Bills assigned to Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
SB 576 - Keaveny - Creates the Missouri Uniform Powers of Appointment
SB 577 - Keaveny - Requires a candidate for the office of public administrator to meet the bonding requirements of the office and modifies laws regarding estate administration
SB 578 - Keaveny - Allows certain circuits to appoint an additional court marshal, authorizes an additional judge in certain circuits, excludes firearms from bankruptcy, and establishes the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act
SB 585 - Wasson - Divides the Thirty-Eighth Judicial Circuit and creates a new Forty-Sixth Judicial Circuit
SB 588 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to petitions for the expungement of criminal records
SB 590 - Dixon - Modifies provisions related to first degree murder
SB 603 - Curls - Expands the crimes eligible for expungement and modifies the time period a person must wait before being eligible to petition for expungement
SB 604 - Curls - Requires the Department of Corrections to offer certain educational and job training programs to inmates
SB 611 - Emery - Modifies Supreme Court Rule 55.03 regarding sanctions against lawyers, law firms, or parties for certain conduct
SB 618 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions relating to the detention and shackling of juvenile offenders and detention and shackling of pregnant offenders
SB 661 - Dixon - Modifies the statute specifying when police officers are justified using force
SB 663 - Dixon - Modifies provisions related to law enforcement officers, inmates, crime, preparation of land descriptions, courts, concealed carry permits, and public defenders
SB 671 - Chappelle-Nadal - Modifies provisions relating to racial profiling in policing
SB 674 - Curls - Provides a process for the Parole Board to review the case histories of offenders serving more than 15 years in prison and recommend clemency or allow release on parole
SB 681 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to probation and parole
SB 684 - Wallingford - Specifies that courts must order an evaluation by the Division of Youth Services to determine whether dual jurisdiction is appropriate for certain juvenile offenders
SB 685 - Wallingford - Requires children under the age of 18 to be prosecuted for most criminal offenses in juvenile courts unless the child is certified as an adult
SB 689 - Romine - Prohibits two-way telecommunications devices and their component parts in correctional centers and jails
SB 696 - Sifton - Removes the statute of limitations on civil actions and prosecutions involving offenses against children
SB 705 - Dixon - Modifies laws relating to public defenders
SB 707 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to county prosecuting attorneys
SB 715 - Curls - Changes the notice requirement to a tenant in a foreclosure action from ten days to ninety days
SB 716 - Curls - Repeals provisions regarding nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings and requires all foreclosure proceedings to be handled judicially
SB 717 - Curls - Changes the amount of damages that a tenant can recover when the security deposit is wrongfully withheld by a landlord
SB 718 - Emery - Requires the Senate to try all impeachments except for the impeachment of the Governor, which shall be tried by the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court
SB 721 - Romine - Modifies the crime of animal trespass
SB 726 - Nasheed - Modifies the statute specifying when police officers are justified in using deadly force
SB 729 - Sifton - Requires every individual who is seventeen years or older and is arrested for a felony offense to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling
SB 733 - Dixon - Authorizes additional circuit judges for certain circuits when indicated by a judicial performance report and repeals provisions regarding the appointment of a janitor-messenger
SB 734 - Dixon - Allows sheriffs and deputies to assist in other counties throughout the state
SB 735 - Dixon - Modifies laws relating to the Court Automation Fund, the Basic Legal Services Fund, and public defenders
SB 741 - Chappelle-Nadal - Modifies the statute specifying when police officers are justified in using deadly force
SB 742 - Curls - Allows certain people to enter abandoned property to secure it, remove trash and graffiti, and maintain the grounds, and provides immunity from civil and criminal liability
SB 743 - Curls - Provides that a landlord must keep security deposits in a depository institution and changes the amount a tenant can recover when the security deposit is wrongfully withheld
SB 758 - Chappelle-Nadal - Provides a method for judicial consideration of whether race played a role in decisions to impose or seek the death penalty
SB 759 - Chappelle-Nadal - Creates a crime for employers who divulge certain personal information of employees and customers
SB 761 - Chappelle-Nadal - Exempts marijuana from certain forfeiture provisions relating to controlled substances
SB 762 - Chappelle-Nadal - Allows a person to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and provides a licensure process for retail marijuana stores, cultivation facilities, and products manufacturers
SB 775 - Schaefer - Adds a statutory aggravating circumstance for murder in the first degree for certain acts of terrorism
SB 790 - Parson - Makes it a class B felony to physically take property from a person when the property is owned by a financial institution
SB 811 - Kraus - Restricts the use of cell site simulator devices
SB 812 - Keaveny - Allows the circuit court in St. Louis City to collect a fee not to exceed twenty dollars, rather than fifteen, to go toward the law library
SB 840 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions regarding the administration of small probate estates
SB 841 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to trust protectors
SB 842 - Keaveny - Requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies for eyewitness identification procedures
SB 860 - Riddle - Allows the presiding judge of certain circuits to appoint a circuit court marshal
SB 886 - Walsh - Adds an element to the crime of aggravated or first degree stalking
SB 890 - Emery - Requires a person who has been found guilty of driving while intoxicated to complete a victim impact program approved by the court
SB 891 - Schaefer - Requires the Attorney General to screen prison volunteers for terrorist proclivities and the Corrections Department to report on procedures to reduce radicalization
SB 893 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions of law relating to products liability claims
SB 903 - Dixon - Modifies the state's requirements to reimburse counties for certain costs related to imprisonment and electronic monitoring for criminal offenders
SB 914 - Brown - Adds entering or remaining on a privately owned structure attached to another person's building or property to the list of actions that constitute first degree trespass
SB 916 - Schaefer - Modifies definitions in the Missouri Human Rights Act
SB 918 - Wallingford - Provides that a juvenile's attorney must have the right to be heard on a request that restraints not be used in juvenile court
SB 929 - Dixon - Modifies provisions regarding when a court must instruct the jury on an included criminal offense
SB 931 - Schaefer - Modifies sentencing and supervision provisions for offenders of sex crimes against children
SB 939 - Schaefer - Creates the offense of terrorism
SB 942 - Nasheed - Modifies provisions relating to the expungement of criminal records
SB 976 - Nasheed - Modifies provisions relating to racial profiling in policing
SB 977 - Nasheed - Prohibits the use of restraints on children under the age of 17 and pregnant and post-postpartum offenders during court proceedings except in certain circumstances
SB 982 - Wieland - Modifies the law relating to administrative leave for public employees
SB 1012 - Dixon - Allows any single noncharter county judicial circuit to collect a court surcharge to be used towards the maintenance and construction of judicial facilities
SB 1013 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to procedures in criminal proceedings
SB 1014 - Dixon - Modifies admissibility of chemical test results in intoxication related proceedings
SB 1038 - Nasheed - Changes the amount of restitution paid to an individual wrongfully convicted
SB 1041 - Schatz - Creates the National Popular Vote Act
SB 1055 - Riddle - Authorizes legal counsel for the Department of Mental Health to have standing in certain hearings involving a person unable to stand trial due to lack of mental fitness
SB 1061 - Dixon - Modifies provisions of the Sunshine Law, including the mobile video recordings from law enforcement vehicles and body cameras
SB 1077 - Parson - Repeals and reenacts provisions of law regarding county prosecutors that were declared unconstitutional based on a procedural defect in the enacting legislation
SB 1083 - Wallingford - Modifies procedures in guardianship and conservator proceedings for incapacitated or disabled persons
SB 1096 - Dixon - Modifies provisions pertaining to non-participating manufacturers in the Master Settlement Agreement
SB 1097 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to the Uniform Commercial Code
SB 1098 - Dixon - Increases the penalty when a county officer fails to return revised laws received by such officer to the clerk of the circuit court
SB 1104 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law regarding claims against public higher education institutions covered by the State Legal Expense Fund
SB 1105 - Schaefer - Amends a provision of law relating to rights of a child when taken into custody by changing the pronouns to "he or she" and "him or her"
SB 1110 - Brown - Modifies the law relating to orders issued by juvenile courts
SB 1145 - Nasheed - Modifies provisions relating to children involved in trafficking and prostitution
SJR 24 - Emery - Requires the Senate, beginning January 1, 2017, to try all impeachments except for the impeachment of the Governor, which shall be tried by the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court
SJR 30 - Hegeman - Provides that a nonpartisan judicial commission shall submit to the Governor a list of names, rather than a list of three names, to fill a judicial vacancy in a court under the nonpartisan court plan
SJR 42 - Emery - Delineates procedures a court must follow when assessing a claim that the government has enforced a law that limits a person's constitutional rights
SJR 43 - Chappelle-Nadal - Creates new constitutional amendment relating to congressional term limits
HB 1388 - Roeber - Provides that Division Twelve of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit shall sit at the City of Independence
HB 1432 - Vescovo - Modifies the law relating to administrative leave for public employees
HB 1584 - Hill - Modifies procedures used by entities providing private probation services, security guards at casinos, and corporate security advisors
HB 1585 - Hill - Modifies provisions relating to hearings before the Board of Probation and Parole
HB 1594 - Crawford - Modifies provisions to the physical taking or attempted physical taking of property owned or in custody of a financial institution
HB 1619 - McCaherty - Establishes a two year statute of limitations for claims of malpractice or negligence against mental health professionals
HB 1622 - Kelley - Requires a convicted sex offender to be told of his or her obligation to register as a sex offender both prior to release or discharge and at the time of adjudication
HB 1759 - Miller - Adds a circuit court judge to the 26th Judicial Circuit and authorizes an additional circuit judge in certain circuits when indicated by a judicial performance report
HB 1765 - Cornejo - Creates regulations for commercial receiverships and powers of appointment, exempts firearms from bankruptcy, modifies provisions regarding wills, trusts, and exonerated individuals, and establishes a statute of limitations on suits against mental health professionals
HB 1837 - Fitzwater - Modifies provisions relating to prisons and jails and the Board of Probation of Probation and Parole
HB 1858 - Mathews - Establishes provisions relating to filings with the recorder of deeds and establishes the crime of false filings
HB 1862 - Cross - Modifies procedures in landlord and tenant cases, provides that a landlord must keep security deposits in a depository institution, and allows landlords withhold money for carpet cleaning from the security deposit pursuant to a lease agreement
HB 1936 - Wilson - Allows sheriffs and deputies to assist in other counties throughout the state and modifies provisions relating to the Inmate Prisoner Detainee Security Fund, and law enforcement mobile video recordings
HB 1972 - Crawford - Modifies provisions relating to victims of crime
HB 2332 - Corlew - Modifies various provisions of criminal law
HB 2561 - Brown - Changes the laws regarding victims of crimes
HB 2590 - Plocher - Modifies provisions relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and establishes the Missouri Commercial Receivership Act