Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 3/31/2010


SB 580 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions
3/31/2010 -- Referred H Local Government Committee

SB 622 - Shoemyer - Increases pesticide registration fees and creates the Agriculture Protection Fund
3/31/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee (3562S.05C)

SB 625 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies
3/31/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 630 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes
3/31/2010 -- Re-referred H Financial Institutions Committee

SB 698 - Griesheimer - Requires certain incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies to reduce intrastate switched exchange access rates
3/31/2010 -- SS for SCS S offered (Griesheimer)--(3189S.09F)
3/31/2010 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Griesheimer)--(3189S09.01S)
3/31/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 733 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of the Bright Flight Scholarship Program and Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program
3/31/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 746 - Griesheimer - Imposes various billboard standards to billboards adjacent to Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 during periods of interstate construction
3/31/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 815 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
3/31/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (3644S.03C)

SB 826 - Griesheimer - Authorizes sales taxes to fund ambulance and fire protection services
3/31/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee (4650S.04C)

SB 881 - Green - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions
3/31/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee (4868S.06C)

SB 895 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act
3/31/2010 -- SS for SCS S offered (Dempsey)--(4472S.04F)
3/31/2010 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Dempsey)--(4472S04.06S)
3/31/2010 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Shields)--(4472S04.18S)
3/31/2010 -- SA 1 to SSA 1 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Crowell)--(4472S04.14S)
3/31/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
3/31/2010 -- SA 1 S offered (Green)--(4934S01.07S)
3/31/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 899 - Pearce - Establishes the Missouri Promise Program to provide financial awards to students pursuing higher education at certain institutions
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 905 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement
3/31/2010 -- SS for SCS S offered (Bray)--(4461S.09F)
3/31/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 943 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding and planning processes
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
3/31/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 969 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to school attendance
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 980 - Pearce - Requires the Joint Committee on Education to conduct a study on voluntary prekindergarten in Missouri
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 992 - Clemens - Creates the Missouri Farmland Trust
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 1019 - Barnitz - Expands the allowable uses of the Loan Guaranty Program for agricultural business development loans
3/31/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 1026 - Rupp - Denies unemployment benefits for those with outstanding overpayment penalties
3/31/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
3/31/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 1064 - Lembke - Modifies provisions of law regarding property tax rates
3/31/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SCR 51 - Stouffer - Urges Missouri's Congressional delegation to oppose funding the Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study
3/31/2010 -- S adopted
3/31/2010 -- Reported to the House

SCR 54 - Purgason - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Reducing the Size of State Government
3/31/2010 -- S adopted
3/31/2010 -- Reported to the House

SJR 43 - Mayer - Authorizes the creation of tax free zones
3/31/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee

SR 2042 - Vogel - Allows the Missouri YMCA to use the Senate Chamber
3/31/2010 -- S Offered
3/31/2010 -- S Adopted

HB 1207 - Day - Classifies certain sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property taxation purposes
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1258 - Todd - Designates a portion of State Highway 53 in Butler County from the city limits of Qulin to one mile south of the city limits as the "Johnny Lee Hays Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1270 - Meiners - Changes the name of the Crippled Children's Service to the Children's Special Health Care Needs Service and modifies references to crippled children accordingly
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

HB 1290 - Gatschenberger - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1310 - Hodges - Designates a portion of State Highway 80 in New Madrid County as the "Gene Curtis Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 1330 - Salva - Designates a bridge in Jackson County as the "Sergeant Charles R. Long Memorial Bridge" and a portion of U. S. Highway 24 in Jackson County as the "Harry S. Truman Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 1375 - Cooper - Modifies provisions relating to certain sexually transmitted diseases
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

HB 1392 - Kirkton - Modifies provisions of law regarding property taxes
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1424 - Franz - Modifies provisions of law regarding the collection of taxes
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

HB 1446 - Jones - Modifies the law relating to certain financial transactions and financial and insurance products
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 1541 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions relating to local elections
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 1580 - Smith - Modifies the Hero at Home Program
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

HB 1595 - Dugger - Includes construction, extension, and improvement of public roads in the definition of project for the purposes of industrial development corporations
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1609 - Diehl - 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
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1609-Diehl

HB 1643 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to recording fees
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1654 - Zimmerman - Modifies certain requirements about federal taxpayer identification numbers in notices of garnishment and writs of sequestration
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1654-Zimmerman, et al

HB 1657 - Dethrow - Exempts trailer dealers from furnishing copies of current dealer garage liability insurance policies when applying for a trailer dealer license
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1662 - Brown - Authorizes the State Veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1664 - Wasson - Changes the compensation and mileage allowance for certain members of a county highway commission
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 1692 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to real estate broker and real estate salesperson licensing, unemployment compensation, deadly force, and other provisions of law
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1705 - Molendorp - Modifies provisions pertaining to sewer districts in certain counties
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1707 - Schaaf - Allows any county of the first, second, or third classification to build a county jail or holding facility outside of the county seat
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1764 - Diehl - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the regulation of insurance
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 1764

HB 1775 - Shively - Designates a portion of U. S. Highway 36 in Macon County as the "Missouri State Trooper William Brandt Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1776 - Shively - Designates a portion of Interstate 44 in Franklin County as the "Corporal Dennis E. Engelhard Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1778 - Gray - Removes Lincoln's and Truman's birthdays as state holidays and enacts "Organ Donor Awareness Day"
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Progress and Development Committee

HB 1802 - Gatschenberger - Modifies provisions of the criminal code concerning personal protection
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HB 1824 - Sutherland - Modifies licensing for certain social workers
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 1831 - Jones - Allows school districts, after ten years, to return donated property to the original donor or sell it as surplus if the original donor refuses it
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

HB 1832 - Wells - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against licensed professional counselors
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1832-Wells, et al

HB 1840 - Wright - Modifies criteria for certain representatives on the Rice Advisory Council
3/31/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1841 - Wilson - Requires a review process for life insurance producer license examinations if the overall pass rate of first-time examinees is less than 70% during any 12-month period beginning on September 1
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 1842 - Wilson - Requires a specific percentage equivalent of the fractional requirement for tax measures enacted by popular vote
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 1858 - Zimmerman - Transfers the administration of the Minority Teaching Scholarship and the Minority and Underrepresented Environmental Literacy Program to the Department of Higher Education
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 1858

HB 1868 - Scharnhorst - Modifies provisions relating to duties of agencies and officials operating within the executive branch.
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1868-Scharnhorst

HB 1892 - Nasheed - Authorizes school personnel other than the school superintendent to issue a work certificate
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

HB 1904 - Wilson - Changes the laws regarding the Missouri Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act to make it consistent with the model act adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 1941 - Parson - Designates several portions of highways located within Missouri after deceased individuals
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 1942 - Parson - Modifies provisions pertaining to emergency telephone service 911 boards
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1942-Parson

HB 1943 - McGhee - Modifies the membership of the panel that establishes the criteria for grants from the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

HB 1970 - Bivins - Designates a portion of Lindbergh Boulevard in St. Louis County as "Dave Sinclair Boulevard"
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 1977 - Wasson - Modifies the laws regarding emergency services and emergency medical technicians-intermediate
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 1977

HB 1990 - Wells - Exempts certain nurses from licensing while transporting patients in Missouri and requires employers to check the license status of nurses
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 1990-Wells, et al

HB 2043 - Brown - Requires persons applying for original titles to ATVs and recreational off-highway vehicles to submit affidavits and copies of the bill of sale
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 2043

HB 2056 - Diehl - Modifies certain requirements about Social Security numbers in certain liens
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2056-Diehl

HB 2109 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to natural resources
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2109-Ruzicka

HB 2111 - Faith - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation and the regulation of motor vehicles
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 2147 - Brown - Exempts certain students who are dependents of recently retired military personnel from the three-year attendance requirement under the A+ Schools Program
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HBs 2147 & 2261

HB 2159 - Diehl - Designates a portion of Interstate 64/U. S. Highway 40 as the "Jack Buck Memorial Highway"
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

HB 2161 - Guest - Specifies that "commercial purposes" as it relates to the sale of driver's license application information will not include when used, compiled, or obtained for certain purposes expressly allowed by law
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HB 2182 - Munzlinger - Defines the term "agritourism"
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2182-Munzlinger and Smith (150)

HB 2198 - Parson - Modifies provisions of the Motor Vehicle Franchise Practices Act
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 2205 - Burlison - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the regulation of insurance
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2205-Burlison

HB 2219 - LeBlanc - Requires the Governor to issue annual proclamations designating November 13 as "Buck O'Neil Day" and the fourth week of May as "Missouri Safe Boating Week"
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 2219

HB 2226 - Wasson - Modifies the laws regarding the regulation of certain professions and the regulation of hospitals
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2226-Wasson

HB 2231 - Wasson - Modifies the procedures by which a funeral establishment may dispose of cremated remains
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 2231

HB 2270 - Cooper - Allows child abuse medical resource centers and SAFE CARE providers to collaborate to promote improved services to children who are suspected victims of abuse in need of a forensic medical exams
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2270-Cooper

HB 2285 - Thomson - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property and requires the Office of Administration to provide members of the General Assembly a key to access the Capitol building dome
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2285-Thomson

HB 2290 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to child care subsidies and removed obsolete statutory references to the preneed funeral law in the public assistance chapter
3/31/2010 -- S First Read--HB 2290-Wasson

HJR 86 - Loehner - Amends the Constitution to require a 2/3rds majority to approve initiative petitions that harm, restrict, or regulate the right to raise domesticated animals
3/31/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee (4617S.11C)

HJR 87 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit state appropriations
3/31/2010 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

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