EDUCATION, HIGHER

Missouri House of Representatives
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EDUCATION, HIGHER
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: Prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

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

: Requires personal information related to accounts established within Missouri higher education savings account program to be confidential.

: Permits additional classes of public employees to form and join labor organizations.

: Requires Coordinating Board for Higher Education to promote and catalogue service learning opportunities available in state institutions of higher education.

: Creates special license plates.

: Creates faculty representative positions on all university boards of governors and makes other changes to higher education.

: Establishes opportunity scholarships for students in unaccredited or academically deficient schools.

: Revises the Public Service Officer's or Employee's Child Survivor Grant Program and the Minority Teaching Scholarship Program.

: Creates new requirements for board of regents of Northwest Missouri State University.

: Provides for a salary increase for certain state family workers who complete a family development credentialing program.

: Excludes capital appropriations from annual appropriations for community college district maintenance funds.

: Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing tuition, fees, and surcharges after the opening date of any school year.

: Allows members of Missouri Higher Education Savings Program Board to designate a proxy, and requires confidentiality of personally identifiable information of participants in the program.

: Allows persons with restricted driving privileges due to driving while intoxicated convictions to drive to and from their formal program of secondary, post-secondary, or higher education.

: Requires the establishment of tuition reimbursement policies for the House of Representatives and all state employees.

: Revises Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Act to include public community junior colleges.

: Allocates new funds for higher education.

: Requires that one of the voting members of the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri and of the boards of governors of Truman State University and Southwest Missouri State University be a student.

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

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

: Requires public schools and public institutions of higher education to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each school day.

: Prohibits the introduction of new types of gambling.

: Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship Program".

: Exempts from state tax assets and earnings of any higher education savings program qualified by the Internal Revenue Code.

: Changes the names of several state colleges.

: Transfers administration of all post-secondary scholarship programs to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education.

: Creates faculty representative positions on all university boards of governors and makes other changes to higher education.

: Changes the name of Southwest Missouri State University.

: Creates position of student representative on the board of trustees at Ozarks Technical Community College.

: Reenacts section 178.870, relating to community college property tax rates, to cure possible constitutional defects.

: Allows students of public institutions of higher education who are members of the National Guard called to active service to be eligible to receive a refund of tuition.

: Allows Lincoln University to provide education to local A+ students.

: Clarifies that income tax deduction for higher education savings program is $8,000 for single taxpayers and $16,000 for married taxpayers filing combined returns.

: Establishes a funding formula for higher education.

: Revises transfer process for students of public institutions of higher education.

: Allows public institutions of higher education to establish local telecommunity centers.

: 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.

: Approves funding for an agricultural research and demonstration center for the Springfield campus of Southwest Missouri State University.

: Approves the Curators of the University of Missouri to enter into a ground lease for the purpose of construction of a hotel/convention center complex on real estate located in the City of Columbia.

: Revises charter school laws.

: Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools.

: Makes Missouri Higher Education Savings Program personal information confidential.

: Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax.

: Excludes capital appropriations from annual appropriations for community college district maintenance funds.

: Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program.

: Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirement of the A+ Schools program.

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

: Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship" program.

: Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR.

: The act creates the "Urban Flight Scholarship Program".

: Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special education field.

: Increases the membership of the Northwest Missouri State University's Board of Regents from seven to nine.

: Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period.

: Revises Missouri Health and Educational Facilities Act to include public community junior colleges.

: Establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax.

: Changes the name of Missouri Southern State College to Missouri Southern University-Joplin and the appointment of regents.

: Mandates that all schools in Missouri receiving public moneys shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

: Makes a technical correction to the statute creating the Spinal Cord Injury Fund.

: Creates the Breimyer Center for Sustainable Food and Farming Systems.

: Authorizes University of Missouri-Columbia to study gambling in Missouri.

: Expands the criteria allowing college students called into military service to qualify for tuition refunds and "incomplete" grades.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the Nursing Student Loan Program.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Establishes the Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement Program.

: Teacher education students employed for at least two years as teacher assistants may bypass the student teaching requirement.

: Reconstitutes the Joint Interim Committee on Education Funding which terminated on January 15, 2002.

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