Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 1/31/2013


SB 3 - Rupp - Creates the Early High School Graduation Scholarship Program for public high school students who graduate from high school early
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Education Committee to Floor

SB 7 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to school accreditation for failing school districts
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Education Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 10 - Schmitt - Creates a tax credit to attract amateur sporting events to the state
1/31/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor
1/31/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed

SB 16 - Munzlinger - Exempts farm work performed by children under 16 from certain child labor requirements
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 20 - Dixon - Modifies provisions of law regarding certain benevolent tax credits
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor
1/31/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted

SB 21 - Dixon - Provides the Supreme Court with the ability to transfer circuit and associate judge positions from one circuit to another
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to Floor

SB 22 - Dixon - Grants the authority to redraw the circuit and appellate judicial districts to the Supreme Court
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to Floor

SB 33 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to individuals with mental disabilities and establishes Pallister-Killian Syndrome (PKS) Awareness Day
1/31/2013 -- Reported from S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 42 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to county sheriffs, school protection officers, and creates procedures and policies for unpaid debts to county jails
1/31/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Committee - (0094S.03C)

SB 47 - Lamping - Adds to the list of legal guardians of a child who may receive subsidies
1/31/2013 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 106 - Brown - Modifies various provisions relating to veterans and members of the military including the awarding of academic credit, professional licenses, and child custody rights
1/31/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 110 - Brown - Establishes procedures to follow in child custody and visitation cases for military personnel
1/31/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 117 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to military affairs
1/31/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 126 - Sater - Prohibits any requirement that pharmacies carry a specific drug or device
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 127 - Sater - Modifies various public assistance provisions including MO HealthNet dental, home and community based referrals, Missouri adjusted gross income for MO HealthNet eligibility and extends Ticket-to-Work
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 128 - Sater - Modifies the permissible uses of electronic transfer benefits (EBT) cards for food stamp and cash assistance
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 129 - Sater - Establishes the Volunteer Health Services Act to allow for licensed health care professionals to provide volunteer services for a sponsoring organization
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 130 - Schaefer - Increases the penalties and driver license suspension periods for those who fail to yield the right-of-way in certain instances
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 131 - Nasheed - Provides for the expansion of MO HealthNet services beginning on January 1, 2014
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 132 - Keaveny - Allows school districts to receive state aid for children ages three to five participating in a district-operated pre-kindergarten program
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 133 - Keaveny - Allows school districts and charter schools to receive state aid for children ages three to five who are eligible for free and reduced lunch and are participating in a district-operated pre-kindergarten program
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 134 - Sater - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 135 - Sater - Requires a newly formed Fair Ballot Commission to approve fair ballot language and ballot summary statements
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 136 - Sater - Allows motorists to register motor vehicles triennially rather than biennially and replaces the biennial motor vehicle inspection system with a triennial motor vehicle inspection program
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 137 - Sater - Allows and establishes procedures for counties to decrease their annual budgets when faced with an unanticipated decline in funds
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 138 - Kraus - Modifies provisions regarding the collection of neighborhood improvement district special assessments
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 139 - Kehoe - Modifies provisions regarding the Sunshine Law
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 140 - Brown - Requires certain testing methods for E. coli at Missouri State Parks' swim beaches
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 141 - Dempsey - Requires political subdivisions receiving more than 20% of their annual general operating revenues from traffic fines to send revenues in excess of such threshold to the state school system
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 142 - Sifton - Repeals a provision requiring corporate paid-in surplus distributions to be identified as liquidating dividends
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 143 - Walsh - Allows religious and charitable organizations to file with the Secretary of State instead of the circuit court in order to amend charters and convert to a nonprofit corporation
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 144 - Walsh - Creates the crime of obstruction of an ethics investigation
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 145 - Walsh - Creates an advance voting system for elections
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 146 - Schaaf - Establishes a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 147 - Wasson - 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
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 148 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to the issuance of junking certificates and salvage motor vehicle titles
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 149 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to the Large Carnivore Act and creates the Nonhuman Primate Act
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 150 - Munzlinger - Declares certain federal firearm laws unenforceable and makes it a crime for public officers, agents, and employees and licensed firearms dealers to enforce such laws
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 151 - Curls - Changes the notice requirement to a tenant in a foreclosure action from ten days to ninety days
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 152 - Curls - Allows judges to suspend the imposition of an adult criminal sentence for juvenile offenders
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 153 - Curls - Requires a non-custodial parent to pay child support until the child reaches 22 years of age instead of 21 years of age
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 154 - Richard - Modifies Missouri's valued policy statute to cover all perils covered under a policy rather than just loss caused by fire
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 155 - Nasheed - Requires all genetically modified meat and fish raised and sold in Missouri to be labeled as genetically modified
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 156 - Sater - Prohibits the Department of Insurance and other state agencies from applying for, accepting, or expending federal moneys relating to the implementation of the federal health care act unless authorized by law
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 157 - Sater - Modifies provisions relating to the disposition of personal property
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 158 - Sater - Allows foreign health insurers from selected states to issue health insurance policies in Missouri
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 159 - Schmitt - Requires parity between the out-of-pocket expenses charged for physical therapist services and the out-of-pocket expenses charged for similar services provided by primary care physicians
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 160 - Pearce - Requires insurers to provide coverage for eating disorders
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 161 - Pearce - Requires actuarial analyses to be performed to determine potential costs of instituting oral anti-cancer parity and eating disorders mandate
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 162 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to criminal procedure
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 163 - Kraus - Reauthorizes certain benevolent tax credits, prohibits further authorization of certain tax credits, and modifies historic preservation and low-income housing tax credits
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 164 - Walsh - Protects employees from being required to disclose personal user names or passwords
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 165 - Walsh - Enacts various regulations pertaining to contract carriers that transport railroad employees
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 166 - Schaaf - Extends allocation of tax revenues from the nonresident entertainer and athlete tax until December 31, 2019
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 167 - Sater - Modifies provisions relating to nursing
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 168 - Chappelle-Nadal - Modifies the use of student assessment data when calculating a school district's performance when a school district receives students as a result of a change in district boundary lines
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 169 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires certain financial information to be included in a school district's bond filing and included on the ballot when voters authorize a school district bond issuance
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 170 - Chappelle-Nadal - Allows members of public governmental bodies to cast roll call votes in a meeting if the member is participating via videoconferencing
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 171 - Chappelle-Nadal - Provides that charter school sponsors are responsible for all expenditures associated with the closure of a charter school they sponsor
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 172 - Chappelle-Nadal - Prohibits a workforce development agency from knowingly omitting from any bidding process an entity with whom it has a contract
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 173 - Nasheed - Transfers governance of the St. Louis School District from the special administrative board to the elected school board when certain conditions are satisfied
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 174 - Parson - Reduces the corporate income tax rate and modifies provisions relating to use tax nexus
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 175 - Wallingford - Requires the physical presence of the physician who prescribed or dispensed any abortion-inducing drugs while such drug is administered
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 176 - Schmitt - Designates the new bridge on Interstate 70 crossing the Mississippi River as the "Stan Musial Memorial Bridge" and designates a portion of Interstate 70 as the "Andy Gammon Memorial Highway"
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 177 - Schmitt - Moves the date of the presidential primary from February to March
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 178 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to safety provisions in mental health facilities
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 179 - Parson - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of new homes
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 180 - Kraus - Changes the goal of 3% of government contracts awarded to service-disabled veteran businesses to 4%, and appropriates $100,000 to veteran organizations
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 181 - Kraus - Modifies the law relating to campaign finance, lobbying, and ethics
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 182 - Kehoe - Eliminates state and local use taxes on motor vehicle sales and modifies state and local sales taxes on such purchases
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 183 - Sater - Makes it a crime for a government officer to unlawfully search a person seeking access to a public venue or transportation source
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 184 - Sater - Modifies provisions regarding the termination of alimony and maintenance payments
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 185 - Sater - Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 186 - Brown - Authorizes the release of certain information in order to identify veterans' remains and the owners of abandoned military medals, and modifies provisions relating to the registering and issuance of death certificates
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 187 - Brown - Exempts motorcyclists age 21 and older from wearing a helmet when operating a motorcycle or motortricycle
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 188 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to civil commitment of sexually violent predators
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 189 - Romine - Criminalizes the failure to vacate leased premises in a rent and possession case under chapter 535
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 190 - Walsh - WITHDRAWN
1/31/2013 -- Bill Withdrawn

SB 191 - Lamping - Allows the Public Service Commission to publish certain papers, studies, reports, decisions and orders electronically
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 192 - Lamping - Designates the new bridge on Interstate 70 crossing the Mississippi River between downtown St. Louis and southwestern Illinois as the "Stan Musial Memorial Bridge"
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 193 - Schaefer - Establishes the Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children and requires the State Board of Education to designate a staff person in charge of gifted and talented education
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 194 - Schaaf - Limits the certificate of need program to only long-term care facilities
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 195 - Keaveny - Allows school boards to establish and adopt a unique professional development program for teachers in lieu of following statutory mandates
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 196 - Keaveny - Allows private trust companies to be examined every thirty-six months and makes alternative dispute provisions in trusts enforceable
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 197 - Sater - Modifies current provisions relating to tuberculosis treatment and prevention and provides for meningococcal disease information
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 198 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires, subject to appropriations, an expansion of the variety of kosher foods approved under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Special Supplemental Food Program
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 199 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires long-term care facilities to be encouraged to institute policies encouraging familial involvement in the well-being and support of its residents
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 200 - Chappelle-Nadal - Allows school districts and charter schools to establish and implement an age-appropriate curriculum to educate students about domestic violence and teen dating violence prevention
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 201 - Chappelle-Nadal - Enacts a state-wide smoking ban
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

SB 202 - Chappelle-Nadal - Creates a crime for employers who divulge certain personal information of employees and customers
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 203 - Chappelle-Nadal - Repeals provisions relating to unauthorized and unlawfully present aliens
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 204 - Brown - Extends the sunset on the Wood Energy Producers Tax Credit and caps the amount of tax credits available under the program each fiscal year
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 205 - Sater - Allows for higher education or armed services visits for children in foster care or in the Division of Youth Services and raises the age limit for foster care reentry
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 206 - Schaaf - Designates "jumping jacks" as the official exercise of the state of Missouri
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 207 - Kehoe - Allows electric corporations to recover costs for infrastructure replacement projects
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 208 - Justus - Raises the age limit for when a youth may reenter into foster care
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 209 - Justus - Creates the Missouri Tuition Equity Act
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 210 - Lamping - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to hold public meetings in each congressional district on the Common Core State Standards
1/31/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 244 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to the registering and issuance of death certificates
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 244-Schaefer

SB 245 - Justus - Modifies the Sheriff's Retirement Fund court surcharge, and adds law school clinics to the list of entities who may qualify for a court cost waiver
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 245-Justus

SB 246 - Walsh - Creates the Missouri Juneteenth Heritage and Jazz Festival and Memorial Fund and changes the distribution of funds from the professional athletes and entertainers tax
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 246-Walsh and Silvey

SB 247 - Walsh - Abolishes the death penalty and provides that any person sentenced to death before August 28, 2013 must be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 247-Walsh

SB 248 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to neighborhood improvement districts and delinquent property taxes
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 248-Wasson

SB 249 - Nasheed - Requires children in the St. Louis City School District and Kansas City School District to attend school at age five
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 249-Nasheed

SB 250 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to the crime of possession of child pornography
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 250-Schaaf

SB 251 - Kraus - Updates provisions relating to public assistance fraud and abuse
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 251-Kraus and Chappelle-Nadal

SB 252 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to the Department of Revenue, including provisions that prohibit the Department from retaining copies of source documents used to obtain driver's licenses
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SB 252-Kraus

SJR 15 - Schaaf - Modifies the Constitution to allow for propensity evidence in prosecutions for crimes of a sexual nature involving a victim under the age of eighteen
1/31/2013 -- S First Read--SJR 15-Schaaf

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