Missouri State Senate

Senate Action for 4/23/2013


SB 2 - Rupp - Modifies the law relating to initiative and referendum petititons
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Elections Committee
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Elections Committee

SB 17 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to education
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 26 - Kraus - Modifies provisions of law relating to taxation
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Fiscal Review Committee

SB 28 - Kraus - Redefines "misconduct" and "good cause" for the purposes of disqualification from unemployment benefits
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass 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
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 36 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions related to juvenile offenders who have been certified as adults and found guilty in a court of general jurisdiction
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Judiciary Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 53 - Lamping - Bars entities that invest in the energy sector in Iran from contracting with the state and political subdivisions
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/23/2013 -- Re-referred H General Laws Committee

SB 69 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to administrative child support orders
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Judiciary Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 83 - Parson - Modifies provisions of law relating to political subdivisions, traffic offenses and taxation
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H General Laws Committee

SB 87 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to breast-feeding
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Committee
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Committee

SB 99 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to elections, printing of the official state manual, and tax ballot issues
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Elections Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Elections Committee

SB 109 - Brown - Amends various provisions regarding the licensure and inspection of hospitals
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 116 - Kraus - Modifies the law relating to uniformed military and overseas voters
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 125 - Nasheed - Modifies duties of boards of education
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred H Fiscal Review 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
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H General Laws Committee

SB 161 - Pearce - Requires actuarial analyses to be performed to determine potential costs of instituting oral anti-cancer parity and eating disorders mandate
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Health Insurance Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Health Insurance Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 167 - Sater - Modifies provisions relating to nursing
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 174 - Parson - Reduces the corporate income tax rate and modifies provisions relating to use tax nexus
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 175 - Wallingford - Requires the physical presence of the physician who prescribed or dispensed any abortion-inducing drugs while such drug is administered
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 222 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to domestic violence
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Judiciary Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 224 - Curls - Modifies provisions relating to crimes and law enforcement officers and agencies
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety Committee
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 248 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to neighborhood improvement districts and delinquent property taxes
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted H Economic Development Committee
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Economic Development Committee

SB 250 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to the crime of possession of child pornography
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 254 - Pearce - Raises the fees a lender can charge for certain loans
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 259 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions related to infectious diseases reported to the Department of Health and Senior Services
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 262 - Curls - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance
4/23/2013 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Health Insurance Committee
4/23/2013 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Health Insurance Committee
4/23/2013 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 278 - Kehoe - Establishes psychological stress of paid peace officers of a police department as an occupational disease
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 285 - Romine - Allows certain law enforcement agencies access to electronic monitoring information regarding sexually violent predators
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 287 - Rupp - Modifies Missouri's captive insurance law to allow for the formation of sponsored captive insurance companies and other ancillary matters
4/23/2013 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/23/2013 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 288 - Lamping - Changes provisions regarding the defined contribution retirement plan for employees of certain higher education institutions
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 308 - Schaaf - Requires health benefit plans to establish equal out-of-pocket requirements for oral anticancer medications and intravenously administered chemotherapy medications
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 315 - Pearce - Eliminates the expiration of a requirement for counties to deposit certain amounts into the assessment fund
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 334 - Sifton - Requires that any person, corporation, or utility who wishes to acquire fifty percent or more of the total stock issued by the water or sewer corporation to get permission from the Public Service Commission
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 335 - Sifton - Merges water and sewer corporations into one group of public utilities for assessment purposes
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 339 - Romine - Establishes the Missouri Works Training Program and modifies provisions relating to unemployment compensation
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 343 - Parson - Establishes that real estate loans shall be governed only by state and federal law
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 368 - Holsman - Prohibits certain property associations from barring the installation of solar energy systems
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 371 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 377 - Dixon - Modifies penalties for first degree murder when the person was under the age of 18 at the time of committing the offense
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 378 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of the A+ Program, Bright Flight Scholarship Program, and the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 383 - Wallingford - Modifies the Missouri Public Prompt Payment Act and the law relating to public works projects
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 396 - Holsman - Creates the Electrical Corporation Net Metering and Easy Connection Act and modifies the renewable energy standard
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 401 - Rupp - Modifies provisions pertaining to health insurance
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 403 - Rupp - Allows health maintenance organizations to issue policies with deductibles and requires navigators to be licensed.
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 410 - Kehoe - Renames Linn State Technical College as "State Technical College of Missouri" effective July 1, 2014
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 411 - Kehoe - Modifies Missouri's commercial motor vehicle law to conform with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 419 - Lager - Allows the Governor to convey certain state properties to the State Highways and Transportation Commission
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 437 - Pearce - Creates a model for funding the state's public institutions of higher education
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/23/2013 -- SS for SCS S offered (Pearce)--(1808S.10F)
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 441 - Dempsey - Creates a transient guest tax exemption for entities providing disaster relief services
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 445 - Wasson - Requires homeowner insurance companies to offer sinkhole coverage
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 448 - Schmitt - Allows the circuit court of the city of St. Louis to create of a special armed offender docket
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 455 - Nieves - Removes the August 28, 2014 termination date for individuals to obtain teacher certification based on certification by the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SJR 2 - Lager - Amends the Constitution to limit general revenue appropriations and mandate state income tax rate reductions in certain situations
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SR 777 - Chappelle-Nadal - Use of the Chamber/21st Century Leadership Academy
4/23/2013 -- Offered--SR 777-Chappelle-Nadal
4/23/2013 -- S Adopted

HB 30 - Scharnhorst - 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
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 53 - Gatschenberger - Modifies provisions relating to the regulation of the Missouri Property and Casualty Insurance Association and the Missouri Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 68 - Kelley - Designates the month of November as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in Missouri
4/23/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Schaaf)--(0569L01.02S)
4/23/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended

HB 112 - Burlison - Creates a statutory cause of action for damages against health care providers
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 142 - Dugger - Modifies provisions relating to utilities
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 163 - Fitzpatrick - Modifies provisions relating to elections in third class cities, procedures to transfer a city hospital, emergency services board elections, and the St. Louis Public Administrator
4/23/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (McKenna)--(8029S13.01S)
4/23/2013 -- SA 2 S offered & adopted (Silvey)--(0842H02.01S)
4/23/2013 -- SA 3 S offered & defeated (LeVota)--(8112S13.01S)
4/23/2013 -- SA 4 S offered & adopted (Keaveny)--(0842H02.03S)
4/23/2013 -- SA 5 S offered & adopted (Brown)--(0842H02.04S)
4/23/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended - EC adopted

HB 169 - Diehl, Jr. - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys and Circuit Attorneys' Retirement System Fund, allows law enforcement officers to charge for their services in cases disposed of by a traffic violations bureau and creates the MODEX fund
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 175 - Crawford - Modifies provisions of law relating to taxation of property
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

HB 194 - Diehl, Jr. - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of new homes
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee

HB 199 - Dugger - Modifies the law relating to elections
4/23/2013 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Lamping)--(0685H04.02S)
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 252 - Lauer - Modifies provisions relating to adoptions
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 253 - Berry - Modifies provisions relating to taxation
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

HB 274 - Brattin - Establishes Chloe's Law requiring newborn screenings for congenital heart disease and provides for meningococcal disease information
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

HB 290 - Lichtenegger - Modifies provisions relating to adoption investigations
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

HB 303 - Scharnhorst - Designates several highways and bridges located in Missouri
4/23/2013 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Chappelle-Nadal)--(1172S04.01F)
4/23/2013 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Schmitt)--(1172S04.01S)
4/23/2013 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & ruled out of order (Lager)--(1172S04.04S)
4/23/2013 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
4/23/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 315 - Rowland - Modifies various provisions relating to the provision of health care services
4/23/2013 -- SS S offered (Wasson)--(1058S.04F)
4/23/2013 -- SA 1 to SS S offered & defeated (Schaaf)--(1058S04.01S)
4/23/2013 -- SS S adopted
4/23/2013 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 316 - Phillips - Extends the expiration date on the Division of Tourism Supplemental Fund and a provision requiring the deposit of certain sales taxes into the fund from 2015 to 2020
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee

HB 322 - Gosen - Allows proof of financial responsibility and other insurance-related documents to be provided or presented through electronic means
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 339 - Wieland - Enacts a "No Pay, No Play" law which requires uninsured motorists to forfeit recovery of noneconomic damages under certain conditions
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 340 - Johnson - Establishes daylight saving time as the new standard time
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HB 351 - Frederick - Amends various provisions regarding the licensure and inspection of hospitals and to the furnishing of medical records
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee

HB 389 - Zerr - Reauthorizes and modifies provisions relating to the Qualified Research Expenses tax credit
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 400 - Riddle - Requires the physical presence of the physician who prescribed or dispensed any abortion-inducing drugs while such drug is administered
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 404 - Conway - Modifies workers' compensation laws relating to occupational diseases for peace officers and insurance premium rates for construction employers
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 406 - Wieland - Requires all employers with more than fifty employees to remit payments to the Family Support Payment Center by electronic means
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Cancelled S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 418 - Neth - Modifies provisions relating to the Kansas City police retirement systems
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 436 - Funderburk - Modifies provisions relating to firearms
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

HB 442 - Hoskins - Adds professional therapy dog to the definition of service dog
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 443 - Hubbard - Establishes a pilot program to encourage visitation between incarcerated parents and their children
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 457 - Jones - Provides for the conscience rights of individuals who provide medical services
4/23/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 468 - Higdon, Jr. - Modifies provisions relating to a Highway Patrol fund, a methamphetamine task force, law enforcement officers, traffic laws, spurious liens, crimes, and the open records law
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 510 - Torpey - Allows limited liability companies to create a separate series of the company
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 533 - Riddle - Modifies provisions relating to firearms
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

HB 593 - Solon - Establishes the Missouri Oral Chemotherapy Parity Interim Committee
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

HB 698 - Zerr - Modifies provisions relating to tax credits, tax incentives
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 722 - Leara - Modifies provisions relating to the Police Retirement System of St. Louis
4/23/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

HB 733 - Berry - Modifies provisions contained in the Port Improvement District Act
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 747 - Scharnhorst - Authorizes gaming establishments to provide lines of credit
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

HB 813 - Torpey - Creates a new program for disbursing grants through Early Stage Business Development Corporations
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1035 - Kelley - Modifies provisions relating to taxation and political subdivisions
4/23/2013 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

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