Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/10/2013


SB 2 - Rupp - Modifies the law relating to initiative and referendum petititons
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Elections Committee

SB 28 - Kraus - Redefines "misconduct" and "good cause" for the purposes of disqualification from unemployment benefits
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee

SB 29 - Brown - Requires authorization for certain labor unions to use dues and fees to make political contributions and requires consent for withholding earnings from paychecks
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 34 - Cunningham - Requires the Division of Workers' Compensation to develop and maintain a workers' compensation claims database and modifies provisions relating to experience ratings for workers' compensation insurance
4/10/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/10/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 41 - Munzlinger - Modifies the laws regarding certain private nuisance actions
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee

SB 57 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to public works contracts, city ordinances, and hospital district taxes, and limits damages in civil actions against mining companies
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Wallingford)--(0119S02.04S)
4/10/2013 -- Perfected, as amended

SB 59 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to the regulation of the Missouri Property and Casualty Insurance Association and the Missouri Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 60 - Rupp - Modifies the law regarding the accreditation requirements for reinsurance companies and specifies when insurers can take credit or reduce liability due to reinsurance
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 67 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to higher education
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Pearce)--(0052S01.01S)
4/10/2013 -- SA 2 S offered & adopted (Lager)--(8023S13.01S)
4/10/2013 -- Perfected, as amended

SB 80 - Romine - Requires the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators to notify, instead of mail, an applicant when it is time for license renewal
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 83 - Parson - Modifies provisions of law relating to political subdivisions, traffic offenses and taxation
4/10/2013 -- Referred H General Laws Committee

SB 88 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to the furnishing of medical records and hospital licensure
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/10/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 100 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions regarding bankruptcy, child custody, adoptions, and child support administrative proceedings as well as court surcharges, court costs, and judicial personnel
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 118 - Kraus - Authorizes the creation of veterans treatment courts
4/10/2013 -- SCS S adopted
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 125 - Nasheed - Modifies duties of boards of education
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 126 - Sater - Prohibits any requirement that pharmacies carry a specific drug or device
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 161 - Pearce - Requires actuarial analyses to be performed to determine potential costs of instituting oral anti-cancer parity and eating disorders mandate
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Health Insurance 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
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & defeated (Schaaf)--(0823S01.01S)
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 188 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to civil commitment of sexually violent predators
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Special Standing Committee on Corrections Committee
4/10/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Special Standing Committee on Corrections Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Special Standing Committee on Corrections Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 197 - Sater - Modifies current provisions relating to tuberculosis treatment and prevention and provides for meningococcal disease information
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy 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
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Cancelled 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
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Retirement Committee

SB 213 - Kraus - Modifies provisions of law relating to tax increment financing
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 218 - LeVota - Allows for the display of the Honor and Remember flag at all state buildings and state parks
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Tourism & Natural Resources Committee

SB 222 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to domestic violence
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee

SB 228 - Holsman - Authorizes the establishment of urban agricultural zones
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 229 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to the Mental Health Employment Disqualification Registry
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Committee

SB 230 - Brown - Establishes Chloe's Law which requires newborn screenings for critical congenital heart disease
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 234 - Wasson - Requires an applicant for a marital and family therapist license to show a master's or doctoral degree from a Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy accredited program
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies the law relating to residential real estate loan reporting
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Financial Institutions Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Financial Institutions Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 240 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to ratemaking for gas corporations
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Utilities Committee

SB 241 - Lager - Creates the Uniform Wireless Communications Infrastructure Deployment Act and modifies provisions relating to utility right-of-way
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Utilities Committee

SB 242 - Kehoe - Modifies the law relating to the sale or provision of certain commodities by certain school officials of seven- director districts that are located in a first class county
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

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
4/10/2013 -- SS S offered & adopted (Justus)--(1182S.02F)
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 251 - Kraus - Updates provisions relating to public assistance fraud and abuse
4/10/2013 -- SS S offered & adopted (Kraus)--(0105S.04F)
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 254 - Pearce - Raises the fees a lender can charge for certain loans
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Financial Institutions Committee

SB 257 - Silvey - Modifies provisions contained in the Port Improvement District Act
4/10/2013 -- Perfected
4/10/2013 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 258 - LeVota - Reduces the membership of the Kansas City School District board of education and changes the election date for board members
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Elections Committee

SB 261 - Rupp - Requires the State Tax Commission to assign a hearing officer within 60 days of appeals from boards of equalization
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Ways and Means Committee

SB 262 - Curls - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Health Insurance Committee

SB 265 - Nieves - Prohibits the state and political subdivisions from implementing policies affecting property rights and from entering into certain relationships with organizations
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Downsizing State Government Committee

SB 267 - Nieves - Specifies how courts may rule in contractual disputes involving the law of other countries
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 S withdrawn
4/10/2013 -- SS S offered (Nieves)--(1409S.02F)
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 to SS S offered & adopted (Nieves)--(1409S02.01S)
4/10/2013 -- SS, as amended, S adopted
4/10/2013 -- Perfected
4/10/2013 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 280 - Wasson - Designates a bridge on United States Highway 65 in Greene County as the "Missouri Fallen Soldiers Memorial Bridge"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 286 - Romine - Modifies the Mark Twain Highway designation and designates an additional portion of Interstate 70 as the "Andy Gammon Memorial Highway"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 287 - Rupp - Modifies Missouri's captive insurance law to allow for the formation of sponsored captive insurance companies and other ancillary matters
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Insurance Policy Committee

SB 289 - Sifton - Modifies the provisions which require an applicant's Social Security number when applying for a professional license renewal
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Downsizing State Government Committee

SB 302 - Wasson - Modifies provisions regarding medications, the regulation of food production, and contracts between health carriers and optometrists
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 303 - Wasson - Adds four classes of pharmacy permits
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 304 - Wasson - Allows the Board of Healing Arts to indefinitely restrict an athletic trainer's license or revoke a license
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 305 - Wasson - Specifies examination requirements for physicians who graduated before or after January 1, 1994
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 306 - Wasson - Allows the Board of Pharmacy to test the drugs possessed by licensees
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 307 - Schaaf - Prohibits contractual provisions that restrict the disclosure of contractual payment amounts between providers and health carriers under certain circumstances
4/10/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (1596S.02C)

SB 308 - Schaaf - Requires health benefit plans to establish equal out-of-pocket requirements for oral anticancer medications and intravenously administered chemotherapy medications
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 323 - Dixon - Creates the Missouri Works Program and eliminates or modifies certain other economic development programs
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 324 - Wallingford - Regulates the sale of travel insurance and establishes a limited lines travel insurance producer licensure system
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 327 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to electronic monitoring of criminal defendants and DWI courts
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 330 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to professional licenses
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Professional Registration and Licensing Committee

SB 333 - Silvey - Reauthorizes and modifies provisions relating to the Qualified Research Expenses Tax Credit
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Cancelled S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 342 - Parson - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
4/10/2013 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 350 - Dempsey - Eliminates the renter's portion of the Senior Citizens Property Tax Credit and creates the Missouri Senior Services Protection Fund
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Budget Committee
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 371 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
4/10/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee - (1835S.04C)

SB 373 - Munzlinger - Modifies fees relating to agricultural weights and measures
4/10/2013 -- SS for SCS S offered (Munzlinger)--(1740S.05F)
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Parson)--(1740S05.01S)
4/10/2013 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/10/2013 -- Perfected

SB 376 - Sater - Allows hospital districts to permit higher education institutions to use space for health care education or training
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee - Consent
4/10/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 387 - Nasheed - Reduces the fiscal year cap and extends the sunset on the Film Production Tax Credit
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Cancelled S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 422 - Curls - Designates a portion of Interstate 70 in Independence as the "Clifton J. Scott Memorial Highway"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 423 - Nasheed - Requires the Supervisor of Parking Meters in the city of St. Louis to supervise a parking division rather than a parking enforcement division and a parking meter division
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 437 - Pearce - Creates a model for funding the state's public institutions of higher education
4/10/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - (1808S.05C)

SB 454 - Nieves - Requires county assessors to use a specified single nationally recognized guide to determine the value of a motor vehicle for personal property tax assessment purposes
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 460 - Kehoe - Designates a portion of U.S. Highway 69 in Clay County as the "Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. Highway"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 463 - Schaefer - Allows Boone County to adopt regulations to control the minimum standards for occupancy for residential units and to develop a program for licensing and inspecting the units
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 479 - Dixon - Repeals a section of law relating to prepaid legal service plans
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SCR 5 - Lamping - Urges the federal government to stop the Affordable Care Act's disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment reductions
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SJR 16 - Kehoe - Imposes a temporary one cent sales and use tax for transportation purposes
4/10/2013 -- Referred H Transportation Committee

HB 42 - Rowland - Prohibits the state and all political subdivisions from implementing policies affecting property rights and from entering into certain relationships with organizations
4/10/2013 -- S First Read--HB 42-Rowland

HB 55 - Flanigan - Creates an amnesty program for state taxes due as of December 31, 2013
4/10/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 112 - Burlison - Creates a statutory cause of action for damages against health care providers
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 202 - Reiboldt - Allows University of Missouri Extension Councils to form extension districts made up of cooperating counties
4/10/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - (0661S.03C)

HB 303 - Scharnhorst - Designates several highways and bridges located in Missouri
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

HB 334 - Dugger - Exempts farm work performed by children under 16 years of age from certain child labor requirements
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 445 - Engler - Modifies the Mark Twain Highway designation and designates an additional portion of Interstate 70 as the "Andy Gammon Memorial Highway"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

HB 586 - Schieffer - Guarantees the right to conduct and participate in rodeos
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 591 - Hubbard - Designates the bridge on Interstates 55, 64, 70 and U.S. Route 40 crossing the Mississippi River between downtown St. Louis and southwestern Illinois as the "Congressman William L. Clay Bridge"
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

HB 673 - Schatz - Renames Linn State Technical College as "State Technical College of Missouri" effective July 1, 2014
4/10/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee - Consent

HCR 10 - Walton Gray - Designates April 2013 as "Donate Life Month" in Missouri
4/10/2013 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HCR 25 - Allen - Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area Governance and Taxation
4/10/2013 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HCR 28 - Lynch - Strongly urges the United States Department of Defense to reconsider the reduction and realignment of Army forces at Fort Leonard Wood
4/10/2013 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

HJR 11 - Reiboldt - Proposes a constitutional amendment affirming the right of farmers and ranchers to engage in farming and ranching practices
4/10/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/10/2013 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor
4/10/2013 -- SS S offered (Parson)--(0132S.03F)
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 to SS S offered (LeVota)--(0132S03.02S)
4/10/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/10/2013 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 to SS S offered & withdrawn (Sifton)--(0132S03.01F)
4/10/2013 -- SA 1 to SS S withdrawn
4/10/2013 -- SA 2 to SS S offered & withdrawn (Nasheed)--(0132S03.10S)
4/10/2013 -- SA 3 to SS S offered & adopted (Lamping)--(0132S03.07S)
4/10/2013 -- SS, as amended, S adopted
4/10/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed

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