Senate Action for 1/26/2012

SB 438 - Mayer - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 4296S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S General Laws Committee to Floor

SB 439 - Mayer - Modifies the law relating to the prevailing wage
   LR: 4295S.03C    SCS SB 439
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 443 - Stouffer - Modifies the law with respect to the regulation of motor vehicles
   LR: 4277H.05C    HCS SS SCS SB 443
1/26/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee
1/26/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Ways & Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor
1/26/2012 -- S Third Read and Passed
1/26/2012 -- H First Read

SB 455 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to higher education
   LR: 4233S.08S    CCS HCS SB 455
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Education Committee to Floor

SB 467 - Munzlinger - Requires agencies that receive federal grants to track and disclose the usage of the funds and the Governor to report withholdings
   LR: 4291L.06C    HCS SS SCS SB 467
1/26/2012 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
1/26/2012 -- H First Read (w/EC)

SB 469 - Dixon - Modifies provisions regarding administrative rules
   LR: 4433H.08T    HCS SS SCS SB 469
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 479 - Crowell - Eliminates certain employee benefits for members of the General Assembly and statewide elected officials who first take office on or after January 1, 2013
   LR: 4455S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Veterans' Affairs, Emerging Issues, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

SB 492 - Crowell - Modifies retirement benefits for new members of the general assembly and statewide elected officials and modifies interest paid on retirement refunds
   LR: 4489S.06P    SS#2 SB 492
1/26/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Veterans' Affairs, Emerging Issues, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

SB 547 - Purgason - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 4371S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S General Laws Committee to Floor

SB 553 - Brown - Requires authorization for certain labor unions to use dues and fees to make political contributions and bars them from withholding earnings from paychecks
   LR: 4559S.02C    SCS SBs 553 & 435
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 591 - Parson - Modifies provision regarding state and local revenues, various interest rates, and the authority of fire protection districts
   LR: 4702L.05C    HCS SCS SB 591
1/26/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee
1/26/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent - (4702S.02C)

SB 596 - Brown - Modifies the law relating to prevailing wage and project labor agreements
   LR: 4925S.02C    SCS SB 596
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 597 - Dempsey - Changes the governance of the St. Louis International Airport
   LR: 4509S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 598 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to tax increment financing so that school districts and library districts are reimbursed for tax revenue the districts would have received
   LR: 4735S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 599 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to education
   LR: 4467S.02T    CCS SB 599
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 600 - Lembke - Requires federal agents to personally notify the sheriff in the county where a federal warrant is to be served
   LR: 4122S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 601 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to school personnel
   LR: 4836S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 602 - Green - Enacts various regulations pertaining to contract carriers that transport railroad employees
   LR: 4310S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 603 - Green - Creates an advance voting system for elections
   LR: 4311S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 604 - Green - Prohibits a state agency from requesting an additional appropriation of state moneys to satisfy an award of attorney fees and other expenses
   LR: 4465S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 605 - Green - Eliminates duplicate filing of campaign finance disclosure reports
   LR: 4197S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 606 - Schmitt - Modifies the state do-not-call list by allowing cell phone numbers on the list and banning certain automated calls
   LR: 4994S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 607 - Stouffer - Establishes procedure for resetting billboards during periods of highway construction
   LR: 4942S.04T    SS SB 607
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 608 - Wasson - Establishes the Missouri Health Insurance Exchange, the "Direct Payment Stop Loss Fund", and creates administrative procedure to collect unpaid medical claims
   LR: 4704S.03I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 609 - Lembke - Modifies comparative fault by eliminating joint liability and allowing consideration of any nonparty's fault
   LR: 4980S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 610 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations
   LR: 4987S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 611 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of transportation
   LR: 4983S.03S    CCS SB 611
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 612 - Lembke - Allows the full deductibility of federal income tax liability for state income tax purposes
   LR: 4979S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 613 - Kehoe - Requires courts to award prevailing defendants their costs and attorney's fees
   LR: 4732S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 614 - Kehoe - Requires courts to award costs and attorney's fees to a party when a case has no basis in law or an attorney acts in bad faith
   LR: 4628S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 615 - McKenna - Modifies provisions relating to liquor
   LR: 4817S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 616 - Wasson - Requires homeowner insurance companies to offer sinkhole coverage
   LR: 5056S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 617 - Schaaf - Requires the Department of Social Services to promulgate rules specifying the eligibility process for the MO HealthNet Spenddown Program
   LR: 5108S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 618 - Schaaf - Requires auctioneers selling real estate to be licensed by the Real Estate Commission
   LR: 4854S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 619 - Richard - Modifies Missouri's valued policy statute to cover all perils covered under a policy rather than just loss caused by fire
   LR: 5035S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 620 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions related to health and life insurance
   LR: 4661L.04C    HCS SB 620
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 621 - Brown - Amends various provisions regarding the licensure and inspection of hospitals
   LR: 5052S.02C    SCS SB 621
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 622 - Cunningham - Requires a health carrier that provides coverage for prescription eye drops to cover a refill without regard to a restriction for an early refill if it is authorized by the prescribing health care provider
   LR: 4993S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 623 - Cunningham - Allows certain financial institutions to transfer fiduciary obligations
   LR: 4998S.02C    SCS SB 623
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 624 - Lembke - Requires Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company to transition into a private mutual insurance company by January 1, 2014
   LR: 5046S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 625 - Kehoe - Modifies fund transfers between retirement systems, modifies retirement for certain public officials, and sets interest paid on member contributions at T-Bill rate
   LR: 5110H.03T    HCS SCS SB 625
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs, Emerging Issues, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

SB 706 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to school operations
   LR: 4989S.07C    SCS SB 706
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 706-Cunningham

SB 707 - Cunningham - Restricts the authority of radiology benefit managers to deny diagnostic testing ordered and recommended by a physician
   LR: 5435S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 707-Cunningham

SB 708 - Wasson - Extends the sunset on the residential dwelling accessibility tax credit and modifies the allocation of tax credit cap from another tax credit program to this program
   LR: 5252S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 708-Wasson

SB 709 - Schaaf - Disqualifies certain persons receiving public assistance from engaging in gaming activities
   LR: 5485S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 709-Schaaf

SB 710 - Engler - Establishes a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and modifies other provisions relating to controlled substances
   LR: 4886S.10P    SS#3 SCS SB 710
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 710-Engler, et al

SB 711 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption
   LR: 5423L.04C    HCS SCS SB 711
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 711-Lamping

SB 712 - Lamping - Modifies the criteria for determining that a child is a special needs child for the purposes of the special needs adoption tax credit
   LR: 5349S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 712-Lamping

SB 713 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption records
   LR: 4355S.03I    
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 713-Lamping

SB 714 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to the regulation of motor vehicles
   LR: 5468L.06C    HCS SCS SB 714
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SB 714-Lager

SCR 19 - Munzlinger - Disapproves the new values for agricultural and horticultural property filed by the State Tax Commission
   LR: 5408S.01I    
1/26/2012 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 29 - Lamping - Requires the legislative session to end in late March rather than mid-May, beginning with the 98th General Assembly
   LR: 4436S.02I    
1/26/2012 -- Reported from S General Laws Committee to Floor

SJR 48 - Dixon - Modifies provisions regarding members and meetings of Missouri Senate and House of Representative apportionment commissions
   LR: 5476L.05C    HCS SS#2 SJR 48
1/26/2012 -- S First Read--SJR 48-Dixon

SR 1316 - Dempsey - Relating to Senate employee classification
   
1/26/2012 -- S Offered--SR 1316-Dempsey