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SB 26 - Bartle - Allows Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 40 - Ridgeway - Creates various tax incentives for certain energy uses: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 42 - Purgason - Allows retailers to pay sales tax on behalf of customers: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

SB 47 - Engler - Modifies provisions regarding fire protection: 3/14/2007 -- SCS S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- Perfected; 3/14/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 54 - Koster - Modifies provisions relating to renewable energy, alternative fuel, and environmental regulation: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 86 - Champion - Modifies provisions of the Children in Crisis Tax Credit Program: 3/14/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 139 - Bray - Eliminates the annual State of the State Transportation Address given by the Director of the Department of Transportation to the General Assembly: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 166 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to tourism: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 180 - Green - Amends law relating to the hiring of unqualified employees on public projects: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 193 - Griesheimer - Creates the "Missouri County Planning Act": 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee (0871S.04C)

SB 200 - Stouffer - Authorizes the Highways and Transportation Commission to take the necessary steps to implement and administer a state plan to conform with the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 215 - Loudon - Allows for the formation of captive insurance companies within Missouri under certain conditions: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar; 3/14/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Loudon)--(0058S.09F); 3/14/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & Ruled out of order (Shoemyer)--(0058S07.01L); 3/14/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Bray)--(005809.03S); 3/14/2007 -- SS for SCS S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- Perfected; 3/14/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee; 3/14/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 224 - Rupp - Allows married taxpayers filing joint returns to deduct a portion of contributions to the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program from income: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

SB 239 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to transportation and the regulation of motor vehicles: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar; 3/14/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Stouffer)--(1295S.13F); 3/14/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Green)--(1295S13.04S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered (Green)--(1295S13.05S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 1 to SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Purgason)--(1295S13.01S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shields)--(1295S13.11S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 4 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Griesheimer)--(1295S13.10S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 5 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Griesheimer)--(1295S13.07S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)--(1295S13.18S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 7 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shoemyer)--(9027L01.01L); 3/14/2007 -- SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Purgason)--(1295S13.09S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 9 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Graham)--(1295S13.13S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 10 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Barnitz)--(1295S13.19S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 11 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Mayer)--(1295S13.14S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 12 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Ridgeway)--(1295S13.16S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 13 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Coleman)--(1295S13.01F); 3/14/2007 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- Perfected

SB 242 - Nodler - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 257 - Engler - Modifies the treatment of firearms during state emergencies: 3/14/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & defeated (Bray)--(1357S01.01F); 3/14/2007 -- SA 2 S offered & defeated (Bray)--(1357S01.03S); 3/14/2007 -- SA 3 S offered & Ruled out of order (Bray)--(1357S01.02S); 3/14/2007 -- Perfected; 3/14/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 260 - Koster - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 284 - Griesheimer - Authorizes statewide video service franchise agreements: 3/14/2007 -- HA 1 to HCS H offered & adopted (Emery)--(0368L06.03H); 3/14/2007 -- HA 2 to CHS H offered (Pratt)--(0386L06.01L); 3/14/2007 -- HA 1 to HA 2 to HCS H offered & withdrawn (Talboy)--(0368L06.02F); 3/14/2007 -- HA 2 to HCS H defeated; 3/14/2007 -- HA 3 to HCS H offered & defeated (Harris 23)--(0386L06.04H); 3/14/2007 -- HA 4 to HCS H offered & defeated (Aull)--(0386L06.02H); 3/14/2007 -- HA 5 to HCS H offered & defeated (Witte)--(0386L06.09H); 3/14/2007 -- HA 6 to HCS H offered & defeated (Oxford)--(0386L06.06H); 3/14/2007 -- HA 7 to HCS H offered & defeated (Harris 23)--(0386L06.08H); 3/14/2007 -- HCS, as amended, H adopted; 3/14/2007 -- H Third Read and Passed - EC defeated

SB 294 - Vogel - Allows the Director of Revenue to require certain tax returns be filed electronically: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

SB 297 - Loudon - Prohibits persons from selling vehicle protection products in Missouri unless certain conditions are met: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 299 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions relating to liquor control: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 304 - Loudon - Creates the "Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact": 3/14/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 309 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to the realm of surplus lines insurance: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 310 - Stouffer - Submits to the voters a one-cent sales tax proposal to assist in the reconstruction, rebuilding, construction, and conversion of Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 into an eight-lane interstate system: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 323 - Graham - Modifies provisions relating to the Community Children's Services Fund and the foster parent's bill of rights: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 332 - Stouffer - Transfers the administration of the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Public Safety: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 334 - Griesheimer - Modifies the provisions relating to brand extensions for beer products: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 335 - Griesheimer - Revises various laws regarding the registration, licensure and sale of motor vehicles: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 339 - Mayer - Creates the "Fairness in Public Construction Act": 3/14/2007 -- H Third Read and Passed; 3/14/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

SB 345 - Shoemyer - Allows counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 347 - Shoemyer - Defines "utility vehicle" for purposes of motor vehicle law and enacts various provisions regulating their use: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 348 - Koster - Enacts various provisions affecting illegal aliens: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 352 - Clemens - Adds vehicles driven by conservation agents to the list of vehicles considered "emergency vehicles": 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 360 - Goodman - Removes the requirement that city managers of third-class cities must be city residents: 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 365 - Koster - Allows cities to impose a property tax to fund the construction, operation and maintenance of a community health center: 3/14/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 370 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to abortion: 3/14/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 387 - Mayer - Creates the "Missouri Rice Certification Act": 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee

SB 393 - McKenna - Establishes a consolidation process for fire protection districts located wholly in a county of the first classification: 3/14/2007 -- Committee Vote Reconsidered; 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent (1842S.02C)

SB 395 - McKenna - Designates a portion of State Route M between Old Lemay Ferry Road and Moss Hollow Road in the city of Barnhart as the "Officer Stephen Strehl Memorial Highway": 3/14/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 407 - Shoemyer - Allows public water supply districts to enter into contracts with other water districts and municipalities to supply water: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 412 - Griesheimer - Allows liquor samples for tastings at retailed licensed premises: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee (1892S.03C)

SB 416 - Goodman - Modifies the law with regard to lands held by certain utilities and Public Service Commission approval of certain territorial agreements for water and electric service areas: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 418 - Champion - Increases the monthly personal needs payment under the Supplemental Nursing Care Program: 3/14/2007 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Champion)--(1787S03.01S); 3/14/2007 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- Perfected; 3/14/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee; 3/14/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 440 - Days - Changes the "Missouri Minority Business Advocacy Committee" to the "Missouri Minority and Women Business Advocacy Committee": 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 451 - Goodman - Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to regulate automotive lubricants: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee (2049S.02C)

SB 461 - Callahan - Provides for state enforcement of federal immigration laws: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 473 - Clemens - Modifies the definition of livestock for which it is a crime to steal and modifies the penalties for such offenders: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee (0315S.03C)

SB 484 - Stouffer - Revises procedure for conducting commercial motor vehicle roadside inspections and requires certain vehicle owners to verify registration with motor carrier services in order to obtain or renew license plates: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 489 - Clemens - Modifies the maximum amount of certain agricultural tax credits that may be issued each fiscal year: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee

SB 499 - Engler - Allows fuel ethanol produced from qualified biomass to be eligible for certain fuel ethanol production subsidies: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee (2178S.03C)

SB 501 - Koster - Provides a motor fuel tax exemption for certain organizations that operate public mass transportation authorities: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee (2112S.02C)

SB 513 - Clemens - Allows nurses working in any area of need to qualify for the Professional and Practical Nursing Student Loan Program: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee; 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - Consent

SB 521 - Lager - Removes weight limitation on certain farm use vehicles so that any commercial motor vehicle operated in intrastate commerce bearing a class F plate will be exempt from specified commercial motor vehicle laws: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee (1778S.02C)

SB 531 - Gibbons - Modifies provisions relating to the administrative duties of the Missouri State Highway Patrol: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (1524S.05C)

SB 537 - Lager - Amends the law relating to physician assistants: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 539 - Justus - Modifies requirements for anti-bullying policies of local school districts: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 540 - Kennedy - Allows the Mehlville School District to impose up to a one percent sales tax to provide revenue for the operation of the school district: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Not Pass S Ways & Means Committee

SB 543 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to license plates and exempts certain motor vehicles from state safety inspection: 3/14/2007 -- H First Read

SB 554 - Gibbons - Modifies provisions relating to the taxation of real property: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

SB 561 - Engler - Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 564 - Smith - Modifies which entities may sponsor a charter school: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 572 - Vogel - Allows the curators of the University of Missouri to close certain financial records relating to donor or potential donors: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 580 - Stouffer - Requires motorists who have had their driver's licenses suspended or revoked to display restricted license plates: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 582 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of law relating to sales tax: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee - Consent

SB 590 - Gibbons - Phases out the corporate franchise tax: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee (2420S.03C)

SB 605 - Coleman - Modifies the "coupling provision" of Section 94.660, which currently requires both the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County to approve a transportation sales tax before a transportation sales tax can go into effect in either jurisdiction: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee; 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 611 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system: 3/14/2007 -- Re-referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 626 - Ridgeway - Enacts various provisions affecting illegal aliens: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 627 - Ridgeway - Prohibits the use of language interpreters in connection with the commercial driver's license examination process: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee - Consent

SB 638 - Bray - Changes the amount of time for which the board of aldermen of a fourth-class city can lengthen the term of the mayor by ordinance: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee; 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent (2525S.02C)

SB 644 - Griesheimer - Establishes new requirements for direct wine sales: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

SB 654 - Kennedy - Allows the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners to delegate some of its powers to hearing officers: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee; 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

SB 664 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to the Board of Nursing Home Administrators: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (2500S.03C)

SB 698 - Ridgeway - Establishes the Betty L. Thompson Scholarship Program: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee; 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee (2454S.03C)

SCR 19 - Coleman - Urges Congress to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to assure federal funding for the Missouri MC+ for Kids Program: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 20 - Crowell - Recognizes October 3rd of each year as Science Day: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 23 - Bray - Urges the United States Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 25 - Scott - Encourages the Conservation Commission to develop a partnership with the Secretary of State to send voter registration information to certain individuals who are not registered to vote: 3/14/2007 -- 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: 3/14/2007 -- SCS S adopted; 3/14/2007 -- Perfected; 3/14/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SJR 13 - Vogel - Creates a property tax exemption for personal property of active duty military personnel: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

HB 269 - Nolte - Bars illegal immigrants from attending public universities: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

HB 300 - Bruns - Establishes the Volunteer Firefighter Job Protection Act: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

HB 327 - Richard - Modifies provisions of certain Department of Economic Development programs: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

HB 453 - Jetton - Creates an income tax credit for contributions to food pantries and modifies provisions of the Residential Treatment Agency Tax Credit Program: 3/14/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways & Means Committee

HCR 15 - Threlkeld - Recognizes November 2007 as "COPD Awareness Month" and November 21, 2007, as "COPD Awareness Day" in Missouri: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

HCR 25 - Yates - Urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to withdraw a portion of its proposed rules that would change the status of Truman Medical Center as a government owned or operated hospital: 3/14/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

HJR 7 - Nieves - Makes English the language of all official proceedings in the state: 3/14/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee (0401S.02C)