Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 5/01/03

SB 0002 - Russell - Refines various provisions of employment security
05/01/03 -- Reported Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace
Safety Committee

SB 0036 - Klindt - Requires risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis be prepared when certain environmental rules are promulgated
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Budget Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Budget Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported Do Pass H Budget Committee
05/01/03 -- H Third Read and Passed

SB 0038 - Klindt - Creates the "Missouri Biomass Technology Commission"
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Agriculture Committee
05/01/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Agrigulture Committee

SB 0039 - Cauthorn - Revises numerous provisions relating to emergency services
05/01/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public Safety
Committee
05/01/03 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Crime Prevention & Public
Safety Committee

SB 0052 - Shields - Modifies the nonresident athletes and entertainers tax
05/01/03 -- S conferees appointed
(Shields, Childers, Foster, Coleman, Bray)

SB 0199 - Childers - Modifies the classification of counties
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Local Government Committee
05/01/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Local Government Committee

SB 0219 - Steelman - Creates the Korean Conflict Medallion Program
05/01/03 -- Reported Do Pass H Homeland Security & Veterans
Affairs Committee

SB 0224 - Vogel - Authorizes easement on state property to the city of Fulton
05/01/03 -- Signed by House Speaker
05/01/03 -- Delivered to Governor (w/EC)

SB 0236 - DePasco - Creates a one-dollar check-off on income tax returns to fund the workers memorial
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Govermental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor
05/01/03 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
05/01/03 -- S Third Read and Passed
05/01/03 -- H First Read

SB 0238 - Caskey - Modifies provisions regarding incorporation or annexation of unincorporated areas in Cass County
05/01/03 -- Signed by House Speaker
05/01/03 -- Delivered to Governor (w/EC)

SB 0242 - Yeckel - Limits the amount of a supersedeas bond in tobacco products litigation
05/01/03 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
05/01/03 -- H First Read (w/EC)

SB 0250 - Stoll - Allows certain counties to enact a one-half percent sales tax for law enforcement purposes
05/01/03 -- Signed by House Speaker
05/01/03 -- Delivered to Governor (w/EC)

SB 0269 - Quick - Enables Excelsior Springs to submit a public safety sales tax to its voters
05/01/03 -- Signed by House Speaker
05/01/03 -- Delivered to Governor (w/EC)

SB 0305 - Jacob - Makes various tax changes
05/01/03 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Governmental
Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 0394 - Bartle - Modifies law governing corporate formalities and enacts the Missouri corporate governance act
05/01/03 -- S conferees appointed
(Bartle, Yeckel, Clemens, Coleman, Kennedy)

SB 0434 - Yeckel - Modifies provisions of lobbyist reporting and campaign finance disclosure
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Financial & Governmental Org., Vet.
Affairs & Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0448 - Bartle - Extends sunset for statewide court automation fund
05/01/03 -- S conferees appointed
(Bartle, Klindt, Loudon, Jacob, Caskey)

SB 0449 - Bartle - Limits certificate of need to only long-term care facilities
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Committee to
Floor

SB 0456 - Kennedy - Allows a self-directed deferred retirement plan program for the St. Louis Firefighters Retirement System
05/01/03 -- Signed by House Speaker
05/01/03 -- Delivered to Governor (w/EC)

SB 0555 - Kinder - Addresses ability of certain aluminum smelters and cities to purchase energy outside of PSC oversight
05/01/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Communications, Energy &
Technology Committee
05/01/03 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Communications, Energy &
Technology Committee

SB 0620 - Loudon - Modifies the BUILD program and implements certain job retention provisions
05/01/03 -- Reported Do Pass H Job Creation & Economic Dev. Com.

SB 0632 - Days - Renders alterations to policies concerning early childhood special education placement
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Education Committee
05/01/03 -- HCS Voted Do Pass H Education Committee

SB 0675 - Gross - Eliminates certain special funds
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways and Means Committee
05/01/03 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Ways and Means Comm.
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Ways & Means Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0695 - Goode - Modifies the law relating to the funding of Medicaid services
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor
05/01/03 -- SPA 1 to SS#2 S offered & adopted (Goode)
05/01/03 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended - EC adopted
05/01/03 -- H First Read (w/EC)

SCR 003 - Loudon - Urges Illinois to enact legislation that requires parental consent to obtain an abortion or to recognize Missouri law
05/01/03 -- Referred H Children & Families Committee

SCR 010 - Bartle - Authorizes the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to print and bind copies of the session laws
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SCR 011 - Steelman - Relating to the creation of the comprehensive patient education and health care cost improvement pilot project
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted H Rules Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee

SCR 014 - Dolan - Relating to defense of the United States
05/01/03 -- Referred H Homeland Security Committee

SCR 016 - Goode - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Education
05/01/03 -- Referred H Education Committee

SCR 019 - Bland - Establishes a Hepatitis C Task Force to examine the impact of the Hepatitis C virus in Missouri
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

SCR 020 - Foster - Proclaims the general assembly's support for & the display of the national motto "In God We Trust" in public buildings
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

SCR 021 - Cauthorn - Endorses the recommendations of the Missouri Dairy Growth Council
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions &
Ethics Committee

HB 0016 - Bearden - To appropriate money for capital improvement and other purposes for the several departments of state government
05/01/03 -- S First Read

HB 0017 - Bearden - To appropriate money for expenses, grants, refunds, distributions and other purposes for the several
05/01/03 -- S First Read

HB 0018 - Bearden - To appropriate money for capital improvement projects involving the maintenance, repair, replacement, and
05/01/03 -- S First Read

HB 0019 - Bearden - To appropriate money for planning, expenses, and for capital improvements including but limited to major
05/01/03 -- S First Read

HB 0020 - Bearden - To appropriate money for capital improvement and other purposes for the several departments of state government.
05/01/03 -- S First Read

HB 0091 - Mayer - Counties may create a county crime reduction fund & creates the MO Sheriffs' Methamphetamine Relief Taskforce (MoSMART)
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0121 - Portwood - Requires insurance companies to provide coverage for chiropractic treatment under specified conditions
05/01/03 -- Second Read and Referred S Aging, Families, Mental &
Public Health Committee

HB 0122 - Johnson - Extends the KC public mass transportation sales tax from December 31, 2003, to December 31, 2005
05/01/03 -- S Third Read and Passed
05/01/03 -- Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed

HB 0138 - Crawford - Establishes the Missouri Corrections Officers Training and Standards Commission (MoC0TS)
05/01/03 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

HB 0156 - Phillips - Requires consent twenty-four hours prior to an abortion and proof of medical malpractice insurance
05/01/03 -- H concurs in SA 5
05/01/03 -- H Third Read and Passed, as amended
05/01/03 -- Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed

HB 0185 - Phillips - Creates the AMBER Alert System
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Pensions & General Laws Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0197 - Johnson - Makes various changes to distressed community, enterprise zone, and community rehabilitation laws
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Economic Development, Tourism &
Local Government Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 0228 - Pearce - Creates a no-spam list in the Attorney General's office for unsolicited commercial e-mail
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Commerce & Environment Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0288 - Jetton - Establishes the Priority Schools Trust Fund and produces additional alterations to the state's education policy
Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 0289 - Dempsey - Creates the Missouri Downtown and Rural Economic Stimulus Act and modifies tax increment financing provisions
05/01/03 -- SS for SCS S offered (Steelman)
05/01/03 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Steelman)
05/01/03 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & withdrawn (Gross)
05/01/03 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
05/01/03 -- SA 4 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Dolan)
05/01/03 -- SA 5 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Wheeler)
05/01/03 -- SA 6 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Wheeler)
05/01/03 -- SA 7 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Gross)
05/01/03 -- SA 8 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bartle)
05/01/03 -- SA 9 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Klindt)
05/01/03 -- SA 10 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Shields)
05/01/03 -- SA 11 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
05/01/03 -- SA 12 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Steelman)
05/01/03 -- SA 13 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Coleman)
05/01/03 -- SA 14 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Clemens)
05/01/03 -- SA 15 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bland)
05/01/03 -- SA 16 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
05/01/03 -- SA 17 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
05/01/03 -- SA 18 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Loudon)
05/01/03 -- SA 19 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Bray)
05/01/03 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
05/01/03 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee

HB 0327 - Lipke - Enacts various provisions relating to transportation and operation of motor vehicles
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Transportation Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0349 - Crawford - Allows issuance of permits to carry concealed weapons
05/01/03 -- SS S offered (Caskey)
05/01/03 -- SA 1 to SS S offered & withdrawn (Kennedy)
05/01/03 -- SA 2 to SS S offered (Dougherty)
05/01/03 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 0390 - Behnen - Regulates the licensing and registration of anesthesiologist assistants
05/01/03 -- H concurs in SS for SCS
05/01/03 -- H Third Read and Passed
05/01/03 -- Truly Agreed to and Finally Passed

HB 0481 - Crowell - Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social services programs to subsidize abortion services.
05/01/03 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental
Organizations, Veterans Affairs & Elections Committee

HB 0517 - Lembke - Establishes the MO Homestead Preservation Act and modifies the rebate amount for the Senior Rx Program
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability &
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal
Oversight Committee to Floor

HB 0564 - Behnen - Modifies provisions relating to professional licensing
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Financial & Governemental Org., Vet.
Affairs & Elections Committee to Floor w/SCS

HB 0593 - Deeken - Enacts the State Employees' Protection Act
05/01/03 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business &
Industrial Relations Committee

HB 0598 - Schlottach - Revises disabled license plate law, emissions testing law, and creates numerous special license plates
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Transportation Committee to
Floor w/SCS

HB 0668 - Crawford - Enacts various accountability measures relating to the department of transportation
05/01/03 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Governmental Accountability and
Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor

HB 0679 - Hanaway - Modifies various provisions of the law relating to foster care and protective services for children
05/01/03 -- Voted Do Pass S Aging, Families, Mental & Public
Health Committee
05/01/03 -- Reported From S Aging, Families, Mental & Public
Health Committee to Floor

HB 0688 - Hanaway - Creates the Life Sciences Trust Fund and the Life Sciences Board.
05/01/03 -- Second Read and Referred S Pensions & General Laws
Committee