JUDICIARY

Bills Assigned to Committee
JUDICIARY
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: Makes juvenile court jurisdiction terminate at age 18 instead of age 17.

: Lowers the eligibility age for jurors from twenty-one to eighteen.

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

: Requires the Missouri Ethics Commission to disclose complaints filed with it.

: Requires the courts to award court costs and reasonable attorney fees to the nonprevailing party in all civil actions.

: Preempts the field of legislation concerning firearms, and prohibits suits by government entities against dealers, manufacturers or trade associations related to lawful sale of firearms to the public.

: Provides for issuance and enforcement of subpoenaes in contested cases before agencies created by constitution or statute and allows any party to enforce them or intervene in the enforcement action.

: Changes the age for disqualification from jury service from less than 21 to less than 18.

: Establishes covenant marriages.

: Establishes a list of persons who object to receiving unsolicited e-mail.

: Revises the law relating to liquor control.

: Prohibits administrative rules promulgated under legislation containing a legislative intent statement from exceeding the scope of the intent statement.

: Adds filing of a current property tax receipt to the common law elements of an adverse possession action.

: Lowers the minimum age for jury service from 21 to 18.

: Provides that paddlesport outfitters are not liable for injury to or death of participants resulting from inherent risk of the sport and must post notice of this fact.

: Extends immunity from civil liability to owners of land next to certain dedicated trail systems.

: Revises the crime of tampering with a judicial officer by adding juvenile officers, drug court and family court commissioners to the definition of a judicial officer.

: Prohibits the disclosure of the Social Security number of the petititoner for an order of protection.

: Creates the Uniform Electronics Transactions Act.

: Changes the age of disqualification from jury service from under 21 to under 18.

: Modifies various provisions regarding tort actions for personal injury.

: Removes ability of Marion County Circuit Court to appoint Division 1 Circuit Clerk if office is separated from Recorder.

: Authorizes the county commission in Cass County to create a county municipal court.

: Requires that the circuit clerk of St. Louis be appointed by the circuit court judges.

: Creates a new tort action for damages for emergency personnel.

: Revises securities regulation laws.

: Requires all death records over fifty years old to be transferred to the Missouri State Archives and permits their disclosure to the public upon request.

: Defines next-of-kin of deceased persons for purposes of disposition of deceased human remains.

: Modifies the admissibility of statements made by children under fourteen years of age.

: Establishes the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund to make funding available for basic civil legal services to low-income persons.

: Adds a provision for filling vacancies of unexpired terms of members of the executive council of the judicial conference by resolution of the judicial conference.

: Establishes an expiration date for the requirement for counties to provide office space for public defenders.

: Amends various provisions regarding the right to civil action for unlawful discriminatory practices.

: Permits the required signatures on corporate filings with the Secretary of State to be a facsimile, a conformed signature, or an electronically transmitted signature.

: Restricts the locations for interviewing children for child abuse investigations and allows attorneys to receive a reasonable fee in termination of parental rights cases.

: Revises list of persons disqualified from jury service.

: Opens certain juvenile court records and proceedings to the public.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the rights of shareholders, officers, and directors of corporations.

: Requires notice for mobile home owners to vacate.

: Revises list of persons disqualified from jury service.

: Allows law library funds collected in certain counties to be used for courtroom renovation and technology enhancement.

: Allows the court to appoint a standby guardian for a minor.

: Creates protocol for resolution of disputes concerning alleged defective residential construction.

: Creates new rights for men in the establishment of paternity.

: Limits attorney fees in medical malpractice cases.

: Enacts the State Employees' Protection Act.

: Adds $5.00 in court costs in municipal cases in Kansas City to be used for procurement, installation, maintenance, consulting services, and upkeep of court information and records management system.

: Creates contracts to collect delinquent fees owed to the Secretary of State.

: Revises notary public requirements.

: Modifies various provisions of court procedure.

: Repeals expired and outdated sections.

: Re-enacts sections held to be unconstitutional because of defects in the title of the bill when originally enacted.

: Allows circuit judges to waive appointment or use of court reporters and use electronic recording devices instead.

: Creates right to an accountant for employment security proceedings.

: Prohibits governmental authorities from interfering with the free exercise of religion.

: Revises the laws concerning appointment of circuit clerks.

: Revises criminal procedures and creates a State Crime Laboratory Oversight Committee.

: Revises section describing who can file a small claims petition.

: Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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

: Enacts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

: Prohibits certain suits by political subdivisions and the state against firearm manufacturers and dealers.

: Allows Cass County to establish a municipal court system to prosecute ordinance violations.

: Revises effective date for vetoed bills that are overridden.

: Modifies enforcement of administrative subpoenas.

: Modifies witness fees.

: Limits the amount of a supersedeas bond an appellant is required to post while an appeal is pending to $50 million.

: Enacts various tort reform measures.

: Modifies venue for administrative actions involving real property.

: Modifies law governing corporations and partnerships.

: Civil procedure for challenging a board of directors decision and shareholder appraisal.

: Modifies the definition of crime for purposes of the Victims of Crime Law.

: Revises the times at which liquor by the drink may be served at certain convention trade areas.

: Creates the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund.

: Extends expiration date of Statewide Court Automation Fund.

: Revises the process for filling a vacancy on the executive council of the Judicial Conference.

: Increases term of director for nonprofit corporation from five to six years.

: Modifies Judicial Finance Commission annual report.

: Modifies types of case dispositions that must be reported to the uniform law enforcement system records and requires Highway Patrol to submit salary report annually.

: Modifies service of summons in landlord-tenant actions.

: Modifies judgements creating liens on real estate.

: Modifies filing requirements for child support garnishment orders.

: Modifies procedure for changing surcharge amounts in civil case filings and allows fees collected to maintain law libraries in certain counties to be used for certain other purposes.

: Prohibits public entities from requiring certain people to obtain a surety bond from a particular company.

: Authorizes Boone County Counselor to prosecute certain actions resulting in civil fines.

: Requires an annual report by the Joint Committee on Legislative Research listing statutes expiring within the next two years.

: Not for profit corporations.

: Establishes a Joint Interim Committee on Judicial Resources.

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