JEFFERSON CITY (AP) -- Missouri employers: Make your workers get a microchip implant at your own peril. It could now cost you a thousand big ones. But if you happen to run a gun range, rest easy as noise and nuisance complaints can't be filed by angry neighbors.

Governor Blunt is traveling today to Excelsior Springs, Boonville, Park Hills and Springfield to sign three bills.

The legislation overturns a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that family members of an injured worker who dies from a cause unrelated to the work injury are entitled to payments from the Second Injury Fund.

Blunt is also to sign bills making it a misdemeanor to force employees to get a traceable microchip implant, extending lawsuit protection to gun ranges and increasing court fees to give deputy sheriffs a raise.

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