Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 4/10/03

SB 0002 - Russell - Refines various provisions of employment security
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 0005 - Caskey - Makes numerous changes to sentencing laws
04/10/03 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee to Floor
04/10/03 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee

SB 0007 - Mathewson - Authorizes conveyance of state property in Pettis County
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Local Government Com. - Consent

SB 0015 - Childers - Creates a Legislative Academy within the General Assembly
04/10/03 -- Hearing Cancelled H Administration & Accounts
Committee

SB 0055 - Nodler - Renames Missouri Southern State College as Missouri Southern State University-Joplin
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Education Committee

SB 0069 - Yeckel - Creates the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as liaison between agencies and small businesses
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor
04/10/03 -- S Third Read and Passed
04/10/03 -- H First Read

SB 0121 - Caskey - Includes Cass County in a certain planning and zoning program
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0122 - Caskey - Enables the assessor in third class counties to make certain entries to the assessor's book after delivery of the book
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0142 - Goode - Gives the power of eminent domain to towns and villages
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 0159 - Bland - Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, & type II diabetes
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor

SB 0175 - Loudon - Creates a food recovery program to provide food to needy persons
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Tax Policy Committee
(Upon Adjournment - House Gallery-South Side)

SB 0180 - Bland - Allows teachers and administrators in KC to come out of retirement & not relinquish retirement benefits for 4 years
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Retirement Committee

SB 0186 - Cauthorn - Removes ability of Marion County Circuit Court to appoint Div. I circuit clerk if office is separated from recorder
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Local Government Com. - Consent

SB 0202 - Childers - Requires access to water supply for fire protection entities during emergencies
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0204 - Yeckel - Authorizes school districts to designate an educational service agency
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Education Committee

SB 0212 - Bartle - Modifies provisions relating to the Kansas City police retirement system
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 0215 - Foster - Alters conditions by which a school district may transfer moneys from the incidental fund to the capital projects fund
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Education Committee

SB 0224 - Vogel - Authorizes easement on state property to the city of Fulton
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0228 - Griesheimer - Enables the City of Warrenton to levy a transient guest tax
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Local Government Com. - Consent

SB 0236 - DePasco - Creates a one-dollar check-off on income tax returns to fund the workers memorial
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Ways & Means Committee to Floor

SB 0238 - Caskey - Modifies provisions regarding incorporation or annexation of unincorporated areas in Cass County
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 0243 - Yeckel - Creates the State Property Preservation Fund
04/10/03 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee to Floor
04/10/03 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee

SB 0250 - Stoll - Allows certain counties to enact a one-half percent sales tax for law enforcement purposes
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0281 - Shields - Allows first class counties to acquire, erect, operate, manage, etc. buildings and property outside the county seat
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 0288 - Dolan - Changes the time for the owner of lost property to prove property from one year to 180 days after publication
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 0293 - Vogel - Allows the department of revenue to specify the minimum income tax filing level
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Tax Policy Committee
(Upon Adjournment - House Gallery-South Side)

SB 0295 - Shields - Makes various modifications to laws regarding tax sales of land
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Local Government Committee
(Upon Morning Adj. - HR 6)

SB 0301 - Bray - Increases maximum lateral sewer service repair fee to be imposed from $28 to $50 per year
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee

SB 0308 - Steelman - Creates the Missouri Calcium Initiative
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 0312 - Dolan - Revises various crimes and criminal procedures
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Judiciary & Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0351 - Dougherty - Changes the procedure in which parental or guardian consent is noted for the organ donation process of minors
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee-Consent

SB 0358 - Shields - Requires budgetary approval of Platte County or city within Platte County for expenditures to local election board
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Elections Committee
(Upon Morning Adjournment - HR 4)

SB 0379 - Champion - Allows the City of Springfield to remove or transfer real property from a district or zone designation
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Local Government Com. - Consent

SB 0399 - Caskey - Expands the crime of delivering any controlled substances to prisons and city and county jails
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee - Consent

SB 0410 - Shields - Modifies the amount of supplemental fees for the Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program
04/10/03 -- S Third Read and Passed
04/10/03 -- H First Read

SB 0415 - Yeckel - Modifies provisions relating to professional licensing
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Financial & Governmental Org., Vet.
Affairs & Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0425 - Scott - Modifies various provisions dealing with the reporting and investigation of an individual's death
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee - Consent

SB 0431 - Gibbons - Modifies the law relating to informed consent for experimental treatments by accredited teaching hospitals
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee-Consent

SB 0456 - Kennedy - Allows a self-directed deferred retirement plan program for the St. Louis Firefighters Retirement System
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Retirement Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Retirement Committee - Consent

SB 0458 - Childers - Extends the sunset on the dry fire hydrant tax credit
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Ways & Means Committee to Floor

SB 0467 - Bartle - Increases criminal case filing surcharge
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee - Consent

SB 0468 - Bartle - Modifies types of case dispositions that must be reported to the Uniform Law Enforcement System Records
04/10/03 -- H Second Read
04/10/03 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 0506 - Clemens - Includes the use of lasers within the definition of dentistry
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Health Care Policy Committee-Consent

SB 0511 - Kinder - Establishes the Joint Committee on the Life Sciences
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 0519 - Foster - Applies standards to be utilized in determining the necessity of proposed school district boundary changes
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Education Committee

SB 0534 - Cauthorn - Includes definitions for protective oversight and voluntary leave in the Omnibus Nursing Home Act
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Senior Security Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Senior Security Committee

SB 0540 - Gross - Limits the number of microbrewer licenses available to an individual and his agents
Licensing Committee - Consent

SB 0552 - Yeckel - Expands the list of property exempt from attachment to clarify that all qualified retirement plans will be exempt
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Retirement Committee
04/10/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Retirement Committee - Consent

SB 0556 - Kinder - Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor
04/10/03 -- S Third Read and Passed
04/10/03 -- H First Read

SB 0562 - Griesheimer - Authorizes conveyance of state property located in St. Louis County to the City of Pacific
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Local Government Committee
04/10/03 -- (Upon Morning Adj. - HR 6)

SB 0564 - Gross - Changes governance of the St. Louis International Airport
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Com. to Floor

SB 0571 - Loudon - Includes Christian Science practitioners within the definition of Minister for mandated reports of child abuse
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Children and Families Committee
(9:00 a.m. - HR 5)

SB 0577 - Shields - Authorizes the conveyance of an easement in the form of a right-of-way in the City of St. Joseph
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Local Government Committee
(Upon Morning Adj. - HR 6)

SB 0590 - Shields - Enables an increase in the senior citizens' services tax by five cents with voter approval
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Tax Policy Committee
(Upon Adjournment - House Gallery-South Side)

SB 0635 - Mathewson - Modifies statutes to reflect reorganization of executive branch departments by executive order
04/10/03 -- Hearing Scheduled H Children and Fammilies Committee
(9:00 a.m. - HR 5)

SB 0657 - Klindt - Makes it a crime to photograph or release a pathogen or disease into animal research and production facility
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks
and Natural Resources Committee

SB 0676 - Kennedy - Creates an exception to the mandatory days of school attendance for the 2002-2003 school year
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Education Committee

SCR 008 - Dougherty - Renaming the St. Louis office of the division of workforce development after Nathaniel J. "Nat" Rivers
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee to Floor w/SCS

SCR 009 - Shields - Urges Congress to enact out-patient prescription drug coverage as part of the federal Medicare program
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee to Floor

SCR 011 - Steelman - Relating to the creation of the comprehensive patient education and health care cost improvement pilot project
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

SCR 014 - Dolan - Relating to defense of the United States
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

SCR 016 - Goode - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Education
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

SCR 017 - Cauthorn - Recognition for the work done by faith-based and community organizations
04/10/03 -- S First Read

SCR 018 - Mathewson - Creates a joint interim committee to study health insurance costs to all state employees
04/10/03 -- S First Read

HB 0221 - Luetkemeyer - Revises banking laws
04/10/03 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Yeckel)
04/10/03 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
04/10/03 -- S Third Read and Passed

HB 0254 - Byrd - Adopts the Uniform Electronics Transactions Act
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Com. to Floor

HB 0289 - Dempsey - Creates the Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Act
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Commerce & Environment Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0321 - Wilson - Modifies various provisions of the workers' compensation law
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountailbity and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 0349 - Crawford - Allows issuance of permits to carry concealed weapons
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Com. to Floor

HB 0380 - Byrd - Adopts Missouri Securities Act of 2003
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee
04/10/03 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee (1406S.04C)
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Financial & Governmental Org., Vet.
Affairs & Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 0390 - Behnen - Regulates the licensing and registration of anesthesiologist assistants
04/10/03 -- Reported From S Financial & Governmental Org., Vet.
Affairs & Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 0444 - Jackson - Alters the distribution of the Gaming Commission Fund.
04/10/03 -- S First Read

HB 0464 - King - Increases the amount borrowers can be guaranteed from the Single Purpose Animal Facilities Loan Guarantee Fund
04/10/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks
and Natural Resources Committee
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks &
Natural Resources Committee

HB 0470 - Mayer - Requires sale of certain methamphetamine drugs from behind sales counter.
04/10/03 -- S First Read

HB 0511 - Deeken - Changes various election laws to comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
04/10/03 -- S First Read

HCR 015 - Behnen - Establishes March 6th as Lymphedema D-Day in Missouri.
04/10/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and
Ethics Committee