HB 1314 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane --- CoSponsor: Nieves, Brian D.

Requires annual background checks on some school employees, adds certain offenses to the list for which a teacher certification may be revoked, and removes the statute of limitations for certain sex crimes

HB 1476 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane --- CoSponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P.

Requires certificated teachers to submit documentation to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education every five years showing adequate scores on certain academic assessments

HB 1477 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane --- CoSponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne

Establishes the Teacher Bill of Rights Act which prohibits teacher associations from using payroll deductions for disbursement to a committee without written consent

HB 1534 --- Sponsor: Kingery, Gayle --- CoSponsor: Davis, Cynthia L.

Allows school districts to establish a four-day school week upon a majority vote of the school board

HB 1706 --- Sponsor: Viebrock, James

Changes the laws regarding various public employee retirement systems

HB 1722 --- Sponsor: Wallace, Maynard --- CoSponsor: Jetton, Rod

Changes the laws regarding school employee liability, safety practices, and reporting acts of violence

HB 1751 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara --- CoSponsor: Talboy, Mike

Changes the laws regarding bullying in schools

HB 1774 --- Sponsor: Viebrock, James

Changes the laws regarding various public employee retirement systems

HB 1874 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane

Allows the State Board of Education to award a teaching certificate for banking and personal finance to certain individuals

HB 1902 --- Sponsor: Moore, Danielle --- CoSponsor: Walton, Juanita Head

Changes the laws regarding the Public School Retirement System of Missouri and the Public Education Employee Retirement System of Missouri

HB 1911 --- Sponsor: Muschany, T. Scott --- CoSponsor: Wallace, Maynard

Requires the State Board of Education to issue teaching certificates to individuals who complete certification with the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence

HB 1938 --- Sponsor: Baker, Brian --- CoSponsor: Scavuzzo, Luke

Requires the State Board of Education to establish a rule to mandate parental participation in three teacher conferences each year regarding their child's performance

HB 1947 --- Sponsor: Holsman, Jason R. --- CoSponsor: Lowe, Jenee' M.

Establishes lower permissible and desirable class sizes for urban school districts including Kansas City

HB 1972 --- Sponsor: Franz, Ward

Prohibits any additional nonprofit educational associations or organizations from becoming members of the Public School Retirement System or the Public Education Employee Retirement System

HB 2040 --- Sponsor: Jetton, Rod --- CoSponsor: Kingery, Gayle

Changes the laws regarding elementary and secondary education

HB 2056 --- Sponsor: Viebrock, James

Changes the laws regarding various public employee retirement systems

HB 2059 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Kevin --- CoSponsor: Wilson, Larry

Establishes the Professional Relationships Between Teachers and School Districts Act

HB 2104 --- Sponsor: Viebrock, James

Changes the laws regarding various public employee retirement systems

HB 2111 --- Sponsor: Muschany, T. Scott --- CoSponsor: Cunningham, Jane

Changes the laws regarding charter schools

HB 2121 --- Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff --- CoSponsor: Frame, Michael

Prohibits school districts from scheduling a day or a half-day off within five days of Veterans Day unless the school district also schedules Veterans Day as a day off

HB 2181 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane

Allows school districts to provide teacher salaries that include hiring incentives or salary schedule modifications under certain conditions

HB 2204 --- Sponsor: Ervin, Doug

Changes the laws regarding the nomination of certain beneficiaries in the Public School Retirement System of Missouri and the Public Education Employee Retirement System of Missouri

HB 2216 --- Sponsor: Bringer, Rachel

Makes criminal background checks for teachers and other school personnel valid for one year, even if they move from one district to another or there is a change in the type of teacher certification

HB 2220 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara --- CoSponsor: Schoemehl, Sue

Adds the gifted education pupil count to the calculation of weighted average daily attendance for the school foundation formula by counting each gifted student as an extra student

HB 2266 --- Sponsor: Jones, Timothy W. --- CoSponsor: Holsman, Jason R.

Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program

HB 2315 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara

Changes the laws regarding the procedures for terminating a teacher and applies these procedures to all school districts uniformly by repealing specific provisions for the St. Louis school system

HB 2316 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara

Requires cyberbullying to be included in a school district's antibullying policy

HB 2317 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara

Establishes the Professional Educators' Standards and Practices Act and changes the laws regarding teacher certification

HB 2318 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara --- CoSponsor: Stream, Rick

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop teaching standards for all public schools

HB 2430 --- Sponsor: Jetton, Rod --- CoSponsor: Kingery, Gayle

Changes the laws regarding elementary and secondary education

HB 2481 --- Sponsor: Schoeller, Shane --- CoSponsor: Emery, Edgar G. H.

Establishes a procedure by which a school district or an initiative petition may place the issue of open enrollment by contract before the voters of the district

HB 2520 --- Sponsor: Fallert, Joseph Jr.

Allows certain part-time teaches to opt out of membership in the Public School Retirement System

HB 2542 --- Sponsor: Fares, Kathlyn --- CoSponsor: Stream, Rick

Requires school districts to include on their accountability report card information regarding their gifted education program and whether the district has maintained the program within the last three years

HB 2547 --- Sponsor: Flook, Tim --- CoSponsor: Ervin, Doug

Prohibits public school districts from using school funds to purchase alcohol

HB 2554 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne

Protects teacher academic freedom to teach scientific evidence regarding biological and chemical evolution

HB 2579 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane

Imposes a fine when school officers and employees who are mandated reporters fail to report as required by law and subjects students who make false allegations to disciplinary action

HB 2582 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff --- CoSponsor: Stream, Rick

Establishes two renewable teacher preparation scholarships to the existing one-year nonrewable award for certain individuals who commit to teach or currrently work with special education students

HCR 31 --- Sponsor: Low, Beth --- CoSponsor: Oxford, Jeanette Mott

Supports efforts to begin investing in children now because an investment in children and early childhood programs is an investment in Missouri's future

SB 837 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan

Creates the Public Employee Due Process Act

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