Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/28/2009


SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 34 - Wilson - Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamp assistance
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 44 - Pearce - Modifies various provisions relating to private jails
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Special Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Transportation Funding Committee
4/28/2009 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SB 128 - Rupp - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Special Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Transportation Funding Committee
4/28/2009 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SB 134 - Dempsey - Authorizes the issuance of several special license plates and modifies the procedure for their issuance
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Transportation Committee
4/28/2009 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support
4/28/2009 -- H Third Read and Passed
4/28/2009 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

SB 141 - Smith - Modifies the law on the establishment of paternity
4/28/2009 -- H Third Read and Passed
4/28/2009 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 188 - Dempsey - Modifies various provisions relating to liquor control
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Job Creation and Economic Development Committee

SB 216 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to debt settlement providers
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules 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
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 242 - Pearce - Prohibits certain storm water management fees and provides an alternate procedure to approve bond issuance for a sewer subdistrict in Cass County
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to concur in HCS, as amended
4/28/2009 -- S requests H recede or grant conference

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
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 to HCS H offered (Emery)--(1311L02.11H)
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 to HA 1 to HCS H offered & withdrawn (Allen)--(1311L02.04H)
4/28/2009 -- HA 2 to HA 1 to HCS H offered & withdrawn (Allen)--(1311L02.05F)
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 to HCS H adopted
4/28/2009 -- HA 2 to HCS H offered (Guernsey)--(1311L02.03L)
4/28/2009 -- Bill placed back on calendar

SB 306 - Dempsey - Establishes the Show-Me Health Coverage Plan and modifies provisions relating to health care services
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Special Standing Committee on Health Insurance Committee

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 to HCS H offered & adopted (Stream)--(1446L04.02H)
4/28/2009 -- HA 2 to HCS H offered & adopted (Dethrow)--(1446L04.03H)
4/28/2009 -- HCS, as amended, H adopted
4/28/2009 -- H Third Read and Passed
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to concur in HCS, as amended

SB 368 - Stouffer - Provides an affirmative defense to bicyclists and motorcyclists who run red lights under certain conditions
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Energy and Environment Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Energy and Environment Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Energy and Environment Committee
4/28/2009 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 450 - Cunningham - Requires public libraries to adopt policies on the placement of books and other materials that are obscene or pornographic for minors
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 474 - Wright-Jones - Allows certain public utilities to require deposits for new or continued service only in certain circumstances
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 480 - Shoemyer - Creates the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and modifies the name and duties of the Second Capitol Commission
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules 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
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 513 - Dempsey - Modifies the filing requirements for certain real estate broker liens and requires builders to offer to install sprinklers in some instances
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 H offered (Wasson)--(2221S01.01F)
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 to HA 1 H offered & adopted (Corcoran)--(2221S01.02F)
4/28/2009 -- HA 1, as amended, H adopted
4/28/2009 -- H Third Read and Passed, as amended

SB 526 - Clemens - Authorizes the state veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin
4/28/2009 -- HA 1 H offered & adopted (Wright)--(2245S01.03H)
4/28/2009 -- HA 2 H offered & adopted (Brown)--(2245S01.01H)
4/28/2009 -- HA 3 H offered & adopted (Munzlinger)--(2245S01.01L)
4/28/2009 -- HA 4 H offered & adopted (Loehner)--(2245S01.05H)
4/28/2009 -- H Third Read and Passed, as amended

SB 540 - Schaefer - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SB 542 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's Linked Deposit Loan Program
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 546 - Schmitt - Increase the income disregard for eligibility in the Ticket-to-Work Health Assurance Program
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 548 - Schmitt - Allows for the establishment of health record banks
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SCR 13 - Pearce - Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported from S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee to Floor

SCR 27 - Rupp - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus and Stabilization Funds
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported from S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee to Floor

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion
4/28/2009 -- S Offered--SCR 28-Stouffer

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

HB 64 - Lipke - Modifies provisions of state income tax law
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

HB 89 - Brown - Requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians and bicyclists crossing in a crosswalk on a city or neighborhood street in Kansas City
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/28/2009 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 91 - Pollock - Designates various highways and bridges within the state of Missouri
4/28/2009 -- H refuses to concur
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference
4/28/2009 -- H conferees appointed: Pollock, Silvey, Fallert, Day, Kirkton
4/28/2009 -- S conferees appointed: Purgason, Crowell, Griesheimer, Green, Barnitz

HB 128 - Cunningham - Requires public bodies to use the traditional name of any holiday that such body observes or recognizes and designates December 25th of every year as Christmas
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 S offered (Bray)--(0535L03.01S)
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 132 - Fallert - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control
4/28/2009 -- SS S offered & adopted (McKenna)--(0531S.03F)
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 148 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to county collectors and the collection of taxes
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference
4/28/2009 -- S conferees appointed: Griesheimer, Lager, Schmitt, McKenna, Shoemyer

HB 229 - Ervin - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance
4/28/2009 -- SS for SCS S offered (Dempsey)--(0666L.04F)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Rupp)--(0666L04.05S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Purgason)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S adopted
4/28/2009 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Days)--(0666L04.07S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Stouffer)--(8161S09.02S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 4 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Lembke)--(838S09.01S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 5 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Scott)--(0666L04.14S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goodman)--(8223S09.01S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 7 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0666L04.01S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered (Schmitt)--(0666L04.02S)
4/28/2009 -- SSA 1 for SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered (Dempsey)--(0666L04.13S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SSA 1 for SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered (Ridgeway)--(0666L04.16S)
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Pearce)--(0752S04.01S)
4/28/2009 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 253 - Davis - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity if certain modulation standards are met
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/28/2009 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 258 - Jones - Modifies the prevailing and tipped employee wage rate
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 265 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference
4/28/2009 -- S conferees appointed: Crowell, Mayer, Cunningham, Days, Green

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership
4/28/2009 -- H refuses to concur
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference
4/28/2009 -- H conferees appointed: Parson, Talboy, Jones-117, Cox, Calloway
4/28/2009 -- S conferees appointed: Scott, Griesheimer, Pearce, Days, Barnitz

HB 299 - Wilson - Removes the cap on appropriations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities
4/28/2009 -- H refuses to concur
4/28/2009 -- H requests S recede or grant conference

HB 397 - Flook - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City
4/28/2009 -- S refuses to recede and grants conference

HB 495 - Parson - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/28/2009 -- SS for SCS S offered (Griesheimer)--(1386S.08F)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Scott)--(1386S01.01F)
4/28/2009 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & defeated (Rupp)--(1386S08.06F)
4/28/2009 -- SSA 2 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Griesheimer)--(1386S08.07S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SSA 2 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Scott)--(1386S08.02F)
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 540 - Jones - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums, automobile club memberships, home and auto security plans, and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 544 - Smith - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0733S02.03S)
4/28/2009 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & defeated (Shoemyer)--(0733S02.01F)
4/28/2009 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Callahan)--(0733S03.01S)
4/28/2009 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 568 - Dixon - Requires voter registration information to be made available to applicants for resident hunting and fishing permits
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 657 - Cooper - Modifies provisions relating to boat docks
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 659 - Dusenberg - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation
4/28/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 716 - Todd - Adds provisions related to newborns and newborn screenings
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee
4/28/2009 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee (1522S.03C)

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.
4/28/2009 -- Reported from S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee to Floor

HB 842 - Wood - Defines certain boat docks as real property for the purposes of real estate appraisers and modifies the definition of "commercial real estate" as it is used in licensing real estate brokers and agents
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Goodman)--(2042S02.03S)
4/28/2009 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/28/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 844 - Aull - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances
4/28/2009 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Crowell)
4/28/2009 -- Defeated on S Third Reading

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

HB 909 - Brandom - Authorizes the Governor to convey various state properties
4/28/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

HB 958 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxation
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

HCR 16 - Tracy - Strongly urges Congress to reject any asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or state medical care of any suspected terrorists released from United States operated foreign prisons
4/28/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/28/2009 -- Reported from S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee to Floor

HJR 11 - McGhee - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HJR 15 - Chappelle-Nadal - Exempts real property used by certain former prisoners of war as a homestead from property tax
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HJR 17 - Nasheed - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund
4/28/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Appropriations Committee

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