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MO SCR59
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
- Missouri Senate condemns the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and urges the U.S. Senate to reject its ratification
- Resolution opposes the treaty based on concerns that it would ban parental corporal discipline including reasonable spanking
- Claims the treaty would allow government review of broad parental decisions without proof of parental unfitness or harm to the child
- Asserts that treaty ratification would override Missouri state law through the federal Supremacy Clause and shift child and family law authority from Missouri to Congress
- Secretary of the Missouri Senate instructed to send copies of the resolution to each member of the United States Senate
Legislative Description
Urges the United States Senate to reject the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Last Action
Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/12/2010
Committee Referrals
Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics4/12/2010
Full Bill Text
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