Missouri House of Representatives
Bills Indexed by Subject
FAMILY LAW

HB 43 --- Sponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P.

Makes juvenile court jurisdiction terminate at age 18 instead of age 17.

HB 45 --- Sponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P.

Modifies the compulsory school attendance age.

HB 70 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason

Requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances to modify child custody.

HB 154 --- Sponsor: Roark, Bradley G. --- CoSponsor: Kelly, Van

Establishes covenant marriages.

HB 196 --- Sponsor: Sager, Mike --- CoSponsor: LeVota, Paul

Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of adoptive and foster care families.

HB 253 --- Sponsor: Shoemaker, Chris --- CoSponsor: Fraser, Barbara

Prohibits the disclosure of the Social Security number of the petititoner for an order of protection.

HB 396 --- Sponsor: Hanaway, Catherine L --- CoSponsor: Parker, Sherman

Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

HB 485 --- Sponsor: Johnson, Rick --- CoSponsor: Byrd, Richard

Restricts the locations for interviewing children for child abuse investigations and allows attorneys to receive a reasonable fee in termination of parental rights cases.

HB 581 --- Sponsor: Pratt, Bryan

Creates new rights for men in the establishment of paternity.

HB 629 --- Sponsor: Muckler, Matt

Allows consideration of whether a parent provides the sole financial support for children not of the marriage due to the death of a spouse when determining child support for children of the marriage.

HB 690 --- Sponsor: Holand, Roy W.

Amends the requirements for the Missouri Family Trust.

HB 728 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. --- CoSponsor: Phillips, Susan C.

Modifies the requirements for granting grandparent visitation.

HB 752 --- Sponsor: Sager, Mike

Establishes the Missouri Abortion Reduction Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

SB 43 --- Sponsor: Dougherty, Patrick

Establishes "Office of State Ombudsman for Children's Protection and Services" and the "Task Force on Children's Justice".

SB 63 --- Sponsor: Caskey, Harold

Makes rulings on termination of parental rights final for purposes of appeal.

SB 210 --- Sponsor: Steelman, Sarah G.

Commissioners of the family court must be elected except where the nonpartisan court plan is used.

SB 306 --- Sponsor: Steelman, Sarah G.

Requires courts to appoint a guardian ad litem where there are substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect.

SB 322 --- Sponsor: Days, Rita D.

Allows adopted persons eighteen and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate.

SB 330 --- Sponsor: Caskey, Harold

Allows child support orders to be sent to employers by regular mail.

SB 593 --- Sponsor: Foster, Bill I.

Modifies the law pertaining to hot-line calls of alleged child abuse and neglect.

SB 643 --- Sponsor: Yeckel, Anita

Replaces family court commissioners with associate circuit judges.

SB 649 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.

Modifies the law relating to the Putative Father Registry.

SB 696 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida

Establishes the "Child Support Responsibility Act".

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated July 9, 2003 at 10:46 am