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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
     Qualification: 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
Career education employees: 178.570

Minimum local effort on certified staff salaries: 165.016

Teacher's contract: 168.108

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
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

     Minimum:
          All districts: 162.081
          Requirements for state aid: 163.021
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
Amount due, failure to pay: 162.745

Assignment of children:

     Appeal: 162.670

     Change of: 162.955

Contracting for services: 162.750

Cost, district of residence to pay toward: 162.740
County foreign insurance tax fund: 148.360

Definitions: 162.675
Educated with others when possible: 162.680
Funds, donations, annual report: 162.790
Policy statement: 162.670
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")
Administrative review:
     Conducted how, appeal: 162.961
     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
Contracting with other districts, costs: 162.705
Costs:
     Contractual arrangements: 162.705

     District of domicile: 162.740
     District of residence to pay toward special educational services costs: 162.740

     Excess (Public Placement Fund): 167.126
County foreign insurance tax fund: 148.360

Defined: 161.162, 162.675
Denial of services, prohibited: 162.680
Diagnosis, notice to parents, contents: 162.945
Diagnostic reports: 162.700
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
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

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: 162.961

High Need Fund: 162.974
MISSOURI SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
MISSOURI SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Nonresident handicapped children admitted to state schools: 162.740

Policy statement: 162.670
Political subdivision, powers: 162.875
Professional personnel required: 162.715
Public hearings required, when: 162.685
Public Placement Fund (Excess Cost Fund): 167.126

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:
     Approval: 162.930
     How computed: 162.935

     Professional personnel required: 162.715

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: 162.730

     Authority to acquire property, receive and administer grants: 162.785
     Contracts for education of severely handicapped children authorized: 162.705

     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
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
Consequences of dissolution of St. Louis special school district: 168.232
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 committee: 162.858
      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:
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
      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

     When: 163.081
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 grounds: 177.091
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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