CONSUMER PROTECTION

Missouri House of Representatives
Bills Indexed by Subject
CONSUMER PROTECTION
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: Revises tinted window restrictions.

: Revises laws on tourism and liquor control and creates regional taxicab commission in St. Louis City and County.

: Regulates unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Requires tanning facilities to be licensed.

: Exempts all food sales by religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from the food inspection laws of this state.

: Revises requirements for insurance on property.

: Revises the crime of invasion of privacy.

: Revises the Telemarketing No-Call Law.

: Exempts food sales made by religious, charitable and nonprofit organizations from the state food code laws and rules.

: Regulates high interest home loans.

: Regulates check cashing businesses.

: Prohibits certain deceptive practices in connection with home loans.

: Allows insurance policies to be in languages other than English.

: Prohibits price gouging during emergencies.

: Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information.

: Relating to regulations for the check-cashing business.

: Creates a cause of action for the fraudulent sale of health-related discount cards.

: Sets restrictions for payday loans.

: Sets requirements for insurance companies that use credit reports for underwriting decisions.

: Removes current exclusion from telemarketing no-call provision for businesses without present connection and candidates for public office.

: Permits a federal cause of action for price discrimination in state courts.

: Prohibits certain types of high-interest home loans.

: Creates crime of criminal profiteering and civil penalty for unfair leverage when selling during a consumer market disruption. Revises crime of making a terrorist threat.

: Requires payday lenders to disclose in all advertising the maximum amount of fees and interest they are currently charging.

: Expands the no-call list to include faxes and emails.

: Requires landlords of manufactured or mobile home land lease communities to provide 120 days' notice to vacate prior to selling of such property.

: Requires senders of unsolicited e-mail to remove a person from their mailing list if the person indicates they want to be removed from such a list.

: Requires a store owner to refund a customer's money if the customer is improperly detained due to a failure to remove or deactivate a security strip.

: Expands the motor vehicle "lemon law".

: Prohibits unsolicited electronic mail messages.

: Declares as an unlawful merchandising practice the use of a Missouri or toll-free telephone number that does not disclose that calls will be transferred out-of-state.

: Opposes the merger of EchoStar and Hughes Electronics.

: To amend chapter 407, by adding eleven new sections, relating to consumer protection for home owners.

: Revises documentation required for telecommunications companies to charge for Internet service.

: Codifies Mobile telecommunications Sourcing Act.

: Prohibits certain predatory lending practices with respect to home loans.

: Revises the regulation of unsolicited telephone sales calls.

: Provides consumer protection for price gouging during a state of emergency.

: Creates a home builders licensure board to license and regulate residential home builders.

: Regulates payday lenders.

: Restricts charges for payday loans.

: Prohibits insurers from using lack of an established credit history in denying or refusing to renew insurance.

: Legal consumer bill of rights act.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide child care facilities with a list of unsafe children's products.

: Lowers the maximum penalties consumers must pay for late payments on certain credit transactions.

: This act relates to prearranged travel-related and tourist-related services and time share licenses.

: Regulates the making of high-cost home loans.

: Revises laws relating to contracts of farm equipment.

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Missouri House of Representatives
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