LIABILITY

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
LIABILITY

: Establishes the Missouri Seed Availability and Competition Act.

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

: Permits a pregnant woman to determine the final disposition of human fetal remains.

: Regulates the disclosure of environmental audit reports.

: Clarifies immunity from civil liability for certain landowners.

: Establishes guidelines for corporate income tax on intangible property.

: 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.

: Clarifies that sovereign immunity applies to school districts.

: Amends various provisions regarding the regulation of pharmacies.

: Revises various statutes relating to property and casualty insurance.

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

: Prohibits civil lawsuits against food manufacturers, packers, sellers, distributors, and marketers for claims arising out of weight gain, obesity, or health conditions associated with weight gain or obesity.

: Revises various statutes relating to highway and bicycle safety.

: Creates a procedural prerequisite for filing lawsuits for alleged defective residential construction.

: Limits the liability of watercraft outfitters.

: Allows commercial insurance policies providing casualty insurance to exclude coverage for loss by fire or other perils if it is caused by terrorism.

: Allows public entities that self-insure health care benefits to require a right of subrogation in the same manner that the Department of Social Services has with the Medicaid Program.

: Creates T.J.'s Law dealing with the regulation and licensing of bail bondsmen and surety recovery agents.

: Revises various statutes relating to claims for damages and the payment of these claims.

: Creates notice provisions, reporting requirements, public market rates, and presumptions for the Department of Insurance and entities providing medical malpractice and professional negligence insurance.

: Extends immunity from civil liability to owners of land next to certain dedicated trail systems.

: Revises various statutes relating to informed consent for abortion.

: Creates a cause of action for injury to emergency personnel caused by the tortious actions of another person.

: Revises the statutes relating to claims for damages for personal injuries.

: Revises the statutes relating to the State Legal Expense Fund.

: Requires an affidavit from a similarly licensed professional supporting a cause of action in cases for non-medical claims of professional negligence.

: Outlines procedures for water corporations contracting with sewer providers to terminate the water service of persons in arrears on sewer bills.

: Establishes an advisory committee for workers' compensation.

: Makes it a class B misdemeanor for a person to allow a minor to possess alcohol or drugs on that person's property.

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Establishes the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Veterans Homes and the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Mental Health Facilities.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Creates a cause of action for wrongful imprisonment.

: Provides immunity for real estate licensees for certain statements made by home inspectors.

: Raises the coverage under the Basic Property Insurance Inspection and Placement Program from $100,000 to $200,000.

: Creates a cause of action for making false claims for money or property against the state.

: Clarifies that sovereign immunity applies to all public school teachers while they are performing their official duties.

: Requires inspection stations conducting emissions testing to maintain liability insurance to cover possible damage to vehicles during the testing process.

: Requires owners or operators of motor vehicle inspection stations to maintain liability insurance to cover possible damage to vehicles during the inspection process.

: Establishes guidelines for acquisition of utility companies, which are violating clean water laws, by larger utility companies.

: Gives racetrack owners, operators, or users immunity from civil and criminal liability for noise pollution if the racetrack meets certain conditions.

: Limits civil liability for school employees administering health care services in public school districts.

: Prohibits recovery for damages if the owner or operator of a motor vehicle fails to maintain financial responsibility or if certain public safety offenses are committed.

: Revises the statutes relating to court procedures and court personnel.

: Provides that teachers and administrators not be held liable for failing, suspending, or expelling a student for a proven act of plagiarism.

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Enacts various medical malpractice measures.

: Enacts various civil liability reforms.

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortions.

: Immunity from civil liability for certain landowners owning land adjoining public trails.

: Modifies the State Legal Expense Fund.

: Limits Paddlesport Outfitters liability.

: Modifies provisions of tort victims' compensation fund.

: Enacts various tort reform measures.

: Modifies provisions relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Creates the "Commonsense Food Consumption Act".

: Allows public entities to acquire recover payments made for health care benefits made under a self-insurance plan.

: Modifies various laws relating to the State Legal Expense Fund.

: Limits venue in all tort actions to county where cause of action accrued.

: Prohibits recovery of noneconomic damages for injuries incurred during certain motor vehicle violations.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am