CHILDREN AND MINORS

Missouri House of Representatives
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CHILDREN AND MINORS
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: Lowers the mandatory age for starting school from age seven to age five.

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

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

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

: Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators.

: Limits motorcycle helmet requirement to persons under twenty-one years of age.

: Restricts the ability of persons with criminal histories from obtaining or maintaining teacher certificates.

: Amends various provisions related to caregiver qualifications and registration.

: Establishes the Missouri CASA Fund.

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

: Creates a collaborative action team pilot program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

: Changes the amount the state will pay for institutionalization of children.

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

: Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.

: Creates faculty representative positions on all university boards of governors; makes other changes regarding higher education.

: Creates an income tax credit for owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which is involved in a lead abatement project.

: Allows governing bodies to abate certain property taxes of owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which is involved in a lead abatement project.

: Establishes the Juvenile Information Governance Commission.

: Creates special license plate for parents of Missouri 4-H members.

: Raises the age requirements on various school and motor vehicle laws from sixteen to eighteen.

: Increases access to original birth records by adopted adults.

: Creates a state income tax credit in an amount equal to one thousand dollars per child who reads at such child's current grade level or higher.

: Revises law on the privacy of elementary and secondary student records, regulates disclosure of higher education disciplinary actions, and revises marriage law.

: Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students.

: Revises death penalty law.

: Prohibits sale of tobacco products to persons under 25 without checking identification.

: Amends the law concerning the taking, recording, and use of fingerprints for criminal records kept by the State Highway Patrol.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Creates alternative method of obtaining temporary driving permit.

: Limits motorcycle helmet requirement to those under age twenty-one.

: Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers.

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: Revises watercraft safety and operating standards.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

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

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

: Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certificates without a court order.

: Creates the Family and Community Trust.

: Allows foster parents to claim a dependency deduction on their state income tax returns.

: Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the six-month waiting period.

: Amends statutory provisions relating to the sale of tobacco products.

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

: Allows certain health care professionals to provide dental treatments and establishes a dental hygienist advisory commission.

: Regulates Internet access by minors in public schools and libraries.

: Creates the Missouri CASA Fund in the state treasury.

: Increases the foster care reimbursement rate to the rate established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

: Provides that consumption, not sale or provision, of intoxicating beverages is the proximate cause of injuries resulting from intoxication.

: Creates heirloom birth certificates and marriage licenses suitable for display.

: Prohibits certain disclosures to parents of students in postsecondary education.

: Expands DNA profiling system to include all convicted felons.

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

: 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.

: Modifies grandparent visitation provisions.

: Removes from the original jurisdiction of the juvenile/family courts cases involving violations of traffic laws by children over fifteen years of age or violations of tobacco laws by children.

: Creates crime of indecent solicitation of a child.

: Establishes an Advisory Commission for Dental Hygienists.

: Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of sources for such exams; funds exams for certain students.

: Authorizes taxes for tourism, economic development, and children's services; authorizes creation of tourism community enhancement districts.

: Increases the dependency exemption from $1,200 to $2,400 for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2001.

: Establishes an advisory commission for dental hygienists and allows certain health care professionals to provide dental care.

: Creates the Parents in Education Grant Program and Fund.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

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

: Creates a state income tax credit for stay-at-home parents with children under the age of six.

: Amends various statutes relating to sexual crimes.

: Revises child labor laws.

: Allows two to fifteen year olds to obtain an identification card from the Department of Revenue.

: Creates an alternative method of obtaining temporary driving permit.

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

: Authorizes "Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment Fund, Inc." license plate.

: Modifies certain driver's license provisions and provides for license suspension and setting of bond in fatal motor vehicle accidents.

: Amends various provisions regarding the use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles.

: Repeals the current child relocation statute and reenacts an earlier version of this section.

: Creates an alternative method of obtaining temporary driving permit.

: Requires informed parental consent prior to the prescribing of a psychiatric medication for a minor.

: 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 registering.

: Allows school districts to change the mandatory date of school attendance to seventeen.

: Amends various provisions of the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Modifies the income categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Provides for the deposit, investment, and appropriation of tobacco settlement moneys received by the state.

: Expands the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts to include paternity, permanent guardianship and dissolution of marriage actions.

: 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.

: Allows an income tax credit for taxpayers whose spouse is not employed outside the home and provides child care.

: Makes Department of Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for all interdistrict transfers of funding of students not attending their home districts.

: Revises driver's license suspension and revocation procedures for persons under twenty-one years of age.

: Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health.

: Changes compulsory school attendance age from sixteen to eighteen.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent.

: Adds the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence to the list of regional child assessment centers to be funded by the Department of Social 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.

: Creates the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: Establishes a joint interim committee to study the issue of suicide prevention.

: Creates a Child Abuse and Neglect Commission within the Office of Governor.

: Establishes a Joint Interim Committee to study the allocation of excursion gambling boat admission fees through the Gaming Commission Fund.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to dedicate tobacco settlement money to the Children's Investment Fund.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment which creates the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and an endowment.

: Makes changes to court procedures; authorizes payments from Tort Victims' Fund.

: Allows voter approval of charter schools in a school district.

: Requires physicians who perform abortions to inform women of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on their state income tax returns.

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

: Revises the Family Care Safety Registry.

: Lowers age for jury duty from 21 to 18; excuses certain students.

: Renames A+ School Program as "Mel Carnahan A+ Schools Program".

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a medical facility.

: Increases parental/guardian liability for certain acts of children and minors.

: Allows public school choice within a school district.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction.

: Revises various criminal provisions.

: Creates the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

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

: Enacts the Uniform Athlete Agents Act.

: Establishes tax credits for persons, including employers, paying for or providing child care.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: The murder of a child age 12 or less is aggravating factor for a sentence of death.

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

: Creates the Family and Community Investment Trust to strengthen community systems for families.

: Allows foster children to receive a "balance scholarship" to state-funded colleges or universities.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Mandates time limitations for custody decisions.

: Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students.

: Allows for the termination of guardianship of children in certain circumstances.

: Creates a fund court-appointed special advocates for children.

: Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Creates the Missouri CASA Fund to support the CASA program in Missouri.

: Requires employers to keep records regarding child employees and makes technical changes to child labor chapter.

: Establishes a postsecondary education tuition and fee waiver for foster children.

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

: Adds four additional members to the Children's Trust Fund Board to be chosen and appointed by majority vote of the board.

: Makes various changes regarding child support and children's services.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Amends various provisions regarding the use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health.

: Revises public school reporting requirements.

: Prohibiting Possession of Tobacco Products by Minors.

: Allows certain counties to collect sales tax for children services.

: Allows A+ Schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

: Allows restraining orders against minors.

: Declares Child Citizenship Day.

: Presents dual questions regarding tobacco settlement funds.

: Establishes Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:49 am