Jim Neely in Ballotpedia.org political website

On Crime: Let courts reduce life-without-parole to include parole

Bill sponsorships by Jim Neely:
• Allows a court to reduce a life without parole sentence to a sentence of life with eligibility for parole in certain circumstances
  1/23/2020: Read Second Time (House)
• Requires Amber alerts to include an embedded Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that references a resource on the internet that provides additional information or technological capabilities
  1/30/2020: Read Second Time (House)
• Requires lethal injections to be administered in a manner that allows consenting inmates to donate organs: AN ACT To repeal sections 536.010 and 546.720, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to state executions.
  1/30/2020: Referred: General Laws(House)

On Families & Children: Require insurance companies to cover fertility preservation

Bill sponsorships by Jim Neely:
• Requires insurance companies to cover fertility preservation procedures for insureds who are less than eighteen years of age and are diagnosed with cancer but have not started cancer treatment
• 3/5/2020: Referred: House Committee on Health and Mental Health Policy)
• An insurance policy issued, renewed, amended, or continued in this state shall provide coverage for embryo, oocyte, and sperm cryopreservation procedures, for an insured who is at least eighteen years of age and has been diagnosed with cancer but has not started cancer treatment, including chemotherapy, biotherapy, or radiation therapy treatment.
• The coverage required under this section shall include expenses for evaluations, laboratory assessments, medications, and treatments associated with the embryo, oocyte, and sperm cryopreservation procedures but shall not include costs for initial or annual storage of embryos, oocytes, or sperm.