Bill Text: MO HB200 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Specifies that gross negligence will be the standard of proof in actions for damages brought against a public or private correctional or detention facility as a result of a death by suicide of any inmate

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-13 - Perfected (H) [HB200 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB200-Engrossed.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 200

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KELLEY (126) (Sponsor), REDMON, LANT, DAVIS, WHITE, CONWAY (14), LONG, BAHR, BERRY, FRANKLIN AND FREDERICK (Co-sponsors).

0546L.01P                                                                                                                                                 D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 537, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to certain actions for damages against correctional facilities.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 537, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 537.082, to read as follows:

            537.082. In actions for damages against jails, correctional centers, detention centers or any other type of correctional facility, whether public or private, as the result of the death, by suicide, of any person confined therein, the standard of proof shall be gross negligence.

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