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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.

: Establishes the Missouri CASA Fund.

: Enacts the Missouri Equal Pay Act.

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

: Provides that venue requirements for small claims court shall be identical to venue requirements for civil suits in circuit and associate circuit court.

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

: Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation.

: Allows either party in a discrimination case to file suit and request a jury trial when the commission completes its administrative proceedings.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge of an employee.

: Requires the sealing of certain traffic violation records.

: Enacts penalties on professional licensees who fail to repay their student loans.

: Adopts standards and procedures for municipal impeachments.

: Requires licensing of bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents.

: Revises death penalty law.

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

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

: Excludes evidence obtained by police interrogation of mentally retarded individuals when attorney was not present.

: Establishes subdistricts in the fire protection districts of Moline Acres and Blackjack; allows all fire protection district vacancies to be filled by appointment.

: Outlaws bestiality.

: 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.

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

: Requires persons convicted of intoxication-related offenses and weapons offenses to pay an additional court fee to fund trauma centers.

: Increases statute of limitations for rape prosecution to eight years.

: Amends the law regarding certain judicial personnel.

: Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation proceedings.

: Allows copies of certain records and reports to be mailed or faxed to treatment providers and therapists assigned to certain offenders.

: Creates the Missouri CASA Fund in the state treasury.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: Provides for the temporary emergency commitment of persons with active tuberculosis.

: 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.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the handling of cases involving sexual violent predators.

: Expands definition of "judicial officials" for purposes of statute prohibiting tampering with judicial officials.

: Creates office for victims of crime, funded by an increase in certain court filing fees.

: Requires court reporters to be certified.

: Increases certain court fees.

: Revises small claims court procedure.

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

: 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.

: Creates a motion to request forensic DNA testing and expands time to file a motion for new trial based on newly discovered forensic DNA evidence.

: Allows local housing corporations and neighborhood associations to petition for receivers in nuisance actions.

: Permits court-ordered testing of persons whose bodily fluids have come in contact with certain employees.

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

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

: Authorized a sales tax to fund jail districts.

: Allows certain convicted felons to obtain postconviction DNA testing.

: Creates procedures for Tort Victim's Compensation Fund.

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

: Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act.

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

: Requires assessment to be filed with petition for civil commitment of sexually violent predators.

: Designates venue in criminal credit card fraud cases.

: Modifies joint and several liability, the collateral source rules of evidence, and punitive damages.

: Causing appeals of PSC orders to go directly to the Court of Appeals.

: Increases the handling fees collected from issuers of bad checks by the prosecuting attorney.

: Revises numerous sentencing provisions.

: Circuit clerks must deposit funds into court registry.

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

: Division of benefits in divorce may begin on agreed upon date.

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

: Eliminates certain trials de novo; chief ALJs elected for 2-year terms.

: Extends time for establishing a circuit court library fee.

: Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act - Establishes treatment requirements for non-violent drug offenders.

: Authorizes certain post-conviction DNA testing of evidence.

: Limits change of venue for criminal defendants.

: Family Court Commissioners.

: Creates liability for double damages for knowing destruction or damage of crops.

: Expands the definition of employee under the County Employees' Retirement Fund.

: Prohibits sealing of civil court records, with limited exceptions.

: Prohibits release of financial information by financial institutions.

: Establishes audit privilege for voluntary internal environmental audits.

: Boone County Drug Commissioner removed and associate judge added.

: Increases jurisdictional limit of associate courts to $50,000.

: Repeals statute of limitation for legislative procedural defects.

: Traffic court judges may not review Department of Revenue decisions.

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

: Prohibits release of nonpublic information by financial institutions.

: Missouri Supreme Court rules shall not conflict with statutes; repeals administrative rule 6.05.

: Expands authority of courts to set aside past convictions and expunge criminal records.

: Venue shall be in the most convenient forum with jurisdiction.

: Raises court reporter fees.

: Allows waiver of portion of appeal bonds for certain defendants.

: Commission on Judicial Resources shall determine number of judges.

: Prohibiting Possession of Tobacco Products by Minors.

: Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine.

: Allows restraining orders against minors.

: Commission of Judicial Resources shall determine number of judges.

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