Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/16/2007


SB 5 - Loudon - Modifies the laws on child pornography
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Loudon)--(0310S.06F)
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Graham)--(0310S06.05S)
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Loudon)--(0310S06.06S)
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/16/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Coleman)--(0310S06.02S)
4/16/2007 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bartle)
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/16/2007 -- Perfected

SB 16 - Scott - Provides that each child enrolled in kindergarten or first grade is to receive a comprehensive vision examination
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Fiscal Review Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee
4/16/2007 -- Reported Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee

SB 21 - Griesheimer - Allows for the formation of and conversion to reorganized common sewer districts
4/16/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 25 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to children's services
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 30 - Nodler - Expands the sales tax exemption for common carriers
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Fiscal Review Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee

SB 31 - Nodler - Authorizes the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects to impose civil penalties
4/16/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 40 - Ridgeway - Creates various tax incentives for certain energy uses
4/16/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 46 - Mayer - Creates the "Faith-Based Organization Liaison Act"
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 66 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions of law relating to investments by insurance companies, enforcement powers of the Department of Insurance, and revises title insurance code
4/16/2007 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee
4/16/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 84 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to child placements and protection
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 85 - Champion - Establishes a drug monitoring program and modifies existing record keeping for controlled substances and pseudoephedrine products
4/16/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 86 - Champion - Modifies provisions of the Children in Crisis Tax Credit Program
4/16/2007 -- SCS S adopted
4/16/2007 -- Perfected
4/16/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 91 - Nodler - Exempts dealers who sell only emergency vehicles from certain dealer licensure requirements
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 96 - Days - Amends laws relating to unsecured loans of $500 or less
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 112 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to special education
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 135 - Nodler - Allows the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to provide primary school loans
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

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
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 204 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after April 1, 2009, to be a biodiesel-blended fuel
4/16/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/16/2007 -- H First Read

SB 205 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on certain transporters that ship or transport radioactive waste within the state
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 212 - Goodman - Establishes the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act"
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 215 - Loudon - Allows for the formation of captive insurance companies within Missouri under certain conditions
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass w/HCA 1 H Rules Committee

SB 223 - Rupp - Modifies the required time frame in which the Air Conservation Commission must set fees for air pollution emissions
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 232 - Crowell - Designates a portion of Missouri Route 74/34 within Cape Girardeau County as the "John Oliver Jr. Parkway" and a portion of U.S. Highway 60 contained in Stoddard County as the "Sergeant Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. Memorial Highway"
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 238 - Stouffer - Requires removable windshield placards to be renewed every four years rather than two years
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 257 - Engler - Modifies the treatment of firearms during state emergencies
4/16/2007 -- Signed by Governor

SB 313 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to regulation of manufactured homes by the Public Service Commission
4/16/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 352 - Clemens - Adds vehicles driven by conservation agents to the list of vehicles considered "emergency vehicles"
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 358 - Engler - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the regulation of motor vehicles
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 384 - Coleman - Modifies procedure for replacing stolen license plate tabs and allows license plates to be encased in transparent covers
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules 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
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass NOT Consent H Rules Committee

SB 429 - Gibbons - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
4/16/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 433 - Callahan - Changes laws relating to unemployment compensation for veterans
4/16/2007 -- H Second Read

SB 456 - Gross - Grants additional payment to school districts in certain situations
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 496 - Koster - Revises the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Koster)--(1352S.04C)
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Justus)--(1352S04.01S)
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/16/2007 -- Perfected

SB 499 - Engler - Allows fuel ethanol produced from qualified biomass to be eligible for certain fuel ethanol production subsidies
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 520 - Engler - Modifies requirements for labor posters
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

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
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 523 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to the Board of Pharmacy
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 537 - Lager - Amends the law relating to physician assistants
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 542 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to the licensing of optometrists
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 555 - Gibbons - Prohibits the use or possession of alcoholic beverage vaporizers and modifies provisions relating to underage drinking
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 563 - Lager - Allows electric utilities to manage vegetation within specified areas to ensure reliable service
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 572 - Vogel - Allows the curators of the University of Missouri to close certain financial records relating to donor or potential donors
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 586 - Crowell - Allows hunting and fishing permit applicants to receive a voter registration application form as part of the application for such permits
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 591 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to credit union membership expansion
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 592 - Scott - Modifies ethics filings
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 599 - Engler - Creates a military medal of freedom for certain veterans who served in a Middle East war or conflict after 1990
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 611 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)
4/16/2007 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/16/2007 -- Perfected
4/16/2007 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 616 - McKenna - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (McKenna)--(2485S.05F)
4/16/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Engler)--(2485S05.01S)
4/16/2007 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Callahan)--(2485S05.01F)
4/16/2007 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/16/2007 -- Perfected

SB 627 - Ridgeway - Prohibits the use of language interpreters in connection with the commercial driver's license examination process
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 635 - Loudon - Substantially revises the current law regarding the regulation of title insurance
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 654 - Kennedy - Allows the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners to delegate some of its powers to hearing officers
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 660 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 664 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to the Board of Nursing Home Administrators
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 668 - Loudon - Modifies workers' compensation payments
4/16/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SCR 5 - Shields - Recognizes November 21, 2007, as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Day (COPD) and November as COPD month in Missouri
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/16/2007 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

HB 39 - Portwood - Establishes a medical assistance program for the employed disabled
4/16/2007 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 213 - Cunningham - Requires higher education institutions to adopt policies promoting academic freedom and to report on steps taken to protect student academic freedom
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

HB 227 - Swinger - Creates an income tax credit for storm shelter construction
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

HB 233 - Tilley - Modifies the definition of the "practice of chiropractic"
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 255 - Bruns - Amends the law relating to the Office of Administration
4/16/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (0982S.03C)

HB 298 - Cooper - Regulates various blasting and excavation activities
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 327 - Richard - Modifies provisions of certain Department of Economic Development programs
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/16/2007 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor
4/16/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
4/16/2007 -- H refuses to concur SS for SCS
4/16/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference
4/16/2007 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference
4/16/2007 -- In Conference
4/16/2007 -- S conferees appointed: Griesheimer, Koster, Crowell, Callahan, Kennedy

HB 343 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions pertaining to cleanup costs for releases of hazardous substances
4/16/2007 -- S First Read

HB 453 - Jetton - Creates an income tax credit for contributions to food pantries and modifies provisions of the Residential Treatment Agency Tax Credit Program
4/16/2007 -- Signed by House Speaker
4/16/2007 -- Signed by Senate President
4/16/2007 -- Delivered to Governor

HB 457 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions of law providing property tax relief for senior citizens and disabled persons
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

HB 497 - Sater - Amends the law relating to physician assistants
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
4/16/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 527 - Cooper - Limits the time period for the reservation of a corporate name to 180 days
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 654 - Stream - Increases grants for veterans' service officer programs, establishes the Stolen Valor Act of 2007, and exempts real and personal property owned by veterans' organizations from taxation
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee

HB 678 - Marsh - Exempts school districts in declared federal disaster areas based on inclement weather in January 2007 from making up days and time lost due to the inclement weather
4/16/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent - EC adopted
4/16/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed (w/EC)

HB 801 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to telecommunication services and telephone calls
4/16/2007 -- S First Read

HB 818 - Ervin - Establishes the Missouri Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and changes the laws regarding the Missouri Health Insurance Pool and small employer insurance availability
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Health and Mental Health Committee

HB 894 - Hoskins - Modifies certain provisions relating to elections
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 914 - Dougherty - Modifies licensing standards of certain professionals
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 945 - Parson - Creates the crime of murder of a criminal justice official and expands the crime of assault of law enforcement officers, emergency personnel, or probation officers to include corrections officers
4/16/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 987 - Wasson - Modifies licensing standards for real estate appraisers
4/16/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

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