Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 2/5/2007


SB 1 - Gibbons - Requires criminal background checks for certain employees in positions with substantial direct contact with children
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 10 - Kennedy - Enacts licensing requirements for private investigators
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 27 - Bartle - Modifies regulations regarding sexually oriented billboards
2/5/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 38 - Ridgeway - Prohibits the use or possession of alcoholic beverage vaporizers
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0212S.02C)

SB 59 - Wilson - Exempts 25 percent of the amount of social security benefits included in senior citizen taxpayers' federal adjusted gross income
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 67 - Rupp - Modifies certain provisions relating to missing and endangered persons
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0287S.02C)

SB 107 - Wilson - Creates the crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park
2/5/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 162 - Vogel - Modifies the definition of "state agency" with regard to income tax set offs
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 163 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions with regards to the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent (0605S.02C)

SB 169 - Rupp - Creates a tax credit for qualified equity investments
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 230 - Crowell - Exempts social security benefits from income taxation
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 234 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to juvenile courts and officers
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 242 - Nodler - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 256 - Loudon - Modifies provisions relating to the investigation of Internet sex crimes against children
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0535S.03C)

SB 276 - Koster - Modifies the maximum number of members on the Clean Water Commission who may belong to the same political party
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 281 - Griesheimer - Establishes inactive license status and continuing education requirements for landscape architects
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 286 - Crowell - Exempts military pensions and retirement income from income taxation
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 289 - Engler - Amends the law relating to the practice of professional counselors
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 290 - Engler - Authorizes minimum amounts of compensation for certain corrections personnel
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 291 - Mayer - Requires licensure for wholesale distributors of prescription drugs
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 300 - Bartle - Modifies the laws regulating sexually oriented businesses
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 308 - Crowell - Modifies licensing standards and practice of certain professionals
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 319 - Clemens - Modifies the income tax exemption for certain annuity, pension, and retirement incomes
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 420 - Gibbons - Provides that no more than four, rather than three, members of the Clean Water Commission may be from the same political party
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (1964S.02C)

SB 423 - Green - Requires the Public Service Commission to develop and enforce certain standards for electric utility service
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 424 - Green - Bars employers from misclassifying employees as independent contractors
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee

SB 425 - Rupp - Creates licensing standards for naturopathic physicians
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 426 - Justus - Allows the Supreme Court to direct the Judicial Finance Commission to consolidate its annual report with certain other reports
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 427 - Goodman - Allows sheriffs and jailers to refuse receiving a prisoner under certain circumstances unless the prisoner has been examined by a physician
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 428 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions relating to agriculture
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee

SB 429 - Gibbons - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 430 - Shields - Creates the "Smart Start Scholarship Program"
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 431 - Clemens - Bars sex offenders from winning the lottery
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 432 - Nodler - Modifies provisions on the presentation of information in public schools relating to contraception and sexually transmitted diseases
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 433 - Callahan - Changes laws relating to unemployment compensation for veterans
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 434 - Rupp - Adds a circuit judge position within the Forty-Fifth Judicial Circuit
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 435 - Rupp - Requires captioning of electronic video instructional material
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 436 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to the First Steps Program
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 437 - Ridgeway - Modifies fee disclosure requirements for rental cars
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 438 - Ridgeway - Gives the boards of election commissioners the discretion to waive residency requirements for their employees
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 439 - Days - Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri and prohibits use of the death penalty for a time period
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 440 - Days - Changes the "Missouri Minority Business Advocacy Committee" to the "Missouri Minority and Women Business Advocacy Committee"
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 441 - Stouffer - Expands the definition of "eligible donation" for the Residential Treatment Agency Tax Credit Program
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 442 - Stouffer - Amends the requirements for management, design and construction of state buildings
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 443 - Smith - Creates the "Teach for Missouri Act"
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 444 - Goodman - Directs the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority to pay certain loan interests and administer dairy business planning grants
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 445 - Goodman - Exempts church bus drivers who transport children from the child passenger restraint system requirements of Section 307.179
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 446 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to fire safety standards in long-term care facilities
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 447 - Goodman - Repeals superannuated provision of law from the Missouri Revised Statutes pertaining to the Housing Development Fund
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 448 - Coleman - Establishes recall elections for school board members
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SCR 11 - Purgason - Urges Congress to repeal the implementation of the REAL ID Act
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 12 - Ridgeway - Supports the negotiations of a Taiwan-United States free trade agreement
2/5/2007 -- S offered

SJR 9 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing the sexual offender registry laws to be applied retrospectively
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 17 - Coleman - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing the sexual offender registry laws to be applied retrospectively
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 19 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Citizen's Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SJR 20 - Bartle - Modifies constitutional provisions relating to health care research and human cloning
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SR 70 - Scott - Amends Senate Rule 96 to prohibit smoking in Senate Galleries
2/5/2007 -- S adopted

HB 15 - Icet - To appropriate money for supplemental purposes for the department of Social Services, and to transfer money amoung certain funds, from the funds designated for the fiscal period ending June 30, 2007
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Appropriations Committee

HCR 18 - Dempsey - State of the State of Transportation
2/5/2007 -- S adopted

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