Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 1/21/02

SB 0654 - Rohrbach - Prohibits private prisons or jails
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee

SB 0665 - Kenney - Regulates Internet access for minors in public libraries and schools
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee

SB 0672 - Childers - Creates a Legislative Academy within the General Assembly
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee

SB 0676 - Yeckel - Modifies the WW2 medallion program and funding to the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee

SB 0726 - Childers - September 11th is Emergency Services Day
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee-Consent
01/21/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee-Consent

SB 0727 - Yeckel - Revises the law regarding tinted windows
01/21/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
01/21/02 -- H First Read

SB 0851 - Westfall - Modifies various regulations regarding billboards
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0852 - Bland - Requires insurers to offer optional coverage for weight reduction counseling services
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0853 - Stoll - Establishes the "Collaborative for Applied Experiences in Science" (CAES) program
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Labor & Industrial
Relations Committee

SB 0854 - Gross - Creates the "Terrorism Prevention Act"
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0855 - Caskey - Requires sex offenders to register with county officials be- fore Sept. 10, 2002 or within 10 days of entering the county
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0856 - Russell - Establishes an enterprise zone for Wright County
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Goverment &
Economic Development Committee

SB 0857 - Dougherty - Provides consumer protection for price gouging during a state of emergency
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0858 - Dougherty - Allows certain metropolitan school districts to change the compulsory attendance age
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred Education Committee

SB 0859 - Russell - Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirement of the A+ Schools Program
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0860 - Rohrbach - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0861 - Rohrbach - Modifies definition of American Sign Language to include that it is the native language for many deaf Missourians
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0862 - DePasco - Creates a home builders licensure board to license and regulate residential home builders
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0863 - Gross - Adds Consumer Price Index adjustment to "hold harmless" school districts' school aid
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0864 - Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0865 - Foster - Changes the assessment renewal on boll weevil eradication from five years to ten years
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation,
Parks & Tourism Committee

SB 0866 - Cauthorn - Allows tax credits for new generation cooperatives to be claimed against tax or quarterly estimated tax
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation,
Parks & Tourism Committee

SB 0867 - Cauthorn - Allows Transportation Commission to enter into design-build contracts
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0868 - Cauthorn - Eliminates the requirement that road projects be bid in sections not to exceed 10 miles
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0869 - Cauthorn - Removes ability of Marion Co. circuit clerk to appoint Divi- sion I circuit clerk if office is separated from recorder
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 0870 - Goode - Increases penalty that may be imposed by the PSC for safety related violations of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0871 - Dougherty - Makes changes in the law relating to anatomical donation
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0872 - Dougherty - Creates the Consumer Clean Energy Act to promote energy efficiency
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0873 - House - Establishes the "Challenge Scholarship" program
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0874 - Bentley - Coordination of school districts' special education services with public, private, and not-for-profit agencies
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0875 - Gross - Revises crime of possession of child pornography
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0876 - Sims - Allows foster parents to be automatically registered with the Family Care Safety Registry at no additional cost
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0877 - Sims - Moves the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators to the Division of Professional Registration
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0878 - Sims - Makes numerous additions to the law relating to service animals
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0879 - Steelman - Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0880 - Steelman - Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0881 - Steelman - Creates the Environmental Hearing Commission
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0882 - Sims - Changes the name of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf to the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0883 - DePasco - Creates a one-dollar donation option on tax returns for the Workers Memorial Fund
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0884 - DePasco - Creates new restrictions on interest that can be charged in payday loans
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0885 - Bentley - Allows satellite economic development zones in Springfield
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 0886 - Bentley - Allows political subdivisions to provide telecommunication providers with certain services or facilities
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0887 - Sims - Requires municipalities to provide additional notice about industrial development projects
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 0888 - Gross - PSC must set ratemaking principles before new generation is constructed and DNR must act on permits within 180 days
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0889 - Dougherty - Allows administrators in metropolitan school districts to come out of retirement and keep their benefits up to 4 years
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0890 - Kenney - Establishes School Building Construction and Renovation Fund
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0891 - Kenney - Amends a techincal error created in House Bill 202 from the past session
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0892 - Kenney - Allows certain additional services to be prepurchased from cemeteries
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0893 - Rohrbach - Prohibits life insurance companies from owning certain investments in excess of specific limitations
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0894 - Kinder - Establishes sales tax holiday and requires retailers to return sales tax refunds to those paying the tax
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0895 - Yeckel - Amends various provisions related to financial institutions
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans' Affairs & Elections Com.

SB 0896 - Yeckel - Permits temporary practice of foreign CPAs in this state
01/21/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee-Consent
01/21/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs and Elections Committee-Consent

SB 0897 - Dougherty - Creates the Urban Flight Scholarship Program
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0898 - Dougherty - Increases number of minority student scholarships; and amount of scholarship for entering special ed. field
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0899 - Dougherty - Expands state tax credit for contributions to authorized dropout abatement pilot programs
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0900 - Goode - Allows for aggregate purchasing of natural gas by public school districts
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0901 - Goode - Increases the maximum upper limit income for senior citizens property tax relief
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0902 - Goode - Creates a senior citizen's property tax deferral
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0903 - Klindt - Increases the membership of the Northwest Missouri State University's Board of Regents from seven to nine
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0904 - Klindt - Exempts religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from food inspection laws in certain circumstances
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0905 - Klindt - Modifies state budgeting process
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0906 - House - Increases the current admission fees on gambling boats to fund public transit
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0907 - House - Raises various highway user fees and diverts money from state agencies to fund transportation projects
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0908 - Gibbons - Terminates the corporation franchise tax law
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0909 - Gibbons - Shifts burden of proof on tax credit disputes to Department of Revenue
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0910 - Gibbons - Allows abatement and prospective application of taxes in certain situations
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0927 - Jacob - Creates a clothing and school supplies sales tax holiday
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0928 - Jacob - Exempts health club services from sales tax
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0953 - Loudon - Repeals the transferability of adoption tax credits
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0955 - Loudon - Limits reassessment of property values to the rate of inflation
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0958 - Kinder - Enacts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 0975 - Steelman - Creates a sales tax holiday for school supplies, clothing and computers for nine days in August
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0978 - Kinder - Revises dram shop liability
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0979 - Singleton - Relating to Missouri Southern State College
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0980 - Singleton - Relating to licensing
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0981 - Westfall - Relating to use of credit history for insurance purposes
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0982 - Kennedy - Relating to care for disabled
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0983 - Sims - Relating to the Joint Committee on Terrorism
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0984 - Steelman - Relating to the department of Natural Resources
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0985 - Steelman - Relating to water pollution bonds
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0986 - Steelman - Relating to deaf & hard of hearing persons
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0987 - Childers - Relating to geographic information systems
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0988 - Caskey - Relating to commercial zones
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0989 - Caskey - Relating to ad valorem tax
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0990 - Cauthorn - Relating to bio diesel fuel
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0991 - Kinder - Relating to certain disabled students
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0992 - Johnson - Relating to lost & unclaimed property
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0993 - Rohrbach - Relating to fire protection districts
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0994 - Rohrbach - Relating to legal consumer bill of rights
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0995 - Rohrbach - Relating to investments by insurance companies
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0996 - Quick - Relating to compensation of certain county employees
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SB 0997 - Quick - Relating to payment of certain taxes
01/21/02 -- S First Read

SJR 023 - Singleton - Provides for joint election of candidates for Lt. Governor and Governor
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules,
Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SJR 024 - Johnson - Revises term limits to exclude certain partial terms of service in the General Assembly
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SJR 025 - Klarich - Removes authorization for political subdivisions to revise tax levies to adjust for inflation
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SJR 026 - Klarich - Allows legislature to provide funds to the Road Fund, not less than 5% of state revenue, whenever it is deficient
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SJR 027 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SJR 028 - Bland - Ratifies the United States Equal Rights Amendment
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SJR 030 - Cauthorn - Would allow school districts private school pupils transportation
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SJR 031 - Gross - Voters shall determine whether tobacco proceeds are included in or excluded from total state revenues
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SJR 032 - House - Modifies constitution to allow gambling boat admission fees to be used for public transit purposes
01/21/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SR 0913 - Kenney - Employee Resolution
01/21/02 -- S adopted

SR 0951 - Rohrbach - Relating to use of the Senate Chamber
01/21/02 -- S First Read