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SAFE SCHOOLS ACT (HB 1301 & 1298 & SB 944)
Affidavit required for admission 167.023
Alternative education 167.164
     Contract services 167.164
     Grants 167.335
     Joint applications 167.335
     Qualifications 167.335
     Voucher 167.164
Assault while on school property  565.075
Controlled substances, distribution 195.214
Disciplinary records, expungement  167.026
Discipline 160.261
False bomb report 575.090
Felony violation, grounds for suspension 167.161
Headstart buses 304.076
Hearing, suspension or expulsion 167.161
Homeless child, define 167.020
Immunization 167.181
Juvenile officer, report to 167.115
Lifesaving training, CPR 167.624
Medication, self-administered 167.627
Motivated student program 170.260
Records request, provided, penalty 167.020
Registration requirements 167.020
Reporting requirements 160.261
Residency 167.020
Restitution, court may order work for 211.188
Safe Schools Program for more information
School employees, report to 167.117
School uniforms 167.029
State Board may modify or waive rules 161.210
State Board to establish rules 167.020
Street gang activities 161.650
Superintendent, report to 167.115
Suspension or expulsion, report to 167.115, 167.161
     Summary 167.171
Weapons offense 160.261571.030
     Definition  571.010
SAFETY
Doors, how hung 320.070
     Penalty 320.080
Eye protection 170.005, 170.007, 170.009
Fire escapes 320.010
SALARIES
Teacher's contract 168.108
Vocational education employees 178.570
SALE
Property: 177.073
    Not for profit corporations 177.088
    Restrictions 177.011
    Districts 177.091
    Student projects 171.098
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS (See also "LOAN PROGRAM FOR PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS")
Amount 160.276
Awarded, how determined 160.278
College or university to provide matching funds 160.276
Loan:
    Failure to obtain degree 160.281
    Failure to teach 160.283
    Interest charged 160.281, 160.283
    Teaching five years repays loan 160.283
    Treated as loan, when 160.281, 160.283
    Matching funds 160.276
Qualifications 160.276
Students to indicate preference 160.278
Treated as loan, when 160.281, 160.283
SCHOOL AGE (See "AGE")
SCHOOL-BASED NONVIOLENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Development, content, availability 170.046
Program materials 170.046
SCHOOL BUILDING REVOLVING FUND
Created 166.300
Definitions 166.300
Eligibility for loans 166.300
Loans for projects, plan 166.300
Ranking of projects 166.300
SCHOOL BUILDINGS (See "PROPERTY")
SCHOOL BUSES/Drivers (See also "TRANSPORTATION")
Bear word "special" 304.060 
Central depository concerning certain bus drivers, to be maintained by director of revenue  302.274 
Crossing control arm 304.050
Defined 301.010, 302.010
Design and operation 304.060
Distance between vehicles 304.044

Drivers:
     Age requirements 302.272
     Vision requirements 302.175
     School bus permit required 302.272
Flashing signals 307.100
Following too close 304.044
Headstart buses 304.076
Inspection 307.375
"Jessica's Law" 304.050
License plates 301.260
Notification by employer of school bus drivers to director of revenue, when, 
     penalty for noncompliance , by an employer  302.275 
Penalty 304.070
Railroad crossing 304.030
Safety glass 307.140
Signs  304.050, 304.075
Spot checks 307.375
Stop laws 304.050
Suspension of school bus permit, when, penalty for noncompliance by driver with 
     suspended permit 302.276
SCHOOL DISTRICT BOND FUND (STATE)
Established 164.303
Purpose, health & education facilities authority  164.303
SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Apportionment of property 162.031
Assault while on school property, penalty 565.075
Board meetings:
     Election of directors of new district 162.241
     Organization of board, quorum, officers 162.301
Boundary change:
     Property adjustments 162.031, 162.041
     Six-director districts 162.431
Budget forms 67.090
Building Trades Projects 177.091
Classification 160.021
Closed 171.121
Consolidation 162.223
     Tax rate ceiling, how calculated 162.202
Controlled substance near schools, penalty 195.214
Definitions 160.011
Dissolved:
     Districts 162.451
Election, annual 162.341
Established 162.211
Facility damage 160.041
Financial stress:
     Balance of less than 1% 161.525
     Duties imposed on boards of education 161.529
     Exemption from restrictions 161.527
Factors determining 161.520
Flag:
     Displaying 171.021
     Etiquette instruction 161.104
Formation, unorganized territory 162.071
Formed of cities or towns defined 160.031
Free public schools, age limit Art. IX, Sec. 1(a)
Free textbook fund 170.051
Institutional vandalism 574.085
Lapsed district:
     Shortened term 162.081
     Tax rate below minimum 162.081
     Unaccredited 162.081
Minimum:
     All districts 162.081
     Requirements for state aid 163.021
Motivated students programs, requirements 170.260
Name change 162.321
Naming new district 162.311
Numbered 162.311
Organization, consolidated:
     Procedure 162.221
          Who may establish 162.211
Performance of public high school students, annually report 161.610
Policy on student participation in statewide assessment 160.570
Polling places 162.341, 162.381
Property:
     Ordinances 177.021
     Validation of prior conveyances of sixteenth-section lands 177.071
Public school system established, ages 160.051
Pupils may attend where tax is paid 167.151
Records transferred from county superintendent of schools, duties 160.061
Reorganization 162.181
School purposes, allotment of state revenues Art. IX, Sec. 3(b)
School year, eight month, deficiency in provision Art. IX, Sec. 3(b)
Seven-director school district 162.212
Seven-director district, North Kansas City 162.459
Sexual assault prevention program 589.020
Site located  177.091
Six-director district:
     Procedure to organize 162.221
     Whom may establish 162.211
Special school district, procedure to establish 162.825
Term of school:
     Calendar prepared 171.031
     Day, week, month, year defined 160.041
Valuation of property divided 162.031, 162.041
Vocational building trades 177.091
SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUST FUND (1 cent sales tax)
Creation 144.701
Distribution 163.087
Rollback of levy required, when 164.013
SCHOOL FOUNDATION FORMULA
(See "STATE AID")
SCHOOL HEALTH INITIATIVES
Accessible care, provided 167.619
Administration of medicine, first aid, immunity 167.621
Advisory committee, established 167.611
Authorization of parent or guardian 167.621
Consent form, checklist, prerequisite 167.611
Continuation of services previously provided 167.617
Definitions 167.600
Develop plan to encourage schools to be Medicaid providers  167.606
Disbursement transfer to health initiatives fund, arrangement 167.609
Discontinuance of participation  167.614
Discrimination prohibited 167.619
Distribution of contraceptive devices and drugs prohibited  167.611
Employment of personnel 167.606
Grants to assist public schools 167.603
Identification of family practitioner 167.611
Medicaid payment incentives 167.603
Method of disbursement of funds 167.609
Procedure 167.609
Rules 167.603
Services provided  167.606
Underwriting of costs, determination of amount, assessment 167.609
SCHOOL MONEYS FUND
Interest from investments credited to 166.051
SEVERELY HANDICAPPED (See also "SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS", or "SPECIAL EDUCATION")
Additional personnel 162.765
Advisory committees 162.690, 162.805

Assignment of children:
     Appeal 162.735
     Change of 162.955
Census 162.695
Contracting for services 162.750
Cost, district of residence to pay toward 162.740
Amount due, failure to pay 162.745
County foreign insurance tax fund 162.792
Definitions 162.675
Educated with others when possible 162.680
Funds, donations, annual report 162.790
Payment for enumerated children 162.990
Policy statement 162.670
Programs provided 162.725
Property:
     Acquire 162.785
     Care and control 162.780
Regulations and standards 162.685
Schools established 162.730
Special district created 162.815
Transportation 162.755
SEXUAL ABSTINENCE, INSTRUCTION 170.015
SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION 589.020
Definitions 589.300
Local crime prevention program  589.310
SHELTERED WORKSHOPS
Definitions 178.900
Department designated to accept and disburse federal funds 178.940
Establishing, hearing, certificate, revocation 178.920
Judicial review 178.960
Purposes 178.910
Staff, board of education to appoint 178.950
State aid, records 178.930
Transportation provided for employees 162.755
SMOKING REGULATIONS
Definitions 191.765
Designated Areas 191.767
Persons in control of public places 191.771
Rules may be adopted by school boards 191.777
School and school buses, smoking or tobacco use prohibited 191.775
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
Liability insurance: 537.620
Limit 537.610
Insurance association:
     Approval and licensure 537.630
     Director of insurance can take charge 537.645

Premium tax, not required 537.650
     Procedure to form 537.625
Renewal license fee 537.640
     Treated as corporation 537.635
Waiver 537.600
SPANKING (See "CORPORAL PUNISHMENT")
SPECIAL DAYS
Arbor Day 9.100
Certain holidays 9.020
Jefferson Day 9.030
Missouri Day 9.040
Pearl Harbor Day 9.110
Prison of War Remembrance 9.070
SPECIAL EDUCATION (See also "SEVERELY HANDICAPPED" or "SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS")
Additional services provided by division of mental health, costs, when 162.970
Administrative review:
     Conducted how, appeal 162.961
     Diagnosis, reevaluation 162.950
     Hearing, witnesses cross-examined, record of proceedings 162.963
Advisory committees 162.690
Assignment: 
     Among districts, how determined 162.705
     Appeal by parents to state schools 162.670
     Change made, consent required 162.955
     Special programs, periodic reevaluation 162.685
Census required 162.695
Contracting with other districts, costs 162.705
Costs:
     Contractual arrangements 162.705
     District of domicile 162.970
     District of residence to pay toward special educational services costs 162.740
     Excess 162.970
County foreign insurance tax fund 162.792
Defined 161.162, 162.675
Denial of services, prohibited 162.680
Diagnosis, notice to parents, contents 162.945
Diagnostic reports 162.700
Division of family services, residential treatment facility 162.970
Division of youth services facilities 219.021
Educated with others when possible 162.680
Employees not to have interest in school property, penalty 162.810
Enumeration 162.990
Expenditures, limitation 162.995
Facilities and supplies, standards 162.715
Funds donated 162.790
Handicapped children:
     Attend regular school environment when possible 162.680
     Attending private, parochial, home schools, districts to provide special educational services 162.996
     Eligible for services in addition to mental health programs  162.970
Hearing:
     Assignment or evaluation of child, appeal, notice 162.961, 162.962, 162.963
     Hearing panel report, subject to review, appeal   162.962
     How requested 162.950
Homebound instruction 162.980
MISSOURI SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
MISSOURI SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Nonresident handicapped children admitted to state schools 162.735
Out-of-state students 162.970
Policy statement 162.670
Political subdivision, powers 162.875
Professional personnel required 162.715
Public hearings required, when 162.685
Readers, compensation 178.180
Regulations and standards established 162.685
Remedial reading 162.700
Schools/programs established 162.730
Section of special education created, director appointed, compensation  161.162
Services must be provided 162.705
Severely handicapped
Special educational services required  162.700
Special school districts
Special training for special education programs 162.715
State aid:
     Classes, programs, and homebound children 162.975, 162.980
     Duties of department 162.930
     How computed 162.935
     Limit on expenditures from state school moneys fund 162.995
     Payments for enumerated handicapped children, annual census 162.990
     Payments for homebound or contractual arrangement child 162.980
     Prerequisites for 162.715
     Professional personnel required 162.715
     Special programs, how calculated 162.975
State board of education:
     Advisory committees 162.805
     Appoints:
          Additional personnel of state schools 162.760
          Personnel of state schools 162.765
     Assignment of severely handicapped children to state schools 162.735
     Authority to acquire property, receive and administer grants 162.785
     Boards of advisors for school for blind and deaf  162.795
     Contracts for education of severely handicapped children authorized 162.735
     Duties 162.730
     Establish schools for severely handicapped 162.730
     Funds created, donated funds, annual report on all money in trust funds required 162.790
     Property for state schools, care and control 162.780
     Programs for severely handicapped 162.725
     Reports by superintendents 162.770
     State school employees, conflict of interest 162.810
Summer school programs, state aid 162.975
Transportation:
     By common carrier, MSB and MSD 162.756
     Provided 162.710
     Severely handicapped 162.755
     Sheltered workshop employees 162.755
     State aid 163.161
Tuition 162.940
Vocational education provided 162.895
SPECIAL ELECTIONS
Bonds authorized 164.121, 164.131, 164.141
Free textbooks 170.051
General provisions 162.381
Increased levy, school purposes 164.021
Transportation 167.231
SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS (See also "SPECIAL EDUCATION" or "SEVERELY HANDICAPPED")
Administrative review 162.950
Assignment:
Attorney 162.963
Change made 162.955
Cost of proceedings 162.963
Decision final 162.962
Further review by state board of education 162.962
Hearing panel report 162.962
Records of all proceedings 162.963
Review conducted 162.961
School district, review of panel's report 162.962
Witnesses 162.963
Written report 162.961
Ballot form for special district 162.840
Board of education:
Candidates, qualifications 162.860
Duties and powers 162.855
Election at large, exception 162.865
Election, term, declarations of 162.910
Members, election of, term, declaration 162.845, 162.910
Body corporate, powers and duties 162.875
Buses, bear word "special" 304.060
Census of handicapped 162.695
Contract for special educational services for severely handicapped 162.750
Cooperative activities authorized 162.905
Cost of special educational services 162.970
County foreign insurance tax fund 162.792
Diagnosis, notice to parent or guardian: 162.945
Administrative review, reevaluation: 162.950
Conducted, hearing panel, written report 162.961, 162.963
Witnesses cross-examined 162.963
District secretary:
Duties, reports, contents 162.821
Keep records, report changes 162.841
Domicile of child defined 162.970
Election:
Election districts 162.835, 162.865
Organization election results 162.845
Results, how certified 162.870
Eligibility of child, determination, how made 162.885
Established, procedure: 162.825
May include one or more districts 162.830
Severely handicapped 162.815
Vocational training 162.815
Establishment of schools with special districts 162.880
Governing Council of Special School District (with population of more than 100,000)
Board of education 162.857
Board members file financial interest statement 162.859
Candidate, qualification 162.867
Election process 162.867
Members 162.856
Parental advisory committee 162.858
Powers & duties 162.856
Public review committee162.858
Redistricting committee 162.867
Terms 162.867
Minimum levy required for participation in:
Career ladder program 168.500
Minimum salary 163.172
Organized 162.815, 162.825, 162.830
Payment:
Enumerated handicapped children 162.990
Homebound/contractual arrangements  162.980
Petition to form special district 162.835
Preexisting special districts 162.820
Property:
Acquisition of, condemnation powers, sites, how selected 162.915
Taxes, railroad and utility 162.925
Record:
Kept 162.841
Access by parents 162.961, 162.962, 162.963
Redistricting committee 162.865
Responsibility for handicapped/severely handicapped children 162.890
State aid:
Approval, how obtained 162.930
Homebound or contracted 162.980
How computed 162.935
Special programs 162.975
Tax rate, how increased 162.920
Transportation of students, required 162.900
Tuition fees 162.940
Vocational training provided 162.895
STADIUMS
Admission charge and concessions 177.121
Permit use by others 177.121
Powers of board 177.111
STATE AID
Additional payment prior to deduction 163.034
Amount to be spent on tuition, retirement and compensation 165.016 
Applications verified  163.081
Apportionment by state board   163.081
Apportionment reduced, when 164.013
Attendance: 
     Counted for state aid 162.935 
     Eligibility 163.021  
     Forced closing of school  163.051
     Infectious disease   163.021 
     Minimum guarantee  163.031
     Pupils, federal lands   163.071
Average daily attendance:
     Defined 163.011
     Estimating 163.036
     How determined 163.012
     How determined, new districts 163.041
Attorney General's duty  163.035
Base school year certificated salary percentage 165.016
Below minimum rate 163.025
Cigarette tax distribution 149.015
Classification procedure 163.023
Closed district 171.121
Correction of errors 163.091
Definitions 163.011
Disclaimer 163.195
Distribution:
     Emergency money 163.083
     School district trust fund, when 163.087
Eligibility for increase in state aid 163.081
Eligibility requirements 163.025
Eligible pupils defined 163.021
Emergency money distribution 163.087
Errors, correction of 163.083
Estimates, ADA 163.091
Fair share fund distribution 163.036
Financial reports 149.015
Forced closing of school 163.021, 165.111
Foundation formula: 163.051
Gifted 163.031
Grants for acquisition of computer and telecommunications technology equipment 162.975
Junior colleges 170.254
Kindergarten and transportation offered 163.191
Kindergarten pupils, ADA, how computed 163.013
Limitation on operating levy 163.011
Membership, how determined 163.015
Minimum guarantee 163.012
Minimum requirements 163.031
Minimum salary 163.021, 163.031
Misdemeanor, false reports 163.172
Operating levy below minimum value classified unaccredited 163.081
Orphans, state aid 163.023
Payments, state aid 163.031
Payments and distribution of appropriations and income 163.081
Proposition C Art. IX, Sec. 3(a)
Pro rata payments, funds insufficient 164.013
Pupils residing on federal lands 163.071
Railroad, other utilities 151.150, 163.031
Revenue received, minimum limit 163.034
Reorganized district, ADA, first apportionment 163.041
Rollback, Proposition C 164.013
Rules, effective, when 163.028
Rules, invalid and void, when 163.028
School district trust fund:
     Creation 144.701
     Distribution 163.087
Secretary to report 163.081
Special classes/districts:
     Handicapped physically 162.935
     Mentally retarded 162.935
Special education 162.975
Tax levy required 163.021
Teacher's minimum salary 163.172
Transportation 163.161
Vocational aid 178.530
Youth services programs 163.073
STATE ASSESSED RAILROAD AND UTILITY  151.150
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Appeals decided:
     Proposed consolidated districts 162.221
     Tuition cost 167.131
Appoint:
     Commissioner of education 161.112
     Professional staff 161.132
     Vocational employees 178.540
Approve:
     Proposed enlarged districts 162.181
     Transportation methods and routes 163.161
     Vocational schools 178.530
Arbitration:
Boundary change 162.431
School property apportionment 162.041
Certificates of license to teach granted  168.021
Classify schools 161.092
Closing districts 171.121
District reorganization:
     Plans approved 162.181
     Section created 161.152, 162.152
     Gifted education programs 162.720
     High school equivalency 161.093
     Investment of capital of public school fund, securities deposited with 
          state treasurer 166.021
     Keep account with treasurer, suits to recover money due 166.041
     Meetings 161.072
Members:
     Appointment, terms, removal, compensation 161.022
     Meetings 161.072
     Number and appointment of Art. IX, Sec. 2(a)
     Oath 161.042
     Officers, selection of 161.062
     Powers and duties 161.092, Art. IX, Sec. 2(b)
     Qualifications 161.032
     Quorum, members may not act individually 161.082
     Vacancies 161.052
Modify or waives rules  161.210
Physical education manual 161.102
Powers and duties 161.092, 170.091, Art. IX, Sec. 2(b) 
Require reports:
     Applications, state aid 163.081
     Financial from county clerk 51.163
     Orphans 163.031
     Retention and recruitment of teachers 161.098
Rules and regulations 161.092
School laws published 161.092
Schools:
     Buses, duties 304.060
     Law, published 161.092
     Lunch programs, duties 167.201
     Moneys, error in apportionment 163.091
Sexual assault prevention program 589.020
State aid, calculation, distribution: 163.081
     Correction of error  163.091
Vocational  178.530
Vocational rehabilitation:  
     Personal care assistance program:
          Client responsibilities 178.666
          Definitions 178.661
          Eligibility 178.662
          Financial need reviewed annually 178.664
          Hearing for applicant 178.671
          Rules 178.673
          Vendors 178.669
Waive rules 161.210
STATE LEGAL EXPENSE FUND
STATE MONEY (See "STATE AID")
STATE SCHOOL FUND
Permanent, receipts, investments, etc. 166.011
STATE TREASURER
Safekeeping of state funds 30.270
STREET GANG ACTIVITIES
District administer program 161.650
Funding 161.650
State Board of Education adopt violence program 161.650
STREET IMPROVEMENT
Streets, sidewalks, sewers, etc. 177.021
SUMMER SCHOOLS 162.975, 178.280
Attendance outside of district  167.227
SUNSHINE LAW (See "OPEN MEETINGS")
SUPERINTENDENT
Employment:
     All districts except metropolitan 168.201
     First class counties 168.191
     Metropolitan districts 168.211
     Missouri School for the Blind 161.020, 162.765
     Missouri School for the Deaf 161.020, 162.765
Evaluation 168.410
SURETY BONDS  107.070
SURPLUS PROPERTY
Acquisition of additional grounds177.091
Agreement with not for profit corporation 177.088
Authority to buy U.S. government property  70.100
Sale or lease, deposit of proceeds 177.073
SURROGATES
Appointed 162.997
Definitions 162.997
Duties 162.999
Evaluation 162.999
Expenses 162.999
Immunity from suits 162.999
Legal assistance 162.999
Need of surrogate, notification and appointment 162.998
Qualifications 162.999
Rights 162.999
State board of education duties 162.997
SUSPENSION
Conduct 167.161
Grounds for 167.171

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