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: Revises juvenile court jurisdiction, changes 15 1/2 to 15 and gives juvenile court jurisdiction over tobacco violations.

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

: Revises some procedures regarding certain civil actions for discrimination.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge.

: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

: Enacts the Equal Pay Act.

: Subjects student loan defaulters to penalties relating to professional licensing.

: Revises definitions for forestry and application process to designate land as forest croplands, and creates a forest landowner cost-share incentive program.

: Regulates the appeal bonds for signatories to the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

: Revises the purpose of chapter 211 on juvenile courts.

: Revises venue for fraud crimes.

: Requires presiding judges to post rule 17 compliance reports in courthouses and notify press.

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

: Enacts the Equal Pay Act.

: Prohibits courts from modifying the common law to create new causes of action.

: Enacts the Anti-Terrorism Act.

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

: Expands the requirement for registration of sex offenders.

: Establishes procedures for appointing the circuit clerk of St. Louis City.

: Establishes the rights of persons who use service animals and prohibits sexual conduct with animals.

: Modifies various provisions regarding grandparent visitation.

: Permits application to partially seal traffic records.

: Allows suit for damages for wrongful imprisonment.

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

: Enacts the Common Sense Scientific and Technical Evidence Act.

: Adds requirements for incorporating public water supply districts.

: Requires pharmacies to notify the Board of Pharmacy of any known mistakes in prescriptions.

: Requires that probationers who are detained be released immediately upon the end of their detention.

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

: Modifies procedure for seeking damages against certain professionals.

: Revises law on child victims of sex offenses.

: Regulates check cashing businesses.

: Establishes an environmental audit privilege.

: Changes procedures for restoring possession of rehabilitated property.

: Revises Uniform Arbitration Act.

: Commutes death sentences to life without parole.

: Allows persons to apply for and receive permits to carry concealed firearms under certain circumstances; creates the county sheriff's revolving fund.

: Changes venue provisions in small claims court.

: Adds a class A misdemeanor (568.040) which board has to provide probation services for.

: Provides for the franchising of personal watercraft.

: Allows recognizance bonds only when the defendant is a local and has no prior convictions for failure to appear plus specifies when bonds can be forfeited and remitted to the surety.

: Adds to the Missouri State Employees Retirement System board one judge appointed by the Chief Justice.

: Authorizes creation of county crime reduction funds, creates the Missouri Sheriffs' Methamphetamine Relief Team, and modifies the St. Louis City Sheriff's Fund.

: Revises sentencing provisions.

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

: Requires all pleadings and forms commonly in use to be in English.

: Permits a federal cause of action for price discrimination in state courts.

: Requires Highway Patrol to maintain a web site on internet searchable by name, zip code, and by mile radius from entered address for sexual offenders.

: Establishes the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund and authorizes additional filing fees in civil and criminal cases to be credited to the fund.

: Requires specific written authorization for collective bargaining fees to be deducted from a state employee's pay.

: Changes procedures for tax foreclosure sales.

: Creates a privilege for information gathered in an insurance compliance audit.

: Provides that court clerks can only collect certain surcharges authorized by ordinance, order, or resolution effective on or after January 1, 1997, if authorized by statute.

: Raises municipal court costs from $12 to $25.

: Requires that rent and possession suits be non jury trials.

: Repeals the requirement that judgment be entered within thirty days after the case is submitted for final decision when a case is tried without a jury.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Expands the use of state-funded interpreters for the deaf in judicial proceedings.

: Excludes any information or evidence obtained from custodial interrogation of a mentally retarded person unless an attorney was present to represent the person.

: Requires all counties or St. Louis that participate in the sheriff retirement system to also fund the system.

: Makes it an unlawful practice to disclose more than five credit card or debit card numbers on any sales receipt.

: Requires that juries be instructed before case submission that if they are unable to agree on punishment the court will assess life imprisonment without parole for first degree murder.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the filing of orders of protection, including prohibiting the assessment of filing fees, court costs, or bond for orders of protection.

: Revises the amount of excess revenues generated by fines for moving traffic violations that municipalities must send to the Department of Revenue.

: Requires state laws to be construed in accordance with certain federal constitutional guarantees.

: Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation cases.

: Establishes the Criminal Records and Justice Information Advisory Committee.

: 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.

: Revises court procedures.

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

: Revises provisions concerning coroner's inquests.

: Sets costs for transcripts paid to court reporters and costs for evidence preservation paid to clerks.

: Modifies the information required for delivery of prisoners to correctional centers.

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

: Requires the question of retention of family court commissioners in Clay County to be placed on ballot at every presidential election.

: Creates a parent/child privilege in criminal cases.

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

: Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to include juvenile court officers and any other officer of the court.

: Requires Attorney General to defend statutes zealously and grants members of the General Assembly standing in lawsuits on constitutionality of statutes.

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

: Transfers adult probation personnel and services to the circuit courts on July 1, 2004, and establishes a Commission on the Transfer of Adult Probation Personnel, Services and Expense.

: Transfers Board of Probation and Parole and the Division of Probation and Parole to the Office of Probation and Parole within the judiciary and eliminates conditional release for certain sex crimes.

: Requires clerk to bill on monthly basis for any costs that can be determined prior to the final disposition of a case in criminal cases where a change of venue has been taken.

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

: Permits any county to establish a landlord-tenant court.

: Invites the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri to deliver a State of Judiciary message on Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 10:30 am.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment elevating all associate circuit judges to circuit judges and creating the Judicial Assignment Commission.

: Authorizes Caldwell, DeKalb and Daviess counties to impose a voter-approved sales tax to fund jail districts.

: Prohibits sealing of civil court records, with limited exceptions.

: Allows covenant marriages.

: Allows waiver of portion of appeal bonds for certain defendants.

: Revises the statute of limitations and requires an affidavit be filed in actions against certain professionals.

: Removes ability of Marion County Circuit Court to appoint Division I Circuit Clerk if office is separated from Recorder.

: Appeals of Public Service Commission orders shall go directly to the Court of Appeals.

: Authorizes county commissions to pay the salaries of deputy circuit clerks and division clerks.

: Requires that juries be instructed before case submission that if they are unable to agree on punishment the court will assess life imprisonment without parole for first degree murder.

: Expands authority of courts to set aside past convictions and expunge criminal records.

: Regulates inaugural committees.

: Authorizes the General Assembly to intervene in courts under certain circumstances.

: Relates to sealing and closing of court records.

: Modifies various aspects of court administration.

: Makes information collected in the course of an insurance compliance audit privileged under certain conditions.

: Makes the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act enforceable in state courts.

: Creates the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund.

: Counties may create a "County Crime Reduction Fund" for narcotics investigation and law enforcement equipment.

: Reinstates the Dead Man's Act which prohibits introduction of statement from deceased person in trials.

: Provides that victims of certain crimes do not have to pay costs for filing of charges, issuance of warrants, subpoenas or petitions.

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am