB 0285 - Dougherty - Repeals the $500 gambling boat loss limit
SB 0336 - Bray - Changes economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 0375 - Steelman - Creates an enterprise zone in Pulaski County and the City of Richland
SB 0473 - Stoll - Requires additional information regarding department of economic development contracts for financial assistance
SB 0502 - Vogel - Creates the Exhibition Center and Recreation Facility District Act for certain counties
SB 0504 - Clemens - Authorizes a satellite enterprise zone in Springfield
SB 0508 - Bray - Modifies provisions concerning industrial development
SB 0565 - Goode - Relating to job creation and fiscal accountability
SB 0596 - Childers - Creates a 10% tax credit for new revenue of a new or expanded business
SB 0599 - Childers - Makes various revisions to programs managed by the department of economic development
SB 0620 - Loudon - Modifies the BUILD program and implements certain job retention provisions
SB 0634 - Coleman - Modifies applicability of certain property taxes to certain tax increment financing projects
SB 0692 - Klindt - Creates the Missouri Rural Economic Stimulus Act
HB 0058 - Salva - Authorizes the designation of a satellite enterprise zone in the city of Sugar Creek.
HB 0107 - Shoemyer - Allows a tax credit for up to fifty percent of any cash fund investments made in eligible new generation processing
HB 0119 - Dempsey - Requires school board approval of tax increment financing plans for areas with residential or multifamily properties.
HB 0130 - Shoemyer - Allows a tax credit of up to fifty percent of cash fund investments in eligible new generation processing entities.
HB 0144 - Luetkemeyer - Authorizes sales taxes for exhibition centers and tourism for certain counties
HB 0197 - Johnson - Makes various changes to distressed community, enterprise zone, and community rehabilitation laws
HB 0204 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in Pulaski County and Richland.
HB 0277 - Wright - Allows the City of Springfield to remove or transfer real property from a district or zone designation
HB 0289 - Dempsey - Creates the Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus Act and modifies tax increment financing provisions
HB 0294 - Marsh - Allows Springfield to establish a satellite enterprise zone.
HB 0322 - Jetton - Modifies language regarding small business and the administrative rules which effect small business
HB 0351 - Quinn - Modifies eligibility requirements for members of a board of directors of an industrial development corporation
HB 0409 - Jolly - Changes the requirements for claiming and reporting on economic incentive programs.
HB 0569 - Merideth III - Reforms certain economic development incentives.
HB 0680 - Hanaway - Provides income tax credits for approved retained business facilities.
HB 0693 - Stefanick - Requires an approved plan of development for industrial development projects.

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Economic Development Dept.

SB 0069 - Yeckel - Creates the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as liaison between agencies and small businesses
SB 0088 - Kennedy - Creates licensure requirements for private investigators
SB 0149 - Bland - Creates a braider classification requiring licensing by the Board of Cosmetology
SB 0151 - Bland - Authorizes a two-year tax free zone in Kansas City
SB 0153 - Bland - Authorizes an appropriation to the Missouri Housing Development Commission for grants to local groups
SB 0199 - Childers - Modifies the classification of counties, and various other provisions related to counties and county government
SB 0223 - Foster - Creates the State Board of Auctioneers to oversee licensing of persons engaged in the practice of auctioneering
SB 0229 - Bray - Makes changes to economic development distressed communities and small business investment tax credit programs
SB 0249 - Shields - Revises laws on economic development
SB 0253 - Steelman - Creates the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act
SB 0276 - Jacob - Creates the Educational Job Retraining Fund which shall be funded by the repeal of the gambling loss limit
SB 0300 - Cauthorn - Regulates the licensing and registration of anesthesiologist assistants
SB 0336 - Bray - Changes economic development programs regarding distressed communities and small business investment tax credits
SB 0353 - Stoll - Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program
SB 0372 - Yeckel - Regulates the licensing and registration of naturopathic physicians
SB 0375 - Steelman - Creates an enterprise zone in Pulaski County and the City of Richland
SB 0413 - Steelman - Protects use of the title social worker
SB 0415 - Yeckel - Modifies provisions relating to professional licensing
SB 0458 - Childers - Extends the sunset on the dry fire hydrant tax credit
SB 0473 - Stoll - Requires additional information regarding department of economic development contracts for financial assistance
SB 0478 - Gross - Creates inactive status for architects and psychologists and modifies duties of landscape architects
SB 0480 - Dolan - Modifies licensing of physical therapists and physical therapists assistants
SB 0496 - Yeckel - Allows biennial licensing for certain finance companies
SB 0504 - Clemens - Authorizes a satellite enterprise zone in Springfield
SB 0514 - Kennedy - Modifies provisions relating to the regulation and licensing of professional addiction counselors
SB 0515 - Bland - Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and the practice of nursing
SB 0523 - Kennedy - Creates the Board of Counselors and Therapists
SB 0535 - Yeckel - Requires specified training for professional counselors wishing to diagnose mental and emotional disorders
SB 0565 - Goode - Relating to job creation and fiscal accountability
SB 0589 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of chiropractors
SB 0596 - Childers - Creates a 10% tax credit for new revenue of a new or expanded business
SB 0599 - Childers - Makes various revisions to programs managed by the department of economic development
SB 0603 - Kennedy - Revises the regulation and licensing of professional addiction counselors
SB 0620 - Loudon - Modifies the BUILD program and implements certain job retention provisions
SB 0659 - Cauthorn - Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants
SB 0680 - Loudon - Establishes a licensing board to regulate electrical contractors
SB 0692 - Klindt - Creates the Missouri Rural Economic Stimulus Act
HB 0058 - Salva - Authorizes the designation of a satellite enterprise zone in the city of Sugar Creek.
HB 0171 - Wood - Real Estate Agents - 17 sections with penalty clause.
HB 0197 - Johnson - Makes various changes to distressed community, enterprise zone, and community rehabilitation laws
HB 0204 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in Pulaski County and Richland.
HB 0217 - Myers - Prohibits physicians and surgeons with federal whistle-blower protections from having their professional
HB 0221 - Luetkemeyer - Revises banking laws
HB 0289 - Dempsey - Creates the Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus Act and modifies tax increment financing provisions
HB 0294 - Marsh - Allows Springfield to establish a satellite enterprise zone.
HB 0322 - Jetton - Modifies language regarding small business and the administrative rules which effect small business
HB 0323 - Baker - Requires license to sell funeral merchandise.
HB 0332 - Portwood - Protects use of the title "social worker"
HB 0345 - Cunningham - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charities.
HB 0358 - Boykins - Revises procedure for inactively licensed barber to reinstate license
HB 0390 - Behnen - Regulates the licensing and registration of anesthesiologist assistants
HB 0393 - Avery - Expands the practice of dentistry to include the use of lasers.
HB 0409 - Jolly - Changes the requirements for claiming and reporting on economic incentive programs.
HB 0492 - Morris - Revises licensed professional counselors.
HB 0558 - El-Amin - Creates a task force on alternative sentencing.
HB 0564 - Behnen - Modifies provisions relating to professional licensing
HB 0569 - Merideth III - Reforms certain economic development incentives.
HB 0615 - St. Onge - Creates the Missouri electrical industry licensing board.
HB 0680 - Hanaway - Provides income tax credits for approved retained business facilities.
HB 0693 - Stefanick - Requires an approved plan of development for industrial development projects.
HB 0700 - Behnen - Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of advanced practice registered nurses and the practice of nursing.
HB 0708 - Liese - Creates the Missouri Logger Licensing Board.
HCR 027 - Parker - Commends the people of Israel for their democratic ideals, reaffirms the Missouri-Israeli Cooperative Agreement, and
HCR 030 - El-Amin - Names the Nathaniel J."nat" Rivers Office of the Division of Workplace Development.

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Education, Elementary and Secondary

SB 0011 - Kinder - Makes various modifications to taxation
SB 0031 - Foster - Alters provisions concerning suspension and offences for which a pupil may be prohibited from public school
SB 0041 - Cauthorn - Creates signing bonuses for teachers in rural schools
SB 0067 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0072 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0094 - Shields - Creates a tax credit for teachers' related out-of-pocket expenses
SB 0106 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SB 0112 - Loudon - Allows parents to refuse to vaccinate their child for religious, philosophical, or medical reasons
SB 0115 - Dougherty - Allows the department of health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools
SB 0136 - Goode - Changes filing and meeting dates for offices in political subdivisions and special districts
SB 0141 - Gross - Limits the availability of low income housing tax credits
SB 0150 - Bland - Allows school districts to create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0159 - Bland - Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, & type II diabetes
SB 0180 - Bland - Allows teachers and administrators in KC to come out of retirement & not relinquish retirement benefits for 4 years
SB 0187 - Yeckel - Revises the charter school laws
SB 0204 - Yeckel - Authorizes school districts to designate an educational service agency
SB 0205 - Gross - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0215 - Foster - Alters conditions by which a school district may transfer moneys from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund
SB 0245 - Shields - Requires that any increase in the Gaming Proceeds for Education Fund be transferred to the Classroom Trust Fund
SB 0247 - Dolan - Modifies the provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems
SB 0248 - Gross - Revises provisions of various retirement plans
SB 0251 - Childers - Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities
SB 0264 - Shields - Certain school districts shall not be obligated to comply with certain salary compliance provisions
SB 0265 - Shields - Alters provisions regarding the certification of public school teachers
SB 0267 - Shields - Alters the criteria DESE employs for designating a school, or school district, as "priority"
SB 0276 - Jacob - Creates the Educational Job Retraining Fund which shall be funded by the repeal of the gambling loss limit
SB 0286 - Dougherty - Allows metropolitan school districts the power to raise the compulsory attendance age to 17
SB 0287 - Childers - Removes work done on behalf of schools from the requirements of the prevailing wage laws in some instances
SB 0296 - Griesheimer - Requires the state board of education to offer two levels of professional teacher certification
SB 0317 - Stoll - Establishes a December 15, 2003, deadline for a MCHCP study which is presently required by law but possesses no deadline
SB 0318 - Stoll - Revises the MAP assessment subject matter "test domains" by limiting the scope of said domains
SB 0325 - Steelman - Alters provisions regarding veterans & mandates that public schools devote one class period observing Veterans Day
SB 0337 - Cauthorn - Allows participation in FFA, FHA, FCCLA, 4-H, and State Fair competition to count as attendance for purpose of state aid
SB 0344 - Scott - Requires emergency sirens in public schools to be uniform and possess the same ringing sound in each school
SB 0354 - Stoll - Requires the state board of education to study and evaluate the adequacy and equity of state school aid
SB 0359 - Childers - Renders several modifications to the state's education, education funding, and taxation policies
SB 0363 - Jacob - Modifies the distribution of moneys from the Gaming Commission Fund
SB 0400 - Bray - Sets speed limits within school zones and requires drivers to use care with respect to pedestrians and bicyclists
SB 0404 - Nodler - Makes manufacturing a controlled substance within 2,000 ft. of a school a class A felony
SB 0416 - Yeckel - Alters the distribution of the gaming commission fund
SB 0420 - Stoll - Extends the 25 and out provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems
SB 0422 - Childers - Revises membership qualifications for school boards
SB 0445 - Shields - Directs unobligated cash balance in the school building revolving fund as of Aug. 28, 2003 to the foundation formula
SB 0461 - Bray - Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings
SB 0472 - Loudon - Makes adjustments to the school foundation formula
SB 0497 - Yeckel - Creates the Show-Me Parental Choice Tax Credit Program
SB 0503 - Jacob - Allows certain teachers who job-share to receive creditable service for retirement and pro-rata leave and holidays
SB 0507 - Bray - Seeks to repeal the Academically Deficient Schools Program
SB 0519 - Foster - Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes
SB 0520 - Klindt - Provides that A+ reimbursements shall not be issued to any four-year institutions of higher education
SB 0553 - Bartle - Alters the foundation formula by completely removing the line 1(b) calculation
SB 0574 - Days - DESE shall award salary supplement grants to priority school employing high quality teachers, subject to appropriations
SB 0582 - Kennedy - Creates a gang resistance education and training program to be used in schools
SB 0585 - Dolan - Modifies calculation of summer school eligible pupil counts and demonstration of quantifiable pupil assessment gains
SB 0586 - Stoll - Encourages effective involvement of parents in support of the education of their children by State Board of Education
SB 0629 - Coleman - Create the "More for Four" pilot program, providing grants to a maximum of 25 pre-kindergarten pilot programs
SB 0632 - Days - Renders alterations to policies concerning early childhood special education placement
SB 0637 - Caskey - Alters policies regarding the lapse of school districts
SB 0641 - Foster - Alters provisions regarding special education policy
SB 0642 - Foster - Amends exception to the mandatory days of school attendance to apply to inclement weather during the 2002-03 school year
SB 0644 - Kennedy - Alters provisions regarding early childhood special education services
SB 0647 - Bray - Allows the state board of education to promulgate rules regarding model school district healthy dietary guidelines
SB 0666 - Bland - School districts with multiple attendance centers shall develop policies regarding intra-district transfers
SB 0676 - Kennedy - Creates an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance for the 2002-2003 school year
SB 0682 - Loudon - Requires the juvenile court to notify school districts of any violations of compulsory school attendance
SB 0686 - Russell - Articulates conditions upon which school districts may transfer unrestricted funds
SB 0699 - Russell - Replaces the term "eligible pupils" with the term "average daily attendance" in line 1 of the foundation formula
SCR 002 - Bland - Renames the Joint Interim Committee on After-School Programs the Joint Committee on Out-of-School Programs
SCR 016 - Goode - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Education
SJR 004 - Cauthorn - Allows private school students to ride public school buses
SJR 018 - Coleman - Enables the legislature to issue bonds for education purposes
HB 0045 - Stevenson - Modifies the compulsory school attendance age to eighteen.
HB 0051 - Mayer - Suspension or expulsion of pupils in public schools.
HB 0055 - Johnson - Revises calculation of state aid.
HB 0076 - Holand - School Board Members orientation and training requirements for reelection.
HB 0112 - Townley - Immunizations for school children.
HB 0119 - Dempsey - Requires school board approval of tax increment financing plans for areas with residential or multifamily properties.
HB 0128 - Willoughby - Honorary high school diplomas for certain civilians, prisoners of war, and other veterans.
HB 0152 - Johnson - Modifies retirement provisions for Kansas City police and the teacher and nonteacher public school retirement systems
HB 0159 - Zweifel - Recall elections for school board members.
HB 0168 - Kelly (144) - Creates the crime of sexual contact with a student while on public school property.
HB 0173 - Stevenson - Changes the name of Missouri Southern State College and revises certain residency requirements for members of the
HB 0174 - Bland - Retired teachers and administrators in urban school districts.
HB 0239 - Morris - Prohibits school districts from adopting discrimination policies that exceed state and federal protections against
HB 0262 - Hilgemann - Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory
HB 0266 - Cooper - Sets standards for emergency sirens in public schools.
HB 0281 - Moore - Allows state board of education to offer two professional levels of teacher certification
HB 0285 - Walton - Revises discipline policy for public schools.
HB 0288 - Jetton - Establishes the Priority Schools Trust Fund and produces additional alterations to the state's education policy
HB 0297 - Stevenson - American Sign Language courses offered in educational institutions in the State of Missouri shall be regarded as
HB 0310 - Walker - Recognizes and encourages the teaching, study, and learning of American Sign Language.
HB 0316 - Wallace - School districts' compliance with certain salary provisions.
HB 0319 - Baker - Establishes requirements for schools participating in activities associations.
HB 0320 - Baker - Competitive Bids for Various School Projects.
HB 0338 - Smith (118) - Revises the Public School Retirement System.
HB 0345 - Cunningham - Creates a tax credit for contributions to scholarship charities.
HB 0346 - Dempsey - Modifies the provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems and Kansas City teacher retirement
HB 0362 - Cunningham - Allows school districts to provide transportation for private and parochial students under certain circumstances.
HB 0381 - Holand - Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes.
HB 0384 - Cunningham - Adds consumer price index adjustment for hold harmless school districts' school aid.
HB 0385 - Icet - Provides for increase in salaries for teachers.
HB 0398 - Cunningham - Creates a tax credit for education-related costs.
HB 0399 - Cunningham - Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.
HB 0400 - Cunningham - Allows public school districts to contract with educational service agencies to develop or improve instructional
HB 0402 - Wallace - Adjusts the allocation of funds to the professional development committee in order to be eligible for state
HB 0423 - Icet - Revises line 14 of the foundation formula for calculation of state aid to school districts.
HB 0444 - Jackson - Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund
HB 0449 - Smith (014) - Establishes the Missouri Tutoring Program for Public Schools.
HB 0487 - Walton - Creates subdistricts within certain school districts located in St. Louis County.
HB 0489 - Byrd - Requires juvenile sex offenders to register with superintendent of any school district in which the juvenile
HB 0499 - Walton - Creates subdistricts within certain school districts.
HB 0511 - Deeken - Revises election laws to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002
HB 0544 - Brooks - 3allows recall elections for Kansas City School Board members.
HB 0554 - Engler - Creates inclement weather exceptions for mandatory school attendance requirements
HB 0567 - Lembke - Requires juvenile officers to report investigations for violations relating to compulsory school attendance to the
HB 0602 - Schoemehl - Allows the department of elementary and secondary education to award salary supplement grants to priority schools
HB 0631 - Bruns - Revises conditions under which schools may join or retain membership in statewide activities associations.
HB 0655 - Wilson - Revises certain special education services
HB 0684 - Jones - Sets speed limits within school zones and requires drivers to use care with respect to pedestrians and bicyclists.
HB 0686 - Jones - Revises provisions relating to election of certain school board members.
HB 0689 - Adams - Allows courts to suspend an individual's driver's license for up to one hundred twenty days for failure to stop for a
HB 0711 - Davis - Sets speed limits within school zones and requires motorists to exercise caution with respect to bicyclists,
HCR 008 - Walton - Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs.
HJR 001 - Harris - Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow approval of school bond issues by simple majority vote.

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Education, Higher

SB 0011 - Kinder - Makes various modifications to taxation
SB 0018 - Yeckel - Creates the Missouri Higher Education Deposit Program
SB 0035 - Loudon - Authorizes Joint Committee on Wagering and Gaming to solicit bids for university study of pathological gambling in MO
SB 0051 - Shields - Renames Missouri Western State College as Missouri Western State University
SB 0053 - Shields - Renames MO Western State College as MO Western State Univ. & MO Southern State College as MO Southern State Univ.-Joplin
SB 0055 - Nodler - Renames Missouri Southern State College as Missouri Southern State University-Joplin
SB 0056 - Nodler - Allows cooperative agreements between higher education institutions for the purpose of offering graduate programs
SB 0072 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0140 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0187 - Yeckel - Revises the charter school laws
SB 0217 - Champion - Renames Southwest Missouri State University as "Missouri State University"
SB 0260 - Stoll - Modifies appropriation procedures for community college districts
SB 0265 - Shields - Alters provisions regarding the certification of public school teachers
SB 0276 - Jacob - Creates the Educational Job Retraining Fund which shall be funded by the repeal of the gambling loss limit
SB 0296 - Griesheimer - Requires the state board of education to offer two levels of professional teacher certification
SB 0346 - Yeckel - Revises banking laws
SB 0353 - Stoll - Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program
SB 0359 - Childers - Renders several modifications to the state's education, education funding, and taxation policies
SB 0363 - Jacob - Modifies the distribution of moneys from the Gaming Commission Fund
SB 0371 - Foster - Allows MOHELA to provide loans for nonsectarian tuition and other costs for certain students
SB 0390 - Jacob - Incorporates Southwest Missouri State University into, and becomes a campus of, the University of Missouri system
SB 0404 - Nodler - Makes manufacturing a controlled substance within 2,000 ft. of a school a class A felony
SB 0414 - Steelman - Revises provisions of the sunshine law
SB 0416 - Yeckel - Alters the distribution of the gaming commission fund
SB 0428 - Shields - Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the Nursing Student Loan Program
SB 0453 - Shields - Requires students enrolled in institutions of higher education to receive meningitis vaccine
SB 0476 - Jacob - Eliminates the minimum age qualification for admission to the University of the State of Missouri
SB 0520 - Klindt - Provides that A+ reimbursements shall not be issued to any four-year institutions of higher education
SB 0525 - Dolan - Adds a voting student member to the board of regents, governors, and curators of higher education institutions
SB 0572 - Dougherty - Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0648 - Shields - Allows the Missouri Development Finance Board to create a life sciences funding district
SB 0650 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives on the governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0661 - Wheeler - Allows regionally accredited post-secondary educational facilities to be eligible for tourist signs
SCR 004 - Jacob - Relating to the construction of a hotel/convention center complex in Columbia
SJR 009 - Yeckel - Removes portion of the Missouri Constitution which prohibits distribution of state funds to religious organizations
HB 0038 - Stevenson - Changes the name of Missouri Southern State College and revises residency requirements for members of the board of
HB 0048 - Schaaf - Changes the name of Missouri Western State College.
HB 0073 - Luetkemeyer - Creates the Missouri Higher Education Deposit Program
HB 0114 - Myers - Establishes a pesticide project fund to distribute moneys to applicants whose projects meet the eligibility
HB 0117 - Schaaf - Changes the names of Missouri Western State College and Missouri Southern State College.
HB 0132 - Wright - Changes the name of Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University.
HB 0146 - Graham - Governing boards of certain state institutions of higher education.
HB 0189 - Parker - Modifies appropriation procedure for community college districts
HB 0221 - Luetkemeyer - Revises banking laws
HB 0280 - Avery - Requires that one voting member of the governing boards of certain state institutions of higher education be a
HB 0281 - Moore - Allows state board of education to offer two professional levels of teacher certification
HB 0297 - Stevenson - American Sign Language courses offered in educational institutions in the State of Missouri shall be regarded as
HB 0401 - Pratt - Authorizes the board of public buildings to issue additional revenue bonds for expanded purposes
HB 0444 - Jackson - Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund
HB 0497 - Abel - Allows medical assistance for foster children to continue to age twenty-three if the child enrolls in postsecondary
HB 0583 - Smith (118) - Creates new medical and retirement incentive plans.
HB 0587 - Lager - Requires students living in on-campus housing at universities and colleges to be vaccinated against
HB 0665 - Rupp - Allows students seeking theology or divinity degrees to participate in the Missouri College Guarantee Program.
HB 0688 - Hanaway - Creates the Life Sciences Research Trust Fund and the board for its administration
HB 0721 - Icet - Removes age restriction for students admissible to the University of Missouri.
HCR 018 - Townley - 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

SB 0371 - Foster - Allows MOHELA to provide loans for nonsectarian tuition and other costs for certain students
SB 0497 - Yeckel - Creates the Show-Me Parental Choice Tax Credit Program
SB 0682 - Loudon - Requires the juvenile court to notify school districts of any violations of compulsory school attendance
SJR 009 - Yeckel - Removes portion of the Missouri Constitution which prohibits distribution of state funds to religious organizations
HB 0686 - Jones - Revises provisions relating to election of certain school board members.

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Elderly

SB 0008 - Goode - Creates a senior property tax deferral program
SB 0024 - Steelman - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0042 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0045 - Kennedy - Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents
SB 0076 - Gross - Exempts the homestead of those aged 65 and older from increases in property tax assessments
SB 0128 - Bland - Dedicates additional revenue to the energy assistance program
SB 0139 - Bland - Modifies the grandparents as foster parents program
SB 0147 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 0188 - Cauthorn - Exempts pension and retirement income of seniors from state income tax
SB 0209 - Steelman - Requires the division of medical services to annually recalculate the Medicaid nursing home reimbursement amount
SB 0262 - Clemens - Exempts all public and private retirement benefits from income tax
SB 0307 - Steelman - Modifies the rebate amount for prescription drugs in the Missouri Senior Prescription Program
SB 0311 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0338 - Cauthorn - Restores the moratorium on the expenditure minimum for beds in long-term care facilities
SB 0380 - Cauthorn - Allows nursing home districts to establish and maintain senior housing
SB 0455 - Dougherty - Extends the Family Care Safety Registry to January 1, 2007
SB 0534 - Cauthorn - Includes definitions for protective oversight and voluntary leave in the Omnibus Nursing Home Act
SB 0556 - Kinder - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0590 - Shields - Enables an increase in the senior citizens' services tax with voter approval and adds a tourism tax
SB 0695 - Goode - Modifies various provisions relating to medical services and eligibility
HB 0037 - Johnson - Establishes the Missouri Rx card program to provide prescription drug discounts to certain Medicare-eligible
HB 0047 - Portwood - Modifies the rebate amounts given for prescription drugs under the Senior Rx Program.
HB 0089 - Ward - Excludes the cash value of life insurance policies of with a total cash value of five thousand dollars or less from
HB 0094 - Portwood - Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.
HB 0143 - Moore - Exempts all pension amounts from taxation for taxpayers 65 or older.
HB 0149 - Bivins - Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.
HB 0150 - Avery - Creates the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.
HB 0191 - Fares - Increases circuit breaker limits.
HB 0286 - Bearden - Modifies provisions relating to the federal reimbursement allowance, Senior Rx Program, and pharmacy provider tax
HB 0342 - Stefanick - Creates The Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.
HB 0379 - Viebrock - Revises the definition of dangerous felonies to include assault of a law enforcement officer in the first degree,
HB 0516 - Hobbs - Excludes Social Security benefits from state income taxation.
HB 0517 - Lembke - Establishes the MO Homestead Preservation Act and modifies the rebate amount for the Senior Rx Program
HB 0628 - Sutherland - Amends and enacts various provisions regarding the protection of the elderly.
HB 0723 - Jetton - Requires the Division of Medical Services to annually recalculate the Medicaid nursing home reimbursement amount.
HCR 012 - Cooper, M.D. - Urges Congress to enact a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
HCR 020 - Bivins - Urges Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision.
HCR 024 - Jones - Urges the United States Congress to repeal the federal Windfall Elimination Provision which reduces the Social
HCR 025 - Zweifel - Urges the United States Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision to

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Elections

SB 0029 - Gross - Prohibits courts from altering, setting aside, or ignoring withdrawal deadlines in elections
SB 0050 - Coleman - Modifies time for election authority to complete verification of initiative or referendum petition signatures
SB 0062 - Caskey - Allows Cass County to elect a county surveyor
SB 0129 - Gross - Prohibits expenditure of state funds by public officials or employees to support or oppose a ballot measure or candidate
SB 0131 - Gross - Revises eligibility of felons to vote
SB 0136 - Goode - Changes filing and meeting dates for offices in political subdivisions and special districts
SB 0143 - Goode - Specifies the effective dates for vetoed bills when veto is overridden
SB 0167 - Russell - Modifies jurisdiction for election contests involving the offices of circuit and associate judge
SB 0173 - Quick - Modifies provisions regarding elections in fire protection districts
SB 0210 - Steelman - Provides that commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the nonpartisan court plan is used
SB 0321 - Days - Requires persons discharged from prison or parole, to be informed of the procedures to register to vote
SB 0345 - Jacob - Increases number of circuit judges in the 13th Judicial Circuit
SB 0358 - Shields - Requires budgetary approval of Platte County or city within Platte County for expenditures to local election board
SB 0417 - Yeckel - Modifies provisions which fire district board members may be recalled for misconduct in office or criminal convictions
SB 0434 - Yeckel - Modifies provisions of lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure
SB 0531 - Childers - Eliminates the presidential primary in Missouri
SB 0569 - Yeckel - Revises election laws to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002
SB 0591 - Shields - Provides that certain circuit clerks shall be appointed
SB 0623 - Foster - Creates procedures for challenges to fiscal notes in initiatives and referenda
SJR 008 - Bartle - Creates a limit of two terms for offices of attorney general, state auditor, secretary of state & lt. governor
SJR 013 - Stoll - Revises requirements to be met by those involved in the management of bingo
SJR 016 - Jacob - Constitutional amendment to repeal legislative term limits, subject to voter approval
HB 0076 - Holand - School Board Members orientation and training requirements for reelection.
HB 0104 - Hoskins - Permits election day voter registration at polling places.
HB 0105 - Hoskins - Requires the Missouri Ethics Commission to disclose complaints filed with it.
HB 0133 - Willoughby - Modifies jurisdiction for election contests involving the offices of circuit and associate judge
HB 0159 - Zweifel - Recall elections for school board members.
HB 0237 - Johnson - Changes the limits on the amounts of certain campaign contributions.
HB 0239 - Morris - Prohibits school districts from adopting discrimination policies that exceed state and federal protections against
HB 0290 - Yates - Clarifies the filing location for campaign finance disclosure reports for certain candidates.
HB 0387 - Pearce - Eliminates the Presidential primary in Missouri.
HB 0412 - Goodman - Modifies provisions of lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure
HB 0446 - Icet - Changes the requirements for complaints filed concerning certain campaign finance disclosures.
HB 0499 - Walton - Creates subdistricts within certain school districts.
HB 0508 - Walton - Adds regulations for fire protection districts.
HB 0511 - Deeken - Revises election laws to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002
HB 0537 - Dixon - Prohibits convicted felons from registering to vote unless pardoned or the sentence is commuted.
HB 0544 - Brooks - 3allows recall elections for Kansas City School Board members.
HB 0577 - Wilson - Permits election of library board members in counties of the third classification.
HB 0641 - Bean, Jr. - Changes procedures for reviewing fiscal notes for ballot measures.
HB 0656 - May (149) - Repeals section 105.973.
HB 0657 - May (149) - Modifies provisions of lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure.
HB 0686 - Jones - Revises provisions relating to election of certain school board members.
HJR 001 - Harris - Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow approval of school bond issues by simple majority vote.

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Elementary and Secondary Education Dept.

SB 0007 - Mathewson - Authorizes conveyance of state property in Pettis County
SB 0041 - Cauthorn - Creates signing bonuses for teachers in rural schools
SB 0042 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
SB 0067 - Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0072 - Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0073 - Bland - Establishes the Missouri Commission of Prevention and Management of Obesity
SB 0106 - Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SB 0150 - Bland - Allows school districts to create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0159 - Bland - Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, & type II diabetes
SB 0187 - Yeckel - Revises the charter school laws
SB 0205 - Gross - Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
SB 0233 - Foster - Modifies the provisions of the public school and nonteacher retirement systems
SB 0265 - Shields - Alters provisions regarding the certification of public school teachers
SB 0267 - Shields - Alters the criteria DESE employs for designating a school, or school district, as "priority"
SB 0296 - Griesheimer - Requires the state board of education to offer two levels of professional teacher certification
SB 0318 - Stoll - Revises the MAP assessment subject matter "test domains" by limiting the scope of said domains
SB 0353 - Stoll - Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program
SB 0354 - Stoll - Requires the state board of education to study and evaluate the adequacy and equity of state school aid
SB 0359 - Childers - Renders several modifications to the state's education, education funding, and taxation policies
SB 0445 - Shields - Directs unobligated cash balance in the school building revolving fund as of Aug. 28, 2003 to the foundation formula
SB 0472 - Loudon - Makes adjustments to the school foundation formula
SB 0497 - Yeckel - Creates the Show-Me Parental Choice Tax Credit Program
SB 0507 - Bray - Seeks to repeal the Academically Deficient Schools Program
SB 0520 - Klindt - Provides that A+ reimbursements shall not be issued to any four-year institutions of higher education
SB 0574 - Days - DESE shall award salary supplement grants to priority school employing high quality teachers, subject to appropriations
SB 0582 - Kennedy - Creates a gang resistance education and training program to be used in schools
SB 0585 - Dolan - Modifies calculation of summer school eligible pupil counts and demonstration of quantifiable pupil assessment gains
SB 0586 - Stoll - Encourages effective involvement of parents in support of the education of their children by State Board of Education
SB 0629 - Coleman - Create the "More for Four" pilot program, providing grants to a maximum of 25 pre-kindergarten pilot programs
SB 0632 - Days - Renders alterations to policies concerning early childhood special education placement
SB 0637 - Caskey - Alters policies regarding the lapse of school districts
SB 0641 - Foster - Alters provisions regarding special education policy
SB 0642 - Foster - Amends exception to the mandatory days of school attendance to apply to inclement weather during the 2002-03 school year
SB 0647 - Bray - Allows the state board of education to promulgate rules regarding model school district healthy dietary guidelines
SB 0676 - Kennedy - Creates an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance for the 2002-2003 school year
SB 0684 - Dougherty - Modifies the law pertaining to the licensing of child care facilities
SB 0699 - Russell - Replaces the term "eligible pupils" with the term "average daily attendance" in line 1 of the foundation formula
SCR 016 - Goode - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Education
SJR 018 - Coleman - Enables the legislature to issue bonds for education purposes
HB 0055 - Johnson - Revises calculation of state aid.
HB 0128 - Willoughby - Honorary high school diplomas for certain civilians, prisoners of war, and other veterans.
HB 0173 - Stevenson - Changes the name of Missouri Southern State College and revises certain residency requirements for members of the
HB 0174 - Bland - Retired teachers and administrators in urban school districts.
HB 0281 - Moore - Allows state board of education to offer two professional levels of teacher certification
HB 0285 - Walton - Revises discipline policy for public schools.
HB 0288 - Jetton - Establishes the Priority Schools Trust Fund and produces additional alterations to the state's education policy
HB 0297 - Stevenson - American Sign Language courses offered in educational institutions in the State of Missouri shall be regarded as
HB 0310 - Walker - Recognizes and encourages the teaching, study, and learning of American Sign Language.
HB 0316 - Wallace - School districts' compliance with certain salary provisions.
HB 0319 - Baker - Establishes requirements for schools participating in activities associations.
HB 0320 - Baker - Competitive Bids for Various School Projects.
HB 0362 - Cunningham - Allows school districts to provide transportation for private and parochial students under certain circumstances.
HB 0381 - Holand - Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes.
HB 0384 - Cunningham - Adds consumer price index adjustment for hold harmless school districts' school aid.
HB 0385 - Icet - Provides for increase in salaries for teachers.
HB 0399 - Cunningham - Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.
HB 0400 - Cunningham - Allows public school districts to contract with educational service agencies to develop or improve instructional
HB 0402 - Wallace - Adjusts the allocation of funds to the professional development committee in order to be eligible for state
HB 0423 - Icet - Revises line 14 of the foundation formula for calculation of state aid to school districts.
HB 0449 - Smith (014) - Establishes the Missouri Tutoring Program for Public Schools.
HB 0487 - Walton - Creates subdistricts within certain school districts located in St. Louis County.
HB 0554 - Engler - Creates inclement weather exceptions for mandatory school attendance requirements
HB 0602 - Schoemehl - Allows the department of elementary and secondary education to award salary supplement grants to priority schools
HB 0631 - Bruns - Revises conditions under which schools may join or retain membership in statewide activities associations.
HB 0655 - Wilson - Revises certain special education services
HCR 008 - Walton - Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs.
HCR 011 - Moore - Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs

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Emergencies

SB 0003 - Russell - Authorizes certain fire protection districts to provide stretcher van and wheelchair transportation services
SB 0064 - Goode - Authorizes counties to submit a tax to the voters to support enhanced 911 services
SB 0176 - Wheeler - Authorizes the bureau of communicable diseases to monitor epidemiological studies for suspected bioterrorist agents
SB 0269 - Quick - Enables Excelsior Springs to submit a public safety sales tax to its voters
SB 0303 - Gibbons - Allows licensed ground ambulance services in St. Louis to transport patients within a 130-mile radius
SB 0370 - Foster - Allows political subdivisions to enter into agreements for reciprocal emergency aid without approval of the governor
SB 0393 - Coleman - Creates the "Women's Right to Know Act"
SB 0411 - Shields - Allows closure of operational plans and documents used to respond to certain critical incidents
SB 0652 - Steelman - Limits time period and geographic area for declared emergencies
HB 0161 - Salva - Exempts certain persons from the licensure requirements for massage therapists.
HB 0266 - Cooper - Sets standards for emergency sirens in public schools.
HB 0285 - Walton - Revises discipline policy for public schools.
HB 0307 - Merideth III - Allows political subdivisions to enter into agreements for reciprocal emergency aid without approval of the governor
HB 0340 - Boykins - Includes emergency medical technicians-intermediate serving in the City of St. Louis in the definition of "emt-I" in
HB 0374 - Bishop - Creates a new tort action for damages for emergency personnel.
HB 0507 - Hubbard - Establishes a vaccination program for first responders.

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Eminent Domain and Condemnation

SB 0142 - Goode - Gives the power of eminent domain to towns and villages
SB 0389 - Steelman - Requires consideration of use and income derived from property in setting damages in condemnation proceedings
SB 0505 - Clemens - Limits taking farmland by eminent domain
HB 0447 - Townley - Regulates the taking of farmland and easements by eminent domain.

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Emblems

SB 0651 - Steelman - Makes the Norton/Cynthiana grape the official state grape
HB 0046 - Richard - Flags to fly at half-staff at public building on D-Day, Pearl Harbor Day, Vj Day and Ve Day.
HB 0170 - Kelly (144) - Creates special license plate for members of the Missouri Foxtrotting Horse Breed Association.
HB 0463 - King - Makes the city of Adrian the purple martin capital
HB 0535 - Threlkeld - Designates the gray bat as the official flying mammal of Missouri.
HB 0638 - Townley - Designates the Norton/cynthiana grape as the official state grape of the State of Missouri.

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Employees-Employers

SB 0002 - Russell - Refines various provisions of employment security law
SB 0023 - Bland - Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all MO citizens
SB 0032 - Foster - Limits those who may complain of prevailing wage violations and allows withholding of payments in some situations
SB 0033 - Loudon - Establishes the Open Contracting Act
SB 0044 - Dougherty - Allows employees to take six weeks of paid leave for family or medical reasons
SB 0060 - Russell - Exempts certain employees from union membership, prohibits payroll deductions for, and the requirement of, service fees
SB 0081 - Loudon - Modifies the definition of "totally unemployed" to include certain suspended workers
SB 0098 - Russell - Gives some employees a judicial remedy against labor organizations and allows revocation of their certification
SB 0119 - Russell - Prohibits labor organizations from acting as the exclusive representative in some instances
SB 0184 - Bartle - Allows the sexual offender registry to be posted on the Internet
SB 0189 - Loudon - Allows Indian tribes to be employers
SB 0190 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
SB 0194 - Scott - Allows Indian tribes to be considered employers
SB 0225 - Klindt - Enumerates the rights of persons with service animals
SB 0236 - DePasco - Creates a one-dollar check-off on income tax returns to fund the workers memorial
SB 0287 - Childers - Removes work done on behalf of schools from the requirements of the prevailing wage laws in some instances
SB 0294 - Vogel - Requires criminal history check for certain persons related to the gaming and civilian review boards
SB 0313 - Dolan - Expands diseases that are considered occupational disease under Chapter 287, RSMo
SB 0330 - Caskey - Allows child support orders to be sent to employers by regular or certified mail
SB 0332 - Childers - Limits individuals eligible to receive the prevailing wage and modifies how the prevailing wage is set
SB 0333 - Childers - Allows some political subdivisions to exempt themselves from the state prevailing wage law upon voter approval
SB 0347 - Loudon - Changes definitions within the chapter and modifies regula- tions as to occupational diseases in workers' compensation
SB 0418 - Cauthorn - Creates the crime of endangerment of corrections personnel
SB 0429 - Vogel - Allows an employer to surrender unclaimed wages of under $50 to the state treasurer after six months
SB 0455 - Dougherty - Extends the Family Care Safety Registry to January 1, 2007
SB 0521 - Gross - Addresses public entity's requirement of surety bonds and establishes the open contracting act
SB 0552 - Yeckel - Expands the list of property exempt from attachment to clarify that all qualified retirement plans will be exempt
SB 0614 - Shields - Sets rules that a temporary help firm employee must follow before claiming unemployment
SB 0636 - Mathewson - Revises employment security laws
SB 0668 - Cauthorn - Decreases number of employees in an employee-qualified capital project from 100 to 60 to receive certain tax credit
SB 0681 - Loudon - Modifies provisions relating to actions for unlawful discriminatory practices
SB 0693 - Klindt - Changes numerous state employee workplace provisions
SR 0919 - Steelman - Creates an Interim Committee on Police Officer Residency requirements for political subdivisions
SR 0977 - Griesheimer - Supports the creation of a task force to study the issues related to prevailing wage
HB 0052 - Seigfreid - State Employee Overtime pay in lieu of compensatory time.
HB 0074 - St. Onge - Brings state into compliance with federal mandates and unemployment security reform
HB 0086 - Ward - Missouri Department of Transportation Employee Salaries comprehensive study.
HB 0134 - Crawford - State employees overtime pay.
HB 0190 - Fares - Extends the distribution of funds raised by the nonresident athletes and entertainers tax.
HB 0241 - Barnitz - Provides that paddlesport outfitters are not liable for injury to or death of participants resulting from inherent
HB 0250 - Johnson - Provides a grievance procedure for law enforcement officers who are subject to dismissal or disciplinary transfer.
HB 0264 - Holand - Enacts nurse staffing requirements for all hospitals licensed in this state.
HB 0267 - Smith (118) - Revises various provisions relating to the powers of county commissions
HB 0317 - Skaggs - Establishes the rights of persons who utilize service animals.
HB 0321 - Wilson - Modifies various provisions of the workers' compensation law
HB 0437 - Luetkemeyer - Modifies various provisions relating to the health insurance pool.
HB 0468 - Byrd - Amends various provisions regarding the right to civil action for unlawful discriminatory practices.
HB 0475 - Yates - Revises employment security.
HB 0523 - Dusenberg - Requires criminal history check for certain persons related to the gaming industry
HB 0553 - Smith (014) - Allows health benefits for retired officers and dependents of deceased officers of political subdivisions
HB 0576 - Hunter - Revises prevailing wages for construction workers.
HB 0593 - Deeken - Enacts the State Employees' Protection Act

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Employment Security

SB 0002 - Russell - Refines various provisions of employment security law
SB 0044 - Dougherty - Allows employees to take six weeks of paid leave for family or medical reasons
SB 0081 - Loudon - Modifies the definition of "totally unemployed" to include certain suspended workers
SB 0189 - Loudon - Allows Indian tribes to be employers
SB 0190 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances or excessive blood alcohol content misconduct connected with work
SB 0194 - Scott - Allows Indian tribes to be considered employers
SB 0636 - Mathewson - Revises employment security laws
HB 0074 - St. Onge - Brings state into compliance with federal mandates and unemployment security reform
HB 0475 - Yates - Revises employment security.

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Energy

SB 0038 - Klindt - Creates the "Missouri Biomass Technology Commission"
SB 0128 - Bland - Dedicates additional revenue to the energy assistance program
SB 0255 - Kinder - Eliminates PSC ratemaking oversight for certain not-for- profit electrical cooperatives
SB 0278 - Steelman - Allows for recovery of certain purchased energy costs by electrical corporations
SB 0290 - Gross - Allows for recovery of certain infrastructure and security costs by electrical corporations
SB 0366 - Scott - Allows gas and electric corporations to petition PSC for preconstruction determination of ratemaking principles
SB 0555 - Kinder - Addresses ability of certain aluminum smelters and cities to purchase energy outside of PSC oversight
SB 0612 - Clemens - Requires Springfield to sell utility services on a non- discriminatory basis and at the same price to nonresidents
HB 0208 - Engler - Revises various provisions regarding the Public Service Commission
HB 0311 - Roark - Requires certain cities to provide electricity to customers outside the city limits at the same price as they charge
HB 0324 - Richard - Permits gas and electric corporations to file contracts with the Public Service Commission for purposes of
HB 0344 - Rector - Enables recovery of certain costs by utilities.
HB 0403 - Rector - Allows for recovery of certain purchased energy costs by electrical corporations.
HB 0404 - Rector - Creates a technical advisory staff for the Psc.
HB 0426 - Rector - Allows water corporations to bill for certain infrastructure system replacement costs.
HB 0527 - Myers - Allows certain aluminum smelting facilities to purchase electrical power on the open market.
HB 0541 - Willoughby - Allows the Public Service Commission to consider the ability to pay in setting utility rates and to establish
HB 0632 - Shoemaker - Revises utilities rate increase due to homeland security.
HB 0635 - Threlkeld - Revises Hvac services by utilities.

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Engineers

SB 0560 - Childers - Rewards engineer designs below a per capita cost
HB 0561 - St. Onge - Creates design-build contracting.

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Enterprise Zones

HB 0058 - Salva - Authorizes the designation of a satellite enterprise zone in the city of Sugar Creek.
HB 0204 - Ransdall - Designates enterprise zones in Pulaski County and Richland.

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Entertainment, Sports and Amusements

SB 0052 - Shields - Modifies the nonresident athletes and entertainers tax
SB 0244 - Russell - Creates the Exhibition Center and Recreation Facility District Act for certain counties
SB 0298 - Griesheimer - Revises liquor license requirements, operational restrictions, and enforcement provisions
SB 0378 - Steelman - Prohibits persons under 21 from dancing or being allowed to dance in an adult cabaret
SB 0421 - Mathewson - Revises the times at which liquor by the drink may be served in certain convention trade areas
SB 0502 - Vogel - Creates the Exhibition Center and Recreation Facility District Act for certain counties
HB 0144 - Luetkemeyer - Authorizes sales taxes for exhibition centers and tourism for certain counties
HB 0165 - Ransdall - Makes it a crime for a proprietor of an adult cabaret to allow a person under 21 to dance in it or for a person
HB 0190 - Fares - Extends the distribution of funds raised by the nonresident athletes and entertainers tax.
HB 0205 - Ervin - Permits Clay County to operate a concession stand at a privately operated marina.
HB 0214 - Myers - Provides additional guidelines on income taxation of nonresident entertainers and athletes.
HB 0241 - Barnitz - Provides that paddlesport outfitters are not liable for injury to or death of participants resulting from inherent
HB 0242 - Barnitz - Prohibits the possession or use of glass food or beverage containers within the banks of any navigable waterway in
HB 0248 - Rector - Extends immunity from civil liability to owners of land next to certain dedicated trail systems.
HB 0319 - Baker - Establishes requirements for schools participating in activities associations.
HB 0417 - Mayer - Creates the crime of assault of an athletic event participant.
HB 0566 - Behnen - Creates the Uniform Athlete Agents Act.
HB 0631 - Bruns - Revises conditions under which schools may join or retain membership in statewide activities associations.
HJR 007 - Whorton - Proposes a constitutional amendment preserving the right to hunt, fish, and harvest game.
HJR 020 - Dethrow - Proposes a constitutional amendment requiring four-sevenths majority vote on initiatives relating to fish and wildlife

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Environmental Protection

SB 0025 - Steelman - Transfers hearings on environmental issues to the Administrative Hearing Commission
SB 0036 - Klindt - Requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis be prepared when certain environmental rules are promulgated
SB 0054 - Griesheimer - Allows biennial vehicle emissions testing in certain attainment areas
SB 0102 - Goode - Creates the Invasive Species Council
SB 0115 - Dougherty - Allows the department of health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools
SB 0199 - Childers - Modifies the classification of counties, and various other provisions related to counties and county government
SB 0252 - Steelman - Authorizes additional bonds for water, sewer, and stormwater projects
SB 0334 - Goode - Changes the jurisdiction over underground storage tanks to the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission
SB 0392 - Shields - Extends the hazardous waste generator fees
SB 0398 - Griesheimer - Creates the Missouri natural resources and environmental commission
SB 0494 - Klindt - Eliminates DNR fee funds and sweeps balance to general revenue
SB 0546 - Caskey - Allows Johnson County to adopt and impose landfill fees
SB 0560 - Childers - Rewards engineer designs below a per capita cost
SB 0630 - Scott - Eliminates need for basic air operating permit for air contaminant class B sources
SB 0653 - Steelman - Prohibits glass containers on navigable waterways and requires other containers be secured
SB 0654 - Steelman - Requires certain filings of contractors and companies who repair, remove, and close petroleum liquid storage systems
SB 0655 - Klindt - Excludes agricultural stormwater discharges and return flows from irrigated agriculture from clean water provisions
SB 0656 - Klindt - Requires clean water commission to regulate animal feeding operations
HB 0083 - Bland - Waste tires - chg of expiration date.
HB 0114 - Myers - Establishes a pesticide project fund to distribute moneys to applicants whose projects meet the eligibility
HB 0115 - Myers - Fee on new tire sales extended.
HB 0215 - Myers - Dnr rule making authority for environmental regulations.
HB 0218 - Myers - Dnr permit violation notification.
HB 0295 - Sander - Requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis be prepared when certain environmental rules are promulgated.
HB 0331 - Guest - Allows Cameron and Boonville to remove weeds or trash on property.
HB 0355 - Myers - Establishes a pesticide project fund.
HB 0433 - Portwood - Allows motor vehicle owners who perform their own repairs to meet emission standards to apply reasonable labor costs
HB 0474 - Bivins - Creates water pollution bonds.
HB 0494 - Guest - Amends various provisions relating to concentrated animal feed operations.
HB 0591 - Hobbs - Tax for storm water discharge.
HB 0607 - Schaaf - Revises lead poisoning abatement.
HB 0624 - Pearce - Allows Johnson County to adopt and impose landfill fees.
HB 0672 - Townley - Removes 180 day review provision for class B air operating permits.
HB 0740 - Pratt - Requires certain filings of contractors and companies who repair, remove, and close petroleum liquid storage systems.
HCR 031 - Merideth III - Authorizes the Joint Committee on Wetlands to conduct a study on the floodplains of Missouri.

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Estates, Wills and Trusts

SB 0573 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to the Missouri Family Trust
HB 0394 - Byrd - Defines next-of-kin for purposes of disposition of human remains
HB 0658 - Brown - Revises the crime of identity theft, increases the severity of the punishment, creates a civil cause of action for

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Ethics

SB 0646 - Bray - Modifies reporting of campaign finance expenditures
HB 0099 - Seigfreid - Modifies certain campaign finance reporting requirements
HB 0105 - Hoskins - Requires the Missouri Ethics Commission to disclose complaints filed with it.
HB 0290 - Yates - Clarifies the filing location for campaign finance disclosure reports for certain candidates.
HB 0656 - May (149) - Repeals section 105.973.
HB 0657 - May (149) - Modifies provisions of lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure.

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Evidence

SB 0021 - Bland - Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system
SB 0198 - Caskey - Modifies DNA profiling system
SB 0268 - Loudon - Authorizes special motion to dismiss in Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
SB 0280 - Scott - Enacts various tort reform measures
SB 0324 - Loudon - Allows the state to order medical examination for Second Injury claims and modifies admissibility of medical reports
SB 0406 - Klindt - Makes information collected in the course of an insurance compliance audit privileged information
SB 0487 - Dolan - Modifies certain court fees associated with court reporters
HB 0273 - Byrd - Enacts various tort reform measures
HB 0406 - Johnson - Modifies the admissibility of statements made by children under fourteen years of age.
HB 0586 - Lipke - Prohibits the taking of depositions by any party in any criminal case except for depositions to preserve the

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Fairs

SB 0208 - Mathewson - Allows recreational vehicle dealers to hold shows at the Missouri state fairgrounds
SB 0611 - Clemens - Allows county agricultural and mechanical societies to borrow money and mortgage property

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Family Law

SB 0043 - Dougherty - Establishes the "Office of the Child Advocate for Children's Protection & Services"
SB 0063 - Caskey - Provides that rulings on termination of parental rights shall be final for purposes of appeal
SB 0210 - Steelman - Provides that commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the nonpartisan court plan is used
SB 0306 - Steelman - Requires courts to appoint a guardian ad litem where there are substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect
SB 0322 - Days - Allows adopted persons eighteen and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate
SB 0330 - Caskey - Allows child support orders to be sent to employers by regular or certified mail
SB 0593 - Foster - Modifies the law pertaining to hot-line calls for alleged child abuse and neglect
SB 0643 - Yeckel - Replaces family court commissioners with associate circuit judges
SB 0649 - Shields - Modifies the law relating to the Putative Father Registry
SB 0696 - Coleman - Establishes the child support responsibility act
HB 0043 - Stevenson - Makes juvenile court jurisdiction terminate at age 18 instead of age 17.
HB 0045 - Stevenson - Modifies the compulsory school attendance age to eighteen.
HB 0154 - Roark - Establishes covenant marriages in this state.
HB 0196 - Sager - Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of
HB 0219 - Myers - Prohibits case workers employed by the Division of Family Services from working outside their assigned counties on a
HB 0253 - Shoemaker - Eliminates requirement for petitioner to disclose Social Security number in connection with a protective order
HB 0485 - Johnson - Restricts the locations for interviewing children for child abuse investigations and allows attorneys to receive a
HB 0581 - Pratt - Creates new rights for men in the establishment of paternity.
HB 0690 - Holand - Amends the requirements for the Missouri family trust.

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Family Services Division

SB 0043 - Dougherty - Establishes the "Office of the Child Advocate for Children's Protection & Services"
SB 0085 - Dougherty - Requires certain facilities for children to show proof of accreditation and compliance with safety standards
SB 0139 - Bland - Modifies the grandparents as foster parents program
SB 0430 - Champion - Modifies the law relating to children's protective services
SB 0543 - Dougherty - Revises various criminal background checks
SB 0571 - Loudon - Includes Christian Science practitioners within the definition of Minister for mandated reports of child abuse
SB 0572 - Dougherty - Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities
SB 0593 - Foster - Modifies the law pertaining to hot-line calls for alleged child abuse and neglect
SB 0609 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to protective services for children
SB 0624 - Foster - Adds the Ozark Foothills Child Assessment Center as a center which the Department of Social Services shall fund
SB 0628 - Coleman - Creates the Dominic James Memorial Foster Care Reform Act of 2003
SB 0638 - Days - Requires license-exempt residential care facilities to provide a notice of parental responsibility
SB 0685 - Gibbons - Creates a comprehensive children's mental health service system
HB 0085 - Ward - Permits the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to certain not-for-profit food
HB 0219 - Myers - Prohibits case workers employed by the Division of Family Services from working outside their assigned counties on a
HB 0445 - Portwood - Includes Christian Science practitioners in the definition of "minister" for purposes of mandatory child abuse reports
HB 0485 - Johnson - Restricts the locations for interviewing children for child abuse investigations and allows attorneys to receive a
HB 0575 - Dethrow - Adds the Ozark Foothills and the North Central Missouri child assessment centers
HB 0679 - Hanaway - Modifies various provisions of the law relating to foster care and protective services for children
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