SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES NEWMAN (Sponsor), HUMMEL, McCREERY, NICHOLS, PACE, MORGAN, SPRENG, KIRKTON, JONES (63), COLONA, WEBB, CARTER, HOLSMAN, SHIVELY, RIZZO, CONWAY (27), OXFORD, SCHIEFFER, PIERSON, KRATKY, McDONALD, BROWN (50), MONTECILLO, McGEOGHEGAN, TALBOY, AULL, McNEIL AND CARLSON (Co-sponsors).
4962L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 209.150, 209.152, and 209.200, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to Sean's Law.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 209.150, 209.152, and 209.200, RSMo, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 209.150, 209.152, and 209.200, to read as follows:
209.150. 1. Every person with a visual, aural or [physical] other disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the same rights afforded to a person with no such disability to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, and other public places.
2. Every person with a visual, aural or [physical] other disability, as defined in section 213.010, is entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, taxis, streetcars, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.
3. Every person with a visual, aural or [physical] other disability, as defined in section 213.010, shall have the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, hearing dog, or service dog, which is especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in subsection 2 of this section without being required to pay an extra charge for the guide dog, hearing dog or service dog; provided that such person shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.
4. As used in sections 209.150 to 209.190, the term "service dog" means any dog specifically trained to assist a person with a physical or mental disability by performing necessary [physical] tasks which the person cannot perform. Such tasks shall include, but not be limited to, pulling a wheelchair, retrieving items, [and] carrying supplies, and search and rescue of an individual with a disability.
209.152. Any trainer, from a recognized training center, of a guide dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog, or any member of a service dog team, as defined in section 209.200, shall have the right to be accompanied by such dog in or upon any of the premises listed in section 209.150 while engaged in the training of the dog without being required to pay an extra charge for such dog. Such trainer or service dog team member shall be liable for any damage done to the premise of facilities by such dog.
209.200. As used in sections 209.200 to 209.204, the following terms shall mean:
(1) "Disability", as defined in section 213.010;
(2) "Service dog", a dog that is being or has been specially trained to do work or perform tasks which benefit a particular person with a disability.
Service dog includes:
(a) "Guide dog", a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a particular blind or visually impaired person;
(b) "Hearing dog", a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a particular deaf or hearing- impaired person;
(c) "Medical alert or respond dog", a dog that is being or has been trained to alert a person with a disability that a particular medical event is about to occur or to respond to a medical event that has occurred;
(d) "Mobility dog", a dog that is being or has been specially trained to assist a person with a disability caused by physical impairments;
(e) "Search and rescue dog", a dog that is being or has been trained to search for or prevent a person with a mental disability, including but not limited to verbal and nonverbal autism, from becoming lost;
(3) "Service team dog", a team consisting of a trained service dog, a disabled person or child, and a person who is an adult and who has been trained to handle the service dog.
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