Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 3/2/2009


SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 66 - Scott - Amends requirements for filing financial interest statements
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation
3/2/2009 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 104 - Justus - Provides information and the opportunity to be immunized for the human papilloma virus
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 126 - Rupp - Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel destinations unless such action is based upon sound actuarial principles
3/2/2009 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 152 - Clemens - Modifies definition of eligible student for nursing student loan program
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation
3/2/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed

SB 216 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to debt settlement providers
3/2/2009 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (1058S.02C)

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
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 224 - Goodman - Modifies the requirements of a restated articles of incorporation
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent

SB 243 - Pearce - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions
3/2/2009 -- H Second Read

SB 255 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri
3/2/2009 -- SA 1 to SA 1 S withdrawn
3/2/2009 -- SA 1 S withdrawn
3/2/2009 -- SA 2 S offered & Ruled out of order (Smith)--(1449S01.04S)
3/2/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent

SB 264 - Mayer - Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 294 - Barnitz - Restricts corporate name reservation
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
3/2/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 319 - Lembke - Modifies the manner in which lien titles for motor vehicles, trailers, outboard motors, aircrafts, and vessels are issued
3/2/2009 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (1709L.03C)

SB 478 - Shoemyer - Forbids health carriers from requiring providers to disclose their reimbursement rates with other carriers as a condition to contract
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 479 - Shoemyer - Allows certain contributions to downtown revitalization preservation development projects to be substituted on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the local match of payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 480 - Shoemyer - Creates the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and modifies the name and duties of the Second Capitol Commission
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 482 - Ridgeway - Regulates tanning facilities
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 483 - Rupp - Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model regulations
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 485 - Pearce - Requires the Ethics Commission to redact the bank account number contained on a committee's statement of organization before it makes the statement public
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 488 - Vogel - Allows the city of Lake Ozark to withdraw from a special road district located in Camden and Miller Counties and form a new district with boundaries identical to the city's boundaries
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 489 - Dempsey - Allows cities to impose license taxes upon hotels and motels
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 490 - Wilson - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 492 - Mayer - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 493 - Mayer - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 495 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to employment security
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 496 - Cunningham - Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, to have authority over extracurricular competitive activities
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 497 - Cunningham - Allows a school district receiving students from a district that does not maintain an accredited school to request that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education withhold delinquent tuition payments
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 498 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to include in their school accountability report cards whether they have a gifted education program and have had one over the past three years
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 500 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to allow parents to withhold permission for students to participate in school-sponsored clubs and extracurricular activities
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 502 - Cunningham - Establishes procedures for the evaluation of student credits when a student transfers to a public school from another educational setting
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 503 - Cunningham - Allows two or more adjacent school districts to share a superintendent under certain circumstances
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 504 - Cunningham - Requires students at public higher education institutions to pay the full cost of tuition if they take the same course more than twice
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 505 - Cunningham - Prohibits a superintendent of an unaccredited or provisionally accredited school district from transferring a teacher if the principal of the receiving school refuses
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 506 - Callahan - Creates fire sprinkler business regulations
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 507 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities
3/2/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government 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
3/2/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 65 - Wilson - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county
3/2/2009 -- S First Read--HB 65-Wilson (119), et al

HB 242 - Kingery - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week
3/2/2009 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 242

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