Proposed bill in Missouri to protect officials

[Mark Padgett]

The article doesn't say what the punishment is. I think the offending parent should have to provide a few hours of community service by officiating a game. Let the punishment fit the crime.

[so cal lurker]

The article is sloppy. It isn't a bill in the sense of a law, but a concurrent resolution.

Now Therefore Be It Resolved that the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-eighth General Assembly, First Regular Session,
the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby call on all school districts, little league programs, high school, college, and recreational
programs, along with law enforcement and prosecutors, to do all they can to put an end to the increased threats and assaults on sports officials
and to prosecute such criminal acts to the full extent of the law; and

Be It Further Resolved that the Secretary of the Missouri Senate be instructed to prepare properly inscribed copies of this resolution
for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Department of Higher Education, the Attorney General, and the Department
of Public Safety.

All it does is urge others to enforce what already exists. (And a cynic migh say to make it look like the legislature is doing something.)

The actual text of the resolution is here:

http://www.senate.mo.gov/15info/pdf-...ntro/SCR17.pdf