CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Bills Assigned to Committee
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
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: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes and child placing agencies.

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

: Permits the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to certain not-for-profit food pantries in the state.

: Establishes covenant marriages.

: Creates a statutory Amber Alert Program to aid in the location of abducted persons.

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

: Prohibits case workers employed by the Division of Family Services from working outside their assigned counties on a regular basis.

: Includes registered sexual offenders in the family care safety registry.

: Amends the requirements for informed consent prior to the performance of an abortion.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

: Raises the age of victim in statutory sexual offenses to sixteen years of age.

: Includes Christian Science practitioners in the definition of "minister" for purposes of mandatory child abuse reporting by ministers, and removes them from the general reporting requirements.

: Allows medical assistance for foster children to continue to age twenty-three if the child enrolls in postsecondary education.

: Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.

: Allows the Ozark Foothills Child Assessment Center and the North Central Missouri Child Assessment Center to be funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Requires students living in on-campus housing at universities and colleges to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease.

: Allows consideration of whether a parent provides the sole financial support for children not of the marriage due to the death of a spouse when determining child support for children of the marriage.

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

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

: Requires removal of child pornography from the internet by the web site operator after receipt of a judicial order to do so.

: Amends the Family Development Account Program to include as community-based organizations associations formed by not-for-profit corporations and to allow expenditures for vocational education.

: Modifies the requirements for granting grandparent visitation.

: Establishes the Missouri Abortion Reduction Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

: Creates a statutory Amber Alert Program to aid in the location of abducted persons.

: Makes rulings on termination of parental rights final for purposes of appeal.

: Allows child support orders to be sent to employers by regular mail.

: Includes Christian Science practitioners within the definition of "minister" for mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect.

: Modifies statutes to reflect reorganization of executive branch departments by executive order.

: Parental consent for minor to obtain an abortion.

: Urges Congress to take up and pass the Federal Marriage Amendment to the United States Constitution.

: Expresses support of Senate to faith-based and community organizations.

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