CHILDREN AND MINORS

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CHILDREN AND MINORS

: Revises Section 302.020, RSMo, to allow persons 21 years of age and older to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.

: Removes the age restriction for admission of students to the University of Missouri.

: Amends the offense of distribution of a controlled substance near schools to include child care facilities, long-term care facilities, and residences of in-home child care providers.

: Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health services system.

: Revises the statutes relating to child custody and visitation when a parent is a sexual offender.

: Creates the crime of identity fraud.

: Prohibits immunizations and dental restorations containing mercury after April 1, 2006.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Prohibits the disclosure of Social Security numbers on child support checks, correspondence, and documents.

: Defines "next friend" for the purpose of consent to an abortion by a minor.

: Revises the crime of identity theft, creates a new crime of trafficking in stolen identities, and revises the crime of false impersonation.

: Creates the crime of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in the third degree.

: Raises victims' ages in several sexual offense statutes.

: Requires health insurance coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Establishes a War on Terror survivors scholarship program.

: Revises eligibility requirements and benefits for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families based on the recipient's marital status.

: Allows parents or legal guardians of 16 to 18 year-olds to choose to have the compulsory school attendance and work certificate laws apply to their children.

: Makes is a class A misdemeanor for a person under 21 years of age to be under the influence of a controlled substance.

: Revises the minor in possession law by also making it a misdemeanor to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor.

: Removes the cap on the special needs adoption tax credit and changes the administration of the tax credit to the Children's Division within the Department of Social Services.

: Increases the punishment for possession of child pornography, adds it to the offenses for which a sex offender must register, and adds it to crimes used in defining a persistent or predatory offender.

: Revises the statutes relating to sexual offenses, assault on law enforcement officers, and the payment of restitution for criminal offenses.

: Revises various statutes relating to juveniles.

: Gives juvenile courts jurisdiction over children who violate laws dealing with the possession or use of tobacco.

: Revises various statutes relating to motor vehicles, driver's licenses, emergency vehicles, child restraints, manufactured homes, failure to stop at weigh stations, and rail passenger cars.

: Requires operators of motorcycles and motortricycles who are under 21 years of age to wear protective headgear.

: Requires hospitals and birth centers to provide parents with information on shaken baby syndrome.

: Modifies various statutes relating to intoxication-related traffic offenses.

: Prohibits the display of adult entertainment films in the sight of children in vehicles.

: Revises the statutes relating to tax credits for the adoption of special needs children.

: Revises the crime of making a terroristic threat and creates the crimes of threatening the use of a weapon of mass destruction and computer dissemination of information to promote a terrorist act.

: Increases the penalty for various drug crimes when the substance was placed in close proximity to a child under 17 years of age.

: Prohibits public or charter school employees from performing a strip search of any student.

: Requires the use of various child safety restraints in a motor vehicle based on the age, weight, and height of a child.

: Creates the crime of sexual contact with a student while on public school property.

: Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health service system.

: Establishes the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood within the Children's Services Commission.

: Establishes child passenger restraint system guidelines.

: Allows the board of education for the St. Louis City school district to adopt a resolution raising the mandatory attendance age to 17.

: Transfers the duties of the abolished Division of Child Support Enforcement to the Department of Public Safety.

: Creates a check-off on state income tax return forms for contributions to the Child Advocacy Center Fund.

: Modifies various statutes relating to domestic violence and limits the possession of firearms by persons who are subject to an order of protection.

: Revises various statutes relating to health insurance.

: Revises the statutes relating to sex offender registration and the statute of limitations for sexual offenses where the victim is 18 years of age or younger.

: Revises various statutes relating to special needs child adoption tax credits, pregnancy resource centers, alternatives to abortions, and the Respect Life Commission.

: Includes unborn children in the definition of "children" who are eligible to participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Requires juvenile sex offenders to file a copy of their sex offender registration with the superintendent of any school district in which they are enrolled.

: Modifies lead testing requirements to include all children less than six years of age who reside in or spend more than 10 hours a week in a high-risk area.

: Distinguishes the practice of midwifery from the practice of medicine.

: Revises the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree by adding persons who operate vehicles while intoxicated or drugged when there is a person under 17 years of age in the vehicle.

: Revises the statutes relating to claims for damages for personal injuries.

: Requires courts to notify state agencies and licensing boards of any individual who owes child support arrearages in excess of $5,000.

: Makes the filing of parenting plans in child visitation, custody, or support cases optional when the child is over the age of 18.

: Creates the crime of abuse of authority over a child.

: Makes it a crime for a sexual offender to establish residency within 1,000 feet of a public or private school or child care facility.

: Allows the court to issue direct payment orders to parties in child custody or dissolution proceedings for the payment of guardian ad litem fees.

: Prohibits a parent who is residing with a person convicted of certain sex crimes or crimes against children from being granted custody or unsupervised visitation.

: Makes it a class B misdemeanor for a person to allow a minor to possess alcohol or drugs on that person's property.

: Revises the statute of limitations for civil suits for childhood sexual abuse.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

: Authorizes a $10 surcharge in certain felony criminal cases to fund the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program and the After School Reading Retreat Program.

: Revises the Adoption Awareness Law by allowing the establishment of an advertising campaign to recruit adoptive and foster parents.

: Modifies the law relating to license-exempt facilities for children.

: Revises the crime of kidnapping by including kidnapping of a child under 14 years of age.

: Increases the criminal statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against persons 18 years of age or younger.

: Provides that emblem-use fees received by the Kansas City Chiefs be forwarded to the Chiefs' Children's Fund, a not-for-profit organization established to benefit Kansas City area children in need.

: Makes the crime of supplying intoxicating liquor to a minor a class D felony if any person suffers serious injury as a result.

: Establishes a program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventative and primary health care services to low-income pregnant women, mothers, and children.

: Opens certain juvenile court records and proceedings to the public.

: Creates a civil cause of action by licensees against minors who misrepresent their age to obtain liquor.

: Modifies the requirements for granting grandparent visitation.

: Establishes the Child Support Insurance Act.

: Revises the statutes relating to dissolution of marriage and child support.

: Establishes the Interstate Compact for Juveniles.

: Changes possession of child pornography to a class D felony.

: Requires helmets for individuals 17 years old and younger who are bicycling on property owned by a political subdivision of this state.

: Prohibits a state agency or child-placing agency from placing a child with a person who is in a sexual relationship with someone other than a spouse.

: Creates the crime of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

: Requires driver's license applicants under age 18 to show high school enrollment, attendance rate greater than 85%, and minimum GPA of 1.75 or satisfactory progress in an alternative education program.

: Revises the statutes relating to the award of child custody and modification of custody orders.

: Revises the statutes relating to jurisdiction over full orders of protection and the definition of "stalking" for purposes of adult and child orders of protection.

: Revises the list of factors to be considered when determining child support obligations.

: Requires a review of the cases of certain juveniles taken into state custody to determine whether the juvenile should receive a psychological evaluation.

: Creates the crime of criminally negligent storage of a firearm.

: Designates October 15 as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day."

: Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting reduction of the Children's Health Insurance Program coverage without two-thirds legislative majority.

: Child Support.

: Requires insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids for children.

: Amends various provisions regarding the use of child restraint systems in motor vehicles.

: Lowers age for jury duty from 21 to 18; excuses certain students.

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortions.

: Modifies various provisions regarding foster care and protective services for children.

: Modifies various provisions relating to lead abatement.

: Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and protective services for children.

: Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

: Removes the aggregate cap for the adoption tax credit program.

: Allows participation in FFA, FHA, FCCLA, 4-H, and State Fair competition to count as attendance for purpose of state aid.

: Allows foster children to receive a tuition and fee waiver to state-funded colleges or universities.

: School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth.

: Requires school districts to offer alternative education programs.

: School districts to provide readiness assessments to determine whether certain children are ready to enter school.

: Allows parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in certain circumstances.

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity.

: Modifies the law relating to license-exempt facilities for children.

: Increases the foster care reimbursement and the adoption subsidy rates over a four-year period.

: Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm.

: Alters funding mechanism for statewide areas of critical need for learning and development.

: Amends the putative father registry.

: Requires public pre-kindergarten teachers to possess a valid teaching certificate.

: Creates a comprehensive children's mental health service system.

: Creation of the gang resistance education and training program to be used in schools.

: Requires the Children's Division to arrange a team meeting before a child is placed in protective custody.

: Adds child pornography to the list of sexual abuse cases investigated by the State Technical Assistance Team.

: Requires applicants for Medicaid and CHIPs to identify the proposed beneficiary's employer.

: Gives the Children's Division the sole authority to license foster homes and residential facilities.

: Seeks to eliminate the minimum age qualification for admission to the University of Missouri system.

: Defines "next friend" for a minor's consent to an abortion.

: Modifies the age limitation for the testing for lead poisoning in children.

: Modifies provisions regarding early childhood special education.

: Requires each public school district to promulgate and implement a bully-free school plan.

: Creates the "Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council".

: Allows for the Administrative Hearing Commission to hear appeals of substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect by the Children's Division.

: Establishes the coordinating board of early childhood within the Children's Services Commission.

: Requires entities that provide child, elder, and health care services to submit certain employment information to a database.

: Certain school districts shall be reimbursed fully for costs associated with offering certain special educational services.

: Allows guardian ad litems to receive fees for adoption proceedings.

: Modifies provisions relating to homeless youth and qualified minors.

: Directs the State Board of Education to assist and encourage school districts in adopting service-learning programs.

: Creates the crime of kidnapping a child by taking or confining the child without parental consent.

: Includes unborn children within the definition of "children" for eligibility in CHIPs.

: Regulates the operation of motor scooters.

: Establishes the "Child Support Insurance Act".

: Provides that the Department shall not require by rule any immunizations that are not specified in section 167.181, RSMo.

: Redefined the crime of possession of child pornography.

: Amends the offense of distributing a controlled substance near schools to include long-term and child care facilities.

: Modifies the taxes for Community Services for Children.

: Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to adopt an indoor air quality program.

: Extends the statute of limitations for sexual offenses involving a person eighteen years old or younger.

: Extends the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse cases.

: Increases the age of majority to eighteen in various statutes.

: Prohibits the carrying of a concealed weapon at a school event or at a school facility.

: Allows private school students to ride public school buses.

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am