JUDGES

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

: Changes filing requirements for contests of elections of circuit and associate circuit judges.

: 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.

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

: Establishes covenant marriages.

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

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

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

: 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.

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

: Allows administrative law judges and legal advisors hired after 2003 to be included in the state employees retirement system.

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

: 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.

: Adds a judge to the Missouri State Employees Retirement System board of trustees.

: Gives victims the right to be present at all criminal justice proceedings even if such victim is called or may be called to testify as a witness in the case.

: Prohibits the taking of depositions by any party in any criminal case except for depositions to preserve the testimony of essential witnesses.

: Limits attorney fees in medical malpractice cases.

: Removes the requirement that the judge in a driving while intoxicated case be an attorney in order to use the conviction to enhance punishment or to affect licensing status.

: Modifies various provisions of court procedure.

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

: Permits up to ten percent of any year-end balance in the criminal record system fund to be appropriated for the Criminal Lab Assistance Program and other justice system uses.

: Revises the laws concerning appointment of circuit clerks.

: Authorizes the convening of a joint session of the House and Senate to receive the State of the Judiciary Address by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri.

: Disapproves the recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation of Elected Officials.

: Disapproves the salary recommendations submitted by the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials.

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

: Modifies various aspects of the criminal justice system.

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

: Modifies jurisdiction for election contests involving the offices of circuit and associate judge.

: Modifies enforcement of administrative subpoenas.

: Commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the nonpartisan court plan is used.

: Modifies Supreme Court Rule 23 to allow interlocutory appeals in class actions.

: Modifies witness fees.

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

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

: Authorizes special motion to dismiss in Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP).

: Increases number of circuit judges in 13th Judicial Circuit.

: Creates a malpractice settlement tax.

: Modifies provisions of court procedure.

: Creates the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund.

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

: Modifies Judicial Finance Commission annual report.

: Increases criminal case filing surcharge.

: 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 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.

: Modifies provisions relating to jury service.

: Sets out requirements for obtaining a warrant by telephone.

: Revises compensation and retirement benefits for administrative law judges.

: Certain circuit clerks shall be appointed.

: Modifies provisions relating to disqualification from jury service.

: Replaces family court commissioners with associate circuit judges.

: Modifies allowable interest on certain judgments.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 9, 2003 at 10:45 am