DISABILITIES

Missouri House of Representatives
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DISABILITIES
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: Prohibits the Department of Revenue from conditioning the property and pharmaceutical tax credits on the filing of a federal income tax return.

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

: Increases property tax credits for the elderly, exempts the elderly from sales tax on food and enhances Medicaid benefits.

: Allows Department of Transportation to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit elderly and handicapped transportation services to defray the rising cost of gasoline.

: Removes the fee for placards for the permanently and temporarily disabled.

: Requires counties to allow elderly, disabled and low income persons to pay current real and personal property taxes monthly instead of annually.

: Revises death penalty law.

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

: Expands the categories of persons allowed to claim the pharmaceutical state income tax credit.

: Expands eligibility for medical assistance to include persons who are aged, blind or disabled with annual incomes of up to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Mandates health insurance coverage for hearing aids.

: Requires all local news, weather and sports broadcasts by television stations to have real-time captioning.

: Promotes higher education community service learning programs.

: Makes various changes to the laws regarding sheltered workshops.

: 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.

: Increases the maximum property tax credit for the elderly to two thousand dollars and increases eligibility for the property tax credit by raising income caps.

: Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act.

: Makes various changes to Missouri State Employees Retirement System and the Transportation Dept. Employees' and Highway Patrol Retirement System.

: Makes the shared care income tax credit refundable.

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

: Makes various changes to different boards supervised by the Division of Professional Registration.

: Places administration of tax credits for Americans with Disabilities Act compliance by small businesses under joint administration of the directors of Revenue and Economic Development.

: Enacts new provisions under the federal Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Act; allows state to consent to being sued in state courts under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

: Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental Disabilities.

: Creates a state income tax credit for taxpayers incurring costs for assistive technology and housing access modifications.

: Makes various changes regarding the sheltered workshop laws.

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

: Creates volunteer disabled parking enforcement program.

: Prohibits the termination of utility service to certain individuals during cold weather months.

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

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

: 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.

: Establishes the Office of Elementary and Preschool Deaf Education.

: Excludes the State Capitol Building from the definition of "state property" for purposes of giving priority to blind persons for the operation of vending facilities on state property.

: Requires certain construction standards for buildings constructed after July 1, 2002, to provide accessibility for the disabled.

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

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

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

: Revises the Family Care Safety Registry.

: Revises various criminal provisions.

: Allows Department of Revenue to enter federal-state agreement to recognize disabled persons' license plates.

: Allows Department of Revenue to enter federal-state agreement to recognize disabled persons' license plates.

: Expands ability of boards to fund sheltered workshops and other services for persons with developmental disabilities.

: Allows the placement of a deaf or hearing impaired notation on driver's licenses.

: Requires Missouri television stations to provide captioning of news, sports and weather.

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

: Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

: Allows sheltered workshops to file data with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education via electronic means.

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

: Requires Medicaid eligibility for certain disabled workers.

: Prohibits discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

: The state grants consent to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am