Bill Text: MO HB1373 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the crime of unlawful funeral protest if an individual pickets or engages in protest activities within three hundred feet of a funeral or burial service one hour before or after the funeral or service

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-22 - Referred: Judiciary(H) [HB1373 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2014-HB1373-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1373

97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COX (Sponsor), WALKER, MUNTZEL, KELLEY (127), DOHRMAN, HURST, ENGLISH AND MITTEN (Co-sponsors).

4509H.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 574, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to funeral protests, with a penalty provision.

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

            Section A. Chapter 574, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 574.150, to read as follows:

            574.150. 1. A person commits the offense of unlawful funeral protest if he or she pickets or engages in other protest activities within three hundred feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue, or other establishment during or within one hour before or one hour after the conducting of any actual funeral or burial service at that place.

2. For purposes of this section, "other protest activities" means any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service.

3. For purposes of this section, "funeral" and "burial service" mean the ceremonies and memorial services held in conjunction with the burial or cremation of the dead, but this section does not apply to processions while they are in transit beyond any three hundred foot zone that is established under subsection (1) of this section.

4. The offense of unlawful funeral protest is a class B misdemeanor, unless committed by a person who has previously been found guilty of a violation of this section, in which case it is a class A misdemeanor.

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