Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/26/2007

SB 4 - Gross - Extends the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, Pharmacy Tax, Nursing Facility Reimbursement Allowance, and Medicaid Managed Care Reimbursement Allowance sunsets
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 31 - Nodler - Authorizes the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects to impose civil penalties
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard H Special Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 40 - Ridgeway - Creates various tax incentives for certain energy uses
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on Utilities Committee

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
4/26/2007 -- S refuses to concur in HCS, as amended
4/26/2007 -- S requests H recede or grant conference

SB 75 - Coleman - Provides for a tuition limitation for certain combat veterans
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on Veterans Committee

SB 81 - Griesheimer - Allows the city of Sullivan and the portion of the Sullivan C-2 School District located in Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax
4/26/2007 -- S refuses to concur in HCS, as amended
4/26/2007 -- S requests H recede or grant conference

SB 82 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of motor vehicles
4/26/2007 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee

SB 86 - Champion - Modifies provisions of the Children in Crisis Tax Credit Program
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 156 - Engler - Modifies various provisions pertaining to agriculture and the Department of Agriculture
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Fiscal Review Committee

SB 168 - Mayer - Codifies the employment-at-will doctrine
4/26/2007 -- SS for SCS S offered (Mayer)--(0191S.06F)
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Callahan)--(0191S06.01F)
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 198 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to crime in or near parks, cooperative agreements with state parks, certain historic shipwrecks, and certain hunting activities on private land
4/26/2007 -- S refuses to concur in HCS
4/26/2007 -- S requests H recede or grant conference

SB 199 - Stouffer - Exempts contractors from paying sales taxes on materials used in Department of Transportation projects
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 204 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after April 1, 2009, to be a biodiesel-blended fuel
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on Agri-Business Committee

SB 226 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to the administration of intoxication-related traffic offenses
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Transportation Committee

SB 235 - Shields - Modifies certain provisions relating to the Missouri State Water Patrol
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on State Parks and Waterways Committee

SB 313 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to regulation of manufactured homes by the Public Service Commission
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Special Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 328 - Engler - Modifies various provisions relating to certain renewable fuel incentives and solid waste laws
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Special Committee on Energy and Environment Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 333 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to the Department of Health and Senior Services
4/26/2007 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SB 358 - Engler - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the regulation of motor vehicles
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Transportation Committee

SB 368 - Barnitz - Modifies requirements for corporate filings
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 389 - Nodler - Modifies several provisions regarding the state's higher education system
4/26/2007 -- H Second Read
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Higher Education Committee

SB 406 - Crowell - Modifies multiple provisions regarding several employee benefit plans
4/26/2007 -- HA 1 to HCS#2 H offered (Cooper-120)--(1648L06.06H)
4/26/2007 -- HA 1 to HA 1 to HCS#2 H offered (Portwood)--(1648L06.16H)
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Calendar

SB 418 - Champion - Increases the monthly personal needs payment under the Supplemental Nursing Care Program
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Fiscal Review (Fiscal Note) Committee

SB 428 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions relating to agriculture
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Agriculture Policy Committee

SB 430 - Shields - Creates the "Smart Start Scholarship Program"
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor

SB 482 - Gibbons - Expands the definition of marital and family therapy to include the diagnosis of behavior and intrapersonal or interpersonal dysfunctions
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted H Special Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 496 - Koster - Revises the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Health Care Policy Committee

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
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Local Government Committee

SB 582 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of law relating to sales tax
4/26/2007 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Ways & Means Committee
4/26/2007 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f)

SRB 613 - Goodman - Repeals certain laws that have expired, sunset, terminated, or are ineffective
4/26/2007 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 654 - Kennedy - Allows the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners to delegate some of its powers to hearing officers
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Urban Issues Committee

SB 664 - Scott - Modifies laws relating to the Board of Nursing Home Administrators
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 668 - Loudon - Modifies workers' compensation payments
4/26/2007 -- Referred H Special Committee on Health Insurance Committee

HB 1 - Icet - To appropriate money to the Board of Fund Commissioners for the cost of issuing, processing and defeasing and to transfer money among certain funds.
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 2 - Icet - To appropriate money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the several divisions.
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 3 - Icet - To appropriate money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education, the several divisions, programs, and institutions of higher education.
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 4 - Icet - To appropriate money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue, Department of Transportation, the several divisions and programs.
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 5 - Icet - To appropriate money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Public Safety, and the Chief Executi
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 6 - Icet - To appropriate money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Conservation, and the several divisions.
4/26/2007 -- H refuses to concur in SCS
4/26/2007 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 28 - Cunningham - Allows common carriers of household goods to request rate adjustments from the State Highways and Transportation Commission and repeals exemption for household carriers under Chapter 390, RSMo
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Transportation Committee to Floor

HB 56 - Sater - Designates a memorial bridge after Senator Bond and designates several memorial highways.
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0190L01.01S)
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended

HB 62 - Ruestman - Designates the Department of Agriculture's building at 1616 Missouri Boulevard in Jefferson City as the "George Washington Carver Building"
4/26/2007 -- S Third and Passed - Consent
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 74 - Wilson - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 16,000 or fewer residents
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee to Floor

HB 75 - Sutherland - Authorizes the Director of the Department of Natural Resources to enter into agreements with private, not-for-profit organizations to provide services for state parks
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 134 - Guest - Modifies provisions regarding appropriations requests for equipment by the University of Missouri
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Education Committee to Floor

HB 159 - Bivins - Modifies laws pertaining to dam and reservoir safety
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 165 - Cooper - Enacts the 2007 Municipal Telecommunications Business License Tax Simplification Act
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Ways & Means Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 181 - Sander - Requires captioning of electronic video instructional material
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee to Floor

HB 182 - Bruns - Establishes the Outside the Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Act to permit the execution of do-not-resuscitate orders for use by emergency medical providers for patients receiving treatment outside a hospital
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Seniors, Families and Public Health Committee to Floor

HB 184 - Dempsey - Requires city or county reimbursement to the community children's services fund in an amount equal to the portion of tax revenues used for tax increment finance projects that would have been allocated to the fund
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee to Floor

HB 205 - Marsh - Modifies various provisions relating to the promotion of tourism
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 265 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 267 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 268 - Moore - Authorizes the Governor to convey an easement over, on, and under state property located in Callaway County to the City of Fulton
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 272 - Viebrock - Designates the three-toed box turtle as the official reptile of the State of Missouri
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 343 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions pertaining to cleanup costs for releases of hazardous substances
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 344 - Munzlinger - Modifies liability for crop damage or destruction
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 351 - Wood - Designates the crayfish as the official state invertebrate of the State of Missouri
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & withdrawn (Loudon)--(0248L01.01F)
4/26/2007 -- SA 2 S offered & withdrawn (Smith)--(0248L01.01S)
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 352 - Hobbs - Modifies provisions relating to Sheltered Workshops
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor

HB 405 - Moore - Modifies provisions relating to the administrative duties of the Missouri State Highway Patrol
4/26/2007 -- S Third and Passed - Consent - EC adopted
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed (w/EC)

HB 428 - Cox - Creates the State Fair Escrow Fund for expenses associated with the Missouri State Fair and off-season events
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 444 - Jetton - Exempts Social Security benefits from income taxation
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor

HB 459 - Sutherland - Requires land transfers between municipalities to be filed with the county assessor
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 462 - Munzlinger - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to Floor

HB 467 - Cox - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Pettis County to the Girl Scouts-Heart of Missouri Council, Incorporated
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 488 - Wasson - Creates a tax credit for the use of idle reduction technology
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Ways & Means Committee to Floor

HB 551 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty
4/26/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee (1504S.05C)
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 574 - St. Onge - Modifies procedures for enforcing alcohol-related traffic offenses and allows the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners to delegate powers to hearing officers
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Stouffer)--(1372L01.02S)
4/26/2007 -- SA 2 S offered & withdrawn (Stouffer)--(8178S07.01S)
4/26/2007 -- SA 3 S offered & adopted (Kennedy)--(0171S07.01S)
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended - EC adopted

HB 579 - Dempsey - Provides immunity from liability for health care professionals deployed during a state of emergency
4/26/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to Floor

HB 616 - Wood - Removes the county assessor from a county board of equalization and requires the county commission to appoint two additional members to the board
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended

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
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee to Floor

HB 665 - Ervin - Modifies various provisions relating to county documents
4/26/2007 -- SS S offered (Ridgeway)--(1441S.04F)
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 to SS S offered & adopted (Bray)--(1441S04.01S)
4/26/2007 -- SS, as amended, S adopted
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 680 - May - Designates Big Bluestem as the official state grass
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 S offered & withdrawn (Graham)
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 684 - Bruns - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property located in the cities of St. Louis and Kansas City and the counties of St. Francois, Texas, Newton, Greene, and Livingston
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Green)--(1264S02.01F)
4/26/2007 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted

HB 686 - Smith - Expands the rule-making authority of the Board of Nursing Home Administrators
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Seniors, Families and Public Health Committee to Floor

HB 732 - Parson - Adds emergency personnel killed while performing their duties to the list of individuals who are exempt from the formalized highway naming process set forth in Section 227.299, RSMo
4/26/2007 -- S Third and Passed - Consent
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 740 - Pearce - Authorizes the Governor to convey an easement over state property to the City of Warrensburg and the Board of Regents of Northwest Missouri State University to convey state property located in Nodaway County
4/26/2007 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 741 - Pearce - Establishes the Missouri Economic Development Code and the Regional Economic Development District Law
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee to Floor

HB 754 - Kelly - Allows the Department of Corrections to disburse federal and other funds
4/26/2007 -- S Third and Passed - Consent
4/26/2007 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 791 - Wilson - Requires health carriers to provide certain claims and financial data for the previous three years when requested by an employer
4/26/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee (1506S.03C)
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 795 - Flook - Allows for the creation of theater, cultural arts, and entertainment districts in certain cities and counties, defines transect-based zoning, and authorizes certain taxes in certain political subdivisions
4/26/2007 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Kennedy)--(1464S06.01S)
4/26/2007 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Shields)--(8183S07.01S)
4/26/2007 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Kennedy)--(1464S06.02S)
4/26/2007 -- SA 4 to SCS S offered & adopted (Barnitz)--(1464S06.03S)
4/26/2007 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/26/2007 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 801 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to telecommunication services and telephone calls
4/26/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 894 - Hoskins - Modifies certain provisions relating to elections
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 1014 - Wright - Requires the state to give preference in state purchasing contracts to certain disabled veteran businesses
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

HJR 19 - Bearden - Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a citizen's First Amendment right to free religious expression
4/26/2007 -- Reported from S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee to Floor
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