Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 3/7/2007

SB 2 - Gibbons - Creates the crime of knowingly receiving, selling, or obtaining personal health information
3/7/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 3 - Gibbons - Enacts provisions on mental health reform
3/7/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 16 - Scott - Provides that each child enrolled in kindergarten or first grade is to receive a comprehensive vision examination
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- Perfected
3/7/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
3/7/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 22 - Griesheimer - Modifies laws relating to political subdivisions
3/7/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Griesheimer)--(0382S.06F)
3/7/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0382S06.10S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0382S06.42S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)--(0382S06.18S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 4 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)--(0382S06.24S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 5 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Days)--(0382S06.40S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered (Koster)--(0382S06.30S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 1 to SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Gross)--(0382S06.38S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 2 to SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered (Gross)--(0382S06.33S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 6 to SS for SCS S withdrawn
3/7/2007 -- SA 7 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Green)--(0382S06.04S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Green)--(0382S06.29S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 9 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Green)--(0382S06.08S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 10 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Justus)--(0382S06.23S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 11 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Justus)--(0382S06.07S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 12 to SS for SCS S offered & Ruled out of order (Coleman)--(0382S06.06S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 13 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Coleman)--(0382S06.11S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 14 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shoemyer)--(9021L01L.01L)
3/7/2007 -- SA 15 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shoemyer)--(9011L01.01L)
3/7/2007 -- SA 16 to SS for SCS S offered & withdrawn (Shoemyer)--(9015L01.01L)
3/7/2007 -- SA 17 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Graham)--(0382S06.28S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 18 to SS for SCS S offered (Bray)--(0382S06.17S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 1 to SA 18 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Loudon)--(0382S06.52S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 18 to SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
3/7/2007 -- SA 19 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bray)--(0382S06.43S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 20 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Scott)--(0382S06.13S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 21 to SS for SCS S offered & withdrawn (Scott)--(0382S06.19S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 22 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bartle)--(0382S06.51S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 23 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shields)--(0382S06.53S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 24 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)--(0382S06.01S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 25 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Griesheimer)--(0382S06.22S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 26 to SS for SCS S offered & Ruled out of order (Ridgeway)--(0382S06.03S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 27 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goodman)--(0382S06.47S)
3/7/2007 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
3/7/2007 -- Perfected

SB 26 - Bartle - Allows Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 54 - Koster - Modifies provisions relating to renewable energy, alternative fuel, and environmental regulation
3/7/2007 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & Ruled out of order (Green)--(0467S02.02S)
3/7/2007 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & defeated (Graham)--(0467S02.05S)
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- Perfected
3/7/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 62 - Goodman - Modifies the laws on the use of force and firearms
3/7/2007 -- H First Read

SB 64 - Goodman - Authorizes school districts to set school opening date up to a certain date prior to Labor Day and provides for exemption to make-up days requirement based on inclement weather
3/7/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 67 - Rupp - Modifies certain provisions relating to missing and endangered persons
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 91 - Nodler - Exempts dealers who sell only emergency vehicles from certain dealer licensure requirements
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 102 - Stouffer - Increases the weight limit for certain motor vehicles equipped with idle reduction technology
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 103 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions that relate to the registration of motor vehicles
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 104 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to regulation of motor vehicles
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 106 - Graham - Adds voting student members to the governing boards of various public higher education institutions
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (0301S.04C)

SB 107 - Wilson - Creates the crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park
3/7/2007 -- H First Read

SB 111 - Rupp - Eliminates the Missouri Advisory Council of Certification for Educators and replaces it with a Commissioner's Advisory Council on Teacher Quality
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 130 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of billboards
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 132 - Rupp - Allows the state Board of Education to invest in government securities offered at a discount or at less than par value
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 133 - Rupp - Alters provisions regarding expedited due process hearings
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - Consent

SB 135 - Nodler - Allows the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to provide primary school loans
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 137 - Bray - Allows the hiring of a retired teacher to work up to full-time without losing their retirement benefits
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - Consent (0437S.03C)

SB 138 - Bray - Modifies paperwork requirements in the formation of a new political party
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 140 - Rupp - Provides local boards of education the authority to identify a designee to bind the school district in a settlement agreement reached during the resolution session of a special education due process hearing
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - Consent

SB 156 - Engler - Modifies various provisions pertaining to agriculture and the Department of Agriculture
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 158 - Engler - Bars entities from discriminating between licensed professional counselors
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 159 - Engler - Modifies complaint procedures and record retention requirements for complaints against professional licensed counselors and social workers
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 162 - Vogel - Modifies the definition of "state agency" with regard to income tax set offs
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 163 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions with regards to the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 169 - Rupp - Creates a tax credit for qualified equity investments
3/7/2007 -- Point of order ruled not well taken
3/7/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 171 - Nodler - Changes the name of the board overseeing architects, engineers and land surveyors
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 172 - Ridgeway - Modifies provisions regarding supplemental retirement benefits for Kansas City police officers and civilian employees
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 184 - Green - Creates certain registration requirements for fire protection districts, departments, and volunteer associations
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 185 - Green - Establishes the "Drunk Driving Memorial Sign Program"
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee - Consent

SB 194 - Crowell - Requires that English be the language of all official proceedings in Missouri
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 203 - Lager - Adds an additional $500 annual payment to teachers under the Career Ladder Program
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 205 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on certain transporters that ship or transport radioactive waste within the state
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee (0504S.03C)

SB 212 - Goodman - Establishes the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act"
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

SB 218 - Graham - Provides the county governing body more control when a regional recreational district is located only in that county and changes the requirements for directors of Community Improvement District Boards
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 223 - Rupp - Modifies the required time frame in which the Air Conservation Commission must set fees for air pollution emissions
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 226 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to the administration of intoxication-related traffic offenses
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 233 - Crowell - Authorizes a sales tax to fund certain services
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 236 - Shields - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop standards for high-quality mentoring for beginning teachers and principals
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 237 - Shields - Allows Kansas City to establish an administrative adjudication system for adjudicating certain municipal code violations
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 238 - Stouffer - Requires removable windshield placards to be renewed every four years rather than two years
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 240 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous provisions relating to transportation and motor vehicles
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 243 - Mayer - Increases the compulsory school attendance age for all children in Missouri to seventeen years of age
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 244 - Mayer - Extends the termination date for certain alternative retirement provisions in the teacher and school employee retirement systems
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 254 - Nodler - Creates the "Missouri Legacy Fund" to provide college financial assistance
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (0499S.02C)

SB 268 - Coleman - Modifies provisions regarding benefits and actuarial valuations required for the St. Louis City Police Retirement System
3/7/2007 -- Perfected
3/7/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 269 - Scott - Reorganizes State Emergency Management Agency within the Department of Public Safety
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 270 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 271 - Scott - Amends requirements for filing financial interest statements
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 272 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to professional licensing
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 281 - Griesheimer - Establishes inactive license status and continuing education requirements for landscape architects
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 284 - Griesheimer - Authorizes statewide video service franchise agreements
3/7/2007 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Special Committee on Utilities Committee

SB 308 - Crowell - Modifies licensing standards and practice of certain professionals
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

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
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 325 - Loudon - Modifies various insurance law provisions
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 339 - Mayer - Creates the "Fairness in Public Construction Act"
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
3/7/2007 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25 (26)(f)

SB 341 - Goodman - Prohibits vessels from displaying spotlights that hinder the night vision of other vessel operators, requires vessels to be operated at slow no-wake speed within 100 feet of emergency vessels and defines the term "skiing" for purposes of watercraft law
3/7/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 365 - Koster - Allows cities to impose a property tax to fund the construction, operation and maintenance of a community health center
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent (1653S.02C)

SB 369 - Scott - Modifies requirements for certain law enforcement personnel
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (1175S.04C)

SB 376 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions relating to the financial impact of tourism
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 393 - McKenna - Establishes a consolidation process for fire protection districts located wholly in a county of the first classification
3/7/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 397 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to applications for long-term care facilities
3/7/2007 -- SCS S adopted
3/7/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 406 - Crowell - Modifies multiple provisions regarding several employee benefit plans
3/7/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 412 - Griesheimer - Allows liquor samples for tastings at retailed licensed premises
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee

SB 443 - Smith - Creates the "Teach for Missouri Act"
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 456 - Gross - Grants additional payment to school districts in certain situations
3/7/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
3/7/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 469 - Justus - Authorizes the Governor to convey certain state property located in Jackson County to the city of Kansas City
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 480 - Ridgeway - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop mentoring standards for beginning teachers and principals and creates an alternative mechanism for teacher certification
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (1949S.03C)

SB 497 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to county officials
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent (1920L.02C)

SB 502 - Koster - Authorizes the Governor to convey an easement over property in Johnson County to the city of Warrensburg
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies the reciprocity requirements for marital and family counselors
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 510 - Scott - Requires endowed care cemeteries to supply a trust fund report as a prerequisite for license renewal
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 525 - Scott - Modifies funeral director and embalmer licenses
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (2130S.02C)

SB 526 - Scott - Modifies licensing standards for real estate appraisers
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (2132S.03C)

SB 547 - Griesheimer - Creates an exception to the intermediate driver's license passenger restriction for students
3/7/2007 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 550 - Scott - Modifies and updates various superannuated statutes relating to the Missouri Highway Patrol
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 559 - Shields - Allows levee districts to have ten years after the lapse of the corporate charter in which to reinstate and extend the time of the corporate existence
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 572 - Vogel - Allows the curators of the University of Missouri to close certain financial records relating to donor or potential donors
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 591 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to credit union membership expansion
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (2296S.03C)

SB 593 - Scott - Modifies ethics complaint requirements
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 594 - Scott - Modifies law relating to ethics
3/7/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (2411S.02C)

SB 599 - Engler - Creates a military medal of freedom for certain veterans who served in a Middle East war or conflict after 1990
3/7/2007 -- 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
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 628 - Ridgeway - Modifies provisions relating to vested members of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

SB 671 - Justus - Provides changes to the Kansas and Missouri Regional Investment District Compact
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee - Consent

SCR 13 - Justus - Urges the United States Government to not escalate its involvement in Iraq or increase troop levels
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Not Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 20 - Crowell - Recognizes October 3rd of each year as Science Day
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 21 - Shoemyer - Establishes a Joint Interim Committee on Access to Nontraditional Career and Technical Education
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SJR 8 - Ridgeway - Elevates the allowable level of bonded indebtedness for school districts from 15 percent to 20 percent
3/7/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

HB 16 - Icet - To appropriate money for supplemental purposes for the several departments and offices of state government,and to transfer money among certain funds, from funds designated for period ending 6-30-07
3/7/2007 -- S First Read

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
3/7/2007 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

HJR 7 - Nieves - Makes English the language of all official proceedings in the state
3/7/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
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