Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 2/27/02

SB 0633 - Schneider - Prohibits health carriers from changing conditions of their drug formulary during contract period
02/27/02 -- Motion to Report Bill Do Pass FAILED S Insurance &
Housing Committee

SB 0680 - Bland - Creates the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention and Management
02/27/02 -- Committee Vote Reconsidered S Public Health & Welfare
Committee
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Public Health & Welfare Comm.-Consent

SB 0690 - Gross - Adds the Chief Information Officer to the State Records Commission
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 0729 - Yeckel - Mortgages may be insured in an amount not to exceed 103% of fair market value of the property
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 0744 - Caskey - Allow Cass County to elect a county surveyor
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0752 - House - Requires health plans to cover all services provided or ordered by registered nurse first assistants
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass (w/SCA 1) S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0764 - Bland - Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0775 - House - Renames Missouri River Bridge as American Military Veterans Bridge
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0791 - Bland - Establishes Pilot Program of Urban Early Compulsory School Attendance
02/27/02 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 0794 - Bland - School districts may create after-school and summer educational programs for at-risk youth
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 0812 - Russell - Requires all executive orders to be published in the Missouri Register after January 1, 2003
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 0815 - Childers - A percentage of insurance premium taxes shall fund various fire protection programs
02/27/02 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 0816 - Gross - Details information to be included in physician abortion reports
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0831 - Loudon - Establishes December 15th as Bill of Rights Day
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 0859 - Russell - Exempts dependents of active military personnel from the residency requirement of the A+ Schools Program
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0864 - Gross - Allows A+ schools reimbursement for attending four-year institutions
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 0880 - Steelman - Creates Missouri Engineering and Science Academy and summer program for science teachers at UMR
02/27/02 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 0895 - Yeckel - Amends various provisions related to financial institutions
02/27/02 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 0904 - Klindt - Exempts religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from food inspection laws in certain circumstances
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0918 - Klarich - Exempts displays of the U.S. flag from statutes and ordinances
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 0936 - Foster - Expands the list of offenses for which a pupil may be prohi- bited from participating in regular programs of instruction
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0937 - Foster - Allows school districts to suspend students who have been charged with a felony
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0947 - Klindt - Extends to public junior colleges access to bond agreements with the Health & Educational Facilities Authority
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 0951 - Loudon - Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0961 - Wiggins - Modifies provisions relating to the Kansas City police retirement system
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0970 - Westfall - Repeals sunset on motor fuel tax, provides for design-build and removes cap on aviation trust fund
02/27/02 -- SS for SCS S offered (Westfall)
02/27/02 -- SS for SS for SCS S offered (Westfall)
02/27/02 -- SA 1 to SS for SS for SCS S offered (Mathewson)
02/27/02 -- SA 1 to SS for SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
02/27/02 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
02/27/02 -- SA 2 to SS for SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Sims)
02/27/02 -- SA 3 to SS for SS for SCS S offered & Ruled out of
order (Gross)
02/27/02 -- SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S offered (Jacob)
02/27/02 -- Motion to divide into 6 parts
02/27/02 -- Part I - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S defeated
02/27/02 -- Part II - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S defeated
02/27/02 -- Part III - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S defeated
02/27/02 -- Part IV - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S defeated
02/27/02 -- Part V - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S Ruled out of
order
02/27/02 -- Part VI - SA 4 to SS for SS for SCS S defeated
02/27/02 -- SA 5 to SS for SS for SCS S offered (Singleton)
02/27/02 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 0979 - Singleton - Changes the name of MO Southern State College to MO Southern University-Joplin and the appointment of regents
02/27/02 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (3311S.04C)

SB 0980 - Singleton - Revises reciprocal licensing procedures for physical therapists
02/27/02 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Public Health & Welfare
Committee-Consent

SB 0989 - Caskey - Expands provisions of new property assessment provisions to include additional county
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0994 - Rohrbach - Creates Legal Consumer's Bill of Rights
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 1001 - Mathewson - Requires all counties or St. Louis who participate in the sheriff retirement system to also fund the system
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SB 1002 - Mathewson - Allows supervisor of liquor control to assess civil penalties for certain violations
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass (w/SCA 1) S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 1006 - Loudon - Regarding prosecution of persons charged with theft or fraud ulent use of credit devices or credit in different venues
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee-Consent

SB 1017 - Cauthorn - Expands transient guest tax to include Clark County
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 1041 - Russell - Authorizes conveyance of property owned by Dept. of Natural Resources to private ownership
02/27/02 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 1050 - Foster - Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 1055 - Cauthorn - Creates a grant program for the establishment of an umbilical cord blood bank
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 1089 - Goode - Creates a life sciences research program
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General
Laws Committee

SB 1090 - Loudon - Makes it illegal to install fake air bags in automobiles
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 1112 - Caskey - Creates provisions for terrorism-related crimes
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 1125 - Steelman - Prohibits health carriers from changing health services codes without the permission of the physician
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 1133 - Gross - Revises provisions of MOSERS and Highway Employees and High- way Patrol Retirement Systems and the Judicial Plan
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 1134 - Yeckel - Creates a stamp tax on controlled substances
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 1135 - Yeckel - Requires informed consent by a woman before the performance of an abortion
02/27/02 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Pensions & General
Laws Committee

SB 1136 - Bentley - Alters definitions concerning the state school funding formula
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
02/27/02 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 1150 - Kinder - Limits state agency contracts for legal services
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 1155 - Gibbons - Limits inmates from providing laundry services for any person or agency other than correctional facilities
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 1157 - Klindt - Makes information collected in the course of an insurance compliance audit privileged under certain conditions
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 1160 - Sims - Requires the use of national medical support notice to enforce health benefit plan coverage in child support orders
02/27/02 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 1162 - Wiggins - Authorizes an appropriation for the Kansas and Missouri Metropolitan Cultural District
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1163 - Steelman - Clarifies provisions in the air emissions banking and trading program
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 1164 - Coleman - Creates the Sports Center Redevelopment Authority Act
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1165 - Mathewson - Creates the "Pesticide Project Fund"
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation,
Parks and Tourism Committee

SB 1166 - DePasco - Creates the Missouri Chimney Safety Act
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 1167 - Gibbons - Allows fire protection districts to be reimbursed for emergency services in municipal redevelopment areas
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 1169 - Childers - Makes the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act enforceable in state courts
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary Committee

SB 1170 - Childers - Creates the Public Counsel Fund
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 1171 - House - Prohibits the disclosure of nonpublic health information
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 1172 - Yeckel - Modifies child abuse investigation procedures that involve a school or child care facility
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 1173 - Yeckel - Requires income tax to be withheld by Missouri venues where professional entertainers perform
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 1174 - Steelman - Allows consumers with at least 50 employers to file a rate complaint with the Public Service Commission
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce & Environment
Committee

SB 1175 - Kennedy - Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 1176 - Loudon - Authorizes the University of Missouri-Columbia to study gambling in Missouri
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1177 - Coleman - Creates a tax credit for home-based child care
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 1178 - Kinder - Restricts gaming commission from authorizing new types of gaming or wagering after January 1, 2002
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1179 - Caskey - Allows the Cole Co. Salary Commission to increase the salary of treasurer to equal the salary of public administrator
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 1180 - Jacob - Modifies various provisions relating to long-term care insurance
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Insurance & Housing
Committee

SB 1181 - Coleman - Expands first degree property damage to include damage to a motor vehicle while breaking in to steal
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 1182 - Singleton - Modifies the law relating to health care professionals under the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 1183 - Bentley - Allows public schools to establish family literacy programs
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 1184 - Steelman - Requires further accountability of first responders and emergency medical technicians
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Public Health & Welfare
Committee

SB 1185 - Kenney - Limits frequency of drawings and selections in lottery games
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1186 - Kenney - Requires political subdivisions to purchase set-aside land within ten years
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Local Government &
Economic Development Committee

SB 1187 - Kennedy - Creates licensure requirements for private investigators
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 1188 - Klindt - Creates the crime of enticement of a child
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 1189 - Westfall - Allows Kingdom of Calontir and the Missouri Civil War Reenactors Association members to receive license plates
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SB 1190 - Schneider - Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need law
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 1191 - Jacob - Allows tobacco settlement recoveries to be issued in the form of bonds in the event of budgetary emergencies
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 1227 - Rohrbach - Limits the value of such real estate purchased by insurance companies to 20% of their capital and surplus
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1228 - Sims - Relating to insurance coverage for infertility
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1229 - Gibbons - Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the nursing student loan program
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1230 - Gibbons - Relating to emergency services
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1231 - Gibbons - Reimburses fire protection and emergency services districts from the special allocation fund
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1232 - Singleton - Authorizes voter petition to dissolve road district in Jasper County
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1233 - Yeckel - Makes various changes to the charter school laws
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1234 - Bland - Allows the PSC to consider the ability to pay as factor in setting utility rates and establishes a low-income program
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SB 1235 - Bland - Allows the PSC to refund ratepayers for unauthorized use charges, penalties & refunds from pipelines after hearing
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SCR 048 - Sims - Opposes the increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
02/27/02 -- H First Read

SCR 051 - Mathewson - Relating to the Missouri Veterans' Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund
02/27/02 -- Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics
Committee

SJR 036 - Jacob - Creates a fund to hold excess revenue of the state
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SJR 037 - Klindt - Authorizes the Department of Transportation to engage in toll road construction and feasibility studies
02/27/02 -- Second Read and Referred S Transportation Committee

SJR 039 - Gross - Exempts property owned by veterans' organizations from property taxation
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SR 1122 - Klindt - Relating to federal government proposals that would negatively impact the lower Missouri & Mississippi Rivers
02/27/02 -- S First Read

SR 1123 - Jacob - Relating to use of the Senate chamber by the Missouri Girls state on June 25, 2002
02/27/02 -- S First Read

HB 1037 - Monaco - Removes statute of limitations for forcible rape and forcible sodomy
02/27/02 -- H Refused to concur in SCS
02/27/02 -- H Requested S recede or grant conference

HB 1348 - Myers - Allows assessments for boll weevil eradication to be voted on at least every ten years
02/27/02 -- S First Read

HB 1375 - Luetkenhaus - Mortgages may be insured in an amount not to exceed 103% of fair market vlaue of property
02/27/02 -- S First Read

HB 1495 - Seigfreid - Changes filing requirement exemptions for certain candidates.
02/27/02 -- S First Read