Bills assigned to Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence


SB 445 - Goodman - Establishes the Joint Committee on the Missouri Criminal Code
SB 446 - Goodman - Specifies that drug courts may be funded by the county law enforcement restitution fund
SB 447 - Goodman - Adds mail to the list of types of property that, when stolen, increase the classification of the crimes of stealing and receiving stolen property to Class C felonies
SB 457 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
SB 489 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to weapons
SB 497 - Munzlinger - Increases the penalties for the crimes of trespassing and false impersonation and creates the crime of impersonating a public servant
SB 502 - Wright-Jones - Allows elected officials to be excused from jury duty during their term of office
SB 506 - Wright-Jones - Creates the crimes of assault of an employee of a mass transit system while in the scope of his or her duties in the first, second, and third degree
SB 508 - Wright-Jones - Requires persons convicted of failing to pay a fare for the use of Bi-State Development Agency facilities to reimburse the reasonable costs attributable to the enforcement, investigation and prosecution of such offense to the agency
SB 518 - Engler - Creates a mental health assessment pilot program for criminal offenders
SB 521 - Curls - Requires a non-custodial parent to pay child support until the child reaches 22 years of age instead of 21 years of age
SB 525 - Engler - Provides for nonpartisan elections of judicial candidates and forbids certain judges and candidates from engaging in political activities
SB 537 - Chappelle-Nadal - Increases the penalty for the crime of harassment
SB 539 - Chappelle-Nadal - Creates a crime for employers who divulge certain personal information of employees and customers
SB 541 - Chappelle-Nadal - Prohibits a workforce development agency from knowingly omitting from any bidding process an entity with whom it has a contract
SB 552 - Brown - Adds veterinarians to the statute of limitations for medical malpractice actions against certain health care providers
SB 554 - Curls - Changes the notice requirement to a tenant in a foreclosure action from ten business days to ninety days
SB 555 - Curls - Regulates certain contracts for the sale of residential real estate
SB 556 - Curls - Allows courts to suspend imposition of an adult criminal sentence for certain juvenile offenders
SB 559 - Curls - Allows petitions for expungement of certain criminal records
SB 573 - Dixon - Authorizes certain circuits to increase the civil court filing surcharge from the current $15.00 up to $20.00
SB 574 - Dixon - Allows associate circuit judges in Greene and Cass counties to hear and determine county ordinance violations
SB 600 - Lembke - Requires federal agents to personally notify the sheriff in the county where a federal warrant is to be served
SB 604 - Green - Prohibits a state agency from requesting an additional appropriation of state moneys to satisfy an award of attorney fees and other expenses
SB 609 - Lembke - Modifies comparative fault by eliminating joint liability and allowing consideration of any nonparty's fault
SB 613 - Kehoe - Requires courts to award prevailing defendants their costs and attorney's fees
SB 614 - Kehoe - Requires courts to award costs and attorney's fees to a party when a case has no basis in law or an attorney acts in bad faith
SB 626 - Kehoe - Limits liability for a manufacturer after a product has been materially altered and modifies certain interest rates
SB 628 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to the judiciary
SB 636 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to the judiciary
SB 637 - Brown - Specifies that certain training requirements only apply to applications for new concealed carry endorsements
SB 646 - Engler - Makes the results of certain types of field tests for controlled substances admissible as evidence in certain preliminary hearings and applications for arrest warrants
SB 670 - Green - Allows debtors facing nonjudicial foreclosure to chose mediation or judicial foreclosure as alternatives
SB 680 - Nieves - Repeals authority for political subdivisions to regulate open carrying of firearms and requires certain local ordinances incorporate statutory justifications
SB 683 - Crowell - Modifies the laws relating to property exempt from execution or attachment
SB 685 - Crowell - Modifies ex parte communication requirements involving the Public Service Commission
SB 689 - Engler - Modifies provisions relating to crimes committed against the elderly and disabled
SB 699 - Goodman - Modifies laws relating to criminal offenders under the supervision of the Department of Corrections
SB 704 - Wright-Jones - Requires inverse condemnation or dangerous public property suits against municipal corporations be brought in the county where the land or any part lies
SB 713 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption records
SB 720 - Kehoe - Requires defendants in counties with prisons that have average populations of 1,000 or more to follow certain procedures for obtaining a change in venue
SB 732 - Curls - Makes the punishment for trafficking cocaine the same regardless of whether the substance is powder or crack
SB 741 - Parson - Provides that law enforcement agencies only have to procure an independent audit of federal seizures if the proceeds from the federal seizures exceed $500,000
SB 755 - Mayer - Enacts the "House of Worship Protection Act"
SB 761 - Keaveny - Modifies the law regarding trusts to allow for appointment of a trust protector
SB 765 - Schaefer - Authorizes circuit clerks to collect a surcharge for processing garnishments
SB 771 - Nieves - Modifies the duties and liabilities of skiers and ski area operators
SB 779 - Munzlinger - Authorizes certain officials to charge six dollars for cases disposed of by a traffic violations bureau and creates the MODEX fund
SB 789 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to DNA profiling by the Missouri State Highway Patrol crime lab and the DNA Profiling Analysis Fund
SB 802 - Justus - Requires school districts to contract with other agencies or entities for the provision of alternative education services for certain disruptive students
SB 804 - Engler - Criminalizes the failure to vacate leased premises in a rent and possession case under chapter 535
SB 823 - Munzlinger - Allows the Board of Probation and Parole to conduct hearings with offenders via videoconference
SB 827 - Crowell - Modifies the law relating to workers' compensation co-employee liability
SB 828 - Crowell - Modifies the law relating to occupational disease under the workers' compensation system
SB 863 - Wright-Jones - Requires parents to file parenting plans after paternity has been established in court
SB 871 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to domestic violence
SB 872 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to criminal law
SB 875 - Goodman - Allows $9,999 in an irrevocable trust for certain funeral expenses to not be considered an asset when determining eligibility for public assistance
SB 884 - Nieves - Modifies provisions related to firearms
SB 885 - Engler - Makes negligently casting flyrock onto property not under the responsibility of the person using explosives a violation of the Missouri Blasting Safety Act
SB 888 - Ridgeway - Authorizes Franklin County and Clay County to establish a municipal court if approved by the county commission
SB 894 - Curls - Modifies the type of information required from applicants for a motor vehicle registration and a concealed carry endorsement
SB 897 - Schaefer - Prohibits law enforcement agencies from establishing roadside checkpoint or road block patterns based upon a particular vehicle type, including the establishment of motorcycle-only checkpoints
SB 903 - Lamping - Provides the process for disposition of dogs involved in the crime of dog fighting
SB 908 - Kehoe - Modifies provisions regarding the crime of trespass
SJR 37 - Crowell - Requires all meetings of apportionment commissions to be conducted in public and prohibits commission members from serving in the General Assembly for six years after service on commission
SJR 40 - Kraus - Amends the constitution to modify the ban on retrospective laws
SJR 41 - Lembke - Provides for election of certain judges and appointment by Governor of a Supreme Court judge
SJR 42 - Lembke - Provides for appointment by the Governor of certain judges with Senate approval
SJR 51 - Lembke - Modifies the composition of Appellate Judicial Commission and number of nominees for vacancies in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
HB 1165 - Diehl - Modifies the requirements for a spousal trust to include both property held in one trust for both spouses and property held in two separate shares
HB 1171 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to courts, including juvenile court jurisdiction and how Franklin County prosecutes county orders
HB 1185 - Parkinson - Requires the State Highway Patrol to request a determination of the legal status of any non-citizen on the sex offender registry
HB 1190 - Allen - Repeals record-sharing provisions for law enforcement agencies working in charter counties
HB 1211 - Dieckhaus - Modifies provisions relating to local courts
HB 1220 - Hubbard - Establishes a pilot program to encourage visitation between mothers in prison and their children
HB 1272 - Kelley - Specifies a standard of proof of gross negligence for actions against detention facilities for inmate suicides
HB 1296 - Davis - Establishes procedures to follow in child custody and visitation cases for military personnel
HB 1317 - Riddle - Modifies provisions relating to child abuse
HB 1319 - Riddle - Modifies provisions relating to weapons
HB 1326 - Cox - Creates the Business Premises Safety Act
HB 1342 - Smith - Requires courts to award litigation costs in certain situations where the judgment differs from settlement offers
HB 1349 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to irrevocable life insurance trusts
HB 1441 - Fisher - Modifies various workers' compensation and unemployment compensation provisions
HB 1460 - Jones - Extends the sunset of a court fee for court automation and the time for use of such moneys
HB 1492 - Molendorp - Authorizes Cass County to establish municipal county courts
HB 1513 - Franz - Prohibits state laws from assigning equal or greater rights, privileges, or legal status to animals than to people
HB 1515 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to crime and criminal procedure
HB 1524 - Phillips - Specifies that the owners of property abutting a private road in the absence of any other agreement may petition the court to establish a plan of maintenance or improvement
HB 1525 - Fuhr - Modifies laws relating to criminal offenders under the supervision of the Department of Corrections
HB 1527 - Elmer - Modifies the laws relating to property exempt from execution or attachment
HB 1615 - Oxford - Modifies provisions relating to actions against a person for conduct or speech at a public hearing or meeting
HB 1636 - Fuhr - Allows certain municipalities to have only violations of their ordinances by individuals with special needs heard by associate circuit courts or county municipal courts
HB 1692 - Entlicher - Requires election judges to swear that they will support and defend the United States and Missouri constitutions
HB 1700 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the sex offender registry
HB 1826 - Fitzwater - Allows the Board of Probation and Parole to conduct hearings with offenders via videoconference and establishes a mental health assessment pilot program for criminal offenders
HJR 49 - Brattin - Affirms certain rights to posses, purchase, and manufacture ammunition and mechanical parts for firearms