CHILDREN AND MINORS

Missouri House of Representatives
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CHILDREN AND MINORS
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: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes and child placing agencies.

: Revises law on certain sexual crimes against children and on testimony by a child.

: Makes juvenile court jurisdiction terminate at age 18 instead of age 17.

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

: Modifies the compulsory school attendance age.

: Revises procedures for suspension or expulsion of pupils in public schools.

: Changes the definition of "dangerous felony" to include statutory rape and sodomy when victim is less than 12 and abuse of a child pursuant to subdivision 2 of subsection 3 of section 568.060.

: Adds certain drug-related activities to the crime of endangering the welfare of a child.

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

: Makes it a crime for sex offenders to establish a residency within 1000 feet of a public school or child care facility and to notify the sheriff if one moves within 1000 feet of them within 1 week.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Authorizes state funding for the education of certain disabled students.

: Requires operators of motorcycles and motortricycles who are under twenty-one years of age to wear protective headgear.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Makes it a crime to sell a child.

: Makes it a crime for a proprietor of an adult cabaret to allow a person under 21 to dance in it or for a person under 21 to dance in an adult cabaret.

: Increases the penalty for selling intoxicating liquor to minors.

: Creates the crime of sexual contact with a student while on public school property.

: Changes the age at which a person is deemed incapable of consent for crimes involving restraint from fourteen to seventeen.

: Creates a statewide Amber Alert Program.

: 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.

: Increases the penalties for forcible rape, forcible sodomy, attempt to commit forcible rape, and attempt to commit forcible sodomy.

: Requires certain persons guilty of sexual offenses and sexual offenses against a child to complete required treatment programs and follow treatment directives.

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

: Establishes the Missouri 4 For More Program in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

: Makes it a class A misdemeanor to sell liquor to or procure liquor for a person under 21, unless any person suffers serious physical injury or death, then it is a class D felony.

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

: Increases the age at which the death penalty can be imposed from 16 to 18.

: Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory attendance age to seventeen.

: Requires health insurers to provide coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Authorizes all counties to levy a sales tax for community services for children.

: Prohibits public or charter school employees from performing a strip search of any student of such schools.

: Prohibits persons under the age of twenty-one years from being under the influence of any intoxicating liquor.

: Allows products made by youths in facilities and programs operated by the Division of Youth Services to be sold at cost plus ten percent.

: Creates the "Missouri Healthy Schools Fund".

: Allows school districts to provide transportation for private and parochial students under certain circumstances.

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

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

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

: Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund.

: 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.

: Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health services system.

: Modifies the requirements for child safety restraints in motor vehicles.

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social services programs to subsidize abortion services.

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

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to register with superintendent of any school district in which the juvenile enrolls or is enrolled.

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

: Amends the requirements for health insurance coverage for PKU formula by removing the age restriction and prohibiting higher deductibles or copayments for such coverage.

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

: Requires medically therapeutic circumcisions to be covered under the state Medicaid program and, if funded, nontherapeutic, elective or routine circumcisions in a nondiscriminatory manner.

: Requires juvenile officers to report investigations for violations relating to compulsory school attendance to the child's school district under certain circumstances.

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

: Modifies various provisions of court procedure.

: 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.

: Revises certain special education services.

: 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.

: Creates the Life Sciences Trust Fund and the Life Sciences Board.

: Allows courts to suspend an individual's driver's license for up to one hundred twenty days for failure to stop for a school bus that is loading or unloading students.

: Amends the requirements for the Missouri Family Trust.

: Removes age restriction for admission of students to the University of Missouri.

: Modifies the requirements for granting grandparent visitation.

: Removes the two million dollar cap on the special needs child adoption tax credit and eliminates the credit for business entities.

: Eliminates the two million dollar cap on the tax credits for nonrecurring adoption expenses.

: Requires Internet service providers to remove child pornography from their service upon notification by the Attorney General that the court has issued such an order.

: Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs.

: Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Out-of-School Programs.

: Requires motorists to use their headlights whenever rain or other conditions require the use of windshield wipers.

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

: Establishes "Office of State Ombudsman for Children's Protection and Services" and the "Task Force on Children's Justice".

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity.

: Requires certain facilities for children to show proof of accreditation and compliance with safety standards.

: Eliminates time restrictions for children with special health care needs under Missouri's Health Insurance Program for Children.

: Lowers age for jury duty from 21 to 18; excuses certain students.

: Creates a statewide AMBER Alert Program.

: Modifies the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth.

: Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for children.

: Creates the crime of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

: Requires courts to appoint a guardian ad litem where there are substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect.

: Allows adopted persons eighteen and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate.

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

: Students participation in FFA, FHA, FCCLA, 4-H, and State Fair competitions to count as attendance for purpose of state school aid.

: Changes the procedure by which parental or guardian consent is noted for organ donation by minors.

: Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund.

: Modifies the law relating to children's protective services.

: Extends the Family Care Safety Registry to January 1, 2007.

: Modifies filing requirements for child support garnishment orders.

: Eliminates the minimum age qualification for admission to the University of the State of Missouri.

: Modifies the law relating to the screening of genetic diseases and birth defects.

: Removes the aggregate cap for the adoption tax credit program.

: Revises various criminal background checks.

: Revises ages of victims for various sexual offenses.

: Requires children to be at least 8 years old, 4 feet 4 inches, and 60 pounds to ride as passengers on motorcycles.

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

: Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities.

: Creates a Gang Resistance Education and Training program to be used in schools.

: The state board shall encourage effective involvement by parents in support of the education of their children.

: Modifies the law pertaining to hot-line calls of alleged child abuse and neglect.

: Modifies the law relating to lead abatement.

: Modifies the law relating to protective services for children.

: Adds the Ozark Foothills child assessment center.

: Creates the "Dominic James Memorial Foster Care Reform Act of 2003".

: Creation the "More for Four" pilot program, providing grants to a maximum of 25 pre-kindergarten pilot programs.

: A student's IEP committee must give due consideration to maintaining a private placement option.

: Alters policies regarding the lapse of school districts.

: Requires license-exempt residential care facilities to provide a notice of parental responsibility.

: Alters provisions regarding special education policy.

: A student's IEP committee must give due consideration to maintaining a private placement option.

: Modifies the law relating to the Putative Father Registry.

: Changes statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse cases.

: Requires the juvenile court to notify school districts of any violations of compulsory school attendance.

: Requires all child care facilities or programs exempt from licensure to conduct background checks on all employees.

: Creates a comprehensive children's mental health service system.

: Establishes the "Child Support Responsibility Act".

: Creates safety standards for cribs which are sold or used by commercial users.

: Allows private school students to ride public school buses.

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