EDUCATION, HIGHER

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

: 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 governing boards at public colleges and universities, community college districts, and school distrists to take a roll-call vote on school policy matters

: Establishes a scholarship program for the survivors of veterans killed or injured in action after September 11, 2001

: Changes the laws regarding the notification requirements for the continuation of child support when a child is attending a higher education institution

: Changes the distribution of some of the proceeds in the Gaming Commission Fund

: Adds a voting student representative to the governing boards of certain universities

: Allows students to use the Bright Flight scholarship at an out-of-state college when the program of study is not available at Missouri public institutions

: Revises the Nursing Student Repayment Loan Program by changing the definition of "eligible student" and allows the financial assistance to be forgiven upon completion of a nursing degree program

: Establishes a scholarship program for the surviving children of veterans killed in combat

: Extends the sunset provision for equipment grants for engineering programs at the University of Missouri to 2017

: Requires that one voting member of the board of curators of certain state institutions of higher education be a student

: Requires students at public institutions of higher education to take certain American history courses

: Requires every university in this state participating in an NCAA division I sport to schedule one contest a year with every other university in this state in the same sport at the same level

: Increases the amount of the Higher Education Academic Scholarship Program, commonly known as Bright Flight, from $2,000 to $4,000 a year

: Removes the requirement that National Guard educational grant recipients maintain their active military affiliation for three years after graduation to avoid repaying grant money

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

: Changes the definition of "practice of chiropractic"

: Expands the A+ Schools Program to certain private vocational or technical schools

: Requires state agencies, public schools and colleges, and political subdivisions to use the traditional names of holidays

: Establishes the Twenty-First Century Scholars Program

: Modifies the requirements for the continuation of child support for children enrolled in higher education

: Establishes the Twenty-First Century Missouri Scholars Program

: Establishes the Associate Degree Transfer Incentive Scholarship Program to provide scholarships to Missouri students who transfer to a four-year institution of higher education

: Allows certain former recipients of the Higher Education Academic Scholarship Program known as Bright Flight to renew their scholarship upon return to an in-state college due to death or natural disaster

: Establishes the Betty L. Thompson Student Success Scholarships Tax Credit Program

: Permits underage culinary students to taste, but not consume, certain alcoholic beverages as required by the curriculum

: Authorizes an income tax deduction for tuition paid to a Missouri public institution of higher education

: Prohibits the admission of unlawfully present aliens to public institutions of higher education

: Establishes the Access Missouri Scholarship Program and revises the laws regarding funding for higher education

: Establishes the Parents, Tutors, and Volunteers (PTV) Program to encourage adults to volunteer in schools

: Changes the laws regarding illegal aliens

: Makes the child support obligation for a child older than 18 years of age who is enrolled in and attends a post-secondary school program permissive rather than mandatory

: Authorizes college and university police officers to enforce traffic regulations on college or university property

: Requires legislative bodies, judicial bodies, public universities, and all governmental bodies to use the Department of Transportation's fiber optic network by January 1, 2009, for telecommunications service

: Requires actuarial and legal analysis of certain transactions of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MoHELA)

: Changes the laws regarding charter school sponsorship

: Changes the laws regarding lost and unclaimed property

: Establishes the Urban Flight Scholarship Program for college education students who agree to teach in certain urban or metropolitan school districts

: Requires the Governor to appoint a nonvoting faculty representative to the Board of Regents of Missouri State University

: Allows members of the State Board of Education to be officials or employees of a college or university

: Allows private, not-for-profit colleges and universities to appoint police officers

: Establishes the Missouri In-state Tuition Act which makes certain students eligible for in-state tuition

: Expands the Vietnam Veterans Survivor Grant Program to include Vietnam veterans who are 100% disabled

: Changes the laws regarding appropriations for four-year institutions of higher education

: Urges the Department of Higher Education to review the growing dependence on part-time and nontenure-track faculty at universities and colleges.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a citizen's First Amendment right to pray on public property and reaffirming a citizen's right to choose any or no religion

: Proposes a constitutional amendment permitting judges to teach at public universities for compensation

: Creates an educational grant for children and spouses of veterans killed in combat

: Requires collaboration between certain departments in order to achieve a more efficient and effective educational system

: Renders several alterations of the state's higher education policy

: Specifies terms of office and eligibility criteria for the governing board of Missouri State University

: Establishes the "Associate Degree Transfer Incentive Scholarship Program"

: Allows the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to provide primary school loans

: Modifies requirements for out-of-state public higher education institutions

: Increases the amount of the "Bright Flight" scholarship from $2,000 a year to $4,000 a year

: Creates an income tax deduction for higher education expenses

: Requires that one voting member of the governing boards of certain state institutions of higher education be a student

: Extends the termination date for a grant program regarding capital improvements for engineering colleges in the University of Missouri system

: Modifies educational assistance benefits for Missouri national guard members.

: Provides tuition grants to war veterans who served in Iraq

: Permits underage culinary students to taste, but not consume, certain alcoholic beverages as required by a curriculum

: Modifies law relating to election administration

: Creates a tax credit for low-income household purchases of computers for educational purposes

: Grants additional authority to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education

: Establishes a tuition grant for dependants and spouses of certain military veterans

: Modifies educational assistance benefits for Missouri national guard members.

: Provides for a tuition limitation for certain combat veterans

: Explicitly grants MOHELA the ability to sell assets, and specifies the manner in which proceeds from such assets may be utilized

: Allows certain colleges and universities located in St. Louis to sponsor charter schools that are located in St. Louis only

: Allows private, not-for-profit colleges or universities to appoint and employ college or university police officers

: Creates the "Farm Mentoring and Education Fund"

: Establishes the "Missouri Science Education Act"

: Enacts multiple provisions regarding illegal aliens

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:53 am