CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT
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: Regulates the sale of certain firearms.

: Expands crime of unlawful use of weapons.

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

: Lowers the blood alcohol content level necessary for a conviction of driving with excessive blood alcohol content from .10 to .08.

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

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

: Regulates and licenses tanning bed operators.

: Creates a death penalty commission and imposes a moratorium on executions.

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

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

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

: Prohibits licensed game retailers from selling or allowing their employees to sell lottery tickets to employees and prohibits employees from purchasing lottery tickets at their place of employment

: Creates crime of theft of transportation of property service.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Creates the Unfair Home Improvement Loans Act and revises bonding requirements for mortgage brokers.

: Amends laws on motor vehicles and transportation.

: Prohibits the possession or use of glass containers within 50 feet of any navigable waterway in the state of Missouri.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

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

: Changes penalties for certain assaults.

: Creates crime of offender sexual abuse.

: Prohibits housing of violent and nonviolent offenders in the same cell.

: Prohibits persons in shock detention from being held beyond their period of detention.

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

: Establishes a pharmaceutical assistance program in the Division of Aging.

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

: Requires the sealing of certain traffic violation records.

: Provides a restitutionary cause of action for wrongful imprisonment.

: Creates civil penalties for false monetary or property-related claims against the state.

: Creates a Board of Private Investigator Examiners.

: Authorizes an incentive program for forestry, extends carryover of wood energy tax credit, prohibits introduction of wild elk, increases penalties for deer poaching, and allows killing of feral hogs.

: Changes certain provisions of the controlled substances law.

: Requires registration of sexual offenders upon release from custody even if offender does not leave county where incarcerated.

: Amends the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund to increase compensation for loss of earnings and to exclude life insurance proceeds from proceeds which reduce a victims' statutory compensation.

: Excludes dangerous felons and predatory sex offenders from the house arrest program.

: Creates the Office of Corrections Ombudsman, overseen by a new Board of Corrections Ombudsman.

: Provides authority to combat technological crimes.

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

: Requires licensing of bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents.

: Requires certain health-related information to be provided to the Department of Corrections on delivery of an offender.

: Requires disclosure by landlords and sellers of real property of any prior methamphetamine activities on the property.

: Authorizes permits to carry concealed firearms.

: 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.

: Creates a new possession crime for anhydrous ammonia and increases penalties for existing crimes committed using that substance.

: Imposes minimum prison terms for manufacturers of methamphetamine.

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

: Criminalizes certain aggressive driving.

: Lowers the blood alcohol content level necessary for a conviction of driving with excessive blood alcohol content from .10 to .08.

: Enacts the Agricultural Producer Protection Act.

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

: 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.

: Revises watercraft safety and operating standards.

: Authorizes an incentive program for forestry, extends carryover of wood energy tax credit, prohibits introduction of wild elk, increases penalties for deer poaching, and allows killing of feral hogs.

: Outlaws bestiality.

: Modifies the law concerning invasion of privacy.

: Makes several revisions to alcohol-related offenses, and creates crime of recklessly contributing to an accident.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

: Limits access by offenders to personal information.

: Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases.

: Regulates check-cashing businesses.

: 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.

: Restricts fees allowed to be charged for check-cashing services and prohibits charging an interest rate in excess of thirty percent annual percentage rate on a small loan.

: Requires persons at scene of accident or emergency to obey lawful orders of law enforcement officers.

: Revises death penalty law.

: Imposes minimum sentences for manufacturers of methamphetamine.

: Creates crime of possessing anhydrous ammonia and increases penalties for current ammonia crimes.

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

: Revises laws on crime.

: Prohibits the buying and selling of stolen pets and creates the missing and stolen pet registry.

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

: Prevents the release of free roaming wild elk in the state prior to January 1, 2012.

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

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

: Creates procedure to review sentences of nonparolable prisoners.

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

: Creates crime of eluding a law enforcement official.

: Expands DNA profiling system to include all convicted felons.

: Revises Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act.

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

: Creates crime of driving with excessive blood alcohol content.

: Revises peace officer selection and training laws.

: Creates crime of indecent solicitation of a child.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Changes sentencing procedure after amendment of a criminal statute and changes holding period for arrest for certain felonies.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Redirects and provides funding for transportation; enacts other provisions relating to transportation.

: Prohibits housing of violent and non-violent offenders in the same cell.

: Revises laws on sexual crimes.

: Includes personal care attendants in the definition of "provider" and enhances the penalties for persons who violate section 660.317.

: Amends various statutes relating to sexual crimes.

: Prohibits the transfer of human fetal parts for valuable consideration.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Modifies statute of limitations for certain criminal offenses.

: Revises the stalking law.

: Revises certain provisions concerning probation and community service.

: Modifies the law concerning invasion of privacy.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Revises driver's license point system.

: Provides liquidated compensatory damages for certain personal injuries.

: Regulates the use of portable telecommunications devices while operating a motor vehicle.

: Amends laws governing lobbyists, the Missouri Ethics Commission, and campaign finance disclosure.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Creates the crime of cloning a human being.

: Revises laws on sexual crimes.

: Expands authorized use, and limitations on use, of certain chemical blood alcohol content test to local law enforcement.

: Revises felony enhancement provisions.

: Allows cities with over 400,000 inhabitants to enact property ordinances.

: Requires drivers to obey a law enforcement officer's signal to stop.

: Revises crime of involuntary manslaughter.

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

: Revises intoxication-related offenses.

: Increases the penalty for fraudulent use of another person's credit or debit card and personal identifying information.

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

: Limits liability of persons defending the U.S. flag.

: Revises laws on crime.

: Regulates individuals who provide amusement hay rides.

: Prohibits the sale of the name and credit card numbers of consumers without their consent.

: Authorizes permits to carry concealed firearms.

: Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases.

: Revises trespass offenses.

: Authorizes municipalities to regulate adult establishments.

: Revises small claims court procedure.

: Repeals the death penalty.

: Creates a parent/child privilege in criminal cases.

: Creates post-conviction right to DNA testing in certain cases, and modifies DNA profiling system.

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

: Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official.

: Creates the class C misdemeanor of failure to confine a dog and provides certain defenses to that crime.

: 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.

: Modifies the statutes relating to the qualification and disqualification of employees of the Department of Mental Health and the Division of Aging.

: Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine.

: Requires mandatory five year minimum sentences for certain crimes involving the possession of a firearm.

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

: Revises Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act.

: Creates crime of theft of transportation of property service.

: Revises the standard of proof and other aspects of the Sunshine Law.

: Relating to exposure of humans to rabies or zoonotic disease and requiring owners of non-human primates to register the animals.

: Allows certain convicted felons to obtain postconviction DNA testing.

: Provides for .08 DWI/BAC and increases collateral consequences; prohibits open containers for passengers.

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

: This act makes the Department of Conservation liable for all damages resulting from reintroduction of elk.

: Makes several changes regarding speeding in construction zones, bridge weight limits, and running weigh stations.

: Creates a commission to study the death penalty and imposes a temporary moratorium on executions.

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

: Amends classifications of felony crimes of stealing and receipt of stolen property.

: Prohibits use of internet web site to cause a user to unwittingly incur long-distance telephone charges.

: Creates crime of aggravated driving with excessive blood alcohol content.

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

: Imposes minimum prison terms for manufacturers of methamphetamine.

: Makes several changes regarding speeding in construction zones, bridge weight limits, and running weigh stations.

: Revises various criminal provisions.

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

: This act makes the Department of Conservation liable for all damages resulting from reintroduction of elk.

: Expands the definition of ticket scalping to encompass all public entertainment.

: Designates venue in criminal credit card fraud cases.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Creates felony of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager or sports official.

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

: Revises motor vehicle emissions inpections for certain areas.

: Increases the penalties that may be imposed by the Public Service Commission for violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act.

: Modifies alcohol licensing and reporting procedures through the Department of Public Safety.

: Amends motor vehicle tinted window prohibition.

: Prohibits capital punishment of a mentally retarded person and restricts use of evidence obtained from such a person.

: Authorizes automated traffic enforcement programs.

: Creates Women Offender Program in the Department of Corrections.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

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

: Prohibits the possession or use of glass containers within 50 feet of any navigable waterway in the state of Missouri.

: Creates felony for sale or distribution of gray market cigarettes.

: Clarifies procedure for court instructions regarding lesser included offenses.

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

: Requires drivers to obey the traffic-related signals and directions of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs.

: Allows certain cities to punish property violations with increased penalties.

: Revises numerous sentencing provisions.

: Licenses private investigatiors, bail bondsman and surety recovery agents.

: Defines improper computer electronic mail communications.

: Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles.

: Allows the killing of feral hogs.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: Creates crime of sexual contact with an inmate.

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

: Exempts historic vehicles from emissions testing.

: Increases firearm crime penalties; creates project exile.

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

: Amends classifications of felony crimes of stealing and receipt of stolen property.

: Expands custody without warrant.

: Revises the law of animal abuse.

: Exempts farm animals who escape from definition of "adequate control" for animal abuse.

: Reorganizes authority for licensing and regulation of excursion gambling boats and gaming.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Authorizes permits for concealable weapons.

: Prohibiting Possession of Tobacco Products by Minors.

: Modifies regulation of horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering.

: Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine.

: Allows voters to authorize carrying concealed weapons.

: Urges Congress to pass legislation regarding trucking industry access to criminal database.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:49 am