Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/7/2010


SB 580 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 586 - Bartle - Regulates sexually oriented businesses
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Small Business Committee

SB 622 - Shoemyer - Increases pesticide registration fees and creates the Agriculture Protection Fund
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
4/7/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 629 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/7/2010 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 630 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 668 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to impose a transient guest tax
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 669 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 670 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 698 - Griesheimer - Requires certain incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies to reduce intrastate switched exchange access rates
4/7/2010 -- Taken up for Perfection
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 714 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to retirement
4/7/2010 -- SS S offered (Crowell)--(3598S.04F)
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 734 - Pearce - Requires Regional Professional Development Centers to provide assistance to school districts and modifies gifted education requirements
4/7/2010 -- SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Pearce)--(3791S.04F)
4/7/2010 -- Perfected
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
4/7/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 757 - Rupp - Establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, requires amounts withheld from the state budget and out of state travel to be posted on the Missouri Accountability Portal, and requires county auditors to inventory certain property
4/7/2010 -- Hearing to be continued (4/8/10) H Budget 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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee - Consent

SB 771 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to financial institutions offering bids to become the official county depositary
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee

SB 772 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee - Consent

SB 773 - Dempsey - Allows owners of automated teller machines to charge access fees to those with bank accounts in foreign countries
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee - Consent

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee

SB 786 - Rupp - Requires health benefit plans to provide orally administered anticancer medications on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered anticancer medications
4/7/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 808 - Callahan - Modifies compensation and continuing education requirements for public administrators
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 815 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
4/7/2010 -- Bill Taken up for perfection
4/7/2010 -- SA 1 to SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Bray)--(3644S03.16S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 1 to SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/7/2010 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Bartle)--(3644S03.08S)
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/7/2010 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered (Rupp)--(8114S10.01S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 1 to SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Rupp)--(3644S03.17S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 3 to SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/7/2010 -- SA 4 to SCS S offered & adopted (Callahan)--(8005S10.01S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 5 to SCS S offered & adopted (Pearce)--(3644S03.03S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 6 to SCS S offered & defeated (Shoemyer)--(3644S03.04S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 7 to SCS S offered & defeated (Keaveny)--(3644S03.06S)
4/7/2010 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/7/2010 -- Perfected

SB 826 - Griesheimer - Authorizes sales taxes to fund ambulance and fire protection services
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 828 - Schaefer - Provides for the county counselor of Boone County to receive state money for performing duties related to mental health and mental heath facilities
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 829 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions regarding the justice system
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H (hcomm) Committee

SB 855 - Schaefer - Allows the State Registrar to issue heritage birth or marriage certificates celebrating the unique heritage of Missouri citizens
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Special Standing Committee on Children and Families Committee

SB 862 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 863 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Raytown to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax to fund tourism and convention facilities
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 877 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to child support
4/7/2010 -- SA 1 S offered (Lembke)--(4712S01.02S)
4/7/2010 -- SA 1 to SA 1 S offered & adopted (Justus)--(4712S01.01F)
4/7/2010 -- SA 1, as amended, S adopted
4/7/2010 -- Perfected
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 884 - Schaefer - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
4/7/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 885 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to the storage and dispensing of motor fuel
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment 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
4/7/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 915 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 918 - Schaefer - Establishes provisions regarding pharmacy benefit managers
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 928 - Lager - Modifies provisions of law regarding the sales tax treatment of sales for resale
4/7/2010 -- H Second Read

SB 940 - Pearce - Modifies various provisions relating to bingo
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee

SB 971 - Lembke - Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to make available resources relating to umbilical cord blood
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 975 - Schaefer - Authorizes the use of an electronic death registration system
4/7/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee (5177S.02C)

SB 976 - Rupp - Creates the Race to the Top Fund to receive any funds received from the federal government through the Race to the Top Program
4/7/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 992 - Clemens - Creates the Missouri Farmland Trust
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 1007 - Dempsey - Amends various requirements for public assistance programs administered by the state
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 1016 - Mayer - Provides the Department of Revenue with various mechanisms for the enforcement and collection of state taxes
4/7/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee (5270S.03C)

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 1037 - Bray - Allows the formation of clean energy development boards to finance energy projects
4/7/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee (5263S.02C)

SB 1057 - Shields - Reorganizes certain entities, divisions and departments within state government
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

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
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 1067 - Shields - Creates the Joint Committee on Missouri's Promise
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SCR 33 - Nodler - Encourages the United States Congress to urge federal agencies to exercise regulatory forbearance with respect to well-managed community depositories
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee

SCR 36 - Schmitt - Urges Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard H Budget Committee

SCR 55 - Nodler - Urges the president not to implement recommendations made by the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force if recreational fishing is not recognized as a key activity
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 56 - Schmitt - Urges the Department of Natural Resources to consider the use of certain coal technology in its permitting of new coal-fired power plants
4/7/2010 -- S Offered

SJR 29 - Purgason - Replaces all taxes on income with a sales and use tax
4/7/2010 -- SS for SCS S withdrawn
4/7/2010 -- SS#2 for SCS S offered (Purgason)--(4139S.05F)
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SJR 45 - Shields - Modifies the State Board of Education and requires the advice and consent of the Senate for the appointment of the Commissioner of Education
4/7/2010 -- S First Read--SJR 45-Shields

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HB 1207 - Day - Classifies certain sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property taxation purposes
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources 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"
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1340 - Dugger - Repeals the provision of law allowing fire protection districts in Douglas County to seek voter approval to impose a sales tax
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1392 - Kirkton - Modifies provisions of law regarding property taxes
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1424 - Franz - Modifies provisions of law regarding the collection of taxes
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

HB 1442 - Jones - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 1472 - Franz - Expands the list of controlled substances
4/7/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 1498 - Jones - 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
4/7/2010 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/7/2010 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 1595 - Dugger - Includes construction, extension, and improvement of public roads in the definition of project for the purposes of industrial development corporations
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1662 - Brown - Authorizes the State Veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1675 - Nolte - Establishes the Manufacturing Jobs Act
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government 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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

HB 1840 - Wright - Modifies criteria for certain representatives on the Rice Advisory Council
4/7/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee - Consent

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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

HB 1892 - Nasheed - Authorizes school personnel other than the school superintendent to issue a work certificate
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

HB 1941 - Parson - Designates several portions of highways located within Missouri after deceased individuals
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 1970 - Bivins - Designates a portion of Lindbergh Boulevard in St. Louis County as "Dave Sinclair Boulevard"
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 2014 - Icet - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for several departments and offices of state government,purchase of equipment,payment of claims for refunds,for persons,firms and corporations
4/7/2010 -- S refuses to recede and requests H take up and pass SCS, as amended
4/7/2010 -- Motion to adopt SCS, as amended, Failed (H)

HB 2109 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to natural resources
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 2111 - Faith - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation and the regulation of motor vehicles
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted 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
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

HB 2159 - Diehl - Designates a portion of Interstate 64/U. S. Highway 40 as the "Jack Buck Memorial Highway"
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

HB 2182 - Munzlinger - Defines the term "agritourism"
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 2198 - Parson - Modifies provisions of the Motor Vehicle Franchise Practices Act
4/7/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee (5133S.06C)

HJR 76 - Dethrow - Requires a 2/3rds majority of voters to pass a ballot initiative relating to the harvest of forests, fish, or wildlife
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

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
4/7/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HJR 87 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit state appropriations
4/7/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee

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