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

: Requires noncertificated employees in certain school districts to be appointed and promoted pursuant to local school board rules.

: Exempts schools from the prevailing wage requirements, but allows schools to choose to be subject to the requirements.

: Recognizes and encourages the teaching, study, and learning of American Sign Language.

: Requires contracts for vocational agriculture teachers to be for a 12-month period.

: Revises alternative education programs.

: Changes certain minority teaching scholarships from renewable to nonrenewable.

: Requires the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.

: Requires the State Board of Education to encourage the adoption of service-learning programs and projects among school districts.

: Establishes policies for education accountability.

: Revises various statutes relating to teachers and other school personnel.

: Expands the teaching prohibition for noncertified teachers to include prekindergarten.

: Prohibits public or charter school employees from performing a strip search of any student.

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

: Authorizes an income tax deduction for the value of time spent tutoring in public schools.

: Relates to pupil/teacher ratios.

: Revises the statutes relating to the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.

: Designates the month of March as "Irish History Month."

: Designates the month of October as "German History Month."

: Allows retired teachers to have association dues deducted from retirement benefits, eliminates taxation of death benefit, removes 80% cost-of-living adjustment cap, and removes 10.5% floor.

: Relates to teacher certification.

: Requires the Attorney General to furnish legal services, upon request, to any public school teacher being sued in his or her capacity as a teacher.

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

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

: Requires the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.

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

: Allows teachers and administrative staff of public schools and institutions of higher education to hold public office at the same time as their school job.

: Urges the United States Congress to immediately repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act.

: Urges the United States Congress to immediately repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act.

: Urges the State Board of Education to encourage the adoption of service-learning programs and projects among school districts.

: Urges the United States Congress to immediately repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act.

: Urges the United States Congress to immediately repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act.

: Designates March 14 as "Pi Day."

: Proposes a constitutional amendment changing the composition of the State Board of Education.

: Asserts that the contract for any vocational agriculture teacher shall be a twelve-month contract.

: Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.

: Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools.

: School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth.

: Creates a tax credit for teachers' related out-of-pocket expenses.

: Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings.

: Alters funding mechanism for statewide areas of critical need for learning and development.

: Modifies various laws relating to education.

: Modifies various laws relating to education.

: Establishes the "Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement" (MOSISE) program.

: Requires public pre-kindergarten teachers to possess a valid teaching certificate.

: Speech pathologists with a Certificate of Clinical Competence to be placed on Stage III of the career ladder program.

: Requires school districts to meet the requirements of section 160.530, RSMo, in order to be eligible for state aid.

: Establishes the "Hope Scholarship Program".

: Alters criteria for being deemed a "permanent teacher".

: Modifies and creates various laws relating to education accountability.

: Renders alterations to the teacher retirement system.

: Alters requirements for the classroom teacher "job-sharing" program.

: Requires each public school district to promulgate and implement a bully-free school plan.

: Alters charter school laws.

: Modifies laws relating to the Kansas City Public School Retirement System.

: Allows the hiring of a retired teacher to work between 550 and 800 hours without losing their retirement benefit.

: Removes provision of Constitution limiting distribution of funds to any church, religion, or any preacher or teacher thereof.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am