CHILDREN AND MINORS

Missouri House of Representatives
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CHILDREN AND MINORS
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: Revises requirements for promotion of elementary pupils based on reading ability and requires schools to give additional reading instruction to certain students; revises other education laws.

: Prohibits incarceration of minors with adults.

: Exempts certain child support payments from state income tax.

: Creates dependent care tax credit for noncustodial parents.

: Creates the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees at no charge or on a formulary.

: Changes amount state will pay for institutionalization of children.

: Prohibits operators of gambling boats from providing child care services for persons other than their own employees.

: Makes it a felony to sell or attempt to sell a child.

: Changes certain sexual offenses.

: Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students.

: Limits access to student records.

: Creates a good cause exception for removal of a guardian upon dissolution of marriage.

: Prohibits the acquisition, receipt, sale or transfer of fetal tissue, organs or body parts of a fetus or unborn child.

: Changes provisions of the law requiring registration of sexual offenders.

: Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to maintain a toll free information line.

: Changes law regarding juvenile certification as adults.

: Prohibits female genital mutilation.

: Changes certain computer crimes and creates and revises certain crimes.

: Requires only persons under twenty-one years of age to wear motorcycle helmets.

: Requires the Division of Family Services to make child abuse records available to two additional groups and waives their sovereign immunity in certain cases.

: Allows school districts to have truant officers and creates penalty for allowing truants to loiter on business premises.

: Creates a state income tax credit for contributions to qualified scholarship charities beginning in tax year 2001.

: Requires child care facilities to be accredited by national accrediting agencies before being exempt from licensing requirements because they are operated by religious organizations.

: Requires the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research to prepare a child impact statement for all introduced bills, except appropriation bills.

: Establishes a Youth Smoking Prevention Commission to award grants for smoking prevention programs using tobacco settlement funds.

: Requires the department of health to provide Internet access to certain child care provider and facility records.

: Allows for the sanctioning of a child care license for violation of any local law.

: Allows both business size and the absence of listed negative factors to be included in determinations of penalties for violations of child labor standards.

: Increases the fine for subsequent violations of child passenger restraint systems from twenty-five to one hundred dollars.

: Establishes a Children's Trust Fund home visitation program for parents under the age of twenty-one with newborns.

: Ensures timely payments of early childhood screening reimbursements to school districts.

: The Division of Family Services may request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good cause.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Enacts the Children's Product Safety Act.

: Revises the statutory provisions regarding relocation of a child following dissolution of marriage.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Regulates the sale of tobacco products.

: Changes the distribution of juvenile information among state entities.

: Adds varicella and hepatitis A to the list of required immunizations for children and narrows the scope of practice of emergency medical technicians.

: Establishes a pilot school uniform project in one school district.

: Includes philosophical beliefs as a basis for refusing child immunizations.

: Includes interference with visitation in the crime of interference with custody.

: Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

: Regulates the sale of tobacco products.

: Limits Internet access in public libraries.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Allows courts to issue restraining orders against certain persons less than eighteen years of age.

: Creates income tax credits for day care for individuals and employers.

: Adds the Jefferson County child assessment centers to the list of centers eligible for funding through the Department of Social Services.

: Changes certain sexual offenses against children.

: Gives school districts the discretion to allow early entrance into kindergarten.

: Prohibits the court from awarding child visitation to a parent who has not had any meaningful contact with the child in the last thirty-six months.

: Changes the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen.

: Establishes the families in education incentive grant program.

: Prohibits registered sex offenders from serving as sports coaches and referees.

: Increases the dependency deduction to two thousand four hundred dollars.

: Revises child relocation statute to repeal 1998 revisions of the statute.

: Creates the crime of unlawful drug transactions with a child.

: Requires custodial orders to permit all parents access to the child's health insurance provider.

: Governs the use of minors for enforcement of the liquor laws.

: Allows for the emancipation of minors in certain circumstances.

: Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services' adoption registry and allows biological parents to consent to disclosure of identifying information at the time of registry.

: Increases the mandatory school attendance age to seventeen.

: Provides for a proportional reduction in state-funded child care assistance for persons whose income or assets exceed the prescribed limits.

: Creates an affirmative duty to stop serious harm to a child.

: Amends various statutes regarding the release and destruction of child abuse information obtained by the Division of Family Services.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Modifies the restrictions for placing a child for adoption.

: Creates the Family and Community Investment Trust

: Eliminates the statute of limitations on sexual offenses.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Creates a parent/child privilege.

: Provides scholarships to certain former foster children who are adopted or have a legal guardian appointed after age thirteen.

: Expedites termination of parental rights and adoption cases.

: Allows community notification regarding registered sex offenders, based on assessment of danger.

: Changes certain sexual offenses against children.

: Waives the Division of Family Services' sovereign immunity for cases of child abuse under their supervision which result in death or serious injury.

: Permits each county or city not within a county to establish a child care resources and referral agency.

: Enacts the Reading Instruction Act.

: Establishes an incremental increase in the reimbursement rate for facilities that provide residential treatment services to children in the custody of DFS.

: Creates income tax credits for day care.

: Prohibits persons less than eighteen years of age from possessing tobacco products.

: Expands the application of the tax credit available for net expenditures made for the participation of students in a sponsorship and mentoring program.

: Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents, except with student consent.

: Requires programs receiving certain Gaming Commission Fund grants through DESE or DSS to be licensed pursuant to chapter 210, RSMo.

: Permits the expungement of certain criminal records.

: Permits parents to leave their newborns at a medical facility without fear of prosecution for abandonment of such child.

: Adopts mandatory health assessments for public school students.

: Creates an income tax credit for parents of children determined by an institution of higher learning to be reading at their grade level.

: Establishes an office of deaf education.

: Adds the cohabitation or intended cohabitation of a parent as a relevant factor for the court to consider when determining child custody.

: Removes the requirement of motorcycle helmets for those twenty-one years of age or older.

: Moves mandatory age for starting school down to age five.

: Establishes a committee to study the phenomenon of school-age children who are prescribed behavior control medication.

: Supports the Covenant House's Children's Bill of Rights.

: Urges the U.S. Congress to enact legislation regarding the disciplinary provisions of IDEA.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Increases penalties for possession of child pornography.

: Allows excursion gambling boats to offer licensed child care services to employees only.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Authorizes state income tax credit for cash contributions to school tuition organizations.

: Creates income tax credits for employers and individuals paying for or providing day care.

: Creates the "Parenting Alternatives Law" to promote adoption as an alternative parenting option.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.

: Enacts the dedication to donation act.

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

: Allows suspension of TANF to families of children who do not attend school.

: School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth.

: Relating to visitation rights.

: Relating to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

: Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation Program.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Revises laws relating to computer crimes.

: Revises alternative school laws.

: Requires the state to award one week of additional vacation time to state employees who participate in mentoring programs for children.

: Increases parental liability for certain acts of children.

: Allows Division of Youth Services to issue arrest warrants for certain offenders.

: Allows parents to object to required immunizations for their children based on philosophical beliefs.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instructions.

: Revises certain sexual offenses involving children.

: Raises compulsory attendance age to 17 years.

: Modifies domestic violence law.

: Creates the Child Support Assurance Program.

: Revises child custody relocation notice provisions.

: Allows additional health care professionals to provide certain dental treatments to children.

: Recorder shall not issue marriage license to person less than 17 to anyone 21 or older.

: Creates the Family and Community Investment Trust in order to strengthen community support systems for Missouri's families.

: Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents.

: Creates Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and Alternatives to Abortion Fund.

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:52 pm