CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2008)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT

: Requires annual background checks on some school employees, adds certain offenses to the list for which a teacher certification may be revoked, and removes the statute of limitations for certain sex crimes

: Requires the State Highway Patrol to create, maintain, and make available for public inquiry on the Internet a registry of persons convicted of certain drug offenses

: Creates the crime of ticket scalping

: Requires public institutions of higher education to check the sexual offender registry prior to making student housing assignments and prohibits housing to anyone required to register as a sexual offender

: 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

: Requires registered sexual offenders to notify a park ranger, in writing, prior to camping in a state park

: Changes the laws regarding the age of victims and offenders in various sexual offenses

: Changes the laws regarding identity protection and gives identity theft victims the right to have an incident report filed by their law enforcement agency and receive a copy of the report

: Requires the Department of Revenue to put a unique code or identifier on the driver's license, nondriver's license, or driver's permit of anyone who is required to register as a sexual offender

: Prohibits certain sexual offenders from being physically present within 500 feet of a child care facility

: 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

: Creates the crimes of possession of a restricted natural substance and unlawful distribution of a restricted natural substance

: Changes the crime of unlawful possession of a concealable firearm to unlawful possession of a firearm

: Expands the crimes of involuntary manslaughter and assault of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer in all degrees to include highway workers in work zones

: Prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle on public property while using a wireless telephone with certain exceptions

: Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to include juvenile officers and deputy juvenile officers

: Expands the DNA profiling system by requiring any person 18 years of age or older who is arrested for a felony to provide a biological sample for the purpose of DNA profiling analysis

: Creates the Law Enforcement Safety Fund and authorizes a surcharge in certain criminal cases to fund a contribution system for certain law enforcement employees

: Creates the crime of motorcycle stunt driving

: 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

: 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 the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to include judicial officers or deputy juvenile officers

: Prohibits the use or possession of an alcohol beverage vaporizer

: Changes the laws regarding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree and adds a penalty for the possession of a controlled substance in the presence of a minor

: Changes the laws regarding stealing-related offenses

: Expands the crime of resisting arrest to include warrants issued by a court of record or a probation or parole officer

: Requires a registered sexual offender to notify a park ranger, in writing, prior to camping in a state park

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

: Establishes the Drug Monitoring Act to monitor the prescribing of certain controlled substances and modifies existing record keeping requirements for controlled substances and pseudoephedine products

: Changes the laws regarding crime and crime prevention

: Expands the crime of resisting or interfering with arrest, detention, or stop to include arrests on probation or parole warrants and capias or bench warrants issued by federal, state, or municipal judges

: Creates the crime of cyber harassment and increases the penalty for the crimes of harassment and stalking when committed by an adult against a child

: Specifies that any person who steals certain wire and electrical devices or any property located on utility property will be guilty of a class D felony

: Expands the crime of harassment to include harassment by electronic communications

: Allows criminal charges to be filed against a mother who intentionally used or ingested an illegal controlled substance while she was pregnant which resulted in harm to her unborn child

: Prohibits certain sexual offenders from being present in or loitering within 500 feet of any public park or swimming pool

: Prohibits any person required to register as a sexual offender from intentionally photographing a minor without the consent of the minor's parent or guardian

: Changes the laws regarding the prosecution of certain traffic-related offenses

: Prohibits any person from possessing dog fighting paraphernalia and adds a penalty for a second or subsequent offense for persons committing acts related to dog fighting

: Creates the crime of murder of a criminal justice official and revises the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer in all degrees to include corrections officers

: Allows counties to assess a fee up to $5 for the county law enforcement restitution fund for certain misdemeanors and infractions

: Expands the crime of resisting or interfering with arrest, stop, or detention to include any arrest, stop, or detention made with a court-authorized warrant or a probation and parole warrant

: Prohibits any person from owning or operating a sexual offender treatment facility for more than one person who is required to register unless operated by or contracted with a government body

: Disqualifies convicted felons from jury service even if their civil rights have been restored

: Creates the crime of driving with a controlled substance in a person's body

: Lowers the blood-alcohol content to .08 of 1% for the crime of operating a vessel with excessive blood-alcohol content

: Changes the laws regarding crime and crime prevention

: Creates a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name appears in the controlled substance log book which pharmacies are required to keep and maintain is the person whose transaction is recorded

: Establishes the Commission on the Death Penalty and places a moratorium on all executions until January 1, 2011

: Creates the crime of obstruction of justice

: Creates penalties for corporations, persons, and public utilities that violate any law, order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement relating to federally mandated natural gas safety

: Expands the crime of furnishing pornographic material to minors by including engaging in lewd communication or conversation with a minor via the Internet

: Expands the crime of furnishing pornographic material to minors by increasing the penalty and specifies that the offender commits the crime if he or she believes the person is a minor

: Changes the laws regarding crime prevention

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

: Restricts the driver's license of a registered sexual offender to no more than one year and revokes the license if the offender fails to register as required by law

: Requires certain detained juveniles to be reported to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement if there is probable cause to believe that they are illegal aliens

: Expands the DNA profiling system by requiring any person 18 years of age or older who is arrested for a felony to provide a biological sample for the purpose of DNA profiling analysis

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

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

: Revises the laws regarding prior, persistent, aggravated, and chronic intoxication-related traffic offenders and requires continuous alcohol monitoring as a condition of parole or probation for some offenders

: Requires registered sexual offenders to provide all of their electronic mail addresses to the appropriate law enforcement agency

: Changes the punishment for counterfeiting and requires the forfeiture of counterfeit goods, the materials and implements used to produce them, and the property used in the commission of the crime

: Expands the crime of bribery of a public servant

: Requires suspected illegals who cannot prove their legal status who appear in court for any state law or municipal ordinance violation to be held in jail until they are reported to federal authorities

: Changes the laws regarding the crime of animal neglect

: Specifies that the statute of limitations for any offense that is classified as a class A misdemeanor will be two years

: Prohibits persons convicted of statutory rape or sodomy in the first degree from being eligible for probation, parole, or conditional release for five years if the victim is younger than 12 years of age

: Creates the crime of impersonating a minor or someone else

: Allows for the compensation of a person wrongfully convicted and imprisoned

: Changes the laws regarding the crimes of harassment and stalking and adds them to the list of crimes schools must report to law enforcement

: 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

: Establishes the Commission on the Death Penalty and places a moratorium on all executions until January 1, 2012

: Allows the Attorney General to bring a cause of action for unlawful merchandising practices when a financial institution's name is deceptively used

: Requires the State Highway Patrol to provide a real-time electronic log book to all pharmacies to enter sales of pseudoephedrine products

: Prohibits certain sexual offenders from being present in or loitering within 1,000 yards of a state park

: Revises the crime of sexual misconduct involving a child to make it in the first degree and creates the infraction of sexual misconduct involving a child in the second degree

: Authorizes the State Highway Patrol to develop and implement a real-time electronic logbook for sales of pseudoephedrine and requires pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to report sales

: Adds farm-raised quail and pheasant to the list of animals considered as livestock as it applies to the crime of stealing

: Prohibits a person from knowingly creating a mixed human-animal embryo, a class D felony

: Revises the crime of murder in the first degree to include knowingly causing the death of a child younger than 18 years of age when a heinous element is involved in the commission of the crime

: Changes the laws regarding the telemarketing No-call List and creates the crime of caller identification spoofing

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

: Expands the DNA profiling system by requiring any person 18 years of age or older who is arrested for a felony to provide a biological sample for the purpose of DNA profiling analysis

: Establishes the Law Enforcement Safety Act which allows certain information on law enforcement officers to remain confidential unless the information is used in a criminal investigation

: Regulates sexually oriented businesses

: Authorizes the expungement of certain criminal records

: Creates the crime of removing an electronic or radio transmitting collar from a dog without the permission of the dog's owner with the intent to prevent or hinder the owner from locating the dog

: Changes the laws regarding employment

: Establishes a task force to develop guidelines for eyewitness evidence in criminal investigations

: Removes the duty to retreat from certain locations when a person reasonably believes deadly force is necessary to defend himself or another person from unlawful force by another person

: Requires the State Highway Patrol to collect any online identifiers used by a registered sexual offender and allows certain businesses to use the data to check for a match with a registered offender

: Allows grant money distributed by the Department of Public Safety to investigate Internet sex crimes against children to be used to also fund training for prosecuting and circuit attorneys

: Specifies that a person will be guilty of a class C felony when stealing from a mercantile establishment under certain circumstances

: Specifies that any person who unlawfully distributes or delivers any controlled substance to any person which causes that person's death will be guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the first degree

: Expands the list of Schedule II controlled substances to include several nitrites

: Establishes the Shawn Hornbeck Educational Reimbursement Program

: Allows noncharter counties to adopt noise ordinances prohibiting amplified noise above a specified decibel level without the written permission of the county commission

: Prohibits a person younger than 21 years of age who is not an underage entertainer from being allowed inside a drinking establishment

: Changes the laws regarding identity protection and gives identity theft victims the right to have an incident report filed by their law enforcement agency and receive a copy of the report

: Establishes provisions for the prevention of and protection from security breaches

: Increases the penalty for the crime of selling, providing, or distributing tobacco products to any person younger than 18 years of age

: Creates civil and criminal penalties for individuals committing mortgage fraud and imposes sanctions upon certain licensed and unlicensed persons who commit the crime

: Establishes the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act

: Creates the crimes of operation of a vehicle causing injury, operation of a vehicle causing serious injury, and operation of a vehicle causing death

: Creates the crimes of assault of an employee of a mass transit system while in the scope of his or her duties in the first, second, and third degrees

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

: Prohibits any person from transporting, moving, attempting to transport, concealing, harboring, or sheltering any illegal alien in this state

: Creates a civil penalty and a cause of action for damages for coerced subcutaneous implantation of an identification device

: Allows any local governing agency to establish a work for restitution program and requires certain nonviolent offenders to participate in and complete the program

: Establishes the Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Act which prohibits the sale of any cigarette that has not been tested, certified, and marked that it has met certain performance standards

: Requires a person who has reasonable cause to believe that a pharmacist's or other health care professional's conduct is illegal or could cause serious injury to make a report to specific authorities

: Requires certified law enforcement officers to review video footage of red light cameras prior to issuing summons and requires positive identification of the license plate of the vehicle

: Changes the laws regarding forensic examinations on victims of alleged sexual offenses

: Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet or from being present or loitering within 500 feet of a public city or municipal park

: Changes the laws regarding campaign contributions

: Specifies that any person who commits a steady red light violation that is detected and enforced through an automated photo red light enforcement system will be guilty of an infraction

: Allows a left turn on a red light from a one-way street into another one-way street upon yielding to pedistrians and any other traffic

: Changes the laws regarding domestic violence

: Changes the laws regarding criminal history records information

: Changes the laws regarding illegal aliens and immigration status verification

: Defines "intoxication-related traffic homicide" and expands certain intoxication-related traffic offenses to include intoxication-related traffic homicide

: Establishes the Child Predation Prevention Act of 2008 regarding the sexual exploitation of a child and model curriculum for educating children regarding Internet safety

: Imposes additional penalties on a person who has been convicted of an intoxication-related traffic offense when his or her blood-alcohol content was .16 of 1% or higher

: Creates the crime of failure to adequately control an animal if the owner intentionally or negligently fails to adequately control his or her animal and it bites or causes physical injury or property damage

: Repeals the death penalty in Missouri

: Changes the laws regarding crimes against children who are younger than 12 years of age

: Requires the juvenile court to publish the time, date, and location of certain juvenile court proceedings in a court docket and to post it in a conspicuous and readily-accessible location in the courthouse

: Prohibits any person younger than 18 years of age to sell cigarettes or tobacco products or for any person to require a person younger than 18 years of age to sell cigarettes or tobacco products

: Changes the laws regarding dog fighting

: Allows certain convicted felons to be eligible to receive federal Food Stamp Program benefits if they meet certain requirements

: Changes the laws regarding the ownership, possession, or keeping of certain wild animals and requires them to be registered with the chief law enforcement official in the county where the animal is kept

: Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of any toy or child care item containing certain phthalates

: Prohibits owners, operators, or managers of facilities that harbor animals from knowingly allowing any person paying a fee to kill an animal that is confined, restrainted, or prevented from escaping

: Removes pseudoephedrine from the list of Schedule V controlled substances and adds it to the list of Schedule II controlled substances

: Specifies that a person's prior plea of or a finding of guilty in a county or municipal court for an intoxication-related traffic offense must be considered when determining punishment for a new offense

: Prohibits the issuance of a permit to hold any amateur or professional full-contact karate or mixed martial arts contest in which any contestant is younger than 18 years of age

: Specifies that a person's prior conviction, plea of, or finding of guilty in a municipal court for an intoxication-related offense must be considered when determining punishment for a new offense

: Allows the State Highway Patrol to release Internet identifiers to authorized Internet entities to prescreen or remove sexual offenders from their services

: Specifies that a person's prior plea of guilty or a finding of guilty in an intoxication-related traffic offense must be considered when determining his or her punishment for a similar new offense

: Imposes a fine when school officers and employees who are mandated reporters fail to report as required by law and subjects students who make false allegations to disciplinary action

: Urges Congress to reauthorize the Debbie Smith DNA backlog grant program

SB 714 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Modifies various provisions relating to sexual offenses

SB 733 --- Sponsor: Champion, Norma
: Requires crime laboratories providing reports or testimony to a state court to be accredited

SB 737 --- Sponsor: Bartle, Matt
: Regulates sexually oriented businesses

SB 754 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert
: Modifies provisions relating to the DNA profiling system

SB 758 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Modifies various provisions relating to sexual offenses

SB 763 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Criminalizes displaying a noose for the purpose of intimidation

SB 764 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamp assistance

SB 766 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use

SB 767 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 784 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida
: Eliminates mandatory minimum sentencing for certain felons

SB 787 --- Sponsor: Scott, Delbert
: Creates penalties for individuals who set fires in areas proclaimed to be in extraordinary danger from fire

SB 794 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert
: Modifies provisions relating to the DNA profiling system

SB 800 --- Sponsor: Days, Rita D.
: Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri and prohibits use of the death penalty for a time period

SB 802 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert
: Modifies record-keeping requirements for purchasers of scrap metal and creates penalties for unlawful purchases of certain scrap metals

SB 812 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Expands the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include discharging a firearm for celebrating in an urban area

SB 813 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Prohibits the ownership, possession, or discharge of a taser or stun gun

SB 818 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Modifies various provisions relating to stalking and harassment

SB 819 --- Sponsor: Purgason, Chuck
: Modifies laws relating to dogs

SB 834 --- Sponsor: Purgason, Chuck
: Modifies laws relating to dogs

SB 835 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Eliminates the death penalty

SB 836 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm

SB 847 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Requires farmers to pay a fee for retaining genetically-modified seed

SB 851 --- Sponsor: Justus, Jolie L.
: Prohibits a person convicted of a dangerous felony from possessing a concealable firearm regardless of when the person was confined

SB 861 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Redefines the term "intoxication-related traffic offense"

SB 862 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Creates notification requirements prior to entry onto private property to investigate or enforce contracts for certain agricultural products

SB 899 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Modifies various provisions relating to sexual offenses

SB 912 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin
: Creates the crime of murder of a criminal justice official and expands the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation or parole officer to include corrections pers

SB 922 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Modifies the crime of making a false declaration

SB 932 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Allows grant money distributed by the Department of Public Safety to investigate internet sex crimes against children to be used to fund training for prosecuting and circuit attorneys

SB 933 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Modifies various provisions relating to sexual offenses

SB 941 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan
: Modifies the definition of livestock for which it is a crime to steal, makes stealing certain quail or pheasants a crime, and modifies the penalties for such offenders

SB 975 --- Sponsor: Ridgeway, Luann
: Requires alcohol monitoring for persons with repeat alcohol-related offenses in certain circumstances instead of serving a more lengthy mandatory minimum sentence

SB 982 --- Sponsor: Purgason, Chuck
: Modifies laws relating to dogs

SB 985 --- Sponsor: Shoemyer, Wes
: Modifies the crime of making a false declaration

SB 998 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
: Prohibits convicted felons whose civil rights have been restored from participating in jury service

SB 1002 --- Sponsor: Justus, Jolie L.
: Modifies the penalties for certain zoning violations

SB 1018 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows municipalities in St. Charles County to adopt ordinances for the well-being of the community and enforce such ordinances with a fine not to exceed $1,000 or three months of imprisonment

SB 1031 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Increases the penalty for parental kidnapping when the child is taken for certain periods of time

SB 1032 --- Sponsor: Dempsey, Tom
: Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 1045 --- Sponsor: Dempsey, Tom
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SB 1054 --- Sponsor: Dempsey, Tom
: Modifies provisions relating to juvenile courts and juvenile court jurisdiction

SB 1058 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert
: Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions

SB 1063 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris
: Creates the Missouri Methamphetamine Project

SB 1079 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan
: Enacts a state-wide smoking ban

SB 1088 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan
: Makes it unlawful for a person to possess, distribute, deliver, manufacture, produce, or cultivate a restricted natural substance, also known as jimson weed

SB 1095 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Creates the crime of aggravated child kidnapping

SB 1172 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Modifies various provisions relating to weapons

SB 1178 --- Sponsor: Barnitz, Frank A.
: Modifies property posting provisions

SB 1185 --- Sponsor: Gibbons, Michael R.
: Modifies various provisions relating to prosecutors

SB 1194 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Increases the punishment for forcibe rape or sodomy of a child under the age of twelve to be either death or life imprisonment without probation or parole

SB 1208 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Repeals the current procedures regarding criminal activity forfeiture actions and establishes new procedures

SB 1219 --- Sponsor: Lager, Brad
: Allows criminal prosecution of mother for harm to unborn child due to intentional and unlawful use of controlled substances

SB 1237 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Provides that the filing of criminal charges are not a prerequisite for release on bail

SB 1238 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention

SB 1243 --- Sponsor: Barnitz, Frank A.
: Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention to include resisting an arrest, stop, or detention for any warrant issued by a court or probation and parole officer

SB 1257 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Creates new criminal penalties for killing or assaulting a highway worker

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