Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 1/24/02

SB 0650 - Singleton - Removes statute of limitations for forcible rape and forcible sodomy
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Judiciary Committee to Floor

SB 0651 - Singleton - Requires a health carrier to allow any qualified health care provider to participate in its network
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Public Health & Welfare Committee to
Floor w/SCS

SB 0659 - House - Revises charter school laws
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Education Committee to Floor

SB 0660 - Westfall - Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles and modifies ignition interlock requirement
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Transportation Committee to
Floor w/SCS

SB 0662 - Westfall - Allows Sheriff to seize misappropriated property held by a pawnbroker
01/24/02 -- SCS Voted Do Pass (SCS SBs 662, 704) S Civil &
Criminal Jurispurdence Committee
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0668 - Bentley - Establishes grant program for improving mathematics instruction
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Education Committee to Floor

SB 0696 - Cauthorn - Requires performance-based budgeting for state departments
01/24/02 -- Re-referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations,
Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0704 - Caskey - Revises numerous theft crimes to reflect new felony limit of $500
01/24/02 -- Bill Combined (SCS SBs 662, 704) S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0720 - Westfall - Limits the bond amount for deputies and assistants appointed by collectors and treasurer ex officio collectors
01/24/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee-Consent

SB 0723 - Bentley - Creates a grant and loan program to promote cultural tourism
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks
& Tourism

SB 0758 - Bentley - Clarifies registration requirements for offenders
01/24/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee-Consent

SB 0837 - Cauthorn - Exempts ethanol from oxygenate labeling requirement
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks

SB 0865 - Foster - Changes the assessment renewal on boll weevil eradication from five years to ten years
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted 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
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks
& Tourism Committee

SB 0911 - Foster - Allows retainage in private building contracts
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0912 - Mathewson - Extends business hours for qualified resorts in Miller, Morgan and Camden counties to sell liquor by the drink
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 0913 - Rohrbach - Relating to the crime of promoting or providing a Mexican poker contest
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0914 - Jacob - Revises funding for various education programs by repealing gaming boat loss limit for a three-year period
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0915 - Westfall - Raises motor fuel tax and sales tax and diverts other revenues to fund transportation projects
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0916 - Dougherty - Removes the sunset provision allowing counties to impose fees on marriage licenses and surcharges on civil cases
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 0917 - Dougherty - Allows the Division of Family Services to request license- exempt foster care facilities for reasons for exemption
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0918 - Klarich - Exempts displays of the U.S. flag from statutes and ordinances
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0919 - Klarich - Requires used motor vehicle dealers to attend 6-hour educational seminar in order to obtain or renew license
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0920 - Caskey - Makes rehabilitation services for the blind the Division of Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0921 - Sims - Prohibits transporting of hazardous materials in tunnels and on certain highways designated by highway commission
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0922 - Sims - Prohibits the possession of a firearm where a child is capable of gaining access to it
01/24/02 -- Second Read & Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0923 - Sims - Provides foster parent rights and responsibilities
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0924 - Sims - Regulates not-for-profit corporations providing dental services
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0925 - Sims - Changes seat belt law from secondary enforcement to primary enforcement
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0926 - Kenney - Revises numerous provisions relating to the sale of motor vehicles and vessels
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0929 - Stoll - Modifies the law relating to organ donation and procurement
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0930 - Stoll - Requires permit drivers to display sign bearing the words "PERMIT DRIVER" while operating a motor vehicle
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0931 - Klarich - Makes several changes regarding limited liability companies and corporations
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 0932 - Klarich - Clarifies the notice due to a tenant when the landlord sells the rented property
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 0933 - Yeckel - Regulates the licensing of amusement machine operators
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0934 - Foster - Revises minimum salaries for public school teachers
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0935 - Foster - Alters the process by which teachers' certificates of license may be revoked
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0936 - Foster - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohi- bited from participating in regular programs of instruction
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0937 - Foster - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0939 - Wiggins - Creates a partial lump-sum option for KC police officers retirement system with persons over 26 years experience
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0940 - Wiggins - Creates new restrictions on payday loans
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0941 - DePasco - Allows owners of business property to appoint representative in matters involving drainage districts
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0942 - Schneider - Appeals of Public Service Commission orders shall go directly to the Court of Appeals
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 0943 - Schneider - Requires state to pay for secondary health insurance coverage for certain public officials over the age of 65
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0944 - Goode - Increases sales tax by one quarter percent and puts a surcharge on corporate income to fund education
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0945 - Stoll - Modifies the World War II medallion program
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0946 - Jacob - Restricts big trucks to 65 mph on interstates and increases diesel fuel tax and other registration fees
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0947 - Klindt - Extends to public junior colleges access to bond agreements with the Health & Educational Facilities Authority (MOETHA)
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0948 - Cauthorn - Requires disclosure of the transfer of human fetal parts for research purposes
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0949 - Bentley - Raises the admission fee for each person embarking on an excursion gambling boat from two dollars to four dollars
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 0950 - Gibbons - Designates a portion of Interstate 44 as the "Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor"
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0951 - Loudon - Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0952 - Loudon - Requires state to use lowest qualified bidder
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Labor & Industrial
Relations Committee

SB 0954 - Loudon - Modifies the definition of "totally unemployed" to include certain suspended workers
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Labor & Industrial
Relations Committee

SB 0956 - Loudon - Makes various technical changes to the law regarding casualty insurance
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0957 - Loudon - Allows those who serve in Operation Enduring Freedom to receive a special license denoting such service
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0958 - Kinder - Enacts the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
01/24/02 -- Reported From S Judiciary Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0959 - Kenney - Adds separately managed accounts to the term management services for income tax purposes
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0960 - Kenney - Creates the "God Bless America" license plate
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0961 - Wiggins - Modifies provisions relating to the Kansas City police retirement system
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0962 - Wiggins - Allows Kansas City to designate Jackson county election authority as verification board for the city
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0963 - DePasco - Suspends all sales tax exemptions for two years with the exception of food, pharmaceuticals and related items
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0964 - DePasco - Allows cigarette retailers to participate in cigarette merchandising, advertising, display or promotion programs
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0965 - Stoll - Authorizes certain subpoena power for the board of pharmacy
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0966 - Kennedy - Creates the St. Louis College of Pharmacy special license plate
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0967 - Kennedy - Allows spouses or dependents of deceased retired officers & employees receiving a pension to purchase insurance
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0968 - Westfall - Repeals limit on aviation fuel tax and removes it from the sunset clause
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0969 - Westfall - Adds forcible rape and forcible sodomy to dangerous felonies and increases minimum sentence from five to ten years
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0970 - Westfall - Repeals sunset on motor fuel tax and allows transportation department to engage in design-build contracts
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 0971 - Klindt - Requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis be prepared when certain environmental rules are promulgated
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0972 - Klindt - Expands tax credits to include new generation fuel processing entity
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation,
Parks & Tourism Committee

SB 0973 - Klindt - Creates the Missouri Biomass Technology Commission
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 0974 - Childers - Eliminates the issuance of permits to haul lumber products and earth-moving equipment under fourteen feet in width
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation,
Parks & Tourism Committee

SB 0976 - Steelman - Requires one member of the state board of health to be a chiropractor
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 0977 - Quick - Would create a $150,000 death benefit for public safety officers killed in the line of duty
01/24/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 1010 - Sims - Modifies regulation of horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1011 - Caskey - Removes references to used tires from the waste tire law
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1012 - Caskey - Extends the period of payments from 10 to 20 years on guaranteed energy cost savings contracts
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1013 - Steelman - Allows for transfers of generation of electrical corporations to an affiliated party
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1014 - Klindt - Adoptes the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1015 - Foster - Revises long-term contract provisions at state parks and creates Endowment Fund for Arrow Rock State Park
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1016 - Foster - Phases in the use of gasoline-oxygenate blend fuels
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1017 - Cauthorn - Expands transient guest tax to include Clark County
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1018 - Westfall - Expands "ticket price" to allow seller to recoup additional charges assessed without being guilty of scalping
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1019 - Stoll - Posting requirements regarding the use of pool tables
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1020 - Stoll - Relating to earned income tax credit
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1021 - Wiggins - Enacts the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1022 - Rohrbach - Court shall determine punishment if jury is unable to decide in first degree murder trials
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1023 - Bentley - Modifies the definition of distressed community
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1024 - Bentley - Relating to medical records
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1025 - Jacob - Prohibits erection of new billboards, except billboards under 100 square feet if allowed by local ordinance
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1026 - Kenney - Allows physicians to refer patients who have been newly diagnosed with cancer to a specialist for a second opinion
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1027 - Kinder - Prohibits certain suits by political subdivisions and the state against firearm manufacturers and dealers
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1028 - Russell - Revises process for creation of law enforcement districts
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1029 - Sims - Modifies the certificate of need law
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1030 - Kennedy - Changes the custodian of the Statutory County Recorder's Fund
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SB 1031 - Schneider - Expands the duties of the administrative hearing commission
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SCR 035 - Stoll - Relating to Medicare reimbursements
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions
and Ethics Committee

SCR 038 - Klarich - Relating to Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
01/24/02 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics
Committee

SCR 039 - Caskey - Recognizing the Northern Cherokee Indian People of Missouri
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SCR 040 - Sims - Urges the Governor to appoint a task force to develop plans that will help keep the Ford-Hazelwood Plant open
01/24/02 -- S First Read

SJR 023 - Singleton - Provides for joint election of candidates for Lt. Governor and Governor
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions
& Ethics Committee

SR 0865 - Staples - Relating to the Senate Chamber
01/24/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions
and Ethics Committee

SR 0969 - Sims - Use of the Senate Chamber by the Girl Scouts-Heart of Missouri Council
01/24/02 -- S First Read