CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

: Prohibits the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition or hydration from a patient without a specific written power of attorney granting the authority

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Requires a sex offender to have a unique code or identifier placed on his or her driver's license and requires the State Highway Patrol to provide a list of sex offenders to the Department of Revenue

: Increases the penalty for possession of child pornography

: Establishes the Missouri State Park Board which is responsible for the Historical Marker Program

: Prohibits protest activities before or after funeral services

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

: Increases the punishment for false impersonation of a law enforcement officer from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony

: Increases the fine for traffic violations in work zones from $250 to $1,000

: Creates the presumption that a minor younger than 14 years of age who is seeking an abortion is a victim of statutory rape in the first degree and must be reported by the abortion provider

: Adds Nubaine to the list of schedule IV controlled substances

: Changes the concealed carry law by limiting the validity of a concealed carry permit from another state to 30 days

: Creates new crimes of tampering with electronic monitoring equipment and aiding a sexual offender and increases the punishment for sex offenders who commit crimes against children

: Requires that sex offenders placed on probation or parole for a sex crime against a child younger than 17 years of age be electronically monitored while on probation or parole

: Expands the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree to include when a person uses methamphetamine in front of a child or when a person uses methamphetamine while pregnant

: Expands the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer in the first, second, or third degree to include corrections officers

: Changes the laws regarding defensive use of force

: Changes the procedures used in the examination and treatment of victims of sexual offenses

: Requires a person who commits sexual crimes against children younger than 12 years of age to serve a minimum of three years in prison before being placed on probation or parole

: Changes the laws regarding defensive use of force

: Changes the laws regarding the release of personal information to unauthorized persons

: Reduces the amount of excess revenues generated by fines for moving traffic violations that municipalities must send to the Department of Revenue

: Establishes the Uninsured Motorist Stipulation of Benefits Act of 2006 which limits the recovery for noneconomic losses by uninsured motorists

: Allows the court to order a person's vehicle impounded for up to one year as part of a penalty for driving while intoxicated

: 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

: Establishes the Identity Theft Prevention Act which specifies the procedures for a person to place a security freeze on his or her consumer report

: Creates the Anhydrous Ammonia Additive Fund to reimburse distributors of anhydrous ammonia for the cost of adding red dye to the chemical to deter methamphetamine production

: Prohibits the use or possession of an alcohol beverage vaporizer

: Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to determine issuance of a teaching certificate to an applicant with a criminal record instead of the State Board of Education

: Removes the requirement that a person must have received at least a 10-day jail sentence on a prior offense before a third or subsequent misdemeanor stealing offense can be enhanced to a felony

: Increases the penalty for the crime of making a false report from a class B misdemeanor to a class D felony

: Creates the crime of failure to lower tinted windows upon the approach of a law enforcement officer

: Expands the crime of property damage in the first degree to include knowingly damaging another person's motor vehicle while making entry to steal the vehicle or something within the vehicle

: Creates the crime of altering or falsifying drug or alcohol test results or selling or transporting a biological sample or adulterant to falsify test results

: Expands protection for the elderly against financial exploitation and codifies a presumption of undue influence in any transfer of real property

: Authorizes judges to order defendants who have pled guilty to or been found guilty of felony offenses to pay expenses related to the cost of the prosecution

: Imposes a minimum term of imprisonment for offenders who have pled guilty or been found guilty of a crime of violence against a child or an elderly person

: Creates the crime of committing a terrorist act

: Expands the crime of passing a bad check to include postdated checks

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Creates new civil actions for victims of identity theft

: Creates the crime of stealing leased property

: Creates the crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park

: Specifies that an individual who is institutionally committed as a criminal sexual psychopath can be guilty of escaping from commitment or detention

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Revises the crimes of statutory rape and sodomy in the second degree by changing the age of the perpetrator from 21 years of age or older to being at least two years older than the victim

: Creates the crime of transporting a child without parental consent for the purpose of committing a crime with the child as the victim or participant

: Establishes Erica's Law into Missouri's statutes and changes the elements for the crime of murder in the first degree when a child is the victim

: Establishes the Missouri Seed Availability and Competition Act regarding the use of genetically modified seed

: Changes the laws regarding criminal forfeitures

: Increases the penalty for failure to yield the right-of-way to an emergency vehicle resulting in the death of any emergency vehicle personnel while in the performance of his or her official duties

: Changes the laws regarding crime prevention

: Requires that a photograph be taken of every incarcerated person and made available to the victim upon request and allows a victim to be represented by an appointed person during parole hearings

: Revises the definition of "intoxication-related traffic offense" to include similar offenses from other states, federal violations, and military violations

: Specifies that a driver's license can be revoked for two driving with excessive blood-alcohol content or one driving while intoxicated and one driving with excessive blood-alcohol content within five years

: Allows a person determined to be actually innocent of a crime to receive $50 for each day of post-conviction incarceration and an automatic expungement of records

: Makes it a crime for a credit card issuer to increase interest rates or impose fees because a card holder makes only the minimum payment, fails to make timely payments, or owes other creditors

: Changes the laws regarding the procedures required in law enforcement investigations and establishes the Missouri Laboratory Oversight Committee

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Changes the laws regarding defensive use of force

: Changes the laws regarding motor vehicle safety including intermediate driver's licenses, travel safe zones, work zone safety, child passenger restraints, and passing zones

: Creates the crime of displaying or possessing fictitious or altered license plates or tabs

: Makes it a crime for an uninsured motorist involved in an accident to fail to pay restitution for the other person's insurance deductibles and requires license suspension until payment is made

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act

: Makes it a crime for a patient, or the patient's parents or legal guardian if a minor, to fail to disclose to a health care professional that he or she is infected with human immunodeficiency virus

: Authorizes the expungement of certain arrest records and convictions for municipal ordinance violations and certain misdemeanors

: Increases the penalty for possession of any methamphetamine precursor drug with the intent to manufacture amphetamine, methaphetamine, or any of their analogs from a class D felony to a class C felony

: Changes the laws regarding criminal securities fraud and sets a minimum penalty when committed against the elderly or disabled

: Changes the laws regarding the operation of a motorized bicycle

: Prohibits individuals from knowingly engaging or participating in human cloning and knowingly using public funds or public facilities to engage or attempt to engage in human cloning

: Requires an employer to verify that an employee has a valid Social Security number

: Revises unlawful transactions with a child by making it a crime to sell or rent a video game to a child when the video game has been rated mature or adults only by the Entertainment Software Rating Board

: Changes the laws regarding hate crimes to include any person who is targeted because of identification with any specified group, perceived or otherwise

: Prohibits law enforcement officers in fourth class cities from making an arrest outside the city limits even when the officer observed the offense and began pursuit inside the city limits

: Makes the use of a wireless electronic recording device in a polling place an election offense

: Establishes the Commission on the Death Penalty and places a moratorium on all executions until January 1, 2010

: Changes the laws regarding animal neglect

: Changes the laws regarding identity theft

: Increases the penalty for identity theft

: Requires law enforcement agencies to notify a petitioner for an ex parte order of protection when the order has been served on the respondent or when no more attempts to serve are planned

: Expands the crime of bribery of a public servant

: Creates the crime of aggravated fraudulent transmission of multiple commercial e-mail messages and changes the laws regarding unsolicited commercial e-mail

: Prohibits a person from intentionally smelling or inhaling the fumes of or inducing or aiding another person in the use or sale of specified solvents

: Creates the crime of motorcycle stunt driving

: Prohibits a health care professional from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a lethal dosage of any substance for the purpose of assisting in the death of an individual

: Creates the crimes of obtaining or using telephone or cellular phone call logs with the intent to deceive or defraud and purchasing, selling, or obtaining call logs without a person's consent

: Requires any profits resulting from a crime and owed to the person committing the crime to be deposited into the Crime Victims Compensation Fund for disbursement to victims filing a claim

: Creates the crime of using a mobile communication device while operating a moving motor vehicle if the driver is younger than 18 years of age

: Creates the crime of knowingly obtaining, receiving, or selling a land-line or cellular telephone record without the customer's consent and authorizes civil action for damages

: Changes the laws regarding domestic violence and orders of protection and allows a law enforcement officer to remove any firearm found at the scene of an alleged act of domestic violence

: Allows a law enforcement officer to remove any firearm found at the scene of an alleged act of domestic violence

: Prohibits a child from riding as a passenger on a motorcycle unless the child is at least eight years of age

: Allows the Children's Division to consult with a law enforcement agency to determine the level of law enforcement involvement necessary to initiate a child abuse and neglect investigation

: Allows circuit courts to establish criminal nonsupport divisions to handle nonviolent criminal nonsupport cases and establishes a Criminal Nonsupport Divisions Coordinating Commission and a resources fund

: Expands the authority of the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to revoke all professional licenses, not just physician licenses, if the licensee is found guilty of a felony

: Establishes a panel to create a program to award grants to Internet cyber crime law enforcement task forces

: Imposes a surcharge on moving traffic violations and creates the School Bus Safety Assistance Fund to assist schools in obtaining buses with seat belts

: Revises the laws regarding chemical tests for intoxication by requiring that drivers involved in collisions which result in death or serious physical injury be administered the test

: Requires a person younger than 21 years of age who is convicted of purchasing, attempting to purchase, or possessing alcohol to perform community service

: Requires all pit bull owners to obtain a state permit and creates penalties for failure to leash and muzzle a pit bull while on public or private property not owned by the pit bull owner

: Prohibits registered sex offenders from running for or serving on a local school board

: Establishes the Missouri Political Cyberfraud Act and creates the crime of political cyberfraud

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Creates the crime of failing to report suspicious photographs involving a child

: Prohibits any person who commits the crime of nonsupport of a spouse or child from being admitted on an excursion gambling boat or casino until the arrearage is satisfied

: Revises the laws regarding concealable firearms

: Makes the necessary statutory changes based on the transfer of the Division of Aging from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Increases the distance from 1,000 feet to one mile that sexual offenders are prohibited from living within any school or child care facility

: Prohibits certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or a child care facility unless they are a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child attending the school or child care facility

: Prohibits certain sexual offenders from entering school property or attending school activities without the consent of the principal or administrator

: Allows retailers to advertise that the sales tax will be paid by the retailer as long as the amount is separately stated and added to the selling price of the property or services rendered

: Revises certain assault crimes and one tampering crime to include juvenile officers

: Prohibits abortions in this state, other than to save the life of the mother, if a decision of the United States Supreme Court or an act of the United States Congress prohibits abortion on demand

: Prohibits the use of a firearm or crossbow to pursue, take, attempt to take, or molest wildlife on any public roadway from a motor-driven conveyance

: Repeals the death penalty

: Creates the felony crime of employing an illegal alien

: Prohibits human cloning and use of somatic cell nuclear transfer technology until the Human Cloning and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology Commission issues its final report

: Prohibits the prescribing or dispensing of contraceptive drugs or devices to minors younger than 16 years of age without parental consent

: Changes the laws regarding the classification of marijuana as a controlled substance and legalizes the use of marijuana for medical purposes

: Changes the laws regarding operators of mobile home parks, marinas, or storage facilities for airplanes and movers of mobile homes or manufactured homes to provide documentation for property tax purposes

: Changes the laws regarding the sale of pseudoephedrine by removing the exclusion for liquid-filled gel capsules

: Places a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and establishes a commission to study the use of the death penalty

: Increases the penalty for knowingly signing another person's name on an initiative petition

: Creates the crime of falsifying or attempting to falsify a drug or alcohol test and adds certain substances to the list of controlled substances

: Requires judges to issue no contact or communication orders to the defendant when they issue a warrant for arrest for a sexual offense and requires certain victim information not be released

: Revises the minimum prison terms for various sexual crimes

: Allows Greene County to establish school zones and the minimum fines for speeding in the school zones

: Revises the crime of escape from commitment or detention by adding persons committed under repealed Sections 202.700 to 202.770

: Authorizes an enhanced punishment of up to 10 more years for certain crimes committed against a child younger than 14 years of age by a person responsible for the child's welfare

: Increases the penalty for resisting or interfering with an arrest, detention, or stop

: Prohibits certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or a child care facility unless they are a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a child attending the school or child care facility

: Revises the crime of stealing any animal to include any animal considered livestock

: Requires convicted persons or persons who pled guilty or are found guilty in criminal cases to pay the costs of the investigation and prosecution of their offense

: Creates the crime of selling or distributing for sale an inappropriately colored firearm

: Establishes additional protections to prevent workplace violence

: Prohibits burning in a specific area when the Governor has issued an executive order declaring the area in extraordinary danger from fire

: Changes the laws regarding damages to an animal facility for which criminal penalties are imposed

: Establishes the Prescription Monitoring Act to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances

: Increases the penalties for repeat identity theft offenders

: Increases the penalty for endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree when shaking a child younger than five years of age to a minimum of 15 years in prison

: Increases the penalty for the unauthorized practice of law to a class A misdemeanor

: Requires any person convicted of hiring illegal aliens to repay double the value of any tax credit, tax abatement, or loan

: Revises the crime of stealing any animal to include any animal considered livestock

: Revises the crime of distribution of controlled substances near schools to include near child care facilities, long-term care facilities, and the residences of in-home child care providers

: Prohibits all abortions other than those necessary to save the life of the mother

: Prohibits the operation of any passenger motor vehicle with a detachable trailer ball mount attached to a ball mount receiver when device is not in use

: Allows the victim of statutory rape to terminate his or her parental rights to any child conceived as a result of statutory rape

: Prohibits human cloning

: Changes the laws regarding wholesale distributions of prescription drugs

: Allows any county or municipality to establish an ordinance requiring sexually oriented businesses to be licensed and authorizes them to regulate and restrict the location of these businesses

: Adds members of the General Assembly and the staff of the Governor's Office and Mansion as persons who abandoned newborns can be delivered safely to under the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002

: Creates the crime of procuring human oocytes by coercion, payment, or valuable consideration for use in research, treatment, or therapy

: Increases the penalty for littering by requiring community service and a $600 restitution payment

: Prohibits prescribing, dispensing, giving, or otherwise providing any contraceptive drug or device to an unemancipated minor without the consent of the minor's parent

: Creates an affirmative defense for motorcycle riders who enter or cross an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal against a red light under certain conditions specified in the bill

: Establishes certain employee rights

: Establishes the Missouri Voter Protection Act

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Modifies the law on using justifiable force to protect persons and property

: Prohibits protest activities during funeral services.

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Extends the Animal Research and Production Facilities Protection Act so its provisions apply to all agricultural research and production facilities

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Makes possession or discharge of stun guns/taser guns an unlawful use of a weapon

: Establishes surcharges on certain court proceedings to fund certain school-related educational programs

: Modifies provisions relating to prostitution

: Increases the penalties for poaching

: Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm

: Eliminates the death penalty

: Creates the crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park

: Eliminates the requirement that one must obtain a concealable firearm permit before acquiring a handgun

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Increases the penalties for poaching

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Makes changes to the criminal justice system

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Expands the actions that constitute a peace disturbance

: Modifies procedures of juvenile courts in their care and treatment of certain juveniles

: Eliminates mandatory minimum sentencing for certain felons

: Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri and prohibits use of the death penalty for a time period

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Enacts various provisions relating to the safe operation of motor vehicles to ensure the safety of highway workers, emergency workers and other motorists

: Modifies the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Allows residential and business cell phone users to voluntarily sign up with the no-call list

: Expands the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include discharging a firearm for celebrating in an urban area

: Requires law enforcement and the Highway Patrol to take new photographs of sex offenders when they report annually

: Requires law enforcement and the Highway Patrol to take new photographs of sex offenders when they report annually

: Specifies the Amber Alert System aids in identifying and locating abducted children rather than adults

: Allows persons wrongfully found guilty of a felony, who are later exonerated by DNA profiling analysis, to receive restitution

: Establishes the Criminal Forfeiture Reform Act

: Adds substances to the controlled substances lists and criminalizes activities related to falsifying drug tests

: Allows residential and business cell phone users to voluntarily sign up with the no-call list

: Creates the crime of "knowingly receiving, selling, or obtaining personal health information"

: Creates the crime of "failing to lower a tinted window upon the approach of a law enforcement officer"

: Requires the Department of Public Safety to create a grant program for certain law enforcement task forces

: Allows videotaped depositions of mentally retarded persons to be admissible in certain criminal proceedings

: Enhances the penalties for motorists who fail to properly yield for school buses that are loading and unloading children when injuries or deaths result

: Makes stealing any animal considered livestock punishable as a Class C felony

: Makes it a crime for releasing agencies to sterilize a hunting dog before a ten-day custody period

: Modifies the laws on the use of force

: Requires the issuance of a "no contact" order under certain circumstances with sexual offense cases

: Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes

: Modifies the types of orders or judgments that may be appealed through the prosecuting or circuit attorney

: Prohibits human cloning

: Prohibits certain activities relating to human trafficking and prostitution

: Sets penalties for anyone setting fires in an area that has been proclaimed to be in extraordinary danger from fire

: Authorizes individuals to sue for Medicaid fraud, and modifies various provisions relating to the reporting and investigation of such fraud

: Modifies the law stipulating the penalty for a third stealing-related offense

: Regulates sexually-oriented businesses

: Authorizes individuals to sue for Medicaid fraud, and modifies various provisions relating to the reporting and investigation of such fraud

: Ensures that stem cell research can be conducted in Missouri

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