CHILDREN AND MINORS

Missouri House of Representatives
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CHILDREN AND MINORS
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: Revises juvenile court jurisdiction, changes 15 1/2 to 15 and gives juvenile court jurisdiction over tobacco violations.

: Waives the state's sovereign immunity for purposes of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to provide notice of their status as such to their school superintendent.

: Establishes guidelines for student publications, liability for school districts, and requires faculty advisors to supervise publication.

: Prohibits use of corporal punishment in all school districts.

: Creates crime of bestiality.

: Requires tanning facilities to be licensed.

: Adds the Camden County child assessment center to the list of centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Makes it a crime to sell a child.

: Allows not-for-profit industrial development authorities to finance child and day care centers.

: Authorizes an income tax credit for parents providing child care for their or a spouse's child if they receive no public assistance.

: Revises the purpose of chapter 211 on juvenile courts.

: Raises compulsory age for school attendance from sixteen to eighteen.

: Creates crime of enticement of a child.

: Creates an alcohol reduction program for children and youth funded by persons who sell certain alcoholic beverages.

: Requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to modify child custody.

: Deems the court's ruling on a termination of parental rights as a final judgment for purposes of appeal.

: Allows not-for-profit organizations to finance child and adult day care facilities.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Makes certain crimes dangerous felonies.

: Creates the crime of enticement of a child.

: Modifies various provisions regarding grandparent visitation.

: Limits parental liability for the damages caused by the acts of seventeen year old children.

: Requires offender to serve minimum of 5 years prison for first or second degree robbery or stealing where a vehicle was taken and a child was in the vehicle.

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

: Creates the crime of child luring.

: Exempts certain foster parents from support thresholds on dependency exemptions.

: Allows a parent to leave a child less than thirty days old in the custody of certain professionals without subjecting themselves to criminal or civil liability.

: Requires court to order counseling or psychological treatment for children who are cruel to animals and requires parents to pay for it.

: Increases the per day amount the state pays for the institutionalization of children.

: Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.

: Revises law on child victims of sex offenses.

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

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

: Modifies the income eligibility categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Establishes the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

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

: Requires parental consent to prescribe birth control to minors.

: Establishes the Parental Child Support Responsibility Program in the Department of Social Services.

: Provides insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Creates special license plates.

: Enacts the "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002".

: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes, residential care facilities, and child placing agencies.

: Amends the notice provisions regarding liens on bank accounts for child support arrearages.

: Allows certain metropolitan school districts to change the compulsory attendance age.

: Delineates the rights and responsibilities of foster parents.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the investigation of child abuse.

: Makes it a crime to have sexual contact with a resident of a long-term care facility or an inmate.

: Revises motorcycle helmet law and penalty for violation.

: Makes it a crime to lure a child over the internet for purpose of engaging in sexual activity.

: Provides for the completion of the newborn hearing screening if the newborn is transferred to another facility before the screenings are completed.

: Limits the psychiatric and psychological evaluation of students.

: Allows a tax credit related to a dependent child's reading level.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Lowers minimum age for jury duty from 21 to 18.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

: Creates crime of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

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

: Creates a tax credit for a taxpayer whose child receives child care from the taxpayer's spouse.

: Allows a parent to leave a child in the custody of a hospital without threat of criminal prosecution for child abandonment.

: Regulates use of psychotropic medications for school children.

: Adds testing for various metabolic and genetic diseases to the list of newborn screenings and requires insurance coverage for such diseases.

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

: Requires local school boards of each school district to establish a written policy prohibiting bullying.

: Revises crime of supplying intoxicating liquor to a minor. Makes it a class A misdemeanor for licensees or their employees and for any person except if results in injury or death then D felony.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing examinations and hearing aids for children and persons who were diagnosed with hearing loss before they turned eighteen.

: Allows the juvenile court to order the provision of mental health treatment and care to juveniles without removing the juvenile from the home.

: Transfers custodianship of the county recorder's fund to the Director of Revenue.

: Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to use the National Medical Support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage required in child support orders.

: Makes the punishment for murder in the first degree death or life without parole except if the person is under 18; then the punishment is life without parole.

: Allows a birth certificate to be issued for a stillborn child.

: Relieves a parent of financial responsibility for seventeen year old minors who do not reside with their parents with or without the parent's consent.

: Enacts the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act which allows a birth mother to determine the final disposition of any fetal remains.

: Expands jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include paternity and guardianship for 17 year olds; allows transfer of dissolution cases in certain circumstances; adds methods of asserting paternity.

: Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rate over a three-year period.

: Extends the expiration date on the Children's Health Insurance Program to July 1, 2007.

: Requires entities providing foster care services to children who are wards of the state to be reimbursed at a rate equal to one hundred percent of their actual costs.

: Requires each additional one thousand dollars of support arrearage accrued in excess of five thousand dollars to be charged as a separate criminal nonsupport offense.

: Establishes the "Motivating Parents and Children" program and fund.

: Makes various changes to the laws controlling child labor.

: Permits the electronic creation and retrieval of birth and death records.

: Allows parents to request a death certificate for a stillborn child.

: Revises the penalties for misrepresentation of age by a minor to obtain liquor.

: Regulates adult establishments.

: Allows adopted persons over the age of 50 to obtain their original birth certificates.

: Requires the use of various child safety restraints in a motor vehicle based on age, weight, and height of the child.

: Clarifies registration of tobacco sellers and authorizes Division of Liquor Control to enforce provisions on sale of tobacco products.

: Creates a parent/child privilege in criminal cases.

: Adds the Clay-Platte Child Assessment Center to the list of regional assessment centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Establishes the Office of Child Protection Information and the Child Protection Information Advisory Committee to assist persons with children who are or have received protective services.

: Reduces the penalty for illegal transfer of a child and establishes statutory mitigating circumstances.

: Modifies the provisions regarding the imposition of a processing fee for child support orders.

: Establishes procedures for the designation of a standby guardian for a child.

: Adds the Clay-Platte child assessment center to the list of regional assessment centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Modifies the provisions regarding the relocation of a child after dissolution of marriage.

: Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of adoptive and foster care families.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the Putative Father Registry.

: Creates Missouri Regional Computer Forensics Lab and creates crime of enticement of a child.

: Creates a joint committee to make a comprehensive analysis of the child abuse and neglect hotline system.

: Endorses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Creates a Joint Interim Committee on After-School Programs.

: Adds a regional child assessment center in Camden County.

: Amends various provisions regarding the use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles.

: Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction.

: Creates the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention.

: Revises foundation formula.

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

: Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rates over a three-year period.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Expands the Children's Trust Fund Board from seventeen to twenty-one members.

: Mandates weekly Pledge of Allegiance in every student's class.

: Requires certain facilities for children to show proof of accreditation or compliance with safety standards.

: Revises the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement law.

: Prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing providers for non-therapeutic circumcisions.

: Lowers age for jury duty from 21 to 18; excuses certain students.

: Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction.

: Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

: Modifies the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

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

: Raises age limit for death penalty from 16 to 18.

: Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on their state income tax returns.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Allows adopted persons over 50 to obtain original birth certificates.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for children.

: Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit.

: Compulsory attendance age for public school.

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

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements.

: Allows the Division of Family Services to request license-exempt foster care facilities for reasons for exemption.

: Prohibits the possession of a firearm where a child is capable of gaining access to it.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Repeals the transferability of adoption tax credits.

: Establishes pilot projects for the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide child care facilities with a list of unsafe children's products.

: Extends the sunset for the Children's Health Insurance Program to July 1, 2007.

: Creates the crime of "luring a child".

: Modifies certain provisions of the child labor laws.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for individuals age 65 and older and children.

: Requires the use of National Medical Support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage in child support orders.

: Modifies child abuse investigation procedures that involve a school or child care facility.

: Authorizes an income tax credit of parents providing child care for their or their spouse's child.

: Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs.

: Modifies grandparent visitation provisions.

: Establishes the Parental Child Support Responsibility Program in the Department of Social Services to provide qualified children with the total amount of child support owed to them.

: Allows the continuation of a newborn hearing screening from a transferring facility to a receiving facility.

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortion.

: Limits the state's allowable fees for processing adoption documents to one hundred dollars.

: Authorizes St. Louis to abate the property owner's dwelling at the owner's expense for exceeding certain lead levels.

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