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Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 3/1/2010

SB 583 - Champion - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of insurance: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 621 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to Digital Cadastral Parcel Mapping: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 625 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 629 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 630 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes: 3/1/2010 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Cunningham)--(3142S05.04S)

SB 636 - 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: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 645 - Shields - Repeals and reduces certain committees and commissions and sets a sunset date for other committees and commissions: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 649 - Days - Requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation designating March 12th as "Girl Scout Day": 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 668 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to impose a transient guest tax: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 669 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 684 - Rupp - Modifies provision relating to foreign adoption orders and embryo transfers: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 686 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 687 - Wright-Jones - Requires official motor vehicle inspection and emission stations to have liability insurance to cover damages occurring during a vehicle inspection: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 715 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 716 - Goodman - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation and the regulation of motor vehicles: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 740 - Lembke - Exempts prosecuting and circuit attorneys who have completed the firearms safety training course required to obtain a conceal carry endorsement from certain otherwise unlawful uses of a weapon: 3/1/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (4235S.03C)

SB 741 - Griesheimer - Allows members of an ambulance district board of directors to be subject to recall from office: 3/1/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 753 - Dempsey - Allows county commissions to invest cemetery trust funds in certificates of deposit: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 754 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries, the licensing of certain professions, death certificates, public assistance programs, and various other provisions: 3/1/2010 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Shoemyer)--(3900S05.01S); 3/1/2010 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- Perfected

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: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 767 - Bartle - Removes the restriction on certain counties using a court fee for courtroom renovation and technology: 3/1/2010 -- Perfected

SB 771 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to financial institutions offering bids to become the official county depositary: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 772 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 773 - Dempsey - Allows owners of automated teller machines to charge access fees to those with bank accounts in foreign countries: 3/1/2010 -- Perfected; 3/1/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 774 - Lembke - Creates additional measures intended to increase safety at the Department of Mental Health: 3/1/2010 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Bray)--(4370S02.01S)

SB 777 - Pearce - Allows for the sale of certain financial products and plans associated with certain loan transactions and enacts various measures to ensure insurer financial solvency: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 778 - Pearce - Changes an expiration date on state universities being able to convey land without authorization from the General Assembly and allows the Governor to convey certain state property: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 780 - Bartle - Makes refusing to submit to chemical testing a separate offense and changes the time line for when a DWI arrest without a warrant must occur: 3/1/2010 -- Bill Combined w/(SCS/SB 880, 780, & 836) (4877S.02C)

SB 782 - McKenna - Authorizes the Department of Revenue to transmit certain statutory notices via electronic mail: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 787 - Rupp - Modifies the process for appealing a decision of the Department of Public Safety regarding a crime victims' compensation fund claim: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee; 3/1/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (4148S.03C) - consent

SB 791 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions pertaining to sewer and water utilities: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 795 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions regarding animals and agriculture: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 801 - Rupp - Requires credit reporting agencies to block information in a consumer's credit report that resulted from identity theft: 3/1/2010 -- Perfected; 3/1/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 804 - Schmitt - Establishes each February 14th as Epilepsy Awareness Day: 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 806 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to children who are victims of pornographic offenses: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 808 - Callahan - Modifies compensation and continuing education requirements for public administrators: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 812 - Schmitt - Creates various specialty license plates and modifies the administrative process for issuing and developing specialty license plates: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 820 - McKenna - Updates Missouri's traffic laws to reflect that the majority of pedestrian control signals now display the international symbols for pedestrian control: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 824 - Clemens - Authorizes the State Veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin: 3/1/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 833 - Goodman - Allows corporate board members to consent to certain actions by electronic transmission: 3/1/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (Consent)

SB 834 - Rupp - Establishes a procedure for the voluntary liquidation and dissolution of domestic stock insurance companies: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 836 - Justus - Specifies that courts may establish DWI dockets or courts and modifies other criminal and administrative procedures for certain intoxication-related offenses: 3/1/2010 -- Bill Combined w/(SCS/SB 880, 780 & 836) (4877S.02C)

SB 841 - Schmitt - Designates various stretches of highways after deceased individuals: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 842 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions relating to public assistance programs administered by the state: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- Perfected; 3/1/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 844 - Shields - Modifies the law relating to ethics: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 845 - Barnitz - Modifies the law relating to voter registration and absentee ballots for overseas voters: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 880 - Schaefer - Modifies various provisions relating to intoxication-related traffic offenses: 3/1/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass (w/SCS/SBs 880, 780, & 836) S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (4877S.02C)

SB 887 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions, controlled substances, law enforcement agencies, taxes, tax credits, waste management and crimes: 3/1/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (3342S.04C)

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: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee; 3/1/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (Consent)

SB 895 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act: 3/1/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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: 3/1/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent

SB 920 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions of law relating to trusts and wills: 3/1/2010 -- Removed S Consent Calendar

SB 991 - Scott - Eliminates, combines, and revises certain state boards, commissions, committees, and councils: 3/1/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 1016 - Mayer - Provides the Department of Revenue with various mechanisms for the enforcement and collection of state taxes: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1016-Mayer

SB 1017 - Mayer - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1017-Mayer

SB 1018 - Nodler - Grants priority in the fee office competitive bidding to nonprofit organizations if their primary administrative office is located in the same county, legislative district, or senatorial district as the fee office bid upon: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1018-Nodler

SB 1019 - Barnitz - Expands the allowable uses of the Loan Guaranty Program for agricultural business development loans: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1019-Barnitz

SB 1020 - Barnitz - Modifies the Hero at Home Program: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1020-Barnitz

SB 1021 - Shoemyer - Allows school districts that lost days due to H1N1 influenza in the 2009-2010 school year to not have to make up those days: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1021-Shoemyer and Engler

SB 1022 - Stouffer - Adds to the list of entities that are required to report disciplinary action against health care professionals: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1022-Stouffer

SB 1023 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions regarding hospital licensure: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1023-Cunningham

SB 1024 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to teachers: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1024-Cunningham

SB 1025 - Goodman - Allows $9,999 in an irrevocable trust for certain funeral expenses to not be considered an asset when determining eligibility for public assistance: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1025-Goodman

SB 1026 - Rupp - Denies unemployment benefits for those with outstanding overpayment penalties: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1026-Rupp

SB 1027 - Rupp - Modifies Missouri's highway corridor preservation process: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1027-Rupp

SB 1028 - Rupp - Reduces the maximum penalty on delinquent county property taxes: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1028-Rupp

SB 1029 - Rupp - Instructs the Director of the Department of Public Safety to conduct a study regarding the safety of rural lettered highways in Missouri: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1029-Rupp

SB 1030 - Rupp - Creates the Behavior Analyst Advisory Board and requires licensing to engage in applied behavior analysis: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1030-Rupp

SB 1031 - Bray - Modifies law regarding property insurance: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1031-Bray

SB 1032 - Bray - Creates a whistleblower program for securities violations: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1032-Bray

SB 1033 - Bray - Requires the State Board of Education to establish school improvement standards to be used by charter school sponsors to annually evaluate charter schools: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1033-Bray

SB 1034 - Bray - Recognizes certain codes, including specific building, residential, fire, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical codes, as the Missouri state construction codes to be adopted by certain political subdivisions: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1034-Bray

SB 1035 - Bray - Requires parental consent for blood donors under 18 years of age: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1035-Bray

SB 1036 - Bray - Allows senior citizens and disabled persons to defer property tax payments: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1036-Bray

SB 1037 - Bray - Allows the formation of clean energy development boards to finance energy projects: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1037-Bray

SB 1038 - Bray - Modifies provisions relating to services provided by the Department of Social Services in county offices: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1038-Bray

SB 1039 - Pearce - Requires the Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study on the issue of standards for elementary and secondary education: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1039-Pearce

SB 1040 - Schaefer - Extends the expiration date to August 28, 2022 for environmental laws relating to dry-cleaning facilities: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1040-Schaefer

SB 1041 - Schmitt - Creates tax incentives for purchases of tangible business property by eligible small businesses: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1041-Schmitt

SB 1042 - Schmitt - Establishes the MO HealthNet Office of Inspector General: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1042-Schmitt

SB 1043 - Schmitt - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1043-Schmitt

SB 1044 - Schmitt - Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to solicit bids for establishing a consumer health information website: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1044-Schmitt

SB 1045 - Wright-Jones - Makes it a crime for a person under the age of 25 in St. Louis City to knowingly occupy a vehicle with a firearm: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1045-Wright-Jones

SB 1046 - Wright-Jones - Modifies the compulsory attendance age for the St. Louis City School District so that students must attend school from 5 years of age to 18 years of age: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1046-Wright-Jones

SB 1047 - Wright-Jones - Modifies provisions governing the disposition of unclaimed property seized by law enforcement: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1047-Wright-Jones

SB 1048 - Crowell - Modifies the retirement plans for certain state employees and judges: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1048-Crowell

SB 1049 - Crowell - Modifies the retirement plans for state employees and judges who start work for the first time on or after January 1, 2011: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1049-Crowell

SB 1050 - Crowell - Creates a company to manage investments for public retirement systems: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1050-Crowell

SB 1051 - Crowell - Bars legislators from lobbying and serving on boards, commissions and committees for one year after leaving office: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1051-Crowell

SB 1052 - Crowell - Bars legislators from being compensated by federal and state political committees: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1052-Crowell

SB 1053 - Crowell - Removes all statewide elected officials from the Missouri Development Finance Board and the Missouri Housing Development Commission: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1053-Crowell

SB 1054 - Crowell - Prohibits the receipt of tax credits by campaign contributors: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1054-Crowell

SB 1055 - Crowell - Modifies the State Legal Expense Fund: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1055-Crowell

SB 1056 - Crowell - Enacts provisions relating to MO HealthNet provider taxes: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1056-Crowell

SB 1057 - Shields - Reorganizes certain entities, divisions and departments within state government: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1057-Shields

SB 1058 - Shields - Modifies provisions of law regarding the retirement of neighborhood improvement district bonds: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1058-Shields

SB 1059 - Shields - Allows for the Department of Mental Health to enter in cooperative agreements with the Missouri Mental Health Foundation and other state and local entities: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1059-Shields

SB 1060 - Bartle - Modifies requirements regarding the presiding judge of a circuit court's assignment of certain types of cases and provisions regarding judges, certain juries, and various other provisions: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1060-Bartle

SB 1061 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to the appeals process for certain programs administered by the Department of Social Services: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1061-Bartle

SB 1062 - Schmitt - Enacts provisions relating to health care data standardization and transparency: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1062-Schmitt

SB 1063 - Clemens - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1063-Clemens

SB 1064 - Lembke - Modifies provisions of law regarding property tax rates: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1064-Lembke

SB 1065 - Lager - Creates the Joint Committee on the Reduction and Reorganization of Programs within State Government: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1065-Lager

SB 1066 - Wright-Jones - Establishes plans to increase the participation of certified socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, minority business enterprises, and women's business enterprises in contracting with the state: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1066-Wright-Jones

SB 1067 - Shields - Creates the Joint Committee on Missouri's Promise: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SB 1067-Shields

SCR 50 - Shoemyer - Urges the President and Congress to lift tariffs on die cast magnesium alloys from China and find a creative solution to protect the nation's lone magnesium producer and the United States die casting industry: 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 51 - Stouffer - Urges Missouri's Congressional delegation to oppose funding the Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study: 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 52 - Lager - Recognizes that tax refunds lawfully belong to the people and that the Governor and the Department of Revenue must ensure that income tax refunds are processed and returned in a timely manner: 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 53 - Purgason - Requests Congress to amend the Seventeenth Amendment to allow state legislatures to elect members of the United States Senate: 3/1/2010 -- S Offered--SCR 53-Purgason; 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 54 - Purgason - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Reducing the Size of State Government: 3/1/2010 -- S Offered--SCR 54-Purgason; 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 38 - Ridgeway - Requires the legislative session to end in late March rather than mid-May: 3/1/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SJR 43 - Mayer - Authorizes the creation of tax free zones: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SJR 43-Mayer

SJR 44 - Shields - Proposes a constitutional amendment to eliminate the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Higher Education and instead create a new Department of Education: 3/1/2010 -- S First Read--SJR 44-Shields

SR 1743 - Schmitt - Allows the Missouri Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities to use the Senate Chamber: 3/1/2010 -- S Offered; 3/1/2010 -- S adopted

SR 1744 - Shields - Amends the Senate Rules to provide that each employee of the Senate must provide a statement to the Secretary of the Senate if the employee earns more than $5,000 of outside income in a calendar year: 3/1/2010 -- S offered-SR 1744-Shields; 3/1/2010 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HB 1544 - Fisher - Allows the state to continue to receive extended federal unemployment benefit funds and extends participation in the shared work plan: 3/1/2010 -- SCS S adopted; 3/1/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted

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