FISCAL REVIEW AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

Bills Assigned to Committee
FISCAL REVIEW AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
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: Creates the Missouri Essential Needs School Districts Loan Repayment Assistance Program.

: Revises law on reading instruction and assessment, school report cards, urban school districts, and teachers' licenses.

: Authorizes the creation of multijurisdictional antifraud enforcement groups and revises peace officers training requirements.

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

: Creates a mandatory school observance for Veterans' Day.

: Tightens the property tax exemption for property owned by tax exempt organizations, changes the reassessment cycle for real property from two to four years and changes definition of "comparable".

: Requires check for outstanding arrest warrants before releasing a prisoner and increases penalty for aiding the escape of a prisoner.

: Expands minority teaching scholarships from one hundred to two hundred per year; increases the amount from $2000 to $3000 for special education teachers.

: Permits the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund to issue matching grants for veterans service officer programs.

: Revises duties of Joint Committee on Corrections.

: Expands the newborn screening requirements to include additional treatable and manageable disorders.

: Enacts various laws regulating ambulance services and stretcher vans.

: Allows appropriations to community colleges for surface parking areas.

: Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers.

: Establishes the Office of State Ombudsman for Recipients of Mental Health Services in the Lieutenant Governor's Office.

: Amends various provisions regarding managed care.

: Revises laws on elder abuse, Medicaid fraud, nursing homes, public assistance, child care, and regional assessment centers.

: Requires regular detail base budget review procedures for all state departments.

: Disallows a state income tax deduction for retirement benefits to the extent the same are otherwise excluded or deducted from federal or Missouri adjusted gross income.

: Revises law on sale, distribution, and possession of tobacco products.

: Repeals sections and provisions which have been declared unconstitutional.

: Removes expired provisions and sections.

: Adds the drug "ecstasy" to drug trafficking statutes, regulates methamphetamine precursor drugs, and establishes new penalties for theft and possession of anhydrous ammonia.

: Increases the authorization for water pollution bonds and revises law on water and sewer systems.

: Mandates compensatory time for employees of the Highway Patrol who work more than full-time in any week.

: Requires the General Assembly and its employees to officially observe Martin Luther King Day.

: Requires dedicated or earmarked funds to be spent only for the purposes for which they were set aside.

: Establishes a life sciences research program, creates a life sciences research board, and provides for disposition of tobacco settlement moneys.

: Recaptures certain unused moneys in local convention and sports complex funds.

: Creates the Missouri Commission on Total Compensation.

: Creates the Multicultural Program and Committee within the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

: Creates the Multicultural Program and Committee within the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

: Enacts new provisions under the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Act; allows state to consent to being sued in state courts under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

: Transfers the Office of State Ombudsman from the Division of Aging to the Office of Lieutenant Governor.

: Makes various changes regarding certificate of need law.

: Revises banking law.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Requires HMOs to provide direct access to ob/gyn services, bone density testing and contraceptive coverage, and notify enrollees of cancer screenings available through their insurance.

: Revises certain economic development tax credits.

: Creates fund from lapsed funds to pay future Article X distributions.

: Creates a Pharmaceutical Investment Program for Seniors to help defray the cost of pharmaceuticals for senior citizens.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Allows the State of Missouri to be sued in state court under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

: Places an expiration date on various fees collected for the Technology Trust Fund account.

: Establishes the Office of the Faith-based and Community-based Initiatives Liaison and the Task Force on Faith-based and Community-based Initiatives within state government.

: Removes provisions of law declared unconstitutional.

: 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.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to create a Department of Senior Services.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the Governor to appear before the House of Representatives at least monthly during regular sessions.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the Highways and Transportation Commission to construct toll roads and facilities.

: Proposes a consititutional amendment to allow voters the option of having excess total state revenues refunded or deposited in Highways and Transportation Fund.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment repealing the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials.

: Expands the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly.

: Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf.

: Allows dental students to enroll in the loan repayment program and establishes a donated dental services program.

: Creates a Legislative Academy within the General Assembly.

: Creates a new possession crime for anhydrous ammonia, increases penalties for current ammonia crimes, and adds crimes for handling of certain methamphetamine precursor drugs.

: Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District.

: Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Creates a Life Sciences Research Program.

: Revises temporary assistance for needy families, Medicaid, and grandparents as foster parents programs; revises adoption law; provides transition-to-independence grants.

: Authorizes forty million dollars in bonds for various water and sewer programs; permits political subdivisions to require owners to connect to a sewer system.

: Enacts provisions for blood-borne pathogens, external defibrillators, lupus, tuberculosis, women's health services, and childhood lead testing.

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

: Revises business procedures and the Uniform Commercial Code.

: Modifies and clarifies provisions of certain state retirement systems.

: Establishes a program of air pollution emissions banking and trading.

: Allows electric utilities to recover certain costs affected by natural gas prices.

: Broadens the class of employees which count toward tax credit calculations for a certain new business facility.

: Revises laws on agriculture.

: Revises election laws.

: Recalling fire district board members requires misconduct in office.

: Requires performance-based budgeting for state agencies.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Creates a fixed and contingent expiration date for the federal reimbursement allowance program.

: Authorizes the Committee on Legislative Research to compile the Session Laws for the Ninety-first General Assembly, First Regular Session.

: Revises term limits for members of the General Assembly.

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