EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

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

: Requires the board of election commissioners to establish wards in certain St. Louis school districts for the election of school district directors.

: Imposes a 10% tax for education on all campaign contributions.

: 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.

: Establishes subdistricts for certain school districts.

: 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.

: Requires uniformity of emergency sirens in public schools.

: Requires school board members to meet orientation and training requirements before filing for reelection.

: Revises alternative education programs.

: Allows school districts to enact income and sales taxes.

: Changes certain minority teaching scholarships from renewable to nonrenewable.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Prohibits public institutions or any entity receiving state funds from adopting discrimination policies that exceed state and federal protections against discrimination.

: Conditions the receipt of state aid for schools on the establishment of alternative education programs.

: Changes certain calculations in the state aid for schools formula.

: Changes the St. Louis Students' Bill of Rights to the Metropolitan School District Students' Bill of Rights.

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

: Prohibits any entity from preventing a student athlete from competing in or training for any Olympic event.

: Adds a Consumer Price Index adjustment to hold-harmless school districts' school aid.

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

: Revises the terms of service for members of the governing council of certain special school districts.

: Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.

: Allows parents or legal guardians of 16 to 18 year-olds to choose to have the compulsory school attendance and work certificate laws apply to their children.

: Clarifies that sovereign immunity applies to school districts.

: Establishes policies for education accountability.

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

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

: Authorizes boards of education of school districts to adopt an emergency preparedness plan to address the use of school resources in an emergency.

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

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to request funds to provide for a professional development fund for teachers and eliminates the Success Leads to Success Program.

: Revises various statutes relating to juveniles.

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

: Establishes another recall election procedure for school board members.

: Allows members of the State Highway Patrol to become candidates for and members/directors of school boards.

: Amends certain policies with regard to the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) testing.

: 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.

: Revises the statutes regarding lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure.

: 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.

: Amends the computation of state aid for schools by modifying the requirements for the summer school add-on.

: Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a program to inspect and evaluate indoor air quality in schools.

: Relates to the distribution of moneys in the Pettis County school fund.

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

: Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory attendance age to 17.

: Establishes various new statutes relating to school bus transportation safety.

: 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.

: Relates to pupil/teacher ratios.

: Requires the State Board of Education to submit an annual report to the General Assembly concerning the number of retired teachers who are teaching because of critical shortages of certified teachers.

: Revises the school funding formula summer school add-on to include only those pupils who attended summer school in the immediately preceding year.

: Relates to public school facilities and outside use.

: Revises requirements relating to school districts achieving provisional accreditation.

: Amends the computation of state aid for schools by modifying the requirements for the summer school add-on.

: Allows persons who are hard of hearing or deaf to be issued a school bus permit to operate a school bus for any school for the deaf in this state.

: Relates to eligible pupil counts and kindergarten average daily attendance.

: Removes the multiplier for the proration factor for career ladder entitlement under the school foundation formula.

: 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.

: Allows large school districts that have attained full accreditation for a five-year period to obtain waivers to choose their own standards for qualification in the Missouri School Improvement Program.

: Establishes the Uniform Athlete Agent Act.

: Requires all elementary school students to receive regular classroom instruction in a foreign language.

: Prohibits public school districts from administering any corporal punishment.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

: Allows local school boards to exempt themselves from the Prevailing Wage Law by a majority vote of the board.

: Provides that students who are expelled for acts of violence not be counted as drop-outs for accreditation purposes for the Missouri School Improvement Program.

: Establishes the Equal Opportunity Education Contract Program for schools (school voucher program).

: Creates the Economic Development Through Community Schools Fund.

: Removes an outdated reference to the State Training School for Negro Girls and other outdated institutional references.

: Requires passenger seat belts on every school bus beginning with the 2004-2005 school year and creates the School Bus Seat Belt Fund to help school districts pay for the seat belts.

: Relates to teacher certification.

: Removes an outdated reference to the State Training School for Negro Girls and other outdated institutional references.

: 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.

: Requires the Attorney General to provide legal services, upon request, to any school district sued by a third party.

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

: Requires driver's license applicants under age 18 to show high school enrollment, attendance rate greater than 85%, and minimum GPA of 1.75 or satisfactory progress in an alternative education program.

: Authorizes a tax credit for contributions to nonprofit educational assistance programs.

: Authorizes an income tax credit for property taxes paid by school volunteers in St. Charles County.

: 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.

: Allows municipalities and counties to establish school zones with enhanced fines for speeding and moving violations in designated areas.

: Alters the state's tax structure and establishes a new means of distributing education funds.

: Relates to school credit for students transferring into an accredited public school district from an unaccredited public or nonpublic school or a home school.

: 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.

: Establishes the Abstinence First Pregnancy Prevention Program.

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

: Urges all public schools and institutions of higher education to review the proper etiquette and respect for the American flag and the national anthem for students participating in school programs.

: Designates March 14 as "Pi Day."

: Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the Governor from reducing appropriations for education.

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow school districts to pass bond issues by a simple majority vote.

: Repeals Loss Limits for Gambiling Boats.

: Accreditation of Charter Schools.

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

: Alters the foundation formula by completely removing the line 1(b) calculation.

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

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

: Allows participation in FFA, FHA, FCCLA, 4-H, and State Fair competition to count as attendance for purpose of state aid.

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

: Requires continued enrollment in school and progress towards graduation to obtain and retain a driver's license.

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

: Requires school districts to offer alternative education programs.

: School districts to provide readiness assessments to determine whether certain children are ready to enter school.

: Allows parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in certain circumstances.

: A+ reimbursements shall not be issued to any four-year institutions of higher education.

: Allows the Board of the St. Louis Public Schools to shift their compulsory attendance age range.

: Revises qualifications and procedures for election to the school board in the St. Louis City School District.

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

: Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings.

: Gas Corporations and Experimental Tariffs.

: Formulates a new procedure of recalling school board members.

: Summer school add-on to only include those pupils that attended summer school in the immediately preceding year.

: Authorizes a three-year bid cycle for financial services for the St. Louis Public Schools.

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

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

: Modifies various laws relating to property tax assessment.

: Modifies various laws relating to education.

: Modifies various laws relating to education.

: Seeks to permit certain private vocational and technical schools to receive A+ reimbursements.

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

: Creation of the gang resistance education and training program to be used in schools.

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

: Seeks to consolidate the "academically deficient schools" and "priority schools" school accountability measures.

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

: Establishes the Classroom Trust Fund.

: Increases the gambling boat admission fees.

: 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.

: Modifies provisions regarding early childhood special education.

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

: Removes school principals from certain sections of the Metropolitan school district's teacher tenure statute.

: Establishes the Missouri junior/senior cadets program.

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

: Allows the transfer of Pettis County school funds resulting from a resolution of environmental law violations.

: Establishes the coordinating board of early childhood within the Children's Services Commission.

: Encourages effective involvement by parents and families in supporit of the education of their children.

: Certain school districts shall be reimbursed fully for costs associated with offering certain special educational services.

: Alters charter school laws.

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

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

: A portion of the Kansas City School District shall be considered a subdistrict for taxing purposes.

: Requires payments in lieu of tax in certain 353 redevelopment areas.

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

: Adjusts the foundation formula so that districts receive additional revenue for English as second language (ESL) students.

: Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to adopt an indoor air quality program.

: Establishes alternative charter schools.

: Alters the state's tax structure and establishes a new means of distributing education funds.

: Prohibits any entity from preventing a student athlete from competing in or training for certain sports.

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

: 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.

: Establishes the Joint Interim Comittee on Teacher Support, Regulatory Reduction and Accountability.

: Designates the month of April each year as Literacy Month in Missouri.

: Allows private school students to ride public school buses.

: Modifies the composition of the State Board of Education.

: Enables the Legislature to issue bonds for education purposes.

: Permits voters to approve school district bond issues with a simple majority on certain election days.

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