Missouri Senate

Senate Action for 2/17/2015

SB 1 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
   LR: 0479S.09P    SCS SBs 1, 22, 49 & 70

2/17/2015 -- Taken up for Perfection

2/17/2015 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 5 - Schmitt - Modifies distribution of traffic fines and court costs collected by municipal courts
   LR: 0455S.18T    CCS HCS SS SCS SB 5

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 11 - Richard - Modifies the law relating to the ethical behavior of public officials and lobbyists
   LR: 0359S.06P    SS#2 SCS SB 11

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted H Government Oversight and Accountability Committee

SB 12 - Munzlinger - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
   LR: 0110H.08T    HCS SS SCS SB 12

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted H Agriculture Policy Committee

SB 14 - Munzlinger - Requires all departments and divisions of the state, including statewide offices, to post copies of contracts entered into for the provision of legal services from outside firms on the Missouri Accountability Portal
   LR: 0573H.03C    HCS SS SB 14

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 18 - Kraus - Requires the Department of Revenue to notify sellers if there is a change in sales tax law interpretation
   LR: 0147S.03T    SCS SB 18

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 24 - Sater - Modifies provisions of law relating to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
   LR: 0498S.15T    CCS HCS SS#2 SCS SB 24

2/17/2015 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

2/17/2015 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 26 - Sater - Establishes requirements for authorized entities to stock epinephrine (EPI) auto-injectors for use in emergencies
   LR: 0485S.03P    SS SCS SB 26

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 35 - Wallingford - Creates additional requirements for public assistance eligibility verification
   LR: 0273H.05C    HCS SCS SB 35

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 38 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to healthcare
   LR: 0419H.04C    HCS SCS SB 38

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 42 - Nasheed - Modifies the provision allowing law enforcement officers to use deadly force in certain circumstances
   LR: 0400S.02I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 53 - Schaaf - Modifies certificate of need requirements for long-term care facilities
   LR: 0609S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

SB 81 - Dixon - Authorizes additional circuit judges for certain circuits when indicated by annual judicial performance report and provides that Division Twelve of the 16th Judicial Circuit shall sit in the City of Independence
   LR: 0296S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 104 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to elections
   LR: 0229S.04T    CCS#2 HCS SB 104

2/17/2015 -- SA 1 S offered & defeated (Keaveny)--(0229S01.01S)

2/17/2015 -- Perfected

2/17/2015 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 142 - Romine - Requires the Department of Natural Resources to take certain actions when submitting certain plans to the Environmental Protection Agency
   LR: 0782S.08T    SS#3 SCS SB 142

2/17/2015 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee (0782S.04C)

SB 143 - Romine - Modifies the crime of animal trespass
   LR: 0585S.03I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 149 - Parson - Creates state and local sales and use tax exemptions for data storage centers and allows municipalities to enter into loan agreements, or sell, lease, or mortgage municipal property for a technology business facility project
   LR: 0754H.09T    HCS SS SCS SB 149

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

2/17/2015 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

2/17/2015 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor

2/17/2015 -- S Third Read and Passed

2/17/2015 -- H First Read

SB 152 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions relating to environmental protection
   LR: 0217S.07S    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 152

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 157 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions relating to business filing fees
   LR: 0174S.07I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 159 - Parson - Modifies the title insurance law with respect to the performance of escrow, settlement, or closing services by title insurers, agencies, and agents
   LR: 0988S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 164 - Sifton - Exempts in bankruptcy proceedings life insurance proceeds for the burial of a family member, modifies insurance foreign investment limits, changes the requirements for the valuation of reserves for life insurance, and modifies provisions regarding qualified spousal trusts
   LR: 0344H.03T    HCS SB 164

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 184 - LeVota - Modifies provisions relating to business filing fees
   LR: 1006S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 199 - Dixon - Allows an armed offender docket in Jackson County and modifies the self-defense statute and the statute specifying when police officers are justified in using deadly force
   LR: 0972H.09C    HCS SS#2 SCS SB 199, 417 & 42

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 200 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to sentencing of juvenile criminal offenders, an armed offender docket pilot project, and criminal sentence reductions
   LR: 0159H.02C    HCS SB 200

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 205 - Parson - Modifies regulations on the business of insurance
   LR: 0598H.02C    HCS SB 205

2/17/2015 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Parson)--(0598S01.01F)

2/17/2015 -- SA 2 S offered & adopted (Parson)--(0598S01.02F)

2/17/2015 -- SA 3 S offered & defeated (Munzlinger)--(0598S01.04S)

2/17/2015 -- SA 4 S offered & defeated (Munzlinger)--(0598S01.05S)

2/17/2015 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 214 - Pearce - Modifies law relating to emerging issues
   LR: 0968H.02C    HCS SB 214

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

SB 220 - Kehoe - Modifies the duration of unemployment compensation, the method to pay federal advances, and raises the fund trigger causing contribution rate reductions
   LR: 1169S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 222 - Schatz - Bans political subdivisions from requiring the removal or relocation of infrastructure owned by a communication service provider unless certain conditions are met
   LR: 1151S.02I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 238 - LeVota - Prohibits retired judges or state employees from collecting retirement benefits while employed by a political subdivision
   LR: 1220S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S General Laws and Pensions Committee

SB 270 - Nasheed - Modifies public retirement systems
   LR: 1396H.04C    HCS SCS SB 270

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

SB 276 - Walsh - Designates the third Thursday in November as the "Great American Smokeout Day"
   LR: 1392S.01P    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

2/17/2015 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws and Pensions Committee - Consent

SB 277 - Walsh - Designates the month of November as "Epilepsy Awareness Month"
   LR: 1353S.01P    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

2/17/2015 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws and Pensions Committee - Consent

SB 280 - Keaveny - Modifies the punishment scheme for juvenile offenders of first degree murder and provides a petition process for juvenile offenders currently serving life without parole
   LR: 1524S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 282 - Parson - Requires insurers to mail notices cancelling, refusing to renew, or refusing to issue automobile insurance policies through certain United States postal service methods
   LR: 1377H.02C    HCS SB 282

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 283 - Kehoe - Allows political subdivisions to assign operation of a retirement plan to the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement System and modifies provisions relating to the Police Retirement System of the City of St. Louis
   LR: 1412H.03C    HCS SB 283

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws and Pensions Committee

SB 310 - Emery - Allows electrical corporations to recover depreciation expense and return for qualifying electric plants placed in service
   LR: 0772S.04I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 444 - Schaaf - Eliminates provision of MO HealthNet services through managed care programs
   LR: 2177S.02I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 444-Schaaf

SB 445 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to environmental protection
   LR: 1944S.06T    CCS HCS SCS SB 445

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 445-Romine

SB 446 - Schupp - Removes additional fee equal to the fee charged for personalized license plates for subsequent sets of special Purple Heart license plates
   LR: 2100S.01P    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 446-Schupp and Brown

SB 447 - Wieland - Repeals the death penalty and creates the Death Penalty Costs Reinvestment Fund
   LR: 2045S.02I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 447-Wieland

SB 448 - Wieland - Modifies the laws relating to the assignment of liability in contracts for construction work
   LR: 2135S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 448-Wieland

SB 449 - Kraus - Prohibits employers from recruiting or referring an illegal alien for employment
   LR: 1527S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 449-Kraus

SB 450 - Emery - Expands the dependency exemption for income taxes to stillbirths
   LR: 2154S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 450-Emery

SB 451 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to petitions for the expungement of criminal records
   LR: 1640S.03C    SCS SBs 451, 307, 100 & 165

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 451-Dixon

SB 452 - Schmitt - Provides that no person shall be found guilty of failure to appear if the criminal matter solely involves certain traffic-related infractions
   LR: 2199S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 452-Schmitt, et al

SB 453 - LeVota - Expands the Amber Alert System to include missing endangered persons
   LR: 2169S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 453-LeVota

SB 454 - LeVota - Modifies the membership of the county political party committees in Jackson County
   LR: 1642S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SB 454-LeVota

SCR 2 - Nasheed - Designates the month of November as Pica Awareness Month in Missouri
   LR: 0299S.01T    

2/17/2015 -- Reported to the House and H First Read

SCR 3 - Wallingford - Establishes the Joint Committee on Solid Waste Management District Operations
   LR: 1055S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled H Energy and the Environment Committee

SCR 7 - Brown - Urges the Department of Defense and the Congressional delegation to protect, preserve, and promote state military bases and agencies
   LR: 1308S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Hearing Cancelled H Veterans Committee

SCR 10 - Munzlinger - Urges the Missouri Congressional delegation to make changes to the school lunch program in the Child Nutrition Act Reauthorization in 2015
   LR: 1062S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Reported to the House

SCR 11 - Schmitt - Urges Congress to not remove the tax-deferred treatment of 529 college savings plans
   LR: 1662S.03C    SCS SCR 11

2/17/2015 -- Reported to the House

SCR 20 - Emery - Urges the United States Congress to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
   LR: 2118S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 21 - Dixon - Applies to Congress for the calling of a convention to propose certain amendments to the United States Constitution which place limits on the federal government
   LR: 2098S.02P    SCS SCRs 21, 19 & 23

2/17/2015 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 22 - Schaefer - Directs the Attorney General of Missouri to join in the pending legal action brought by the state of Texas against the implementation of the "Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents" program
   LR: 2185S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S offered--SCR 22-Schaefer

SCR 23 - Schmitt - Applies to Congress for the calling of an Article V convention of states to propose certain amendments to the United States Constitution which place limits on the federal government
   LR: 2175S.01I    

2/17/2015 -- S First Read--SCR 23-Schmitt

HCR 12 - Cierpiot - Encourages the State Attorney General to join a lawsuit against President Barack Obama's immigration policies currently underway in Texas
   LR: 1204H.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Reported to the Senate

HCR 15 - Roden - Calls upon President Obama to support the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline and the permitting for oil production off the northern coast of Alaska
   LR: 0064H.01I    

2/17/2015 -- Reported to the Senate