Education
Assigned Bills

HB 1338 - (Relford) Provides basis for State Board of Education to refuse to issue or renew certificates to teach
HB 1406 - (Barnett) Increases the membership of the Northwest Missouri State University's board of regents from seven to nine
HB 1421 - (McKenna) Excludes capital appropriations from appropriations for maintenance & operating funds for community college district
HB 1460 - (Hilgemann) Allows St. Louis public schools the power to raise the compulsory attendance age for that district from 16 to 17
HB 1477 - (Farnen) Junior colleges allowed same access as school districts to participate in MOHEFA direct deposit agreements
HB 1515 - (Burton) Extends provisions of the honorary high school diploma program for veterans to include POWs
HB 1527 - (Graham) Revises the composition of the Board of Curators of the University of MO, Truman State and Southwest MO State
HB 1711 - (Graham) Generates numerous changes to the state's education policy including modifications concerning the foundation formula
HB 1726 - (Walton) Provides guidelines for local school districts in establishing a written policy prohibiting bullying
HB 1809 - (Brooks) Creates procedures under which Kansas City school board members may be removed from office in a recall election
HB 1817 - (Franklin) Makes numerous changes to the state's education policy
HB 1973 - (Bowman) Requires Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education to conduct a study relating to economics & personal finance ed.
HB 1986 - (Hosmer) Allows for a faculty representative on all university boards of governors, and creates other minor changes to the boards
HB 1994 - (Hosmer) Changes the name of various state colleges and universities
HB 2022 - (Richardson) Reenacts section 178.870 and allows the establishment of community college capital improvement subdistricts
HB 2023 - (Franklin) Alters definitions regarding special education services and provisions concerning disciplinary changes of placement
HB 2047 - (Ransdall) Expands criteria for college students called into military service to qualify for tuition refunds & incomplete grades
SB 0659 House - Revises charter school laws
SB 0661 Westfall - Revises state school aid formula
SB 0667 Bentley - Establishes teacher salary supplements for National Board teacher certification
SB 0668 Bentley - Establishes a math grant program, the CAES program, & allows school districts to create after school & summer programs
SB 0674 Childers - Requires state-sponsored professional development events for teachers to occur on scheduled days
SB 0678 Bland - Requires charter schools to meet all accreditation standards and requirements
SB 0679 Bland - Establishes planning commission for Kansas City Missouri School District
SB 0681 Stoll - Revises line 14 of the Foundation Formula
SB 0692 Gross - School boards to establish the daily observance of one minute of silence in each classroom
SB 0697 Cauthorn - Creates more funding for textbooks and signing bonuses for rural schools
SB 0718 House - Mandates weekly Pledge of Allegiance for school children
SB 0719 Westfall - Creates state aid payment for educating pupils with limited English proficiency
SB 0722 Bentley - Renders alterations to policies regarding teachers' licenses and permits temporary administrator certificates
SB 0755 Westfall - Exempts retailers from sales tax for inventory donated to private or public education entities
SB 0756 Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
SB 0765 Steelman - Establishes a School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0767 Steelman - University of Missouri-Rolla may sponsor charter schools
SB 0783 Steelman - Requires school districts to provide phonics instruction
SB 0791 Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
SB 0794 Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
SB 0811 Dougherty - Salary schedule credit for public school teachers
SB 0813 Mathewson - Modifies appropriations procedures for community college districts
SB 0858 Dougherty - Allows certain metropolitan school districts to change the compulsory attendance age
SB 0859 Russell - Modifies A+ program's three-year attendance requirement and gives supremacy to tuition reimbursements over school grants
SB 0863 Gross - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold" harmless school districts' school aid
SB 0864 Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
SB 0873 House - Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship" program
SB 0874 Bentley - Prescribes additional guidelines concerning service delivery for special education services
SB 0880 Steelman - Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR
SB 0889 Dougherty - Allows administrators in metropolitan school districts to come out of retirement and keep their benefits up to 4 years
SB 0890 Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
SB 0897 Dougherty - Creates the Urban Flight Scholarship Program
SB 0898 Dougherty - Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special ed. field
SB 0914 Jacob - Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period
SB 0934 Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
SB 0935 Foster - Alters the process by which teachers' certificates of license may be revoked
SB 0936 Foster - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohi- bited from participating in regular programs of instruction
SB 0937 Foster - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony
SB 0944 Goode - Increases sales tax by one quarter percent and puts a surcharge on corporate income to fund education
SB 0947 Klindt - Revises community colleges' property tax rates, capital improvement subdistricts, & MOHEFA direct deposit agreements
SB 0949 Bentley - Raises the admission fee for each person embarking on an excursion gambling boat from two dollars to four dollars
SB 0979 Singleton - Changes the name of MO Southern State College, MO Western State College and Southwest MO State University
SB 1033 Kennedy - Creates the public school beautification adoption program
SB 1034 Kennedy - Mandates that all schools in Missouri receiving public moneys shall recite the Pledge of Allegiance
SB 1050 Foster - Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes
SB 1051 Foster - Alters the terms by which a school district may transfer moneys from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund
SB 1053 Bentley - Establishes pilot projects for the payment of incentives to early childhood education professionals
SB 1059 Bentley - Generates numerous modifications to the state's education policy
SB 1136 Bentley - Alters definitions concerning the state school funding formula
SB 1183 Bentley - Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs
SB 1206 Bentley - Grants the state board of education authority to lapse certain provisionally accredited school districts
SB 1212 Mathewson - Allows college students called into military service to qualify for tuition refunds & incomplete grades
SB 1229 Gibbons - Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the nursing student loan program
SB 1233 Yeckel - Makes various changes to the charter school laws
SB 1237 Stoll - Establishes the "Missouri Statewide Initiative for Scientific Education Enhancement" (MOSISE)
SB 1246 Yeckel - Provides that alternate assessments may be given to special education students
SB 1250 Yeckel - Establishes an alternative teacher certification program
SB 1256 Steelman - Teacher education students employed for at least 2 years as teacher assistants may bypass student teaching requirement
SJR 027 Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 030 Cauthorn - Would allow school districts private school pupils transportation

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