SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

: Requires captioning of electronic video instructional material

: Changes the laws regarding environmental controls and plasma arc technology

: Prohibits certain aspects of human cloning except for somatic cell nuclear transfer and establishes the Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology Commission

: 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

: Establishes the Missouri Catalog of Assistance Programs

: Authorizes an individual income tax deduction for the purchase of hybrid motor vehicles

: Prohibits state funds from being used for somatic cell nuclear transfer or human embryonic stem cell research

: Requires all campaign finance filings to be filed electronically with the Missouri Ethics Commission

: Establishes the Clean American Fuel Board and creates the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Revolving Fund

: 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

: 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

: Requires the Office of Information Technology to establish and maintain an Internet web site for posting all required public notices

: Establishes the Missouri Science Education Act which requires instruction for science courses in sixth through twelfth grades to comply with its best practices

: Requires the State Board of Education to establish a virtual public school by July 1, 2007

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

: Changes the laws regarding the DNA profiling system

: Regulates the use of certain lasers and pulse light sources by cosmetologists

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

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act

: Allows first classification counties without a charter form of government and second classification counties to collect property taxes using electronic records and disbursements

: Authorizes the State Board of Probation and Parole, at its discretion, to conduct probation and parole hearings by videoconferencing and allows victims to choose where to testify for the videoconferencing

: 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

: Allows the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose certain test results and personal information to a health care provider providing treatment without the individual's consent

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

: Changes the laws regarding post-conviction DNA testing by limiting who may apply for post-conviction testing and requiring the DNA evidence to be retained and preserved for a certain period of time

: Provides funding for umbilical cord blood banks and non-fetal human stem cell research

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

: Authorizes the Highways and Transportation Commission to receive electonic bids for highway and bridge contracts

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

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

: Establishes the Missouri Uniform Residential Mortgage Satisfaction Act

: Authorizes an exemption from state and local sales and use tax for the costs of all utilities used to produce a product and a certain amount of diesel fuel used for agricultural purposes

: Requires electronic filing of certain tax forms

: 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

: Requires certain television stations to provide real-time captioning of local news, weather, and sports broadcasts for the deaf and hearing-impaired

: Establishes the Governor's Advisory Council on Agricultural Science and Technology

: Specifies that no ordinance of any political subdivision will regulate seeds or other propagules and the state will not enforce any rule more restrictive than federal rules regarding seed technologies

: Authorizes a $25 booking charge to provide law enforcement with software technology to manage jail and detention facilities

: Allows the Division of Finance to assist financial institutions in preventing transactions involving the use of the financial institution's instruments for online or Internet gambling

: Requires the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission to offer training to peace officers regarding the investigation of crimes involving computers and the Internet

: Creates the Missouri Discovery Fund and establishes the Missouri Discovery Alliance to assist with the recruitment, relocation, and expansion of technology businesses

: Requires the total compensation package of school administrators to be reported to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and posted on the department's Internet web site

: 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

: Changes the laws regarding certification standards for law enforcement officers

: Increases the penalties for repeat identity theft offenders

: Prohibits human cloning

: Establishes the Clinical Laboratory Science Practice Act relating to the licensure of clinical laboratory science personnel

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

: Authorizes a tax credit for qualified research costs paid by a corporation in a targeted industry

: Establishes the Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Services Program to collect and provide researchers with umbilical cord blood for scientific research on human stem cells

: Requires the Life Sciences Research Board to award grants for the retrofitting of factory facilities for the production of supplies and technology used in human stem cell research

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social service programs that subsidize abortion services

: Permits both public and private entities to conduct research utilizing embryonic and adult stem cells

: Establishes the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act"

: Creates the Governor's Advisory Council on Agricultural Science and Technology

: Creates the "Office of Enterprise Technology"

: Modifies the laws relating to fiber optic networks

: Creates the "Missouri Discovery Alliance" within the Department of Economic Development

: Ensures that stem cell research can be conducted in Missouri

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