EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Missouri House of Representatives
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EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
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: Creates the Missouri Essential Needs School Districts Loan Repayment Assistance Program.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: 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.

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

: Allows the sponsorship and mentoring program tax credit to offset the tax on insurance premiums and financial institutions, and clarifies that the credit cannot offset withholding tax.

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

: Removes gambling boat proceeds from the foundation formula and distributes them on a per-pupil basis.

: Calculates the increase to, or maintenance of, existing per-pupil funding, depending on formula funding levels and on guaranteed tax base growth.

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.

: Allows urban school districts to start school prior to September 1st.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.

: Excludes voluntary transfer students from the eligible pupil number used in foundation formula calculations.

: Requires subdistrict residency for St. Louis school board members; clarifies that even-numbered board district members shall stand for election in April 2001.

: Creates a mandatory school observance for Veterans' Day.

: Repeals the mandatory September first start date for elementary and secondary schools.

: Authorizes school districts to impose a surcharge on their residents' income.

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

: Enacts Public Employee Due Process Act, creating procedural rights for termination, demotion, or discipline of public employees.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Changes the qualifications, election and districting of the members of the City of St. Louis school board.

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

: Allows certain surviving spouses of Public School Retirement System members to receive remaining benefits.

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

: Makes "Bird Day" a state holiday, to be observed at the elementary and secondary schools of this state.

: Expands the laws and funds for alternative education programs.

: Prohibits school board members from filing for re-election if they have not completed education and training.

: Regulates the employment of noncertificated school employees.

: 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.

: Creates a state income tax credit of up to one hundred dollars for teachers who purchase materials for their classrooms.

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

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.

: Makes developmentally appropriate phonics instruction available for all public primary school age students.

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

: 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.

: Allows the posting of American historical documents regardless of religious content.

: Allows grants for new teacher mentoring programs.

: Adds two secondary school student members to the State Board of Education.

: Allows up to a five-day reduction, for this year only, of the minimum 174 school day requirement.

: Requires a biennial audit of the St. Louis City School District.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Establishes subdistricts in the school district of Riverview Gardens.

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: Transfers control of the Kansas City school district to the State Board of Education until new governance or reorganization procedures have been established.

: Exempts twenty-five percent of all newly approved school bond moneys from salary compliance; allocates all of such moneys to capital projects.

: Changes the method of distributing certain gambling and lottery funds to schools.

: Makes the "recalculated levy" for school districts permanent.

: Promotes higher education community service learning programs.

: Promotes elementary and secondary community service learning programs.

: Repeals the limit on deductibility of federal income tax paid by individuals and replaces the revenue which will be lost by the Outstanding Schools Trust Fund from general revenue.

: Provides for charter school employees retirement benefits.

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

: Prevents substitute teachers who have withdrawn from a district's substitute list from drawing unemployment benefits from that district.

: Requires a one-year waiting period before resubmission of defeated school bond issues.

: Adopts a new voluntary five-level minimum teacher salary plan.

: Allows retired teachers to work in school districts with teacher shortages without losing retirement benefits.

: Recognizes American Sign Language or any other generally accepted means of communication used by the deaf community and allows it to be treated as any other foreign language.

: Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, World War II, and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.

: Revises law on surface mining, air emissions, and Petroleum Storage Tank Insurance Fund.

: Creates School Building Property Tax Relief Fund grant program for school capital improvements; funds program through incremental use of gaming proceeds.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Eliminates the local sales and use tax on food and replaces lost local revenue by reducing the state income tax deduction for individuals for federal income taxes.

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

: Establishes Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund; dedicates at least twenty-five percent of fund proceeds to public schools on a per-pupil basis.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Creates the Parents in Education Grant Program and Fund.

: Creates state income tax credits for donations of high technology equipment to school districts and for donations to school district libraries.

: Creates state income tax credits for employers who contribute to school dropout abatement programs.

: Creates a state income tax credit of up to five thousand dollars per year for any employer who grants its employees paid leave to volunteer at public schools during school hours.

: Increases the multiplier for Public School Retirement System benefits for members with over 30 years creditable service.

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

: Requires at least twenty-five percent of any tobacco settlement moneys received by the state be used for elementary and secondary education.

: Requires foreign language instruction in every elementary school.

: Requires personal finance instruction prior to graduation for every public high school student.

: Phases in an increase of the federal income tax deduction for individual and corporate taxpayers. Revenues lost by the Outstanding Schools Trust Fund are replaced by general revenue.

: Creates the Classroom Technology Trust Fund Program and Commission; uses funds otherwise reverting to general revenue from abandoned property funds to fund such program.

: Creates state income tax credits for taxpayers with pre-first-grade children who score at least 70% on an educational readiness test and for taxpayers who purchase educational readiness materials.

: Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund in the state treasury.

: Creates incentives for special education teachers.

: Creates a character education grant program and fund.

: Adopts national certification bonuses for teachers, speech language pathologists and audiologists.

: Requires school board members to reside in the school district for one year prior to election or appointment.

: Authorizes school districts to adopt a voter-approved supplemental income tax for the purpose of reducing reliance on property taxes to sustain the school or schools of the school district.

: Allows for optional year-round school calendars.

: Revises public school retirement systems.

: 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 Kansas City Education Renewal Commission.

: Creates an income tax credit for up to two hundred and fifty dollars of a public school teacher's out-of-pocket expenditures for classroom materials.

: Increases minimum teachers' salaries.

: Allows waiver school districts to be created in any accredited school district.

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

: Allows additional fund transfers in a certain school district.

: Creates the Classroom Trust Fund and transfers certain gaming proceeds to the fund.

: Creates state income tax credits for expenditures of teachers for instructional materials for the classroom.

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Prevents penalties from being assessed for noncompliance with certain educational expenditure ratios when noncompliance is due to utility cost increases.

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

: Defines rights and liabilities surrounding student publications sponsored by public schools.

: Establishes the School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

: Establishes The Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Board.

: Provides for reciprocal interstate teacher certification and fast-track teacher certification.

: Establishes housing grant program for new public school teachers.

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

: Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.

: Revises law concerning public reporting of certain school information.

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

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

: Requires school to provide transportation for certain nonpublic school students.

: Prohibits schools offering prizes or incentives to students to sign up for subsidized lunches or to attend on certain days.

: Makes changes in the horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering law.

: Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency.

: Creates an After School Retreat Grant Program and Fund.

: Establishes grant program to involve families and communities in education.

: Dedicates income tax revenue resulting from gaming winnings to educational uses.

: Prohibits scheduling of certain teacher activities during the regular school day.

: Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education.

: Requires school districts to implement CHEMIS 4.0 risk management system for handling potentially hazardous chemicals used in science classes.

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

: Permits municipalities to set speed limits on state roads and highways within the municipality, without approval of Department of Transportation.

: 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.

: Allows for recall elections of school district board members.

: 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.

: Allows legal settlements received by the state to be appropriated for education and health care.

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

: Creates a public school beautification adoption program.

: Urges Congress to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Act.

: Urges Congress to rescind the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act as it applies to teachers.

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

: Urges the member schools of the Missouri State High School Activities Association to adopt an amendment to its bylaws permitting cooperative sponsorship of sports programs.

: 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 allow school districts to pass bond issues by simple majority vote.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to change distribution of forfeiture proceeds.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the allocation of general state sales tax on motor vehicles to: 75% to transportation use and 25% to school use.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to require funds from legal settlements to be used for health care and education.

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

: Allows the state board of education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

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

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

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

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

: Establishes a Bird Appreciation Day.

: Authorized countywide education sales taxes.

: Adds CPI adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid.

: Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities.

: Earmarks to each school district eighty dollars for each pupil in the school district who completes a driver's education course.

: Allows public school choice within a school district.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction.

: Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days.

: Creates a state income tax deduction for individual and corporate taxpayers for expenditures related to secondary education.

: Allows the state board of education or school boards to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Prohibits the overfunding of entitlements in the school foundation formula unless all categoricals are fully funded first.

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

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

: Establishes pilot program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

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

: Authorizes state income tax deduction for school tuition, attendance fees, supplies and transportation costs.

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

: Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities.

: Creates new reading test and summer school reading program.

: Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund.

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

: Raises Maximum Benefit in Public School Retirement System.

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

: Allows school districts to directly enter into lease purchases with vendors.

: Requires school retirement systems to promulgate joint rules.

: Revises reading assessment and reading improvement program.

: Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours.

: Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.

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

: Revises "recalculated levy" used to determine state aid for certain school districts.

: Creates Missouri Tobacco Settlement Fund and allocates a portion to education.

: Raises school compulsory attendance age to seventeen years.

: Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

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

: Revises St. Louis Public School Retirement System law.

: Adds state school aid COLA for hold harmless districts.

: Establishes December 15th as "Bill of Rights Day".

: Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification.

: Allows MAP testing of special education students to occur at developmentally appropriate grade levels.

: Missouri Tobacco Settlement Attorney Compensation Act.

: Revises state school aid to certain districts.

: Revises state school aid formula.

: Adopts a national teacher certification incentive program and fund.

: Revises distribution of gaming tax proceeds for schools.

: Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers.

: Modifies the public school retirement system.

: Requires school districts to adopt indexed salary schedules.

: Increases property tax withholdings for collection costs; reduces state aid deduction for school tax.

: Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency.

: Changes the public school retirement benefits for divorced members.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Allows certain districts to transfer additional funds for capital purposes.

: Requires all Kansas City school board members to be elected at-large.

: Creates state income tax credits for employers who contribute to school dropout abatement programs.

: Revises public school reporting requirements.

: Authorizes state tax credit for contributions to authorized scholarship charities.

: Retired certificated and non-certificated employees may be hired by school districts for 2 years without losing benefits.

: Prohibiting Possession of Tobacco Products by Minors.

: Exempts income of certain elementary and secondary school teachers from taxation.

: Establishes an alternative teacher certification program.

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

: Allows school districts to contract with eligible new generation cooperatives for the purchase of biodiesel to fuel school buses.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

: Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District.

: Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on Education to study school funding issues.

: Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement.

: Requires General Assembly to revise state school aid revenues and distribution.

: Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am