Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 2/28/2012


SB 440 - Engler - Subjects 383 malpractice associations to stricter surplus and solvency regulations
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Recessed S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 565 - Schaaf - Modifies the membership of the Missouri Health Insurance Pool
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (4703S.02C)

SB 568 - Parson - Modifies various provisions relating to transportation
2/28/2012 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 616 - Wasson - Requires homeowner insurance companies to offer sinkhole coverage
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 619 - Richard - Modifies Missouri's valued policy statute to cover all perils covered under a policy rather than just loss caused by fire
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 620 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions related to health and life insurance
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 622 - Cunningham - Requires a health carrier that provides coverage for prescription eye drops to cover a refill without regard to a restriction for an early refill if it is authorized by the prescribing health care provider
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 634 - Pearce - Requires insurer to provide coverage for eating disorders
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 648 - Dempsey - Modifies law on temporary instruction permits, towing companies, and use of ignition interlock devices by drunk drivers
2/28/2012 -- SCS S adopted
2/28/2012 -- Perfected

SB 655 - Green - Creates the Higher Education Capital Fund to provide matching funds to public colleges and universities for capital projects under certain circumstances
2/28/2012 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Schaefer)--(4680S02.05S)
2/28/2012 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
2/28/2012 -- Perfected

SB 657 - Rupp - Provides for the conscience rights of all individuals who provide medical services
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (5256S.02C)

SB 676 - Nieves - Specifies how courts may rule in contractual disputes involving the law of other countries and jurisdictional issues involving other countries
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass (w/SCA#1) S General Laws Committee - (5282S01.01S)

SB 682 - Dempsey - Requires that certain pain management techniques be performed by licensed physicians
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (4808S.03C)

SB 697 - Wasson - Expands the civil immunity provided to insurers for furnishing information related to insurance fraud investigations
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (5474S.03C)

SB 711 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (5423S.02C)

SB 742 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to health care including credentialing of health care professionals, medical records and pharmacy
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 744 - Wright-Jones - Requires video camera surveillance of public spaces within the State Capitol building and authorizes private security within the State Capitol
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee - (5600S.03C)

SB 806 - Cunningham - Modifies the teacher tenure systems
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 845 - Keaveny - Allows a city that adopts or has already adopted a local option economic development sales tax to increase the number of members on the economic development tax board
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 845-Keaveny

SB 846 - Engler - Modifies provisions of landlord and tenant law as they relate to bed bugs
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 846-Engler

SB 847 - Rupp - Designates a portion of Highway 64/40 in St. Charles County as the "Darrell B Roegner Memorial Highway"
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 847-Rupp and Dempsey

SB 848 - Rupp - Modifies numerous provisions of law that specify the application of a particular interest rate
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 848-Rupp and Kehoe

SB 849 - Purgason - Modifies provisions relating to solid waste management
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 849-Purgason

SB 850 - Purgason - Prohibits sterilization and disposition of seized or confiscated animals until the outcome of charges against the animals' owner have been determined
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 850-Purgason

SB 851 - Crowell - Bars legislators from lobbying and serving on boards commissions and committees for two years after leaving office
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 851-Crowell

SB 852 - Crowell - Places newly hired St. Louis City firemen into a new retirement system if the city adopts such a new system
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 852-Crowell

SB 853 - Crowell - Removes St. Louis City firemen hired after August 28, 2012 from the current retirement system and places them in a new system
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 853-Crowell

SB 854 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to home- and community-based care
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 854-Mayer

SB 855 - Schaaf - Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamps assistance as it relates to ineligible immigrants
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 855-Schaaf

SCR 20 - Rupp - Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to approve certain investments under the New Markets Development Program
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 21 - Pearce - Urges Congress to support greater domestic development of North American sources of oil and approve the Keystone XL pipeline project
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 24 - Stouffer - Urges the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to rescind its newly published rule regarding hours of service and refrain from adopting regulations concerning sleep apnea and other measures affecting the trucking industry
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 50 - Curls - Increases the amount of time for repaying the Budget Reserve Fund, when funds from the Budget Reserve Fund are appropriated due to a disaster, or the Governor's reduction of the state's expenditures
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee

HB 1441 - Fisher - Modifies various workers' compensation and unemployment compensation provisions
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--HB 1441-Fisher

HCR 8 - Guernsey - Disapproves the new values for agricultural and horticultural property filed by the State Tax Commission
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

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