Bills with Hearings Conducted in Senate

SB 7 - Dougherty - Modifies various provisions relating to lead poisoning
1/26/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 11 - Cauthorn - Certain state employees' compensation would automatically adjust according to the consumer price index level
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
SB 14 - Kennedy - Recognizes "registered nurse first assistants" and authorizes the Board of Nursing to certify such practitioners
2/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 16 - Coleman - Eliminates mandatory minimum sentencing for certain felons
3/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 17 - Coleman - Allows defendants to assert legal or equitable defenses, setoffs, or counterclaims in unlawful detainer actions
4/11/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 18 - Coleman - Exempts military pensions from state income tax
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 20 - Shields - Creates a tax credit for teachers' related out-of-pocket expenses
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 22 - Griesheimer - Changes motor vehicle emission requirements
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 30 - Dolan - Makes the installation of airbags that do not meet federal safety standards a Class D felony
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 31 - Bartle - Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 39 - Bray - Closes the drug benefit coverage gap that was created due to the enactment of the Medicare Act of 2003
1/26/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 43 - Days - Modifies laws regarding the use of credit scores by insurance companies
2/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 52 - Loudon - Prohibits recovery of noneconomic damages for injuries incurred during certain motor vehicle violations
2/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 53 - Loudon - Requires appointment of St. Louis City circuit clerk
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 54 - Loudon - Repeals the option of voting a straight party ticket
1/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 61 - Cauthorn - Specifies that sales at prison stores are subject to tax
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 63 - Cauthorn - Exempts pension and retirement income of seniors from state income tax
1/25/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 65 - Coleman - Allows courts to order convicted persons to pay costs associated with prostitution-related arrests
1/18/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 67 - Coleman - Changes the definition of "prostitution-related offense"
1/18/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 76 - Dolan - Imposes additional surcharges and driver's license suspensions on any person failing to yield the right-of-way
1/18/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 77 - Dolan - Makes numerous revisions to the Missouri Transportation Development District Act
1/18/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 80 - Bartle - Dedicates at least 10% of future TIF increments to schools affected by the TIF
2/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 81 - Bartle - Removes the line 1(b) calculation in the school foundation formula
1/25/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 96 - Coleman - Makes damage to a motor vehicle while breaking in with intent to steal first degree property damage
2/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 102 - Bartle - Certain school districts shall be reimbursed fully for costs associated with offering certain special educational services
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 104 - Bartle - Allows parental rights to be terminated for the domestic murder of a spouse
1/18/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 107 - Bray - The Office of Administration may only contract with telemarketers who operate in the United States
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
SB 109 - Dougherty - Alters provisions regarding teacher tenure
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 112 - Coleman - Formulates a procedure for recalling school board members
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 113 - Coleman - Extends powers to civilian review boards that investigate allegations of misconduct by local law enforcement officers
3/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 114 - Champion - Alters the composition of the governing board of Southwest Missouri State University from eight members to ten
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 116 - Bartle - Establishes the Classroom Trust Fund
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 118 - Bray - Alters provisions regarding teacher termination hearings
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 120 - Bray - Establishes the Public Employee Due Process Act
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee
SB 125 - Taylor - Exempts school bus fuel from state sales tax
3/17/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 129 - Vogel - Changes the title of the official required to hear employment security cases from "referee" to "administrative appeals judge"
1/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 140 - Days - Requires state employees health care plan premiums to be based on the employee's salary
1/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 158 - Cauthorn - Establishes a prescription monitoring program
1/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 166 - Green - Requires reporting by employers as to how many of its employees receive publically funded health care benefits
2/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 181 - Loudon - Designates the New Mississippi River Bridge connecting Missouri to Illinois in downtown St. Louis as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Bridge"
1/25/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 186 - Loudon - Establishes the Missouri Electrical Industry Licensing Board and describes their powers and duties
2/28/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 188 - Griesheimer - Provides a valuation process for business personal property
2/17/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 191 - Koster - Adds an additional circuit judge to the 17th Judicial Circuit
3/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 197 - Gross - Prohibits public school athletic teams from participating in athletic tournaments held in municipalities tolerant of marijuana usage
2/15/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 201 - Green - Repeals law setting limits on campaign contributions to candidates for elected office
1/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 203 - Dougherty - Adds young adult provisions to the Missouri Consolidated Health Care plan
2/9/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 205 - Klindt - Allows franchise fees to be used as credits
2/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee
SB 208 - Koster - Requires the Department of Mental Health to perform a cost benefit analysis before downsizing or closing any of its facilities
2/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee-Consent
SB 219 - Dolan - Creates an income tax dependency exemption for stillborn children
3/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 224 - Clemens - Creates a tax credit against the private car ad valorem tax
2/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 228 - Ridgeway - Requires health carriers to reimburse out-of-network chiropractors the same as other out-of-network providers
3/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 231 - Crowell - Increases the General Assembly's fiscal supervision of public higher education institutions
2/15/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 239 - Scott - Levies a sales tax on food and hotel rooms in the City of Lamar Heights
2/24/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 248 - Dolan - Creates a tax deduction for elementary and secondary school expenses
3/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 255 - Dolan - Provides a cash benefit to Missouri veterans who died or were wounded while serving in the War on Terror
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 264 - Stouffer - Adds ethanol's byproducts, including but not limited to dry distilled grain, to the list of items exempt from sales and use tax
3/3/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 281 - Klindt - Modifies weight limit for farm vehicles
2/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee-Consent
SB 282 - Green - Revises regulation of tax increment financing
2/23/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 290 - Engler - Allows vehicle owners to register their motor vehicles quadrennially and limits inspections to one time
3/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 296 - Coleman - Makes certain students eligible for in-state tuition, regardless of their immigration status
2/22/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 300 - Coleman - Creates the mobile home landlord and tenant rights act
3/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 303 - Dougherty - Creates a commission to study the death penalty and imposes a temporary moratorium on executions in Missouri
4/11/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 305 - Engler - Authorizes minimum amounts of compensation for certain corrections personnel
2/28/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 311 - Dolan - Permits certain utility companies to place their facilities with the rights-of-way on highways
2/22/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee
SB 313 - Dolan - Modifies law with respect to highway work zones and creates the crime of "endangerment of a highway worker"
3/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 315 - Dolan - Extends the sunset date for the licensure of health care facilities to August 28, 2008
3/9/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 327 - Scott - Makes various changes with respect to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle laws
3/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 334 - Green - Add penalties for employing illegal aliens
2/23/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 336 - Dougherty - Allows certain private vocational, technical schools and certain proprietary schools to receive A+ reimbursements
3/1/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 341 - Bartle - Limites certificate of need to only long-term care facilities
3/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 349 - Green - Makes various changes relating to prevailing wage law
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 352 - Stouffer - Creates an income tax credit for child care services by a qualified spouse
3/3/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 375 - Loudon - A state worker with ten years of service under MOSERS will be credited for all of the years that person served in the military
3/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 377 - Loudon - Allows practice of physical therapy on animals with prescription from a veterinarian
4/20/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee
SB 388 - Loudon - Creates an income tax credit for donations made to qualifying residential treatment agencies
3/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 389 - Taylor - Creates new election offenses for using wireless electronic recording devices in polling places
3/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 395 - Scott - Allows for certain local courts to impose surcharges to establish an Alternative Dispute Resolution program
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 400 - Klindt - Allows for the creation of wholesale water and sewer authorities
4/13/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 406 - Gross - Limits the issuance and redemption of economic development tax credits to a percentage of net general revenue
3/17/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 408 - Ridgeway - Allows health carriers to offer one or more health plans which contain deductibles, coinsurance, or other options
3/9/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 409 - Graham - Requires all health clubs to have at least one automated external defibrillator
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 412 - Taylor - Establishes the hazardous duty compensation act
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 415 - Cauthorn - Allows water companies to contract with sewer providers to terminate service for delinquent accounts
3/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 416 - Engler - Prohibits health insurers from refusing to contract with willing optometrists and ophthalmologists
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 425 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to passing bad checks
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 426 - Callahan - Requires the director of the Department of Revenue to expunge certain suspensions from noncommercial driving records
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 427 - Callahan - Applies preferential treatment to Missouri business bidders in highway bidding process
3/15/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 429 - Callahan - Creates a one hundred dollar tax credit for canine adoption
3/17/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 437 - Bray - Regulates international matchmaking organizations
4/5/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee
SB 440 - Ridgeway - Amends provisions for the exemption from sales and use tax of electricity used in manufacturing
4/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 441 - Ridgeway - Established administrative procedure to suspend drivers' and motor vehicle license for failing to pay towing fees
4/5/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SB 452 - Dolan - Repeals law prohibiting interested investment and bond counsel firms from involvement in bond issuance
3/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 454 - Loudon - Students may receive foreign language credit in public education institutions for sign language classes
4/5/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 455 - Loudon - Makes revisions to laws concerning charter schools
4/5/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 456 - Nodler - Creates new provisions for the interaction of agencies and small business regarding rules
3/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 458 - Wheeler - Requires pharmacists to fill prescriptions against religious beliefs unless an employer can accommodate a request not to do so
3/30/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 461 - Koster - Modifies provisions about probation and parole officers
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 463 - Gross - Modifies applicabliity of sunshine law to certain non-profit organizations
3/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 469 - Griesheimer - Consolidates tax collection in counties having township organization by eliminating township collectors
3/30/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 477 - Scott - Prevents certain people from receiving a license to conduct gaming activities or operate excursion gambling boats
4/21/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 485 - Days - Allows senior and disabled persons to defer increases in property tax payments
3/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 486 - Engler - Removes the eight-year transfer provision to the judicial retirement system
3/15/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
SB 489 - Loudon - Creates requirements for those who sell animals for research purposes only
4/20/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee
SB 493 - Kennedy - Creates licensure requirements for private investigators
4/4/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SB 495 - Mayer - Notification given to a crime victim must utilize the statewide automated crime victim notification system
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 498 - Mayer - Amends sales and use tax exemption for aircraft sales to not-for-profit organizations
3/10/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 509 - Dolan - Creates tax credit for a percentage of the adjusted purchase price paid for a qualified equity investment
4/7/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 510 - Koster - Modifies some indebtedness programs for employers
3/16/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee
SB 511 - Callahan - Provides when a prosecution for a misdemeanor, infraction, or felony is commenced
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 512 - Callahan - Removes language stating that a person commits the crime of tampering with a witness "in an official proceeding"
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 513 - Callahan - Repeals provisions requiring prosecutors to pay certain court costs
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 515 - Taylor - Requires summer school programs be run by the school district in order for the district to double count its summer school attendance
4/12/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SB 541 - Callahan - Exempts attorneys' fees from calculation in project costs in Jackson County for tax increment financing
3/29/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SB 543 - Callahan - Places term limits on the county executive and members of the legislature in Jackson County
3/30/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 545 - Loudon - Creates the "Quality Jobs Act" for the state of Missouri
3/30/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Economic Development, Tourism & Local Government Committee
SB 546 - Loudon - Creates a sales and use tax refund for certain vehicles
3/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 547 - Loudon - Grants courts power to appoint trustees to disburse funds for health care when a patient is in a persistent vegetative state
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SB 550 - Mayer - Creates a tax credit for donations to certain religious and charitable organizations
3/10/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
SB 551 - Mayer - Adds a definition for emergency as it relates to removal of a child from the home
4/6/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health Committee
SCR 18 - Clemens - Creates the Interim Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Promotion and Development
4/28/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee
SJR 3 - Cauthorn - Resubmits the conservation sales tax to the voters every ten years
3/2/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee
SJR 4 - Cauthorn - Allows a school district to provide transportation for private school pupils
3/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SJR 5 - Coleman - Changes the minimum age requirements for members of the General Assembly
2/14/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SJR 7 - Bartle - Abolishes the Highway Commission and replaces it with a Director of Transportation
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SJR 11 - Bartle - Proposes a constitutional change to allow the Department of Transportation to construct and maintain toll roads
2/8/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
SJR 12 - Taylor - Removes time limit for members of organizations before they can conduct bingo games
2/14/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SJR 13 - Bartle - Reduces the number of representatives from 163 to 99 and the number of senators from 34 to 33
1/31/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
SJR 15 - Coleman - Creates the "Education First Trust Fund"
3/15/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
SJR 18 - Bartle - Grants the power to determine public school funding exclusively to the General Assembly and Governor, not the Judiciary
4/4/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
SR 448 - Engler - Urges Congress to adopt multi-emission legislation
3/3/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee
HB 36 - Davis - Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery
5/3/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
HB 49 - Jolly - Modifies provisions regarding early release of prisoners
4/28/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
HB 230 - Portwood - Prohibits a person from claiming both the circuit breaker income tax credit and the homestead property tax exemption credit
4/14/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee
HB 400 - Yates - Establishes the Dental Carve-Out Act of 2005 to implement a process for providing dental benefits to public assistance recipients
5/9/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Pensions, Veterans' Affairs and General Laws Committee
HB 697 - Lembke - Revises the law on motor vehicle emissions inspections
5/9/2005 - Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee