CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

Missouri House of Representatives
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT
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: Prohibits the cloning of human beings.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Eliminates statute of limitations for forcible rape and sodomy.

: Prohibits liquor sales in movie theaters.

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

: Authorizes certain retired or off-duty officers to carry concealed weapons.

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

: Adds arson to the hate crimes statute and makes it a class A felony regardless of whether it is 1st or 2nd degree or whether anyone was injured.

: Creates crime of failure to control a vicious animal, and allows impoundment pending verdict and humane killing upon plea or finding of guilt.

: Eliminates statute of limitations for forcible rape and sodomy.

: Increases the time persons arrested for felonies may be held without a charge to thirty-two hours.

: Expands the requirement for registration of sex offenders.

: Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians.

: Creates crime of bestiality.

: Requires tanning facilities to be licensed.

: Requires motor vehicles traveling on four lane highways to move to passing lane to overtake a stationary vehicle on shoulder of highway.

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

: Requires lobbyists to wear identification badges.

: Provides for impeachment of municipal elected officials.

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

: Requires owners of certain interests in public utilities and suppliers of public utilities to notify the Public Service Commission.

: Makes it a crime to sell a child.

: Increase the statute of limitations for forcible, attempted forcible and statutory rape and sodomy 1st and 2nd degrees from 3 years to 20 years.

: Revises the purpose of chapter 211 on juvenile courts.

: Requires drivers of motor vehicles to use passing lane to overtake stationary emergency vehicle parked on shoulder.

: Creates crime of enticement of a child.

: Revises venue for fraud crimes.

: Provides exemption from motorcycle helmet requirement for public parades.

: Enacts the Anti-Terrorism Act.

: Eliminates statute of limitations for forcible rape and sodomy.

: Revises the crime of invasion of privacy.

: Makes certain crimes dangerous felonies.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide requesting hospitals with rape kits to aid in the identification of rape suspects.

: Creates the crime of enticement of a child.

: Creates various sexual misconduct crimes.

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

: Amends exotic animal registration by requiring it be done within 2 weeks of coming into possession of the animal and expands definition of exotic.

: 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.

: Permits application to partially seal traffic records.

: Allows suit for damages for wrongful imprisonment.

: Creates the crime of child luring.

: Revises law on technological crimes.

: 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.

: 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 the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide hospitals with rape kits.

: Eliminates statute of limitations for forcible rape and sodomy.

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

: Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to supervise persons found guilty of misdemeanor criminal nonsupport.

: Requires prison or jail time for assault if the victim was a mass transit worker or passenger on or waiting to board a bus or light rail system.

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

: Creates the crime of offender sexual abuse.

: Prohibits nonviolent offenders from being housed in the same cell as violent offenders.

: Creates crime of failure to confine a dog and exceptions to that crime.

: Creates board of corrections ombudsman and office of corrections ombudsman.

: Revises watercraft regulation and operation.

: Establishes requirements for overtaking stationary emergency vehicles on two lane and four lane highways.

: Allows enhanced punishment for sexual misconduct when offender has prior conviction in another state.

: Allows records concerning sex offenders to be released in certain circumstances.

: Establishes reporting requirements for lobbyists and candidates for office.

: Revises law on child victims of sex offenses.

: Establishes regulations and certification guidelines for those handling explosive blasters.

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

: Regulates check cashing businesses.

: Establishes an environmental audit privilege.

: Creates a permit process for carrying concealed firearms and requires review of certain weapons offenses for the possibility of federal prosecution.

: Revises laws on agriculture.

: Prohibits certain deceptive practices in connection with home loans.

: Regulates hay rides.

: Amends various provisions regarding the standards for nursing homes.

: Allows municipalities that own gas plants to be fined by the Public Service Commission.

: Makes desecration of the United States national flag abandonment and permits any person to take possession of an abandoned flag.

: Commutes death sentences to life without parole.

: Revises utility laws. Requires schools and libraries to restrict access to Internet pornography.

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

: Revises criminal laws.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Authorizes sheriffs to issue permits to carry concealed firearms.

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

: 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.

: Prohibits human cloning.

: Prohibits gender selection of embryos for implantation by in vitro fertilization.

: Repeals and enacts section 578.008 without any changes which created the crime of spreading disease to livestock or animals.

: Adds firefighters to assault of a law enforcement officer in all degrees and revises elements of the offense and some punishment.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the investigation of child abuse.

: 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.

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

: Increases the limits for crime victim compensation.

: Gives crime victims the right to be notified by the custodial authority of the expected address upon release of the defendant and requires prosecutors to inform victims of this right.

: Allows Supervisor of Liquor Control to assess civil penalties for certain violations.

: Amends the right-of-way-statute by imposing additional fines and license suspensions when the violation resulted in physical injury, serious physical injury or death to any person.

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

: Creates a death penalty commission.

: Provides guidelines for operation of private prisons.

: Establishes the Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Act and board.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Expands the requirement for registration of sex offenders.

: Creates the felony of mass transportation terrorism.

: Authorizes sheriffs to issue permits to carry concealed firearms.

: Creates crime of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

: Amends exotic animal registration by requiring it be done within two weeks of coming into possession of the animal.

: Enacts the Disposition of Human Fetuses Act.

: Creates crime of contamination of food or drink.

: 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.

: Increases punishment for incest from a class D to a class B felony.

: Requires drivers to obey a law enforcement officer's signal to stop.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

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

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

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Increases the penalties for forcible rape and sodomy and attempted forcible rape and sodomy and prohibits bail for certain sex crimes.

: Revises sexual offender registration.

: Creates a licensing board to regulate private investigators.

: Requires persons guilty of boating while intoxicated to complete the substance abuse traffic offender program.

: Revises professional registration statutes.

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

: Revises criminal laws.

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

: Authorizes sheriffs to issue permits to carry concealed firearms.

: 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.

: Makes it a crime to cancel a credit charge used for paying property taxes.

: Creates the crimes of attempted forcible rape and sodomy and classifies the attempts and forcible rape and sodomy as class A felonies.

: Creates crimes for sexual offenders who know they have HIV, amends HIV notification statutes, HIV disclosure statutes, prosecutors motion for HIV testing and the punishment for prostitution.

: Clarifies the crime of passing a bad check.

: Revises criminal laws.

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

: Prohibits use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle, with exceptions.

: Enacts the Anti-terrorism Act.

: 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.

: Prohibits deduction of service fees from any state employee's salary unless the employee authorizes the deduction.

: Modifies various provisions regarding declared states of emergency.

: Creates crime of criminal profiteering and civil penalty for unfair leverage when selling during a consumer market disruption. Revises crime of making a terrorist threat.

: Creates the crime of unlawful genetic engineering of humans.

: Revises certain provisions of the Animal Research and Production Facilities Protection Act.

: Prohibits the transportation of hazardous materials through any highway tunnel in this state.

: Allows records concerning sex offenders to be released in certain circumstances.

: Specifies when an agency is to notify the Attorney General of a possible sexually violent predator and the content of that notice including that a psychiatrist or psychologist make the determination.

: Provides that no branch of government shall employ an inmate or other person with a criminal record in a position where such person would have access to records containing personal identifiers.

: 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.

: Prohibits any state appropriations to be used in any manner for assisted suicide.

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

: Revises laws on pawnshops and on stealing.

: Creates crime of assault while on the property of a hospital emergency room or trauma center.

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

: Adds informed consent provisions prior to the performance of an abortion.

: 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.

: Creates new crimes of terrorism.

: Creates the crime of unlawful possession of a firearm for persons convicted of or subject to a court order for domestic violence.

: Delineates neighborhood groups, community groups, and local social services agencies rights at sentencing hearings for controlled substances offenders.

: Makes revisions to the crimes of stalking in the first, second, and third degrees.

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

: Regulates adult establishments.

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

: Adds a new category of motor vehicle dealer. Revises law on repurchase of power equipment.

: Requires a store owner to refund a customer's money if the customer is improperly detained due to a failure to remove or deactivate a security strip.

: Expands the crime of driving while revoked.

: Requires property owners and landlords to disclose in writing that a property was used to produce methamphetamine.

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

: Changes the definition of "dangerous felonies" to include attempts and increases the minimum punishment for forcible rape and sodomy.

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

: Prohibits certain businesses from advertising on billboards within two miles of any state highway.

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

: Revises the definition of "sexual contact" as used in Chapters 566 (Sexual Offenses) and 568 (Offenses Against the Family).

: Modifies various provisions regarding the disclosure of mental health information.

: Excludes prosecuting attorneys from the crime of unlawful use of a weapon for carrying a concealed weapon.

: Requires installation of approved fire protection sprinkler system in high-rise buildings.

: Requires rear seat passengers to wear seat belts.

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

: Clarifies when a license to operate a motor vehicle may be taken and held by law enforcement officers for moving traffic violations.

: Provides that a person may not be arrested or convicted for a crime or situation involving drugs if another becomes ill during it and they summon aid for them and stay with them until help arrives.

: Adds failing to summon aid for a sick person involuntary manslaughter if in circumstances where drug transactions are involved.

: Creates the crime of transferring human fetal parts.

: 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.

: Revises definitions of persistent and prior alcohol-related traffic offenders.

: Allows law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons whether on duty of off duty anywhere in this state.

: Makes trespassing a Class D felony if another person is in the building during the crime.

: Requires expungement for first alcohol related driving offense for persons under 21 and requires Director of Revenue to expunge all administrative disciplinary records of offenses expunged by 577.054.

: Makes ignition interlock use optional instead of mandatory and prohibits the Department of Revenue from suspending or revoking the driving privileges of anyone who has been ordered to use the device.

: Creates anti-terrorism act plus requires postsecondary schools to track students on foreign visas and report any change in their status to Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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

: Recommends a condemnation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and expresses the concerns of the House and Senate.

: Urges Congress and the Bush Administration to take action to put in place a limited and temporary federal backstop for insurance against terrorism.

: Requires hepatitis B testing, in addition to HIV testing, for crime victims and prisoners.

: Revises motorcycle helmet law and penalty for violation.

: Removes statute of limitations for forcible rape and forcible sodomy.

: Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles.

: Revises sex crimes laws.

: Revises election laws.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

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

: Creates Project Exile, relating to firearm crimes.

: Allows sheriff to seize misappropriated property held by a pawnbroker.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: Drivers must take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching and obey signals of sheriff or deputy sheriff.

: Creates a commission to study the death penalty and imposes a temporary moratorium on executions.

: Drivers must take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching and obey signals of sheriff or deputy sheriff.

: Clarifies registration requirements for sex offenders. Adds to crimes for which an appeal bond cannot be granted.

: Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance.

: Removes statute of limitations for certain unclassified crimes.

: Creates the crime of fraudulent use of a credit or debit device to "pay" property taxes to obtain auto license tags.

: Creates crime of eluding a peace officer.

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

: Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals.

: Creates the crime of enticement.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Related to terrorism.

: Revises sex crimes laws.

: Increases penalties that may be imposed by the PSC for safety related violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act.

: Revises crime of possession of child pornography.

: Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals.

: Repeals sunset on motor fuel tax and allows Transportation Department to engage in design-build contracts.

: Revises sex crimes laws.

: Modifies regulation of horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering.

: Broadens the definition of "ticket price", to allow the seller to recoup additional charges assessed without being guilty of scalping.

: 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.

: Authorizes automated traffic enforcement programs.

: Revises sex offenders' registry.

: Imposes additional fines and driver's license suspensions on persons failing to yield the right-of-way.

: Makes it illegal to install fake air bags in automobiles.

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

: Related to terrorism.

: Creates the crime of "luring a child".

: Regulates inaugural committees.

: Relates to sealing and closing of court records.

: Property damage committed while breaking into a vehicle for the purpose of committing stealing therein or committed while committing the crime of stealing in a vehicle is a felony.

: Creates crime of enticement.

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

: Suspends registration license and driver's license for failure to pay traffic fines.

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

: Requires persons guilty of boating while intoxicated to complete the SATOP program.

: Requires criminal history check for certain persons related to the gaming industry, the state gaming commission and the state lottery commission.

: Creates the Missouri Regional Computer Forensic Lab.

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

: Creates enforcement provisions to prohibit tobacco sales to minors.

: Creates felony for sale or distribution of gray market cigarettes.

: First degree and second degree arson shall be class A felonies if perpetrated as hate crimes.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am