JUDICIARY

Bills Assigned to Committee
JUDICIARY
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: Prohibits courts of law from modifying common law to create new causes of action.

: Adds an associate circuit judge to St. Francois County.

: Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to include offenses involving juvenile court officers.

: Requires that family court commissioners be placed on the ballot at every presidential election for purposes of a retention vote.

: Creates the Legal Services for Low-income People Fund and the Missouri CASA Fund.

: Creates Drug Courts Coordinating Commission and Drug Court Resources Fund.

: Provides a restitutionary cause of action for wrongful imprisonment.

: Revises the statute of limitations and damages for home improvements.

: Requires plaintiff to obtain second professional opinion before filing an action against an architect, engineer, or surveyor.

: Requires court pleadings and forms to use words commonly used in the English language.

: Increase the courthouse restoration surcharge on civil cases in St. Louis City from thirty-five to forty-five dollars.

: Expands the classes of persons entitled to be excused from jury duty to include persons licensed to practice veterinary medicine and persons serving as state legislators.

: Allows donation of additional equipment, including motor vehicles, to any public fire protection entity, under certain conditions.

: Amends the law regarding certain judicial personnel.

: Requires the payment of all delinquent property taxes on real estate in order to obtain title by adverse possession.

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

: Reduces the minimum age of eligibility for jury service from 21 to 18 years and excuses from jury service full-time students not residing within twenty miles of where the summons is issued.

: Requires uninsured motorists to pay certain property and out-of-pocket medical expenses before seeking damages, and bars drunk drivers and certain uninsured motorists from noneconomic damages.

: Allows donation of additional equipment, including motor vehicles, to any public fire protection entity, under certain conditions.

: Creates a cause of action for firefighters, peace officers and emergency medical personnel for injuries they sustain in the course of their job duties.

: Allows circuit judges to use monies received from the court surcharge for family court services as well as the county or circuit law library.

: Authorizes counties or a city not within a county to elect between two different juror compensation schemes.

: Increases the base salary of all court clerks II and III who work for circuit or associate circuit judges by two thousand dollars per year.

: Revises certain provisions concerning probation and community service.

: Removes from the banking statute the common law presumption that real and personal marital property is titled as tenancy by the entirety.

: Requires every member of the immediate family to consent for a durable power of attorney to be executed.

: Limits parental liability for the damages caused by the acts of seventeen year old children.

: Provides liquidated compensatory damages for certain personal injuries.

: Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students; and subjects the state to liability for violations of certain federal laws.

: Revises Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, concerning secured transactions.

: Limits to appropriated amounts payment of court costs and attorney fees by Department of Revenue in certain cases.

: Revises unlawful employment practices section.

: Establishes an environmental audit privilege.

: Defines proper venue for credit card and checking account fraud.

: Requires all private attorneys' fees incurred as a result of representing the state of Missouri in tobacco settlement litigation to be paid pursuant to the Master Settlement Agreement.

: Increases certain court fees.

: Revises small claims court procedure.

: Creates a parent/child privilege in criminal cases.

: Requires the court to excuse from jury duty certain primary care givers where the court finds that no reasonable alternative care is feasible which would not impose an extreme hardship.

: Creates a limited privilege for internal insurance compliance audits performed by insurers.

: Removes the population requirements for determining the number of associate circuit judges.

: Authorizes counties and the City of St. Louis to elect between two different juror compensation schemes.

: Allows circuit judges to use monies received from the court surcharge for the county or circuit law library. Allows Greene County to also use the monies for family court services.

: Immunizes teachers in public schools from tort liability for reporting violent acts of students; and subjects the state to liability for violations of certain federal laws.

: Waives the state's sovereign immunity for purposes of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

: Waives sovereign immunity for purposes of worker compensation and prohibits the state from retaliatory firing of employees who claim worker compensation benefits.

: Enacts the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Attorney Compensation Act.

: Requires certain construction standards for buildings constructed after July 1, 2002, to provide accessibility for the disabled.

: Allows the sale of insurance coverage for punitive damages.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment reducing the minimum age for members of the General Assembly.

: Expands exception to expiration of judgments in divorce to include pensions, life insurance, and other employee benefits.

: Allows non-attorneys to appear in certain administrative hearings.

: Creates procedures for Tort Victim's Compensation Fund.

: Grants immunity from liability for injuries or death resulting from risks of paddlesport activities.

: Expands the grant of immunity for the donation of certain fire equipment.

: Circuit clerks must deposit funds into court registry.

: Revises various civil and criminal procedures; excludes mentally retarded individuals from the death penalty.

: Requires certain chief administrative law judges to be elected for two years.

: Revises business procedures and the Uniform Commercial Code.

: Permits removal of a trustee upon petition of the settlor, co-trustee or any beneficiary.

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