CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

: Revises the elements of the crime of public drunkenness.

: Creates the crime of assault of corrections personnel.

: Adds new provisions to allow correction of arrest records when a person's identity has been falsely used.

: Requires certain sexual offenders ordered to participate in treatment to successfully complete that treatment and to follow all directives of the treatment program provider.

: Repeals the Board of Probation and Parole's authority to convert consecutive sentences to concurrent and clarifies that a convicted person is sentenced according to the law at the time of sentencing.

: Amends the offense of distribution of a controlled substance near schools to include child care facilities, long-term care facilities, and residences of in-home child care providers.

: Eliminates the death penalty.

: Repeals the portion of sexual misconduct in the first degree which made it a crime to engage in deviate sexual intercourse with another person of the same sex.

: Allows a court to partially seal records for a first offense traffic violation.

: Allows certain persons to file a civil suit for damages for wrongful imprisonment.

: Establishes the Missouri Seed Availability and Competition Act.

: Allows usage of the statewide automated crime victim notification system for compliance with the victim notification requirement.

: Requires public schools to impose a specific condition of suspension on students subject to certain types of suspensions and allows for expulsion if that condition is violated.

: Prohibits the use of glass containers on certain vessels on state waterways.

: Creates the crime of identity fraud.

: Requires the Department of Revenue to put the words "sex offender" on the license of registered sex offenders and the State Highway Patrol to provide the department with a list of offenders.

: Requires restitution to the state for illegally taking deer and authorizes the Conservation Commission to suspend, revoke, or deny a permit to hunt.

: Establishes the crime of intimidation of an athletic coach, manager, or sports official.

: Limits the services that certain providers in the Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program may provide and requires providers to file certain information with the Department of Mental Health.

: Makes it unlawful for an employer to deduct from an employee's wages the value of any merchandise stolen from the employer.

: Establishes a death penalty commission and places a moratorium on executions.

: Establishes the Missouri State Park Board.

: Establishes the Prescription Drug Repository Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide prescription drugs to low-income Missouri residents.

: Prohibits locating sexually explicit billboards within one mile of any state highway.

: Revises the crime of identity theft, creates a new crime of trafficking in stolen identities, and revises the crime of false impersonation.

: Creates the crime of unlawful purchase, ownership, or possession of body armor.

: Requires that motor vehicle headlamps be in use during inclement weather and makes the violation an infraction with a $10 fine and no court costs.

: Amends and adds new penalty provisions for misuse of the titles of architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, and landscape architect.

: Creates the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the third degree.

: Raises victims' ages in several sexual offense statutes.

: Revises various statutes relating to crime.

: Establishes the Higher Education Deposit Program, revises other statutes relating to banking, and revises the crime of identity theft.

: Revises the statutes relating to the issuance of disabled license plates and placards.

: Revises the resisting arrest statute to include detentions or stops.

: Makes is a class A misdemeanor for a person under 21 years of age to be under the influence of a controlled substance.

: Revises the minor in possession law by also making it a misdemeanor to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

: Makes it a crime for an uninsured motorist involved in an accident to fail to pay restitution for the other person or persons' insurance deductibles and requires their license suspension.

: Makes it a crime for a railroad corporation or its employees to interfere with medical treatment or first aid to an injured employee or to discipline or threaten an injured employee for seeking aid.

: Imposes penalties for violating laws relating to the labeling of kegs of beer.

: Makes it a class A misdemeanor for any unauthorized person to possess or sell a device used to change a traffic control signal.

: Increases the punishment for possession of child pornography, adds it to the offenses for which a sex offender must register, and adds it to crimes used in defining a persistent or predatory offender.

: Revises the statutes relating to sexual offenses, assault on law enforcement officers, and the payment of restitution for criminal offenses.

: Makes it a class A misdemeanor for any person other than emergency personnel to possess a mobile infrared transmitter capable of changing a traffic signal.

: Makes various changes to the powers and authority of the State Water Patrol.

: Provides a regulatory framework for historic shipwreck protection.

: Creates the crime of unlawful distribution of prescription medication without a prescription in school.

: Makes it a crime to burn a cross with the intent to intimidate any person or group of persons.

: Allows a 36-hour hold for persons arrested without a warrant.

: Revises various statutes relating to juveniles.

: Establishes the rights of persons who utilize service dogs.

: Revises various statutes relating to crime.

: Revises lead abatement statutes.

: Revises various statutes relating to motor vehicles, driver's licenses, emergency vehicles, child restraints, manufactured homes, failure to stop at weigh stations, and rail passenger cars.

: Creates the crime of endangering a corrections employee and revises the crime of aggravated harassment of an employee.

: Revises various statutes relating to commercial driver's licenses including school bus endorsements, driving privileges, certain traffic-related violations, out-of-services orders, and sentencing.

: Prohibits open alcohol containers in certain vehicles.

: Revises various statutes relating to highway and bicycle safety.

: Makes it a crime to burn a cross with the intent to intimidate any person or group of persons.

: Modifies various statutes relating to intoxication-related traffic offenses.

: Prohibits the display of adult entertainment films in the sight of children in vehicles.

: Prohibits individuals from engaging or participating in human cloning.

: Revises the crime of making a terroristic threat and creates the crimes of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction and computer dissemination of information to promote a terrorist act.

: Increases the penalty for various drug crimes when the substance was placed in close proximity to a child under 17 years of age.

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

: Adds a penalty for the release of a pathogen or disease in or near an animal facility.

: Prohibits locating billboards for adult cabarets or sexually oriented businesses within one mile of any state highway and prohibits persons under 21 years of age from installing them.

: Revises the statutes regarding the licensing of bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents.

: Allows law enforcement officers to make a vehicle stop for a seat belt violation as long as the violation is clearly visible before the stop.

: Establishes child passenger restraint system guidelines.

: Revises the crime of escape from commitment.

: Revises the statute on unlawful use of weapons to exempt appointed or elected prosecutors, assistant prosecutors, circuit attorneys, or assistant circuit attorneys.

: Revises various statutes relating to crime.

: Prohibits governmental bodies from employing inmates or people with criminal records in any position where they would have access to personal records containing certain identifying information.

: Changes the requirements for filing complaints concerning certain campaign finance disclosure reports.

: Revises the law on prior and persistent intoxication-related traffic offenses.

: Revises the statute on chemical tests to allow law enforcement officers to administer portable chemical tests prior to the arrest of persons suspected of operating a vessel while intoxicated.

: Extends the statute of limitations to five years for arson in the first and second degree and knowingly burning or exploding property.

: Provides additional regulation of tobacco product manufacturers.

: Revises the statutes relating to employees and employment security.

: Revises the statutes relating to sex offender registration and the statute of limitations for sexual offenses where the victim is 18 years of age or younger.

: Brings the State of Missouri into compliance with the federal Violence Against Women Act.

: Provides that a person is guilty of a class D felony if a death occurs as a result of an accident when the person is driving carelessly and imprudently.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to file a copy of their sex offender registration with the superintendent of any school district in which they are enrolled.

: Allows the court to impound the vehicle or vehicles owned by a person convicted of driving while intoxicated or with excessive blood alcohol content.

: Requires probation officers to notify law enforcement of a sex offender's new address if the offender intends to change residence and to notify the offender of the duty to register.

: Revises various statutes relating to informed consent for abortion.

: Revises the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree by adding persons who operate vehicles while intoxicated or drugged when there is a person under 17 years of age in the vehicle.

: Makes it a class B misdemeanor for an unauthorized person to use a traffic signal preemption system to control traffic.

: Establishes the Agricultural Production Contract Code to place requirements on agricultural production contracts.

: Revises various statutes relating to controlled substances.

: Requires certain nonviolent offenders to participate in community-based substance abuse treatment programs.

: Revises various statutes relating to theft or destruction of documents.

: Creates the crime of abuse of authority over a child.

: Revises the statute on persistent and predatory sexual offenders.

: Adds pornography and obscenity offenses to the list of offenses for which a person must register as a sexual offender.

: Changes failing to register as a sex offender from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony for the first offense and a class D felony to a class C felony for the second or subsequent offense.

: Makes it a crime for a sexual offender to establish residency within 1,000 feet of a public or private school or child care facility.

: Revises the crimes of escape from commitment and escape or attempted escape from custody to include detained, held, or committed sexually violent predators.

: Requires the State Highway Patrol to maintain a one page web site on the Internet which includes links to all sex offender registry web sites maintained by any county in the state.

: Creates a $1 surcharge in criminal cases payable to the sheriff for expenses of maintaining a web site of registered sex offenders and requires the sheriff to establish and maintain the web site.

: Revises the statutes relating to sex offender registration to allow the chief law enforcement official of a county to charge fees for registration and changes in registration.

: Revises various statutes on fireworks regulation.

: Creates additional regulations for amusement rides and rock climbing walls.

: Prohibits a parent who is residing with a person convicted of certain sex crimes or crimes against children from being granted custody or unsupervised visitation.

: Revises the statute of limitations for civil suits for childhood sexual abuse.

: Makes tampering with cable television distribution capabilities a class C felony.

: Increases the fees the State Highway Patrol may collect for conducting a criminal history check.

: Revises various statutes relating to stealing, tampering, and receiving stolen property.

: Allows police to stop motorists for safety belt violations, makes it illegal to have an open container in a vehicle, and allows police to submit certified reports instead of sworn to the Revenue Department.

: Revises the crime of kidnapping by including kidnapping of a child under 14 years of age.

: Creates the crime of misuse of a power of attorney.

: Increases the criminal statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against persons 18 years of age or younger.

: Increases the punishment for forcible rape and forcible sodomy and attempted forcible rape and attempted forcible sodomy.

: Makes the crime of supplying intoxicating liquor to a minor a class D felony if any person suffers serious injury as a result.

: Makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person based on sexual orientation.

: Increases the time of detention for a warrantless arrest for any crime from 20 hours to 24 hours.

: Prohibits certain felons from running for office and restricts other felons from running for five years after release.

: Requires incarcerated offenders to pay a $3 fee every time they receive nonemergency medical, dental, or optometric services.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful imprisonment.

: Creates a $2 surcharge in criminal cases to be paid to the sheriff where the violation occurred to offset expenses for housing prisoners in the county jail.

: Revises the statute on penalties for failure to yield at an intersection by adding surcharges and suspensions under certain circumstances.

: Revises the crime of unlawful use of a weapon by making it a class B misdemeanor to, with criminal negligence, carry a firearm or other weapon into certain areas of an airport.

: Revises the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer or emergency personnel in the second and third degree.

: Establishes the Reorganized Common Sewer District Act and the Sanitary Sewer Improvement Area Act.

: Adds failing to summon aid as an element of involuntary manslaughter in certain drug-related crimes.

: Makes it unlawful to obstruct a securities investigation or administrative proceeding and allows the securities commissioner to conduct investigations and promulgate rules.

: Revises the statutes relating to the crimes of assault of a law enforcement officer or emergency personnel in the first, second, and third degree by adding security officers.

: Establishes the Missouri Grain Indemnity Corporation.

: Changes possession of child pornography to a class D felony.

: Revises the statutes relating to sexual misconduct in the second and third degree by adding an alternative element of being in a public place in the presence of another person or persons.

: Requires the State Highway Patrol to check the state's sex offender registry whenever a request for an open criminal records background check is made by an individual.

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

: Revises the statutes regarding the collection of evidence of a sexual assault and the procedures used in the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault.

: Revises subsection 8 of Section 558.016, RSMo, relating to parole, by providing that the subsection does not apply to convictions occuring before June 27, 2003.

: Creates the crime of aggravated trespass in a movie theater and provides theater owners with immunity from civil liability in certain circumstances.

: Expands the notification rights of crime victims and witnesses.

: Requires the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted the original criminal case to represent the state in any court hearing to determine probation, parole, or other alternative sentencing.

: Requires any sale or transfer of methamphetamine precursor drugs to be recorded and the signature of the receiver secured.

: Revises the crime of fraudulently stopping payment on a check.

: Makes it unlawful for an unauthorized person to use a traffic signal preemption system to control traffic.

: Revises the crime of fraudulently stopping payment on a check.

: Exempts the failure to exhibit an insurance identification card from the definition of "moving violation" in Section 302.010, RSMo.

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

: Requests every state agency that issues licenses to review prohibitions for licensure and determine whether the criminal convictions are relevant to the nature of the licensure.

: Child Support.

: Eliminates the death penalty.

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

: Modifies the law relating to lead abatement.

: Expands first degree property damage to include damage to a motor vehicle while breaking in to steal.

: Prohibits individuals from engaging in or using public funds and facilities for human cloning.

: Revises provisions for sealing and closing of court records.

: Sets our requirements for obtaining a warrant by telephone.

: Modifies the definition of "prostitution-related offense".

: Allows courts to order convicted persons to pay costs associated with prostitution-related arrests.

: Changes the classification of an intoxication-related offense from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony when the person committing the violation is a prior offender.

: 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.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful discharge of employment.

: Animal research and production facilities.

: Modifies provisions of Sunshine Law.

: Restricts the use, possession, manufacturing, storage, selling, promotion and other activities relating to weapons.

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

: Modifies and creates new provisions about identity theft.

: Creates a cause of action for those adjudicated innocent following DNA testing.

: Establishes a system of environmental audits to reduce state and local regulation.

: Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm.

: Changes identity theft from a class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony and limits the venue of such prosecutions.

: Creates the crime of endangering a corrections employee.

: Changes the definition of containers approved for transporting anhydrous ammonia.

: Modifies and creates new provisions about identity.

: Modifies laws relating to DNA profiling and testing.

: Creates the crime of failing to obey the lawful order of a law enforcement officer.

: Modifies provisions of Sunshine Law.

: Adds child pornography to the list of sexual abuse cases investigated by the State Technical Assistance Team.

: Creates criminal use of property by operating audiovisual recording devices while in a movie.

: Requires the DNA testing of all felons entering the Department of Corrections and other felons leaving a county jail.

: Proposes several measures relating to bicycle safety.

: Makes it a crime to burn a cross with the intent to intimidate any person or group of persons.

: Modifies procedure for protection of shipwreck sites.

: Creates crimes relating to motor vehicles.

: Creates the crime of escape from commitment for sexually violent predators.

: Authorizes certain counties to adopt ordinances to impose civil fines for certain misdemeanors.

: Limits bifurcated trials to class A and B felonies.

: Requires certain nonviolent offenders to participate in community based substance abuse treatment programs.

: Revises the resisting arrest statute to include detentions and stops.

: Creates crimes concerning human trafficking.

: Requires the Highway Patrol to create a sexual offender registry website.

: Excludes commercially produced tobacco products from items that cannot knowingly be delivered to a jail or prison.

: Makes it unlawful to obstruct a securities investigation.

: Revises the sexual offender registration law and the statute of limitations where the victim is eighteen or under.

: Creates the crime of kidnapping a child by taking or confining the child without parental consent.

: Redefined the crime of possession of child pornography.

: Changes section numbers.

: Adds rental contracts to stealing.

: Prohibits some offenders from receiving suspended imposition of sentence in state, county, or municipal court.

: Amends the offense of distributing a controlled substance near schools to include long-term and child care facilities.

: Revises various provisions relating to stealing and tampering of automobiles.

: Imposes a surcharge on certain felony court proceedings to fund certain school-related programs.

: Eliminates mandatory minimum sentencing for certain felons.

: Modifies the provisions of invasion of privacy.

: Extends the statute of limitations for sexual offenses involving a person eighteen years old or younger.

: Extends the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse cases.

: Modifies provisions prohibiting certain activities at animal facilities.

: Increases the age of majority to eighteen in various statutes.

: Prohibits the carrying of a concealed weapon at a school event or at a school facility.

: Creates an Interim Committee on Violent Crime.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am