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: Freezes property valuation for those 65 and older if they meet income levels.

: Excludes up to five thousand dollars of total cash value for life insurance policies from the definition of "resources" for purposes of Medicaid and Medicare eligibility.

: Requires certain procedures for physical assessments of real property.

: Allows an exemption from property taxes for homestead property owned by senior citizens.

: Expands eligibility for the Missouri Senior Rx Program to include seniors with catastrophic drug costs.

: Revises property tax assessment laws.

: Requires Coordinating Board for Higher Education to promote and catalogue service learning opportunities available in state institutions of higher education.

: Allows not-for-profit industrial development authorities to finance child and day care centers.

: Bases funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served in each area the previous fiscal year.

: Allows not-for-profit organizations to finance child and adult day care facilities.

: Allows taxpayers 65 and older to receive the maximum exemption on pensions regardless of income.

: Exempts all pension amounts for taxpayers 70 1/2 years of age or older.

: Creates various sexual misconduct crimes.

: Creates a homestead exemption from property tax.

: Requires long-term care facilities and adult day care programs to employ a food services director.

: Exempts retired veterans from all taxes in the state.

: Exempts all public and private retirement allowances from taxation.

: Establishes a Medicaid Pharmacy Management Program in the Department of Social Services and a Joint Committee on Pharmacy Management.

: Requires the release of information regarding Class I standard violations by nursing homes to newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

: Provides a homestead property exemption.

: Creates a homestead exemption from property tax.

: Excludes Social Security benefits from state income taxation.

: Makes various changes regarding Medicaid eligibility and nursing home requirements.

: Amends various provisions regarding the standards for nursing homes.

: Provides income tax exemption for pensions for veterans 65 and older.

: Allows a homestead exemption from property tax assessments for seniors.

: Creates parity between institutional and noninstitutional eligibility for Medicaid.

: Makes it a crime to have sexual contact with a resident of a long-term care facility or an inmate.

: Freezes property assessment for property owners 65 and older.

: Revises Long-term Care Insurance Act and provisions on reinsurance and insurance company investments.

: Raises the maximum upper limit for circuit breaker relief for the elderly.

: Excludes certain amounts of Social Security and military retirement benefits from taxation.

: Limits increases in real property assessments to the percentage of change in Missouri personal income.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Modifies various provisions regarding long-term care insurance.

: Creates a senior citizen property tax deferral.

: Increases circuit breaker limits.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provisions of in-home services to the elderly.

: Provides standards for assisted living facilities.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need laws.

: Amends various provisions regarding the reporting requirements for long-term care facilities.

: Changes circuit breaker limits for senior citizen property tax relief.

: Allows programs for all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) projects an exemption from the certificate of authority requirements for health maintenance organizations.

: Funds the Utilicare stabilization program by transferring funds in the custody of circuit courts.

: Requires long-term care facilities to offer influenza and pneumonia vaccinations to their residents on an annual basis.

: Modifies the requirements for supplemental nursing payments.

: Creates the Homeowner's Protection Act.

: Exempts pension and retirement income of seniors from state income tax.

: Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

: Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures.

: Creates the Older Visually Impaired Missourians Fund.

: Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures.

: Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures.

: Modifies the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Expands the Utilicare program. Changes eligibility for supplemental nursing care payments. Modifies the Energy Conservation Loan Program.

: Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property and modifies reassessment procedures.

: Moves the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators to the Division of Professional Registration.

: Modifies the certificate of need law.

: Dedicated additional revenue to the energy assistance program.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Requires Medicaid eligibility and benefits for home- and community-based services to be equal to that of institutional care.

: Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products and creates the "Fund for Lifelong Health".

: Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents.

: Modifies various provisions relating to long-term care insurance.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need law.

: Modifies grandparent visitation provisions.

: Requires the Division of Medical Services to annually recalculate the Medicaid nursing home reimbursement amount.

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