DISABILITIES

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DISABILITIES
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: 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.

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

: Establishes the rights of persons who use service animals and prohibits sexual conduct with animals.

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

: Requires health insurance coverage for scalp prostheses for persons with alopecia.

: Revises laws on motor vehicles and traffic regulations.

: Revises workers' compensation law.

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

: Allows the state of Missouri to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

: Revises the Public Service Officer's or Employee's Child Survivor Grant Program and the Minority Teaching Scholarship Program.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Establishes the Missouri Family Training Program for Special Education.

: Requires certain public buildings to provide family restrooms.

: Provides a tax credit for assistance and care for the disabled.

: Provides insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children who are not attending Missouri School for the Deaf.

: Creates special license plates.

: Changes election laws and requirements.

: Creates a tax credit for builders of universally designed lifetime homes in any political subdivision that has established a disabilities commission.

: Provides for the completion of the newborn hearing screening if the newborn is transferred to another facility before the screenings are completed.

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

: Allows persons to execute an advanced directive for mental health treatment.

: Requires all new state housing construction to comply with the requirements of a universal designed home.

: Allows not-for-profit or charitable organizations that transport physically disabled persons to obtain disabled person license plates under certain conditions.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing exams and hearing aids.

: Increases admission fees for gambling boats to help fund transportation projects.

: Modifies various provisions regarding long-term care insurance.

: Expands the use of state-funded interpreters for the deaf in judicial proceedings.

: Excludes any information or evidence obtained from custodial interrogation of a mentally retarded person unless an attorney was present to represent the person.

: Provides health insurance coverage for hearing examinations and hearing aids for children and persons who were diagnosed with hearing loss before they turned eighteen.

: Revises terms of service for members of the governing council of the special school district in St. Louis County.

: Defines "electric personal assistive mobility device" and specifies where it may be operated.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Amends the definition of American Sign Language to declare it to be the native language of many deaf Missourians.

: Increases circuit breaker limits.

: Changes the name the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Revises language relating to challenges of a disciplinary change of placement of special education students and process of appeal of a hearing panel's decision.

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

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

: Allows public school students who complete course work in American Sign Language to receive foreign language academic credit.

: Requires all television stations with three million dollars in gross revenue to provide real time captioning for programs.

: Changes the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Modifies the provisions regarding access to information technology by state departments and agencies.

: Allows a not-for-profit provider to operate multiple living units for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled without issuance of a certificate by the Division of Medical Services.

: Creates a tax credit for disabled dependent care costs.

: Limits the number of regional centers for the provision of comprehensive mental retardation and developmental disabilities services to five centers.

: Urges the Governor to declare a week in September as "Deaf Awareness Week".

: Endorses and encourages the use of universal design in new home construction.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment exempting from taxation certain personal property of disabled veterans.

: State consents to ADA suits in state court only.

: Expands ability of SB 40 Boards to fund other services for persons with developmental disabilities.

: Creates the Older Visually Impaired Missourians Fund.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Drivers must take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching and obey signals of sheriff or deputy sheriff.

: Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals.

: Changes representation on the Missouri Commission for the Deaf.

: Allows public schools to offer American Sign Language classes for foreign language credit.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Amends the definition of American Sign Language to declare it to be the native language of many deaf Missourians.

: Requires school districts to coordinate special education services with public, private, and not-for-profit agencies.

: Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals.

: Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

: Makes rehabilitation services for the Division of Rehabilitation Services for the Blind.

: Requires the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to pay interpreter certification evaluators for their services.

: Funding for the education of certain disabled students.

: Makes a technical correction to the statute creating the Spinal Cord Injury Fund.

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

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for individuals age 65 and older and children.

: Provides that assessments may be given to special education students at appropriate levels.

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