EDUCATION, HIGHER

Missouri House of Representatives
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EDUCATION, HIGHER
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: Prohibits colleges in this state from restricting employees who reside outside Missouri from occupying public office in their home state.

: Expands the classes of public employees who may join labor organizations.

: Authorizes the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research.

: Authorizes St Louis College of Pharmacy license plates.

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

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

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

: Establishes lifelong learning month; makes changes to law regarding student representatives on higher education boards; establishes spinal cord injury research program at University of Missouri.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules; requires public universities to conduct student conflict resolution classes with education students.

: Enacts the Missouri Accountancy Act.

: 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.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the licensure of design professionals.

: Requires the Department of Health to designate centers of excellence in women's health.

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

: Allows appropriations to community colleges for surface parking areas.

: Promotes higher education community service learning programs.

: Creates the Large Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program.

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

: 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.

: Expands college grant program for permanently injured or killed workers' spouses or children to include volunteer firefighters and reserve peace officers.

: Expands the National Guard Scholarship Program to include various other federal forces.

: Disseminates information to, and enacts protections for, college students regarding consumer credit and merchandising.

: Protects privacy of participants in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program to provide immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to other transplant patients.

: Changes the name of the Medical School Loan Repayment Program to the Health Professional Student Loan Repayment Program and expands the program by including dentists.

: Revises certain provisions related to excursion boat gaming, and increases funding for Bright Flight scholarships.

: Expands the Missouri Economic Diversification and Afforestation Act of 1990 to include more recent agroforestry practices.

: Encourages state agencies and state-funded institutions to improve access to quality health care for women.

: Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds for the state's share of a project for the construction of a sports arena and related facilities at the University of Missouri-Columbia campus.

: Declares the first day of May, 2001, to be a Statewide Prayer Day in Missouri.

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

: Removes prohibition on collection of tuition by the University of Missouri.

: Public colleges and universities must certify proficiency of teaching faculty in written and spoken English.

: Creates spinal cord injury research grants, andministered by a new advisory board created for that purpose.

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

: Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements.

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

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

: Revises charter school laws.

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

: Requires state colleges and universities to admit certain high school graduates.

: State colleges and universities to establish telecommunity centers.

: Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax.

: Requires Governor to declare February as Missouri Lifelong Learning Month.

: Enacts the Uniform Athlete Agents Act.

: Establishes reciprocity for required courses in American history and institutions.

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

: Revises treatment of American sign language in higher education instructions.

: Revises uses of capital funds for public community colleges.

: Allows Missouri Western State College to convey property to the University of Missouri.

: Establishes Faculty Representative to the Governing Board's of Missouri's Universities.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: Creates a defined contribution plan for certain employees of state colleges and universities.

: Authorizes conveyance of land between the board of governors of Southwest Missouri State University and the Southwest Missouri Ecumenical Center.

: Revises funding for certain scholarships by removing the gaming boat loss limit.

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

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

: Revises certain job training programs.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Creates the large animal veterinary medicine loan repayment program.

: Authorizes Northwest Missouri State University to lease property to the City of Maryville and the Missouri National Guard.

: Creates the Interstate Argi-Market Development Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:49 am