Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/12/2011

SB 3 - Stouffer - Establishes photo identification requirements for voting and requirements for advance voting
4/12/2011 -- HCS#2 Voted Do Pass H Elections Committee
4/12/2011 -- HCS#2 Reported Do Pass H Elections Committee
4/12/2011 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SB 29 - Brown - Modifies various provisions of law regarding the licensing of certain professions
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 36 - Lembke - Allows employees of certain employers to take a leave of absence for civil air patrol emergency service duty or counter narcotics missions
4/12/2011 -- H Second Read

SB 48 - Wright-Jones - Modifies provisions relating to utilities
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 54 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act and establishes the Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 59 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions regarding judicial procedures
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 60 - Keaveny - Enacts various provisions relating to judicial procedures
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 61 - Keaveny - Enacts various provisions relating to local government
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted H General Laws Committee

SB 65 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to abortion with respect to viability
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 70 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Family Trust
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 77 - Stouffer - Expands the types of directional signs which may be erected within highway right-of-ways and creates numerous memorial highway designations
4/12/2011 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Transportation Committee - Consent

SB 80 - Justus - Extends the sunset provision of the MO RX prescription drug program to 2016
4/12/2011 -- Bill Combined (w/SCS SBs 408 & 80)

SB 81 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 90 - Dempsey - Modifies various provisions regarding benefits provided by the state health care plan, rules promulgated by certain county health center boards, and the capping of non-covered dental and optometric services
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Health Insurance Committee

SB 98 - Schaaf - Prohibits agreements between health carriers and health care providers from containing Most Favored Nation Clauses
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 116 - Justus - Updates the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 117 - Engler - Modifies provisions of law regarding certain taxes imposed by political subdivisions
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Local Government Committee

SB 120 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to billboards
4/12/2011 -- SS S offered (Stouffer)--(0897S.02F)
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 131 - Rupp - Makes numerous changes to provisions relating to the regulation of transportation
4/12/2011 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Transportation Committee

SB 132 - Rupp - Modifies motor vehicle extended service contracts law, amends surplus lines insurance law, establishes a limited-lines insurance license to sell portable electronics insurance, and modifies the retaliatory tax law
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 147 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 153 - Schaaf - Requires health carriers to establish or otherwise utilize web-based estimating systems so that consumers can obtain health care cost estimates and compute other related health care costs
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 163 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Board of Curators of the University of Missouri and the governing board of Missouri State University
4/12/2011 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Higher Education Committee

SB 174 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to political subdivisions
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted H General Laws Committee

SB 177 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to public health policies
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 207 - Lager - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and property taxation
4/12/2011 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Utilities Committee

SB 213 - Schaefer - Modifies what information is required in a petition for guardianship for a minor or an incapacitated person, adopts the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act and modifies procedures for ordering autopsies
4/12/2011 -- H Second Read

SB 226 - Engler - Modifies provisions relating to emergency services
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted H General Laws Committee

SB 230 - Lager - Modifies provisions pertaining to natural resources
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/12/2011 -- SCS S adopted
4/12/2011 -- Perfected

SB 237 - Schaefer - Requires that the September 1996 Supreme Court standards for representation by guardians ad litem be updated
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 238 - Schmitt - Creates a presumption that certain infectious diseases are duty-related for the purposes of firefighters' disability and death benefits
4/12/2011 -- SS S offered & adopted (Schmitt)--(1042S.04F)
4/12/2011 -- Perfected
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 241 - Brown - Creates a state and local sales and use tax exemptions for captive wildlife
4/12/2011 -- H Second Read

SB 268 - Stouffer - Increases the statutory award amount for Alzheimer's disease research projects funded by the University of Missouri Board of Curators
4/12/2011 -- H Second Read

SB 277 - Lager - Modifies the law with respect to how municipalities and the legal system treats the lawful use of motor vehicles on public roads
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 282 - Engler - Modifies numerous laws relating to elections
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted H Elections Committee

SB 298 - Munzlinger - Lowers the minimum age for an applicant of a concealed carry endorsement from twenty-three to twenty-one
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 300 - Munzlinger - Allows the use of centerfire handguns during the muzzleloader portion of firearms deer season
4/12/2011 -- SCS S adopted
4/12/2011 -- Perfected
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 322 - Schaefer - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes to 2016 and on the Missouri RX plan to 2015
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 325 - Wasson - Modifies various laws relating to professional registration
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 337 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions pertaining to agriculture
4/12/2011 -- SCS S adopted
4/12/2011 -- Perfected
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 351 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption records
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 353 - Engler - Allows the Missouri State Highway Patrol to sell surplus watercraft and watercraft motors and trailers in the same manner as the highway patrol currently sells surplus vehicles
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SB 356 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions pertaining to agriculture
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Agriculture Policy Committee

SB 357 - Munzlinger - Classifies hydroelectric power generating equipment as tangible personal property for property tax purpose
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee - (1779S.03C)

SB 360 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to rural community development
4/12/2011 -- SS S offered & adopted (Lager)--(1813S.02F)
4/12/2011 -- Perfected
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 372 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to teacher contracts and establishes the Teacher Continuing Contract Act
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee - (1839S.02C)

SB 387 - Wasson - Allows for release on electronic monitoring for people who can afford to pay the costs associated with the monitoring
4/12/2011 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 403 - Nieves - Modifies provisions pertaining to the filing of appeals regarding decisions made by environmental commissions
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 408 - Crowell - Extends the MO RX prescription drug plan until August 28, 2014
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass (w/bills SCS SBs 408 & 80) S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (1750S.02C)

SCR 8 - Rupp - Urges Congress to support a plan for the Upper Mississippi River Basin that provides flood-control without adverse impacts on existing levees and communities
4/12/2011 -- Referred H Agri-Business Committee

SCR 11 - Wright-Jones - Asks the Governor to recognize every third week in June as Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Week
4/12/2011 -- Reported from S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee to Floor

SCR 12 - Schaaf - Urges the MO HealthNet Division to pursue the feasibility of implementing a program to assess chronic disease management of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 2 - Stouffer - Allows enabling legislation for advance voting and photographic identification for voting
4/12/2011 -- HCS#2 Voted Do Pass H Elections Committee
4/12/2011 -- HCS#2 Reported Do Pass H Elections Committee
4/12/2011 -- Referred to Rules Committee pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f)

SJR 22 - Parson - Provides that a member of the General Assembly shall vacate his or her office if such member leaves the state during a legislative session for the purpose of avoiding any official duty or vote
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

HB 1 - Silvey - Appropriates money to the Board of Fund Commissioners
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee

HB 2 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0002S.04C)

HB 3 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0003S.04C)

HB 4 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue and Department of Transportation
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0004S.04C)

HB 5 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0005S.04C)

HB 6 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Conservation
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0006S.03C)

HB 7 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses and distributions of the departments of Economic Development; Insurance, Financial Institutions & Professional Registration; and Labor & Industrial Relations
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0007S.04C)

HB 8 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0008S.04C)

HB 9 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0009S.03C)

HB 10 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, Board of Public Buildings, and Department of Health and Senior Services
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0010S.04C)

HB 11 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, and distributions of the Department of Social Services
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0011S.04C)

HB 12 - Silvey - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of statewide elected officials, the Judiciary, Office of the State Public Defender, and General Assembly
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0012S.04C)

HB 13 - Silvey - Appropriates money for real property leases and related services
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee (0013S.03C)

HB 14 - Silvey - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 15 - Silvey - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 61 - Nolte - Prohibits the state minimum wage from exceeding the federal minimum wage and sets wages for tipped employees at $3.63 per hour
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 71 - Nasheed - Allows the City of St. Louis to establish and maintain a municipal police force completely under the city's authority
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 73 - Brandom - Enacts provisions regarding drug testing for TANF applicants and recipients and requires the benefit card to include a photo of the recipient or payee
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

HB 89 - Pollock - Modifies provisions relating to natural resources
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 108 - Smith - Modifies the law relating to campaign finance
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass (w/SCA 1) S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee - (8014S11.01S)

HB 163 - Fisher - Modifies the law relating to unemployment
4/12/2011 -- H concurs in SS for SCS, as amended
4/12/2011 -- H Third Read & Passed - EC adopted
4/12/2011 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed (w/EC)

HB 174 - Thomson - Modifies the composition of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Board of Curators of the University of Missouri and the governing board of Missouri State University
4/12/2011 -- Taken up for Third Reading
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/12/2011 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0832L02.01S)
4/12/2011 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended

HB 182 - Gray - Designates the first Friday in March of each year as "Dress in Blue for Colon Cancer Awareness Day"
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee - Consent
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee - Consent

HB 193 - Diehl - Establishes new congressional districts
4/12/2011 -- Taken up for Third Reading
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 209 - Guernsey - Modifies the laws regarding nuisances and junkyards
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/12/2011 -- SS for SCS S offered & withdrawn (Lager)--(0671S.03F)
4/12/2011 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/12/2011 -- SS for SCS S offered (Lager)--(0671S.03F)
4/12/2011 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Schaaf)--(0671S03.05S)
4/12/2011 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Justus)--(0671S03.02S)
4/12/2011 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/12/2011 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 270 - Burlison - Modifies provisions relating to the administration of health care benefits by the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (0911S.02C)

HB 294 - Riddle - Modifies the law regarding weapons
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

HB 338 - Pollock - Allows telecommunications companies to exempt themselves from filing tariffs and being subject to certain state regulations when similar federal regulations exist
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 339 - Pollock - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 358 - Leara - Modifies provisions of the retirement plan of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis
4/12/2011 -- S Third Read and Passed
4/12/2011 -- Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed

HB 388 - Burlison - Requires the attending physician, rather than the Department of Health and Senior Services, to provide a breast implantation patient with information on the advantages, disadvantages, and risks associated with the procedure
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - Consent
4/12/2011 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (1236S.02C) - Consent

HB 423 - Burlison - Enacts the interstate Health Care Compact in which member states pledge to improve health care policy by returning the authority to regulate health care to the states
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

HB 475 - Funderburk - Enacts provisions relating to health care data standardization and transparency
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Cancelled S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

HB 525 - Molendorp - Establishes rules and procedures that allow guaranty associations and receivers to elect to succeed to the rights of an insolvent insurer with respect to certain reinsurance contracts
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 556 - Grisamore - Requires each school board to annually provide instruction on disability history and awareness and designates October as "Disability History and Awareness Month"
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee - Consent
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee - Consent

HB 749 - Lasater - Designates the month of April as "Child Abuse Prevention Month" and recognizes the "blue ribbon" as the official state symbol for child abuse prevention
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee - Consent
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee - Consent

HB 795 - Kelley - Designates the second Friday in March of each year as "Missouri School Read-In Day"
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee - Consent
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee - Consent

HCR 15 - Brown - Designates November 13, 2011, as "Buck O'Neil Day" in the state of Missouri
4/12/2011 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/12/2011 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HCR 23 - Faith - Declares support for Complete Streets policies and urges their adoption at all levels of government regarding the shared use of our roads and highways by motorists, bicyclists, and walkers
4/12/2011 -- Reported to the Senate
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