PUBLIC SAFETY, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND VETERAN AFFAIRS

Bills Assigned to Committee
PUBLIC SAFETY, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND VETERAN AFFAIRS
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: Provides additional space for offices and firing range at Troop C Service Center in Park Hills, Missouri.

: Establishes Policemen & Sheriff's Deputies Trust Fund and sets minimum salary of $20,000.

: Authorizes medals for Korean War veterans.

: Opens police personnel records to hiring law enforcement agencies; requires disclosure of any peace officer's unfitness to the Police Officer Standards and Training Commission.

: Exempts retired veterans from all taxes in the state.

: Prohibits release of names of law enforcement officers in incident reports.

: Makes it a crime to fail to obey lawful order of police while at an accident scene.

: Designates the bridge over the Missouri River between St. Louis and St. Charles counties on state highway D as the "Veterans Memorial Bridge".

: Regulates hay rides.

: Allows the Missouri Emergency Response Commission to designate a local emergency planning district in St. Joseph.

: Allows relatives of deceased veterans of World War II to apply for World War II medals and extends the application date to 2003.

: Extends application deadline for World War II medals to January 1, 2003.

: Revises section awarding honorary high school diplomas to certain veterans.

: Designates April 19th of each year as "Patriots Day".

: Allows Highway Patrol officers to be elected to school boards and permits the superintendent to authorize officers to accept federal commissions.

: Modifies the WWII medallion program and funding to the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund.

: Creates Emergency Personnel Appreciation Day.

: Provides that certain health impairments shall be presumed to have been suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary can be shown by competent evidence.

: Requires that any canine acquired by a law enforcement agency after July 1, 2002, must be trained and certified along with its handler before it can be used.

: Authorizes an additional two percent sales tax on fireworks.

: Provides state employees protection against discharge if called to military duty or training and sets maximum hours of military leave and designates when and how such leave may be charged.

: Removes current requirement for property owners in proposed law enforcement district to be personally served.

: Authorizes the Office of Administration to provided armed security guards at state owned or leased facilities.

: Permits continued pay for state employees on extended military leaves of absence.

: Excludes bailiffs or court marshals from requirement of having a peace officer license.

: Makes it illegal to use glass food or beverage containers within 50 feet of navigable waterways.

: Requires railroad police officers to be licensed peace officers.

: Declares bailiff's and court marshals to be peace officers and subject to the provisions of chapter 590.

: Provides guidelines for elevator safety and inspection.

: Establishes a police chief and officer retirement fund for police outside Kansas City and St. Louis.

: Urges the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to provide National Guard veterans with similar benefits as are provided to active duty military retirees.

: Moves Emergency Services Day to September 11th.

: Revises residency requirements for fire protection district directors.

: Changes procedures for establishment of a law enforcement district.

: Allows the Office of Administration to provide armed security guards for state facilities.

: Requires railroad policemen to be commissioned.

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