Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 1/27/2009


SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 47 - Scott - Modifies requirements for certain law enforcement personnel
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Cancelled S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 72 - Stouffer - Provides for transfer of long-term care beds to certain new health care facilities
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 89 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to public safety
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 201 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to dog fighting
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 202 - Schaefer - Modifies the law regarding the operation of a motorcycle, namely the assignment of fault for the operator's normal operation of such vehicle and the ability to forego wearing headgear while operating it
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 203 - Justus - Modifies the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 205 - Shoemyer - Prohibits the condemnation of property owned by certain gun clubs or sportsmen's clubs
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 208 - Rupp - Allows the State Board of Education to grant teaching certificates to individuals to teach part-time in specific areas
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 209 - Clemens - Creates a central filing system for filing financing statements to perfect a security interest in farm products
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 210 - Lembke - Prohibits the Supreme Court from establishing or maintaining a mandatory state bar association
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 212 - Griesheimer - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 213 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 214 - Scott - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 216 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to debt settlement providers
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 217 - Goodman - Allows remote participation in certain corporate shareholders' meetings and allows limited liability companies and limited partnerships to administratively cancel their respective documents of organization
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 219 - Ridgeway - Allows the court, as a condition of probation or parole, to require certain persons convicted of intoxication-related traffic offenses to submit to alcohol monitoring in certain circumstances
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 220 - Goodman - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 221 - Goodman - Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 223 - Goodman - Regulates sexually oriented businesses
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 224 - Goodman - Modifies the requirements of a restated articles of incorporation
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 225 - Goodman - Provides that the filing of criminal charges are not a prerequisite for release on bail under chapter 532, RSMo
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 226 - Bartle - Regulates sexually oriented businesses
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 228 - Scott - Modifies the construction-work-in-progress (CWIP) law for construction of certain new power plants and creates the Missouri Clean and Renewable Energy Construction Act
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 229 - Bray - Requires the posting of nurse staffing levels at hospitals
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 230 - Bray - Adopts the Uniform Planned Community Act
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 231 - Cunningham - Exempts landlords from liability for loss or damage to tenants' personal property when executing an order for possession of premises
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Progress and Development Committee

SB 233 - Cunningham - Allows the State Board of Education to issue teacher certificates to certain individuals in the areas of banking and financial responsibility
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 234 - Cunningham - Allows school districts to offer incentives or salary schedule modifications under certain circumstances
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 236 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions of the prompt pay statutes as they relate to the calculation of interest and penalties, the payment of attorney fees, and other ancillary matters
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 237 - Lembke - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 254-Barnitz and Shoemyer

SB 255 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 255-Pearce

SB 256 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to county purchases
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 256-Schaefer

SB 257 - Schaefer - Allows for the extension of certain county taxes upon voter approval
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 257-Schaefer

SB 258 - Schaefer - Provides for the county counselor of Boone County to receive state money for performing duties related to mental health and mental health facilities
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 258-Schaefer

SB 259 - Wright-Jones - Modifies the definition of weighted average daily attendance in the elementary and secondary education funding formula
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 259-Wright-Jones

SB 260 - Wright-Jones - Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act
1/27/2009 -- S First Read--SB 260-Wright-Jones

SCR 13 - Pearce - Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities
1/27/2009 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 1 - Bartle - Creates the Missouri Savings Account in the Constitution
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SJR 2 - Bartle - Proposes constitutional change to allow Department of Transportation to construct and maintain toll roads
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SJR 3 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to sexual offenders and other felons to be applied retrospectively
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 4 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SJR 6 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SJR 7 - Rupp - Creates the Missouri Revenue Retention Fund in the Constitution
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SJR 10 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying who presides over impeachment trials
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SJR 11 - Lembke - Modifies Missouri's Bill of Rights to include a statement that all persons have a natural right to economic freedom
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SR 139 - Engler - Amends Senate Rule 64
1/27/2009 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Champion)--(0934S02.02S)
1/27/2009 -- Motion to adopt - withdrawn

SR 140 - Engler - Changes the Senate Rule about Senator office assignments and chamber seating
1/27/2009 -- SA 1 S offered & withdrawn (Green)--(0972S04.01F)
1/27/2009 -- Motion to adopt - withdrawn
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SR 141 - Engler - Authorizes the use of laptops on the Senate floor under certain circumstances
1/27/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
1/27/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HCR 5 - McGhee - Disapproves the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials salary recommendations
1/27/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

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