Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 2/8/2010

SB 578 - Shields - Allows port authority boards to establish port improvement districts to fund projects with voter-approved sales taxes or property taxes
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee

SB 586 - Bartle - Regulates sexually oriented businesses
2/8/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 587 - Nodler - Creates the Tenth Amendment Commission
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 588 - Nodler - Modifies provisions of law requiring notices of projected tax liability
2/8/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee (3308S.03C)

SB 597 - Ridgeway - Requires 10% of state contracts be awarded to businesses with less than 25 employees
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 599 - Ridgeway - Removes the requirement that goods and services be purchased by the state and public institutions from the Vocational Enterprises Program
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 624 - Shoemyer - Allows certain contributions to downtown revitalization preservation development projects to be substituted on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the local match in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 629 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 630 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes
2/8/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee (3142S.05C) - Consent

SB 644 - Shields - Modifies provisions of law regarding certain taxes to fund tourism and convention centers
2/8/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee (3322S.04C)

SB 686 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee - Consent

SB 726 - Bray - Exempts admission fees for yoga and certain other physical training programs from state and local sales and use tax
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 756 - Bray - Allows certain political subdivisions to satisfy statutory publication requirements by posting certain information on their web sites
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 758 - Rupp - Requires notes, bonds, and other instruments in writing issued by the Bi-State Development Agency to mature not more than 40 years from the date of issuance, rather than 30 years
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 767 - Bartle - Removes the restriction on certain counties using a court fee for courtroom renovation and technology
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee-Consent

SB 771 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to financial institutions offering bids to become the official county depositary
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 772 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program
2/8/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee (3986S.02C) - Consent

SB 773 - Dempsey - Allows owners of automated teller machines to charge access fees to those with bank accounts in foreign countries
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 776 - Days - Requires that two of three commissioners appointed in condemnation cases be real estate brokers or appraisers
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 779 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to the DNA profiling system
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 806 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to children who are victims of pornographic offenses
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 810 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to the regulation of fireworks
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 816 - Lembke - Modifies provisions of law allowing interest on overpayments of income tax
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 823 - Ridgeway - Exempts utilities, machinery, and equipment used in data storage from state and local sales and use tax
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 839 - Wright-Jones - Modifies provisions of law regarding licensed gambling
2/8/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee (4720S.02C)
2/8/2010 -- Reported from S Ways and Means Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 860 - Bray - Modifies the date by which certain political subdivisions must set property tax rates
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 868 - Shields - Creates state and local sales and use tax exemptions for data storage centers and server farm facilities
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

SB 880 - Schaefer - Modifies various provisions relating to intoxication-related traffic offenses
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 888 - Crowell - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 889 - Crowell - Prohibits the state minimum wage from exceeding the federal minimum wage
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 890 - Crowell - Places a one year moratorium on the authorization of low income housing tax credits
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 891 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of certain tax credit programs
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 892 - Days - Modifies provisions governing the regulation of the bail bond industry by the Department of Insurance
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 893 - Days - Requires a law enforcement agency to enter certain information regarding orders of protection into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement system within 24 hours and modifies various other provisions of law
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 894 - Dempsey - Requires state employee health care plan to offer actuarially equivalent benefit products to Medicare eligible participants and enacts various provisions relating to the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 895 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 896 - Shields - Requires the boards of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System to create a defined contribution retirement plan for certain employees and judges
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

SB 897 - Lager - Modifies provisions pertaining to utilities and certain clean water requirements and fees
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 898 - Pearce - Authorizes the City of Peculiar to seek voter approval to impose a sales tax for public safety improvements
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 899 - Pearce - Establishes the Missouri Promise Program to provide financial awards to students pursuing higher education at certain institutions
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 900 - Rupp - Makes numerous revisions to the Missouri Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 901 - Lembke - Allows the Commissioner of Administration to expedite the bid process for state purchasing contracts under certain circumstances
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 902 - Nodler - Requires nonresidents to maintain financial responsibility which conforms to the requirements of the laws of the nonresident's state of residence
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 902-Nodler

SB 903 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 903-Bray

SB 904 - Bray - Repeals the Clean Indoor Air Act and enacts new provisions relating to the prohibition of smoking in public places
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 904-Bray and Days

SB 905 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 905-Bray, et al

SB 906 - Bray - Modifies various tax provisions
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 906-Bray

SB 907 - Rupp - Creates the Early High School Graduation Scholarship Program for public high school students who graduate from high school early
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 907-Rupp

SB 908 - Green - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 908-Green

SB 909 - Green - Allows persons who have been awarded the combat action badge to obtain "COMBAT ACTION" specialized license plates
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 909-Green

SB 910 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to child support when there is equal parenting time
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 910-Lembke

SB 911 - Shields - Authorizes the issuance of tax credits for Show-me Fund Projects under the Quality Jobs Act
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 911-Shields

SB 912 - Cunningham - Expands the ban on public fund expenditures for political purposes and bars lobbyists from serving on advisory committees
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 912-Cunningham

SB 913 - Cunningham - Prohibits a municipality from requiring any of its employees to reside within the municipality if the only public school district fails to meet certain accreditation standards
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 913-Cunningham

SB 914 - Cunningham - Exempts wholesale drug distributors who meet certain conditions from having to obtain a license from the Board of Pharmacy for out-of-state distribution sites
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 914-Cunningham

SB 915 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 915-Barnitz

SB 916 - Barnitz - Allows the City of Waynesville to seek voter approval to impose a transient guest tax
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 916-Barnitz

SB 917 - Schaefer - Enacts provisions relating to health care data standardization and transparency
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 917-Schaefer

SB 918 - Schaefer - Establishes provisions regarding pharmacy benefit managers
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 918-Schaefer

SB 919 - Ridgeway - Changes the date for submission of a consolidated public library district's annual report to the district board, county commission, and state library
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 919-Ridgeway

SB 920 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions of law relating to trusts and wills
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 920-Keaveny

SB 921 - Callahan - Updates the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 921-Callahan and Keaveny

SB 922 - Callahan - Authorizes the creation of Missouri Jobs for the Future Districts
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 922-Callahan

SB 923 - Mayer - Establishes the Missouri Catastrophe Fund to help protect property and casualty insurers against insolvencies caused by earthquakes
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 923-Mayer

SB 924 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the issuance of tax credits for Show-me Fund Projects under the Quality Jobs Act
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 924-Griesheimer, et al

SB 925 - Dempsey - Prohibits agreements between health carriers and providers from containing provisions that requires providers to disclose their reimbursement rates under contracts with other health carriers
2/8/2010 -- S First Read--SB 925-Dempsey

SCR 36 - Schmitt - Urges Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution
2/8/2010 -- S adopted

SCR 37 - Schmitt - Urges Missouri's Attorney General to investigate the constitutionality of the Nebraska Compromise to federal health care legislation
2/8/2010 -- SA 1 S offered (Callahan)--(4408S01.02S)
2/8/2010 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 S offered & adopted (Schmitt)--(4408S01.03S)
2/8/2010 -- SCR, as amended, S adopted

SCR 46 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to enact cap and trade legislation
2/8/2010 -- S Offered--SCR 46-Stouffer

SJR 20 - Bartle - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to DNA profiling analysis to be applied retrospectively
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 33 - Bartle - Allows in prosecutions for crimes of a sexual nature involving a victim under eighteen years of age, evidence of prior criminal acts to be admissible into evidence for certain purposes
2/8/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 34 - Goodman - Requires the Attorney General to seek appropriate relief against actions of the federal government when directed by the Governor, General Assembly, or a petition of the voters
2/8/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1544 - Fisher - Allows the state to continue to receive extended federal unemployment benefit funds and extends participation in the shared work plan
2/8/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee
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