Senate Summaries on House Bills
HB 1305 - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
HB 1309 - Allows any family member older than 21 years of age to give written permission for a temporary instruction permit application and to occupy the seat beside the driver with a temporary permit
HB 1310 - Modifies the filings for independent candidates
HB 1311 - (Truly Agreed) - Imposes certain requirements on write-in candidates for municipal office
HB 1313 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the state and political subdivisions to favor service disabled veteran businesses when letting contracts
HB 1314 - Grants civil immunity to certain education personnel under certain conditions
HB 1319 - Authorizes an income tax credit for employers who hire qualified high school students for summer jobs
HB 1320 - Allows community improvement districts, which are political subdivisions, to sponsor and operate a polytechnic institute for science and technology within the city or county that authorized the district
HB 1321 - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxes
HB 1326 - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of hybrid motor vehicles
HB 1332 - Establishes provisions regarding pharmacy audits
HB 1341 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires owners of for-profit swimming pools to maintain adequate liability insurance in the event of injury or death of a patron
HB 1348 - Repeals the requirements that the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners establish the Bertillon system of identification of criminals and employ assistance to conduct and manage the department
HB 1354 - (Truly Agreed) - Exempts self-propelled sprayers that are used for spraying chemicals or spreading fertilizer from complying with titling, registration and license plate display laws
HB 1358 - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
HB 1368 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies membership requirements for the Northwest Missouri State University Board of Regents
HB 1371 - Authorizes the designation of rural empowerment zones in any county with eighteen thousand residents or less
HB 1380 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes allocation of property taxes to senior center
HB 1383 - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts
HB 1384 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies certain provisions relating to protection of consumers against fraudulent practices
HB 1386 - Modifies the requirements for a larger Board of Trustees for certain municipal health facilities
HB 1393 - Exempts persons 21 years of age or older from wearing protective headgear when operating or riding motorcycles or motortricycles
HB 1406 - Establishes the drunk driving memorial sign program
HB 1410 - Increases the maximum amount of compensation which the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners may pay officers
HB 1416 - Designates the morel mushroom as the official state mushroom
HB 1419 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law relating to licensed massage therapists
HB 1422 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the State 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
HB 1423 - Toughens ignition interlock device law for certain repeat offenders and allows prior pleas and other dispositions to be used to enhance the punishment of intoxication-related traffic offenders
HB 1426 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes the requirement that the Missouri Public Service Commission issue an annual economic impact report on certain telecommunication laws
HB 1450 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law relating to terrorism
HB 1463 - Prohibits the admission of unlawfully present aliens to public institutions of higher education
HB 1469 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law regarding certain environmental appeals transferred to the Administrative Hearing Commission
HB 1474 - Establishes a process for converting manufactured homes from personal property into real property and vice versa
HB 1516 - Changes the laws regarding protections for vulnerable adults and children and transfers the Division of Aging from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Health and Senior Services
HB 1532 - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or lower beam from its maximum intensity to lesser intensity
HB 1546 - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control
HB 1549 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law relating to illegal immigrants
HB 1550 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to courts
HB 1570 - (Truly Agreed) - Adds services of guardian ad litems to the priority list of services for which moneys in the family services and justice fund shall be spent
HB 1574 - Increases the death benefit of an active member of the Sheriffs' Retirement System
HB 1575 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates a portion of State Highway 87 in Moniteau County as the "Lance Corporal Leon B. Deraps Memorial Highway"
HB 1595 - Creates a tax credit for the construction of storm shelters
HB 1608 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes counties to preserve electronic images of original cancelled checks instead of the actual check
HB 1611 - Establishes a children's bill of courtroom rights
HB 1616 - Modifies an exception to those required to be licensed as real estate brokers
HB 1617 - Authorizes financial institutions to assign fiduciary obligations relating to irrevocable life insurance trusts
HB 1619 - Modifies provisions relating to drug monitoring
HB 1626 - Requires applicants to prove citizenship, permanent residence, or lawful presence in order to receive state or local public benefits
HB 1628 - (Truly Agreed) - Exempts historical vehicles powered by liquid petroleum or natural gas from the alternative fuel decal requirement and tax
HB 1640 - (Truly Agreed) - Provides for exceptions to the requirement for issuing a new birth certificate following adoption
HB 1649 - Requires registered sex offenders to obtain driver's licenses with unique codes and limits license to a one-year period
HB 1656 - Modifies provisions regarding long-term care facilities
HB 1661 - Requires property taxes paid by certain nonresident taxpayers to be added-back to adjusted gross income
HB 1670 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes the requirement for certification by the Department of Natural Resources before a sales and use tax exemption applies to the purchase or lease of certain items used to monitor water and air pollution
HB 1677 - Allows political subdivisions to elect to cover certain personnel as members of the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System
HB 1678 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various laws relating to members of the military and their families
HB 1689 - (Truly Agreed) - Transfers the Governor's Council on Disability from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Office of Administration
HB 1690 - (Truly Agreed) - Enacts various provisions relating to the transmission of insurance-related information
HB 1700 - Modifies the law relating to professional licensing and registration
HB 1704 - Increases the appropriation amount for small school grants and allows certain schools to receive a flat amount per student
HB 1706 - Allows retired members of PSRS and PEERS to work up to full time for up to two years without losing benefits
HB 1707 - Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for construction projects costing more than $15,000
HB 1710 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions regarding supplemental and disability retirement for Kansas City police officers and civilian employees
HB 1711 - Modifies provisions relating to public services provided by certain political subdivisions
HB 1715 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to the Water Patrol and watercraft regulations
HB 1716 - Modifies law regarding proving lawful presence for driver's license purposes and prohibits the collection and dissemination of driver's license and motor vehicle information in order to comply with the REAL ID Act
HB 1722 - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
HB 1756 - Modifies the provisions relating to the counterfeiting of goods
HB 1763 - Modifies requirements pertaining to petition circulators
HB 1773 - Creates an income tax dependency exemption for stillborn children
HB 1774 - Increases the maximum percentage of increase in annual compensation for certain members of the Public School Retirement System
HB 1779 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies laws regarding underground facilities and telecommunications services
HB 1783 - Requires all government buildings to fly the U.S. and Missouri flags at half-staff when any Missouri resident is killed in combat
HB 1784 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires any American or Missouri flag flown on state property to be manufactured in the United States
HB 1788 - Authorizes an income tax deduction from a taxpayer's Missouri adjusted gross income for 100% of any military retirement income, regardless of age or income
HB 1790 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to municipal health care facilities and hospital designations
HB 1791 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates licensed professional counselors as mental health professionals in certain circumstances
HB 1804 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies certain provisions relating to home-rule cities and third class cities
HB 1805 - Allows enrollees to pay the usual and customary retail price of a prescription drug when the co-payment assigned by the health maintenance organization or health insurer exceeds such retail price
HB 1807 - (Truly Agreed) - Changes the name of the State Schools for Severely Handicapped Children to Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled.
HB 1813 - Repeals certain bingo and pull-tab card taxes
HB 1824 - Establishes the ice cream cone as the official state dessert
HB 1828 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Director of the Department of Revenue to establish and enforce reasonable sales and use tax rules and regulations
HB 1831 - Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions
HB 1832 - Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions
HB 1849 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the penalties for certain zoning violations
HB 1861 - Creates the Renewable Energy Information and Reporting Act
HB 1864 - Modifies provisions of law regarding the licensing of operators of excursion gambling boats by allowing checks to be deposited on the next business day of the financial institution
HB 1869 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Missouri Revisor of Statutes to change all references of the term "junior college" to "community college" in the Revised Statutes of Missouri
HB 1876 - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
HB 1881 - (Truly Agreed) - Changes the length of the term of office for the initially appointed directors of public water supply districts
HB 1883 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various laws relating to employment
HB 1887 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates a portion of State Highway 13 in Polk County as the "Rick Seiner Memorial Highway"
HB 1888 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows a municipality to annex land within the airport zone of the City of Springfield if it agrees to enforce Springfield's zoning ordinance
HB 1893 - (Truly Agreed) - Changes the requirements for premium refund calculations on credit insurance
HB 1904 - Modifies various provisions of law relating to financial limitations placed on boards and commissions
HB 1910 - Exempts first class counties from certain procedural requirements when promulgating regulations relating to increasing speed limits
HB 1923 - Modifies requirements for corporate filings
HB 1937 - Modifies procedure for forming transportation development districts within multiple counties
HB 1946 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to adoption subsidies and youth development programs
HB 1952 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates a bridge in Maries County as the "Roy Bassett Memorial Bridge"
HB 1970 - (Truly Agreed) - Limits civil actions against certain motor vehicle dealers
HB 1972 - Modifies provisions relating to compensation for education personnel
HB 1973 - Modifies provisions relating to compensation for education personnel
HB 1981 - Authorizes a tax credit for purchases of new motor vehicles assembled and sold in this state
HB 1983 - Authorizes the conversion of certain business organizations
HB 1995 - Allows a county, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications
HB 2001 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money to the Board of Fund Commissioners
HB 2002 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 2003 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education
HB 2004 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue and Department of Transportation
HB 2005 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety
HB 2006 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Conservation
HB 2007 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses and distributions of the Departments of Economic Development; Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration; and Labor and Industrial
HB 2008 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety
HB 2009 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections
HB 2010 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, Board of Public Buildings, and Department of Health and Senior Services
HB 2011 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, and distributions of the Department of Social Services
HB 2012 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of statewide elected officials, the Judiciary, Office of the State Public Defender, and General Assembly
HB 2013 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for real property leases and related services
HB 2014 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for several departments, offices of state government,for purchase of equipment,payment of various claims for refunds,for persons,firms,and corporations
HB 2015 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the Department of Social Services Utilicare program
HB 2016 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for capital improvement and other purposes for several departments of state government
HB 2019 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the University of Missouri, for the purchase of equipment, planning, expenses for capital improvements, from funds designated for perion ending 5-30-08
HB 2020 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the several departments and offices of state government,for the purchase of equipment,planning,expenses for the fiscal period ending 5-30-2008
HB 2021 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the Department of Conservation
HB 2022 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the Department of Public Safety
HB 2023 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for planning, expenses, and for capital improvements
HB 2034 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to weapons
HB 2036 - (Truly Agreed) - Repeals the formula distribution requirements for additional funding for certain services for the elderly
HB 2041 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to unemployment compensation
HB 2047 - (Truly Agreed) - Changes the law regarding street grading in cities with over 300,000 inhabitants and allows certain counties of the third classification to impose a tax on agricultural and horticultural land, upon voter approval, for purchasing road rock
HB 2048 - (Truly Agreed) - Creates the Textbook Transparency Act requiring textbook publishers to provide certain information to higher education institutions
HB 2051 - Authorizes the Director of the Department of Corrections to serve as or to appoint a member of the Board of Probation and Parole as the acting chairman in the case of a vacancy until the Governor appoints a new chairman
HB 2055 - Removes certain limitations from investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems
HB 2056 - Modifies provisions relating to the investment of funds for teacher and school employee retirement systems
HB 2058 - (Truly Agreed) - Provides tax incentives for business development
HB 2059 - Creates the Professional Relationships Between Teachers and School Districts Act
HB 2060 - Authorizes minimum amounts of compensation for certain corrections personnel
HB 2062 - Modifies various provisions of law relating to the provision of benefits to certain public employees, including members of the military and their families
HB 2064 - Modifies the law relating to licensed health care professionals
HB 2065 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law relating to licensed psychologists
HB 2068 - Modifies the law relating to licensed physical therapists and physical therapy assistants
HB 2078 - Prohibits issuance of driver's licenses to persons 15 to 18 years of age if a school submits information that a student is not in compliance with the eligibility standards
HB 2081 - Modifies the definition of "practice of embalming"
HB 2082 - Modifies the law relating to licensed barbers and cosmetologists
HB 2104 - Modifies laws relating to several public employee retirement systems
HB 2114 - Modifies the ballot requirements for elections
HB 2157 - Allows an individual who has learned or reasonably suspects that he or she has been the victim of identity theft to file a police report with the local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over his or her residence
HB 2188 - (Truly Agreed) - Creates civil and criminal penalties for mortgage fraud and imposes sanctions upon certain licensed professionals and unlicensed individuals who commit the crime
HB 2191 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships
HB 2202 - Department of Corrections custody personnel shall be eligible for a specific pay parameter based on the hazards of such jobs, years of service, and a twenty-four-hour seven-day-a-week staffing requirement
HB 2204 - Modifies provisions relating to compensation for education personnel
HB 2206 - Requires the Department of Transportation to provide full consideration for bicyclists, pedestrians, disabled persons, and transit users in its plans, programs, and projects
HB 2213 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the second week of September as Parent and Family Involvement in Education Week
HB 2224 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to law enforcement
HB 2226 - Allows married taxpayers filing jointly to deduct up to $16,000 in contributions to the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program from their taxable income
HB 2233 - (Truly Agreed) - Bars certain individuals from advocating for political appointments
HB 2250 - Establishes the Show-Me Green Tax Holiday Act which authorizes a state sales and use tax exemption on the purchase of certain energy efficient products each November
HB 2258 - Requires the Commissioner of the State Water Patrol to be appointed by the Governor from its uniformed membership
HB 2260 - Modifies provisions of the qualified research expense tax credit program
HB 2266 - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program
HB 2279 - Modifies provisions relating to utilities
HB 2321 - Modifies the law relating to elections
HB 2328 - Exempts purchases of utilities by certain businesses operated in former mines from sales tax, establishes the Regional Economic Development Initiative Tax Credit Program
HB 2360 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates a portion of Highway 169 in Gentry County as the "Mo. Hwy. Patrol Corporal Henry C. Bruns Memorial Highway"
HB 2393 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions of the enhanced enterprise tax benefit program
HB 2590 - Modifies various provisions relating to civil actions against government entities, agents, officers, and employees
HCR 1 - House Concurrent Resolution No. 1 - State of the State on January 15, 2008
HCR 2 - House Concurrent Resolution No. 2 - State of the Judiciary on February 5, 2008
HCR 3 - House Concurrent Resolution No. 3 - State of the State of Transportation on February 6, 2008
HCR 4 - Requests the U.S. Department of Agriculture to add June 1st and September 1st as additional rice reporting dates on the Agricultural Statistics Board calendar
HCR 5 - Urgently requests the United States Congress to pass assured funding for veterans' health care
HCR 7 - Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities
HCR 8 - Recognizes March 2008 as "Hydrocephalus Awareness Month" in Missouri
HCR 15 - Urges the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to establish a controlled pilot program allowing 19 to 21 year-olds to obtain a CDL for interstate commerce
HCR 16 - Urges the United States Congress to immediately repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act
HCR 18 - Recognizes the I-49 Coalition as the official organization for the project to upgrade U.S. Highway 71 to interstate standards
HCR 19 - Endorses the "Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children's Bill of Rights"
HCR 21 - Supports the Department of Health and Senior Services' efforts to reform the current funding formula for the senior nutrition program to more effectively meet the needs of seniors
HCR 23 - Declares February 6th of each year to be "Ronald Reagan Day" in Missouri
HCR 25 - Urges Congress and the Consumer Product Safety Commission to immediately strengthen the regulations regarding furniture and major appliances with a tip-over hazard
HCR 26 - Encourages the Governor and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to secure additional funding for fine arts education in this state
HCR 30 - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Voice Communications Regulation
HCR 34 - Recognizes "Walk and Bicycle to School" month, week, and day during October 2008 in Missouri
HCR 35 - Recognizes the month of May 2008 as "National Bike Month" and the week of May 12-16, 2008, as "Bike to Work Week"
HCR 43 - Urges the United States Air Force to reconsider its decision to replace a Boeing-made refueling tanker with a tanker supplied by a foreign country
HJR 41 - Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that the general assembly is not required to enact legislation to comply with a court order declaring that it raise taxes
HJR 43 - Requires rollbacks of current levies due to increases in assessed value
HJR 48 - Allows laws to be established to require voters to provide valid government-issued photo identification in order to vote
HJR 55 - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion on public property
HJR 70 - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits
HJR 71 - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Missouri Veterans' Commission and establishing a sales tax for veterans' programs