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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 162.1255 — MO Code / Chapter 162 / Section 162.1255
162.1255 Funding for competency-based courses — amount.
Status: in_force

162.1255. Funding for competency-based courses — amount. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Competency-based credit" , credit awarded by school districts and charter schools to high school students upon demonstration of competency as determined by a school district. Such credit shall be awarded upon receipt of proficient or advanced on an end-of-course assessment;

(2) "Prior year average attendance percentage" , the quotient of the district or charter school's prior year average daily attendance divided by the district or charter school's prior year average yearly enrollment.

2. School districts and charter schools shall receive state school funding under sections 163.031 , 163.043 , 163.044 , and 163.087 for resident pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school and taking competency-based courses offered by the school district.

3. For purposes of calculation and distribution of state aid under section 163.031 , attendance of a student enrolled in a district's or charter school's competency-based courses shall equal, upon course completion, the product of the district's or charter school's prior year average attendance percentage multiplied by the total number of attendance hours normally allocable to a noncompetency-based course of equal credit value.

(L. 2022 S.B. 681 & 662)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 105.477 — MO Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.477
105.477 Electronic filing, lobbying reports — information to be made available, to ...
Status: in_force

105.477. Electronic filing, lobbying reports — information to be made available, to whom — internet website connection, when. — 1. The commission shall supply an electronic reporting system which shall be used by all lobbyists registered with the ethics commission for filing by electronic format prescribed by the commission. The electronic reporting system shall be able to operate using either the Windows or Macintosh operating environment with minimum standards set by the commission.

2. The commission shall have the appropriate software and hardware in place by January 1, 2003, for acceptance of reports electronically. The commission shall make this information available via an internet website connection by no later than January 1, 2004.

3. All lobbyists shall file expenditure reports required by the commission electronically as prescribed by the commission. In addition, lobbyists shall file a signed form prescribed by the commission which verifies the information filed electronically within five working days; except that, when a means becomes available which will allow a verifiable electronic signature, the commission may accept this in lieu of a signed form.

4. All records that are in electronic format, not otherwise closed by law, shall be available in electronic format to the public. The commission shall maintain and provide for public inspection a listing of all reports, with a complete description for each field contained on the report, that has been used to extract information from their database files. The commission shall develop a report or reports which contain every field in each database.

5. Annually, the commission shall provide to the general assembly at no cost a complete copy of information contained in the commission's electronic reporting system database files. The information shall be copied onto a medium specified by the general assembly. Such information shall not contain records otherwise closed by law. It is the intent of the general assembly to provide open access to the commission's records. The commission shall make every reasonable effort to comply with requests for information and shall take a liberal interpretation when considering such requests. Priority shall be given to public requests for reports identifying lobbyist or lobbyist principal expenditures per individual legislator.

(L. 1997 S.B. 16, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1840)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 182.703 — MO Code / Chapter 182 / Section 182.703
182.703 Urban public library district, procedure to create — boundaries — new ...
Status: in_force

182.703. Urban public library district, procedure to create — boundaries — new district to be successor to library serving same boundaries — authority to levy property tax. — Urban public library districts may be created, upon the favorable vote of a majority of the residents of the nine director school district voting at an election held on any permissible election date. The decision as to whether the issue of creation of a new urban public library district will be placed on the ballot must be made by a majority vote of the nine member board of directors of the urban school district. The boundaries of any new urban public library district shall coincide with the respective nine director urban school district. Upon creation of any such district, the new district shall be designated as successor to any public library system operated within such boundaries immediately preceding the date of the election, and shall be entitled to levy a property tax at the same rate as had been authorized pursuant to section 137.030 for operation of the public library by the nine director urban school district immediately prior to creation of the new urban public library district. Effective the first calendar year after the election resulting in creation of the urban public library district, the nine director urban school district serving the same boundaries shall no longer be authorized to levy a tax for public library purposes. The alteration of the boundaries of a nine director urban school district shall not affect the boundaries of any urban public library district created pursuant to sections 182.701 to 182.723 .

(L. 1988 S.B. 681)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 544.540 — MO Code / Chapter 544 / Section 544.540
544.540 Court to fix conditions for release, when.
Status: in_force

544.540. Court to fix conditions for release, when. — If the defendant is not arrested or in custody during the term at which an indictment for felony is returned, the court must fix the conditions for release as provided in section 544.455 required of the defendant, and the clerk must endorse the conditions on the warrant; but if no order fixing the conditions for release has * been made, the sheriff may present the warrant to the judge of the court, and such judge may thereupon endorse the conditions for release required; or if the judge is not in the county, the clerk may fix the conditions for release.

(RSMo 1939 § 3963, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1160) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3574; 1919 § 3917; 1909 § 5124 *Word "have" appears in original rolls.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 303.300 — MO Code / Chapter 303 / Section 303.300
303.300 Driver's records available upon request.
Status: in_force

303.300. Driver's records available upon request. — The director shall upon request furnish any person a certified abstract of the operating record of any person subject to the provisions of this chapter, which abstract shall also fully designate the motor vehicles, if any, registered in the name of such person, and, if there shall be no record of any conviction of such person of violating any law relating to the operation of a motor vehicle or of any injury or damage caused by such person, the director shall so certify.

(L. 1953 p. 569 § 303.030)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 161.1105 — MO Code / Chapter 161 / Section 161.1105
161.1105 Contracts awarded for experts, criteria — negotiation of contracts, ...
Status: in_force

161.1105. Contracts awarded for experts, criteria — negotiation of contracts, department duties — fund created, use of moneys. — 1. The department shall award contracts to independent school turnaround experts. Governing boards shall not be required to pay independent school turnaround experts.

2. When awarding a contract to an independent school turnaround expert selected by the governing board under section 161.1095 , the department shall ensure that a contract between the governing board and the independent school turnaround expert specifies that the department shall:

(1) Pay an independent school turnaround expert no more than fifty percent of the expert's professional fees during the time period the school turnaround expert is providing services to the school in need of intervention; and

(2) Pay the remainder of the independent school turnaround expert's professional fees upon the independent school turnaround expert successfully helping a school in need of intervention meet exit criteria as determined by the department under section 161.1090 within four school years after a school is designated as needing intervention.

3. In negotiating a contract with an independent school turnaround expert, the department shall offer:

(1) An average of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the entirety of the project;

(2) Differentiated amounts of funding based on student enrollment; and

(3) A higher amount of funding for schools that are in the lowest-performing one percent of schools statewide according to the outcome-based measure determined by the department under section 161.1090 .

4. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "School Turnaround Fund". The fund shall consist of all moneys that may be appropriated to it by the general assembly and any gifts, contributions, grants, or bequests received from federal, private, or other sources. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund. In accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180 , the state treasurer may approve disbursements of public moneys in accordance with distribution requirements and procedures developed by the department of elementary and secondary education. The fund shall be a dedicated fund and, upon appropriation, moneys in the fund shall be used solely for payments to independent school turnaround experts and for administrative expenses for the school turnaround program. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.

(L. 2019 H.B. 604)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 217.670 — MO Code / Chapter 217 / Section 217.670
217.670 Decisions to be by majority vote — hearing panel, membership, duties — ...
Status: in_force

217.670. Decisions to be by majority vote — hearing panel, membership, duties — jurisdiction removal or appeal to board, when — decision to be final — closed meetings authorized — video conferencing. — 1. The board shall adopt an official seal of which the courts shall take official notice.

2. Decisions of the board regarding granting of paroles, extensions of a conditional release date or revocations of a parole or conditional release shall be by a majority vote of the hearing panel members. The hearing panel shall consist of one member of the board and two hearing officers appointed by the board. A member of the board may remove the case from the jurisdiction of the hearing panel and refer it to the full board for a decision. Within thirty days of entry of the decision of the hearing panel to deny parole or to revoke a parole or conditional release, the offender may appeal the decision of the hearing panel to the board. The board shall consider the appeal within thirty days of receipt of the appeal. The decision of the board shall be by majority vote of the board members and shall be final.

3. The orders of the board shall not be reviewable except as to compliance with the terms of sections 217.650 to 217.810 or any rules promulgated pursuant to such section.

4. The board shall keep a record of its acts and shall notify each correctional center of its decisions relating to persons who are or have been confined in such correctional center.

5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any meeting, record, or vote, of proceedings involving probation, parole, or pardon, may be a closed meeting, closed record, or closed vote.

6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the appearance or presence of an offender before the board or a hearing panel is required for the purpose of deciding whether to grant conditional release or parole, extend the date of conditional release, revoke parole or conditional release, or for any other purpose, such appearance or presence may occur by means of a videoconference at the discretion of the board. Victims having a right to attend parole hearings may testify either at the site where the board is conducting the videoconference or at the institution where the offender is located. The use of videoconferencing in this section shall be at the discretion of the board, and shall not be utilized if either the victim or the victim's family objects to it.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 119, A.L. 1984 S.B. 611, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424, A.L. 2012 S.B. 636, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1355)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 249.933 — MO Code / Chapter 249 / Section 249.933
249.933 Maintenance costs, assessment may be levied and collected after period for ...
Status: in_force

249.933. Maintenance costs, assessment may be levied and collected after period for assessment of property has expired. — A sewage or storm water facility improvement district assessment may be levied and collected after the original period approved for assessment of property within the district has expired, with the proceeds thereof used solely for maintenance of the improvement, if the residents of the sewage or storm water facility improvement district vote to assess property within the district for the maintenance costs in the manner prescribed in subsection 2 of section 249.929 .

(L. 1995 H.B. 88 § 11 subsec. 5)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.050 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.050
260.050 Renewal notes or refunding bonds issued when.
Status: in_force

260.050. Renewal notes or refunding bonds issued when. — The authority may from time to time issue renewal notes or refund any bonds by the issuance of refunding bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partially to refund bonds then outstanding and partially for any other purpose. Renewal notes or refunding bonds may be sold at public or private sale and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption, or payment of the notes or bonds to be refunded.

(L. 1972 H.B. 1041 § 10) Effective 1-22-73
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 354.345 — MO Code / Chapter 354 / Section 354.345
354.345 Court decree of specific performance — membership contract, failure of ...
Status: in_force

354.345. Court decree of specific performance — membership contract, failure of corporation to comply, procedure, effect. — Any person, who has heretofore obtained or may hereafter obtain, in any of the courts of this state, a decree against any corporation subject to the provisions of sections 354.010 to 354.380 doing business in this state, commanding or directing said corporation to specifically perform a membership contract, may, if the corporation against which said decree is obtained, fails, for a period of fifteen days after the rendition of said decree, to comply with the same, obtain a copy of said decree, certified to under the hand and seal of the clerk of the court in which said decree was rendered, and transmit the same, together with the certificate of said clerk, reciting therein the failure of such corporation to comply with said decree, and transmit the same to the director of the department of commerce and insurance of the state of Missouri, and immediately upon receipt thereof, the said director of the department of commerce and insurance shall cause such corporation to be notified of the fact of the filing of such certified copy of said decree and certificate, and if such corporation fails for a period of thirty days thereafter to comply with said decree, the certificate of authority or license to do business issued or granted to such corporation shall immediately be suspended or revoked by the director of the department of commerce and insurance, until such decree shall be satisfied; provided, however, the foregoing shall not be applicable while an appeal is pending if a supersedeas bond shall have been given.

(L. 1983 H.B. 127)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 575.080 — MO Code / Chapter 575 / Section 575.080
575.080 False reports — penalty.
Status: in_force

575.080. False reports — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of making a false report if he or she knowingly:

(1) Gives false information to any person for the purpose of implicating another person in an offense; or

(2) Makes a false report to a law enforcement officer that an offense has occurred or is about to occur; or

(3) Makes a false report or causes a false report to be made to a law enforcement officer, security officer, fire department or other organization, official or volunteer, which deals with emergencies involving danger to life or property that a fire or other incident calling for an emergency response has occurred or is about to occur.

2. It is a defense to a prosecution under subsection 1 of this section that the person retracted the false statement or report before the law enforcement officer or any other person took substantial action in reliance thereon.

3. The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue of retraction under subsection 2 of this section.

4. The offense of making a false report is a class B misdemeanor.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2002 S.B. 712, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 566.023 — MO Code / Chapter 566 / Section 566.023
566.023 Marriage to victim, at time of offense, affirmative defense, for certain ...
Status: in_force

566.023. Marriage to victim, at time of offense, affirmative defense, for certain offenses. — It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecutions under sections 566.032 , 566.034 , 566.062 , 566.064 , and 566.071 , that the defendant was married to the victim at the time of the offense.

(L. 1994 S.B. 693, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1918, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 135.255 — MO Code / Chapter 135 / Section 135.255
135.255 Displaced enterprise zone resident assistance, when, limitations.
Status: in_force

135.255. Displaced enterprise zone resident assistance, when, limitations. — After August 13, 1982, whenever an enterprise zone resident becomes displaced as a result of condemnation authorized under the provisions of chapter 353 and is displaced from a dwelling which was actually owned and occupied by the displaced person as his principal residence for not less than one year prior to the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of the property, the redevelopment corporation shall make payment to the displaced person upon proper application for:

(1) Actual expenses up to five hundred dollars incurred in moving himself, his family and other personal property; or the displaced person may elect to be moved by licensed, bonded moving services, or receive * a moving expense allowance up to a maximum of five hundred dollars;

(2) Actual dislocation expenses incurred up to two hundred dollars, including as eligible expenses, but not limited to, utility connection costs, and other incidental expenses;

(3) The amount, if any, which, when added to the acquisition cost of the dwelling acquired by the redevelopment corporation, equals the reasonable cost of a replacement dwelling which is comparable to the dwelling being acquired in size, condition, and accessibility to public services, and commercial facilities, and which is reasonably accessible to his place of employment, and is available on the private market without discrimination due to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex or source of income;

(4) The amount, if any, which will compensate the displaced person for any increased interest costs which such person is required to pay for financing the acquisition of a replacement dwelling. Such amount shall be equal to the interest differential between the existing and new mortgage based upon the remaining principal and term on the existing mortgage;

(5) The amount, if any, which will compensate the displaced person for any increased monthly payments for principal, interest, taxes and insurance which such person is required to pay due to the loss by such person of government subsidies, including, but not limited to, subsidies under Section 235 of Title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, as a result of being displaced. Such amount shall be discounted to present value. The discount rate shall be five and one-half percent. The payments authorized by this section shall be made only to a displaced person who purchases or occupies a replacement dwelling which is decent, safe and sanitary not later than one year after the date on which the displaced person receives payment of consideration for the acquired dwelling or the date on which the displaced person moves from the acquired dwelling, whichever is later. No payment under this section to any displaced person may exceed ten thousand dollars.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1713, et al. § 13) *Word "received" appears in original rolls.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 359.421 — MO Code / Chapter 359 / Section 359.421
359.421 Rights of judgment creditor of partner.
Status: in_force

359.421. Rights of judgment creditor of partner. — On application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of a partner, the court may charge the partnership interest of the partner with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the judgment with interest. To the extent so charged, the judgment creditor has only the rights of an assignee of the partnership interest. This chapter does not deprive any partner of the benefit of any exemption laws applicable to his partnership interest.

(L. 1985 H.B. 512 & 650) Effective 1-01-87
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 476.802 — MO Code / Chapter 476 / Section 476.802
476.802 Criminal background check, fingerprint submission.
Status: in_force

476.802. Criminal background check, fingerprint submission. — 1. The office of state courts administrator may require that fingerprint submissions be made as part of the application of certification as a qualified interpreter, pursuant to section 476.800 .

2. If the office of state courts administrator requires that fingerprint submissions be made as part of such application, the office of state courts administrator shall submit fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal history background check on applicants.

3. The fingerprints and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's central repository. The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540 . The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the office of state courts administrator of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the office of state courts administrator of Missouri.

(L. 2025 S.B. 71 merged with S.B. 81 & 174)