EDUCATION, HIGHER

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

: Requires higher education institutions which receive state funds to limit the amount charged for tuition to certain combat veterans

: Establishes the Emily Brooker Higher Education Sunshine Act which defines intellectual diversity for reporting purposes at public higher education institutions

: Specifies requirements for membership on the Northwest Missouri State University Board of Regents

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

: Clarifies requirements for membership on the Northwest Missouri State University Board of Regents

: Prohibits the enrollment of unlawfully present aliens in public institutions of higher education

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

: Changes the laws regarding members of the military and their families

: Allows full-time students attending out-of-state colleges to renew driver's licenses by mail

: Adds certain two-year public and private vocational or technical schools to the A+ Schools Program and establishes the Community College Associate Degree Transfer Incentive Scholarship Program

: Specifies additional requirements for proposed land use changes on land owned by the University of Missouri

: Establishes a tuition and fee waiver program for certain incoming Missouri resident college freshmen who have been in foster or residential care

: Establishes the Missouri Education Promise Program

: Specifies that all bond proceeds, fees, and other revenues of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority can only be used for lowering rates, forgiving loans, issuing scholarships, and administration

: Changes the laws regarding the Bright Flight Scholarship Program including revising the size of awards and imposing minimum grade point requirements

: Establishes the Twenty-First Century Scholars Program

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

: Requires the Missouri Revisor of Statutes to change all references of the term "junior college" to "community college" in the Revised Statutes of Missouri

: Establishes Bryce's Law which authorizes a tax credit for individuals who donate to a scholarship-granting organization if the donation is not claimed on their federal income tax return

: Specifies that if Missouri loses a Congressional district following the 2010 redistricting, the ninth member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators will be a student curator with voting rights

: Establishes the Missouri National Guard and Missouri Reservists Family Education Grant

: Establishes the Textbook Transparency Act

: Establishes the Shawn Hornbeck Educational Reimbursement Program

: Establishes the Missouri Diploma and Transcript Act which creates the crime of selling a fraudulent diploma or transcript

: Allows members of the reserves of any branch of the United States armed forces to be eligible for a National Guard educational assistance grant

: Establishes the HCH Scholarship Program which authorizes a tax credit for contributions to an educational assistance organization

: Clarifies that married taxpayers filing jointly may deduct up to $16,000 in contributions to the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program from their taxable income

: Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program

: Lowers the grade point average required for a college student to be eligible for renewed assistance from the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program from a 2.5 to a 2.0

: Changes the aptitude testing score requirements to be eligible for the Higher Education Academic Scholarship Program, known as Bright Flight

: Authorizes Northwest Missouri State University to enter into design-build contracts for student residence construction projects costing more than $100,000

: Authorizes an income tax deduction for certain public college tuition costs

: Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities

: Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing the sale of bonds to plan, design, construct, renovate, and maintain state college and university buildings

SB 726 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.
: Modifies provisions relating to child care

SB 815 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Creates the Farm Mentoring and Education Authority to administer agricultural education programs to incubate new farms

SB 830 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida
: Limits the tuition that may be charged by a higher education institution to certain combat veterans

SB 863 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows married taxpayers filing joint returns to deduct a portion of contributions to the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program from income

SB 894 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.
: Creates an income tax deduction for higher education expenses

SB 942 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan
: Places per-year maximum dollar amounts on the amount of loans that can be made and forgiven by the Department of Agriculture through the Large Animal Veterinary Student Loan Program

SB 965 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason
: Requires completion of American history and literature classes in order to graduate from a public higher education institution

SB 1036 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida
: Creates an educational grant for children and spouses of veterans who are killed in combat

SB 1167 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill
: Modifies various provisions of law relating to members of the military and their families

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated May 27, 2008 at 4:57 pm