Missouri House of Representatives
Bills Indexed by Subject
FAMILY LAW
HB 43
--- Sponsor:
Stevenson, Bryan P.
- Makes juvenile court jurisdiction terminate at age 18 instead of age
17.
HB 45
--- Sponsor:
Stevenson, Bryan P.
- Modifies the compulsory school attendance age.
HB 70
--- Sponsor:
Crowell, Jason
- Requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to
modify child custody.
HB 154
--- Sponsor:
Roark, Bradley G.
--- CoSponsor:
Kelly, Van
- Establishes covenant marriages.
HB 196
--- Sponsor:
Sager, Mike
--- CoSponsor:
LeVota, Paul
- Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for
an advertising campaign for the recruitment of adoptive and foster
care families.
HB 253
--- Sponsor:
Shoemaker, Chris
--- CoSponsor:
Fraser, Barbara
- Prohibits the disclosure of the Social Security number of the
petititoner for an order of protection.
HB 396
--- Sponsor:
Hanaway, Catherine L
--- CoSponsor:
Parker, Sherman
- Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster
care system.
HB 485
--- Sponsor:
Johnson, Rick
--- CoSponsor:
Byrd, Richard
- Restricts the locations for interviewing children for child abuse
investigations and allows attorneys to receive a reasonable fee in
termination of parental rights cases.
HB 581
--- Sponsor:
Pratt, Bryan
- Creates new rights for men in the establishment of paternity.
HB 629
--- Sponsor:
Muckler, Matt
- 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.
HB 690
--- Sponsor:
Holand, Roy W.
- Amends the requirements for the Missouri Family Trust.
HB 728
--- Sponsor:
Davis, Cynthia L.
--- CoSponsor:
Phillips, Susan C.
- Modifies the requirements for granting grandparent visitation.
HB 752
--- Sponsor:
Sager, Mike
- Establishes the Missouri Abortion Reduction Program in the Department
of Health and Senior Services to reduce the number of unwanted
pregnancies.
SB 43
--- Sponsor:
Dougherty, Patrick
- Establishes "Office of State Ombudsman for Children's Protection and
Services" and the "Task Force on Children's Justice".
SB 63
--- Sponsor:
Caskey, Harold
- Makes rulings on termination of parental rights final for purposes of
appeal.
SB 210
--- Sponsor:
Steelman, Sarah G.
- Commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the
nonpartisan court plan is used.
SB 306
--- Sponsor:
Steelman, Sarah G.
- Requires courts to appoint a guardian ad litem where there are
substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect.
SB 322
--- Sponsor:
Days, Rita D.
- Allows adopted persons eighteen and older to obtain copies of their
original birth certificate.
SB 330
--- Sponsor:
Caskey, Harold
- Allows child support orders to be sent to employers by regular mail.
SB 593
--- Sponsor:
Foster, Bill I.
- Modifies the law pertaining to hot-line calls of alleged child abuse
and neglect.
SB 643
--- Sponsor:
Yeckel, Anita
- Replaces family court commissioners with associate circuit judges.
SB 649
--- Sponsor:
Shields, Charles W.
- Modifies the law relating to the Putative Father Registry.
SB 696
--- Sponsor:
Coleman, Maida
- Establishes the "Child Support Responsibility Act".
Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 9, 2003 at 10:46 am