CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

Missouri House of Representatives
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT
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: Revises law on certain sexual crimes against children and on testimony by a child.

: Creates the crime of intimidation of an athletic coach or sprorts official.

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

: Revises the DNA profiling system to included all types of pleas and convictions and all felony offenses and makes these records closed records with certain exceptions and restricts use.

: 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.

: Allows persons arrested for felony offenses to be held without charge for up to 32 hours.

: Requires that the punishment for distribution of controlled substance near schools and certain housing be served without probation or parole if the defendant is a persistent drug offender.

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

: Makes involuntary manslaughter a B felony instead of a C felony.

: Authorizes a 24 hour hold for all crimes.

: Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles.

: 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.

: Authorizes permits for retired police officers to carry concealed firearms.

: Authorizes county commissioners to create county crime reduction funds and establishes the Missouri Sheriffs' Methamphetamine Relief Task Force.

: Increases the minimum prison time for forcible rape, attempted forcible rape, forcible sodomy, and attempted forcible sodomy.

: Modifies the standards for restricting or suspending the licenses of pharmacists and pharmacies.

: Adds firefighters to the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer.

: Creates the crime of assault of a Missouri sexual offender treatment center or Department of Corrections employee.

: Authorizes Highway Patrol to adopt procedures for certain criminal history record information requests and payment options.

: Authorizes permits to carry concealed firearms.

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

: Reduces the fine for failure to wear protective headgear when operating a motorcycle.

: Makes it a crime to sell a child.

: Makes it a crime to engage in human cloning.

: Requires the Missouri State Highway Patrol to maintain a web site with a registered sexual offender search capability.

: 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.

: Creates the Missouri Sheriff Methamphetamine Relief Taskforce.

: Revises the crimes of assault of a law enforcement officer in the first, second, and third degrees by adding firefighters while executing or performing their duties.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Eliminates judges discretion to impose death penalty when the jury is unable to decide.

: Prohibits the cloning of human beings.

: Creates a $10 surcharge in certain criminal cases, creates the "GREAT fund", creates the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) and the Show Me Students with Character Initiative programs.

: Eliminates the death penalty for murder in the first degree.

: Allows electronic payments for criminal repository checks and authorizes the Highway Patrol to establish procedures for receiving requests and payments for requests.

: 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.

: Sentencing penalties and punishment not to be altered by alteration of law prior to sentencing.

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

: 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.

: 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.

: Prohibits the possession or use of glass food or beverage containers within the banks of any navigable waterway in the state of Missouri.

: 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.

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

: Establishes lists of specific crimes which if motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability of the victim receive enhanced punishment.

: Establishes a statewide crime laboratory system within the Department of Public Safety.

: Revises the DNA profiling system to included all types of pleas and convictions, all felony offenses, and all class A misdemeanors.

: Authorizes permits to carry concealed firearms.

: Allows for expungement of administrative DWI suspensions if the court has granted expungement of the conviction.

: Makes it a class A misdemeanor for a person to be under the influence of a controlled substance.

: Creates the Missouri Sheriff Methamphetamine Relief Taskforce.

: Authorizes permits to carry concealed firearms.

: Revises the crime of domestic assault in the third degree.

: Prohibits governmental bodies from employing inmates in any position where they have access to personal records containing unique identifying information.

: Makes it unlawful for any person to display or offer to sell any ephedrine product unless the ephedrine product is placed behind a counter.

: Revises the definition of dangerous felonies to include assault of a law enforcement officer in the first degree, domestic assault in the first degree and elder abuse in the first degree.

: Regulates dealings between cigarette retailers and cigarette manufacturers regarding merchandising, advertising, display, consumer discount or promotional agreements.

: Changes the intensive long-term treatment program by adding alcohol treatment and changing the duration of the program and revises the rules concerning 120 day release from prison.

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

: Modifies various provisions of the substance abuse traffic offender program.

: Revises the sentencing provisions of the crime of driving while revoked by removing the requirement that on previous offenses the offender must have received and served a sentence of 10 days or more.

: Revises resisting arrest statute to include resisting detentions or stops by fleeing in a manner that creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury or death as a class D felony.

: Creates the crime of assault of an athletic event participant.

: Establishes a licensing system for manufactured housing setup contractors.

: Authorizes counties of the first classification to impose fines for violations of ordinances.

: Changes the requirements for complaints filed concerning certain campaign finance disclosures.

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

: Requires sale of certain methamphetamine drugs from behind sales counter and creates crime of unlawful release of anhydrous ammonia.

: Revises employment security law.

: Enacts the Missouri Corporate Governance Act which restricts the offer or sale of securities in this state issued by state covered companies.

: Regulates mobile telephone use by operators of motor vehicles.

: Creates environmental audit privileges.

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Prohibits convicted felons from registering to vote unless pardoned or the sentence is commuted.

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

: Creates "TJ's Law" which requires the Department of Public Safety to license and regulate surety recovery agents.

: Creates a task force on alternative sentencing.

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

: Imposes additional surcharges and driver's license suspensions on any person failing to yield the right-of-way.

: Revises various statutes pertaining to criminal history or other types of background screening.

: Creates a $10 surcharge in certain criminal cases, creates the "GREAT fund",creates the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT), and the Show Me Students with Character Initiative programs.

: Prohibits open containers of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles with certain exceptions.

: Makes manufacturing a controlled substance within 2,000 feet of a school a class A felony.

: Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm.

: Revises various statutes relating to theft or destruction of documents, records and other library materials.

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

: Requires law enforcement officers to forward records of arrest for any arrest made for any alcohol-or drug-related offenses.

: Requires the reporting of knife and explosive weapon wounds as well as gunshot wounds to law enforcement by certain health care providers.

: Creates the crime of unlawful release of anhydrous ammonia.

: Allows officers to take blood, saliva, or urine after a person has refused to submit to a chemical test if the officer has a search warrant; such person's license can still be revoked for refusal.

: Creates the crime of endangering corrections personnel in the first, second, and third degrees.

: Requires Police to give a chemical test to the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident with a fatality or serious physical injury when the driver has a prior intoxication-related traffic offense.

: Revises various provisions regarding penalties for intoxication- related traffic offenses.

: 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.

: Requires prisoners to use their insurance if any or pay for any medical attention, dental care or medicine provided by the Department of Corrections.

: Revises sex offender registration statutes and changes statute of limitations for bringing an action for childhood sexual abuse.

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

: Allows telephonic search warrants and make it a crime to intercept cellular or radio transmissions and publish the information to anyone other than the intended recipient.

: Allows any person found actually innocent to have a cause of action against the state for wrongful imprisonment.

: Revises assault in the third degree by adding knowingly causing physical injury and makes it a class D felony.

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

: Revises the definition of "dangerous felony" to include assault of a law enforcement officer or firefighter in the first degree.

: 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.

: Revises sentencing laws.

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

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

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

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Creates a statewide AMBER Alert Program.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Revises eligibility of felons to vote.

: Revises the Sunshine Law.

: Makes arson motivated by hate crimes a class A felony.

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

: Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles.

: Eliminates the death penalty.

: Requires the Sexual Offender Registry to be posted on the Internet and makes other changes in laws relating to criminal records.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Regarding prosecution of persons charged with theft or fraudulent use of credit devices or credit in different venues.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

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

: Enumerates the rights of persons with service animals.

: Authorizes custodial interrogations of persons suspected of committing felonies must be recorded.

: Limits Judicial Discretion where jury is unable to unanimously agree on the death penalty.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

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

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Expands the crime of peace disturbance to include continuously barking in some situations.

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

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

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

: Persons under 21 cannot dance, nor be allowed to dance, in an adult cabaret.

: Makes the crime of delivering any controlled substances to prisons apply to city and county jails.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Revises provisions of the Sunshine Law.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Requires sale of certain methamphetamine drugs from behind sales counter.

: Allows the Department to levy fines for the abatement of lead poisoning.

: Eliminates an appeal of a determination of whether a person is a sexually violent predator.

: Increases the surcharge from two to three dollars in each criminal case.

: Sets out requirements for obtaining a warrant by telephone.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Revises various criminal background checks.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Revises ages of victims for various sexual offenses.

: Changes minimum age of defendant for the crime of murder from sixteen to eighteen.

: Modifies the law relating to protective services for children.

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

: Creates the State historical Monuments, Memorials, and Markers Board.

: Makes it a crime to photograph or release a pathogen or disease into animal research and production facility.

: Creates the crime of tampering with prescription drugs.

: Requires sentencing commission to study sentencing.

: Changes statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse cases.

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

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Last Updated July 9, 2003 at 10:45 am