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MSTA Action

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Bills passed this session

The following bills were truly agreed to and finally passed in the 2010 General Assembly:

HB1311 (Scharnhorst) establishes provisions regarding health insurance coverage for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.

HB1543 (Wallace) changes laws regarding school safety, Career Ladder, Parents as Teachers, and allows schools financial flexibility.

HB1831 (K. Jones) allows the board of a school district that has acquired real property by donation to sell the property as surplus after 10 years, provided the school board first offers to return the property to the previous owner. If the previous owner refuses the return of the property, the school board may sell it as surplus.

HB1892 (Nasheed) allows work certificates to be issued by one of the following: the chief executive officer of a charter school; a person holding a student services certificate authorized in writing by the school superintendent or chief executive officer; and the principal of a public or private school. Any student solely enrolled in a course of education for which the parent, guardian or designated private tutor is the student's primary education provider and is also responsible for the student's education program and schedule can be issued a work certificate by such primary education provider.

HB1893 (Kelly) changes the laws regarding the distribution of gaming funds that govern the administration of early childhood education and veterans' programs.

HB1903 (Icet) creates the Federal Budget Stabilization Extension Fund to receive money from federal job creation legislation enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress, and the Race to the Top Fund to receive money from the federal Race to the Top grant. The commissioner of education must present a distribution proposal to the Joint Committee on Education before school districts could receive Race to the Top money. The joint committee would have to approve the distribution plan by a majority vote.

HB2002 (Icet) appropriates money for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

HB2147 (D. Brown) allows a student who is a dependent of a retired military member who relocates to Missouri within one year of his or her parent's retirement from active duty to be exempt from the attendance requirement.

HB2262 (Day) requires the adjutant general to establish the Missouri Youth Challenge Academy for at-risk high school age youth. The residential military-based academy will provide work experience and training in life skills, citizenship, coping and academic skills, among other things. The Missouri Youth Challenge Foundation Fund is paid for by gifts, donations, appropriations, transfers and bequests. The adjutant general is authorized to make grants from the fund to support the academy.