Topical Index

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Abortion (7)

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 264 - Mayer - Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions

SB 316 - Smith - Modifies provisions on education courses regarding sexual predators, human sexuality and sexually transmitted disease

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SCR 11 - Bartle - Expresses the General Assembly's opposition to the federal Freedom of Choice Act

SJR 17 - Lembke - Prohibits public funds to be used for abortion services, human cloning, or prohibited human research

HB 46 - Davis - Modifies provisions regarding informed consent for abortions

Accountants (1)

SB 483 - Rupp - Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model regulations

Administration, Office of (18)

SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties

SB 113 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 119 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the imposition of a fee on wireless phone services to fund enhanced 911 service

SB 155 - Goodman - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 162 - Crowell - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 191 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of the Missouri development finance board development fund contribution tax credit program

SB 274 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency

SB 381 - Schaefer - Allows certain governmental and charitable entities to hold conservation easements

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 472 - Ridgeway - Requires the Governor and political subdivisions to disclose information regarding the distribution of public funds

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

HB 255 - Scharnhorst - Removes the Director of the Forms Management Unit as a voting member of the State Records Commission and replaces him or her with the Commissioner of the Office of Administration

HB 282 - Stevenson - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Jasper County, known as the Joplin Regional Center, to Missouri Southern State University

HB 544 - Smith - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome

HB 745 - Loehner - Requires the Commissioner of Administration to give new generation processing entities preference when purchasing commodities and tangible personal property

HJR 17 - Nasheed - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund

HJR 23 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits

Administrative Law (3)

SB 403 - Vogel - Requires that certain state officials engaged in military service receive their state salary only to the same extent as other state employees

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SB 560 - Green - Removes the requirement that commissioners of the Administrative Hearing Commission be attorneys

Administrative Rules (2)

SB 496 - Cunningham - Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, to have authority over extracurricular competitive activities

SB 559 - Schaefer - Authorizes the adoption of emergency rules that may be effective for two years in order to carry out the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Agriculture and Animals (35)

SB 10 - Champion - Allows Missouri residents who own or lease at least 5 acres of land to hunt or fish on such land without a permit or in certain circumstances with a permit that is free-of-charge

SB 11 - Bartle - Repeals the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act

SB 29 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after a certain date to be a biodiesel-blended fuel

SB 63 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 143 - Mayer - Creates price reporting requirements for licensed grain dealers

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer

SB 159 - Clemens - Modifes the definition of livestock for which it is a crime to steal and makes stealing certain quail, pheasants, or deer a crime

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

SB 186 - Bray - Creates the Healthy Pet Act

SB 194 - Shoemyer - Creates procedures for crop sampling by a patent holder of genetically modified seed

SB 195 - Shoemyer - Requires farmers to register and pay a fee for retaining seed produced from patented genetically-modified seed

SB 201 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 209 - Clemens - Creates a central filing system for filing financing statements to perfect a security interest in farm products

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 301 - Pearce - Requires law enforcement agencies and officers to use canine teams which have been certified by an association approved by the Department of Public Safety

SB 350 - Clemens - Allows a hand-fishing season for catfish and carp during June and July on certain waterways

SB 380 - Stouffer - Creates a state and local sales tax exemption for sales of farm products at farmers' markets

SB 420 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for purchases of processed biomass engineered fiber fuel

SB 526 - Clemens - Authorizes the state veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin

SB 556 - Mayer - Prohibits certain large users of water from unduly disrupting farm irrigation activities

SCR 8 - Shoemyer - Urges Congress to support the continuation of horse processing in the United States

SCR 9 - Shoemyer - Urges Congress to amend the Patent Act regarding patented genetically modified seed

SCR 21 - Clemens - Expresses support of the "25 by 25" national renewable energy initiative

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state

HB 251 - Cunningham - Specifies that any return on savings given by a cooperative association to its members for the purchase of milk products will not be a violation of the Unfair Milk Sales Practices Act

HB 287 - Day - Classifies sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property tax purposes

HB 426 - Sutherland - Creates the Large Carnivore Act which regulates the possession and care of certain non-native big cats and bears

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 658 - Dugger - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

HB 845 - Munzlinger - Adds interference with lawful fishing to the activities for which courts are allowed to award damages for expenditures incurred by an individual when interference has occurred

HB 915 - Hobbs - Modifies provisions relating to licensed grain dealers

HCR 4 - Schaaf - Encourages dog training programs and kennel clubs to provide training and education for community pet owners that result in dogs being "Canine Good Citizens"

Agriculture Dept. (12)

SB 11 - Bartle - Repeals the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act

SB 29 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after a certain date to be a biodiesel-blended fuel

SB 143 - Mayer - Creates price reporting requirements for licensed grain dealers

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer

SB 194 - Shoemyer - Creates procedures for crop sampling by a patent holder of genetically modified seed

SB 195 - Shoemyer - Requires farmers to register and pay a fee for retaining seed produced from patented genetically-modified seed

SB 526 - Clemens - Authorizes the state veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin

SCR 8 - Shoemyer - Urges Congress to support the continuation of horse processing in the United States

HB 251 - Cunningham - Specifies that any return on savings given by a cooperative association to its members for the purchase of milk products will not be a violation of the Unfair Milk Sales Practices Act

HB 426 - Sutherland - Creates the Large Carnivore Act which regulates the possession and care of certain non-native big cats and bears

HB 915 - Hobbs - Modifies provisions relating to licensed grain dealers

AIDS (1)

SB 250 - Smith - Requires the Department of Corrections to develop a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates

Aircraft and Airports (1)

SB 535 - Days - Creates the crime of breach airport security

Alcohol (9)

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers

SB 171 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

SB 188 - Dempsey - Modifies various provisions relating to liquor control

SB 396 - Justus - Modifies various laws relating to liquor control

SB 426 - Griesheimer - Repeals the current provisions regulating nonintoxicating beer and requires such beer to be regulated in the same manner as other intoxicating liquors

SB 529 - Goodman - Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 132 - Fallert - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

HB 310 - Jones - Modifies certain liquor control provisions pertaining to wholesalers

Ambulances and Ambulance Districts (5)

SB 122 - Griesheimer - Allows members of an ambulance district board of directors to be subject to recall from office

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services

SB 337 - Rupp - Extends the term of office for certain ambulance district directors

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 459 - Schaaf - Imposes a gross receipts tax on certain ambulance service providers

Annexation (3)

SB 19 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

Appropriations (32)

SB 33 - Wilson - Creates the Missouri Strive to Succeed Graduation Program to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 111 - Crowell - Repeals the ten million dollar annual cap on allocations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

SB 116 - Bray - Creates the Persistence to Graduation Fund to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 313 - Nodler - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

SB 514 - Dempsey - Creates the Legislative Budget Office and modifies duties of various joint committees of the General Assembly

SCR 6 - Lager - Disapproves the salary recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

SCR 19 - Crowell - Urges the Office of Administration and the Board of Public Buildings to payoff certain revenue bonds by fiscal year 2014

SJR 1 - Bartle - Creates the Missouri Savings Account in the Constitution

SJR 7 - Rupp - Creates the Missouri Revenue Retention Fund in the Constitution

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

SR 211 - Nodler - Notice of Proposed Rule Change/Rule 28

HB 1 - Icet - Appropriates money to the Board of Fund Commissioners

HB 2 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

HB 3 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education

HB 4 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue and Department of Transportation

HB 5 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety

HB 6 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Conservation

HB 7 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses and distributions of the departments of Economic Development,Insurance, Financial Institutions,Professional Registration,Labor and Industrial Relations

HB 8 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety

HB 9 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections

HB 10 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, Board of Public Buildings, and Department of Health and Senior Services

HB 11 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, and distributions of the Department of Social Services

HB 12 - Icet - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of statewide elected officials, the Judiciary, Office of the State Public Defender, and General Assembly

HB 13 - Icet - Appropriates money for real property leases and related services

HB 14 - Icet - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for several departments and offices of state government,for the purchase of equipment,payment of claims for refunds,for persons,firms and corporations

HB 15 - Icet - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the several departments and offices of state government, and for payment of various claims for refunds, for persons, firms and corporations

HB 17 - Icet - Appropriates money for capital improvement and other purposes as provided in Article IV, Section 28

HB 21 - Icet - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for various departments and offices of state government

HB 22 - Icet - Appropriates money for capital improvement projects, for grants, refunds and distributions, planning, expenses, and to transfer money among certain funds.

HJR 17 - Nasheed - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund

HJR 23 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits

Architects (3)

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects

SB 448 - Pearce - Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for projects costing more than $1,000,000

Attorney General, State (19)

SB 35 - Goodman - Creates the Fair Ballot Commission to approve fair ballot language statements

SB 43 - Pearce - Allows cell phone numbers to be included on the no-call list and prohibits certain automated calls to persons on the no-call list

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 65 - Rupp - Modifies the state do-not-call list and creates "paid for by" requirements for political phone calls

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 245 - Schaefer - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 346 - Schaefer - Requires that after January 1, 2010, any self-service display of tobacco products may only be located in a tobacco specialty store

SB 364 - Clemens - Provides labeling and recycling requirements for television manufacturers

SB 371 - Bray - Prohibits the use of expiration dates or service fees on gift certificates

SB 408 - Scott - Grants the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction with prosecuting attorneys to prosecute persons who have passed a bad check when the face amount of such check is at least $1,000

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance

SB 490 - Wilson - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

SB 556 - Mayer - Prohibits certain large users of water from unduly disrupting farm irrigation activities

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

SB 569 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the initiative and referendum process

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance

HB 681 - Smith - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator

HB 698 - Zimmerman - Modifies signage requirements for certain donation receptacles

HB 844 - Aull - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances

Attorneys (11)

SB 210 - Lembke - Prohibits the Supreme Court from establishing or maintaining a mandatory state bar association

SB 258 - Schaefer - Provides for the county counselor of Boone County to receive state money for performing duties related to mental health and mental health facilities

SB 267 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions relating to real estate liens

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SB 560 - Green - Removes the requirement that commissioners of the Administrative Hearing Commission be attorneys

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 482 - Jones - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways

Auditor, State (6)

SB 23 - Callahan - Designates that the gaming revenues derived from the repeal of the loss limits will be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 25 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 438 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 446 - Rupp - Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula

SB 569 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the initiative and referendum process

Autism (2)

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism

SB 167 - Rupp - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders under certain conditions

Banks and Financial Institutions (18)

SB 1 - Scott - Establishes licensing and contract requirements for preneed funeral contract sellers, providers, and seller agents

SB 20 - Days - Amends laws relating to unsecured loans of $500 or less

SB 209 - Clemens - Creates a central filing system for filing financing statements to perfect a security interest in farm products

SB 243 - Pearce - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 275 - Callahan - Requires certain funds from the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund to be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 277 - Cunningham - Authorizes financial institutions to assign fiduciary obligations relating to irrevocable life insurance trusts

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

SB 370 - Bray - Modifies the law relating to foreclosures

SB 421 - Pearce - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank

SB 461 - Callahan - Bars the state from contracting with banks that charge fees for unemployment insurance debit cards

SB 469 - Justus - Requires certain notices to tenants in cases of foreclosure and provides additional time before eviction actions may begin

SB 485 - Pearce - Requires the Ethics Commission to redact the bank account number contained on a committee's statement of organization before it makes the statement public

SB 541 - Pearce - Institutes various provisions regulating practices involved in making residential mortgage loans

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 540 - Jones - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums, automobile club memberships, home and auto security plans, and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions

HB 836 - Curls - Requires certain notices to occupants of residential property in cases of foreclosure before the new owner may bring an action seeking possession of the property

HB 914 - Cunningham - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance's appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank

Bingo (1)

SB 404 - Mayer - Repeals certain taxes imposed upon suppliers of bingo and pull-tab cards

Boards, Commissions, Committees, Councils (82)

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 51 - Bray - Requires the State Board of Education to classify a charter school as "unaccredited" based on annual performance review scores

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 60 - Wilson - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop teaching standards for Missouri public schools

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 111 - Crowell - Repeals the ten million dollar annual cap on allocations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism

SB 161 - Crowell - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

SB 170 - Shoemyer - Modifies the membership of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 176 - Stouffer - Establishes an Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

SB 208 - Rupp - Allows the State Board of Education to grant teaching certificates to individuals to teach part-time in specific areas

SB 233 - Cunningham - Allows the State Board of Education to issue teacher certificates to certain individuals in the areas of banking and financial responsibility

SB 234 - Cunningham - Allows school districts to offer incentives or salary schedule modifications under certain circumstances

SB 253 - Justus - Modifies various provisions relating to elections

SB 255 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri

SB 263 - Mayer - Modifies the law relating to the Second Capitol Commission, the Seismic Safety Commission and liability of volunteers during declared emergencies

SB 275 - Callahan - Requires certain funds from the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund to be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 295 - Scott - Specifies that licensed professional counseling includes the diagnosis of mental, emotional, and behavior disorders and allows the Committee for Professional Counselors to require certain education or training in diagnostic skills

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects

SB 305 - Dempsey - Authorizes the creation of science and technology districts throughout the state

SB 318 - Lembke - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

SB 341 - Bray - Requires racial and gender equity in the membership of boards, commissions, committees, and councils

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 352 - Bray - Establishes the Commission on the Reorganization of State Health Care

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

SB 361 - Crowell - Authorizes volunteer licenses for retired dentists and dental hygienists

SB 365 - Clemens - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel

SB 393 - Green - Repeals the provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Act

SB 395 - Ridgeway - Makes certain actions by school board members or employees in conjunction with the Public School Retirement System of Missouri a class C felony

SB 397 - Shoemyer - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 404 - Mayer - Repeals certain taxes imposed upon suppliers of bingo and pull-tab cards

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

SB 411 - Crowell - Makes certain employees of the Missouri Development Finance Board members of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 416 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries

SB 422 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings

SB 439 - Lembke - Prohibits school boards from placing restrictive covenants in deeds of real property that prohibit its use as a school and nullifies any existing restrictive covenants

SB 441 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to teacher termination proceedings

SB 443 - Days - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district

SB 480 - Shoemyer - Creates the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and modifies the name and duties of the Second Capitol Commission

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications

SB 496 - Cunningham - Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, to have authority over extracurricular competitive activities

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity

SB 502 - Cunningham - Establishes procedures for the evaluation of student credits when a student transfers to a public school from another educational setting

SB 505 - Cunningham - Prohibits a superintendent of an unaccredited or provisionally accredited school district from transferring a teacher if the principal of the receiving school refuses

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

SB 515 - Cunningham - Revises the conditions under which school districts may suspend or terminate teacher and administrator contracts in certain school districts

SB 516 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education personnel

SB 519 - Shields - Repeals and reduces certain committees and commissions and sets a sunset date for other committees and commissions

SB 531 - Goodman - Eliminates certain restrictions on dental advertising

SB 560 - Green - Removes the requirement that commissioners of the Administrative Hearing Commission be attorneys

SB 564 - Smith - Allows the State Board of Education to revoke the charter of charter schools that have decreasing student assessment scores

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

SCR 4 - Wright-Jones - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Child Support Enforcement Reform

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

SR 302 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Job Creation 2020 Committee

SR 303 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Healthy Missourians 2020 Committee

SR 304 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Educated Workforce 2020 Committee

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 124 - Komo - Modifies the scope and duration of the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security

HB 217 - Hoskins - Requires a school board to provide a reason to a parent or guardian for the refusal to admit a student from an unaccredited school district

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 238 - Jones - Allows the consolidation of the report of the Judicial Finance Commission with any annual report prepared by the Supreme Court or the Office of State Court Administrator

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 272 - Chappelle-Nadal - Establishes the Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 485 - Wright - Modifies the membership and quorum requirements for the Seismic Safety Commission

HB 488 - Schad - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as unaccredited for two successive years

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 593 - Viebrock - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

HB 659 - Dusenberg - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district

HB 751 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

HB 866 - Wells - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

HJR 10 - Cox - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

Boats and Watercraft (7)

SB 2 - Scott - Prohibits certain activities on the rivers of this state

SB 49 - Scott - Modifies provisions of law regarding the imposition of sales tax on trade-in or exchange transactions

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation

SB 356 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions of law relating to the regulation of Missouri waterways.

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

HB 657 - Cooper - Modifies provisions relating to boat docks

Bonds - Bail (2)

SB 225 - Goodman - Provides that the filing of criminal charges are not a prerequisite for release on bail under chapter 532, RSMo

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance

Bonds - General Obligation and Revenue (2)

SCR 19 - Crowell - Urges the Office of Administration and the Board of Public Buildings to payoff certain revenue bonds by fiscal year 2014

HJR 32 - Kelly - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund

Bonds - Surety (2)

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 915 - Hobbs - Modifies provisions relating to licensed grain dealers

Buses (1)

SB 129 - McKenna - Prohibits school bus drivers from using wireless telephones or other electronic wireless communication devices while operating school buses on the highways

Business and Commerce (66)

SB 3 - Scott - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts

SB 11 - Bartle - Repeals the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act

SB 20 - Days - Amends laws relating to unsecured loans of $500 or less

SB 32 - Wilson - Establishes the Duty Free Zone Act

SB 45 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of law regarding various tax incentives

SB 103 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for small businesses and farmers that provide health insurance coverage for employees

SB 136 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the New Markets Tax Credit Program

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian

SB 156 - Goodman - Modifies provisions of law regarding travel clubs

SB 188 - Dempsey - Modifies various provisions relating to liquor control

SB 193 - Shoemyer - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in qualified Missouri businesses

SB 199 - McKenna - Modifies laws affecting limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and nonprofit companies

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 212 - Griesheimer - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 223 - Goodman - Regulates sexually oriented businesses

SB 226 - Bartle - Regulates sexually oriented businesses

SB 238 - Callahan - Disallows the domestic production deduction for Missouri income tax purposes

SB 245 - Schaefer - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 249 - Schaefer - Modifies requirements for corporate filings

SB 252 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 278 - Cunningham - Modifies the job training program by expanding opportunities for pre-employment training

SB 279 - Schmitt - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 285 - Lembke - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 292 - Justus - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Act

SB 294 - Barnitz - Restricts corporate name reservation

SB 297 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

SB 305 - Dempsey - Authorizes the creation of science and technology districts throughout the state

SB 340 - Bray - Requires supermarkets and certain pharmacies to provide only certain environmentally friendly bags for carrying out purchased merchandise

SB 364 - Clemens - Provides labeling and recycling requirements for television manufacturers

SB 367 - Ridgeway - Phases out the corporate income tax

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 392 - Shields - Phases out the corporate income tax

SB 394 - Ridgeway - Allows certain businesses to use terms such as drug store in their business name

SB 427 - Griesheimer - Changes the organizational structure of the Missouri One Call System from a non-profit organization to a public governmental body

SB 428 - Griesheimer - Repeals the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Prevention Act

SB 433 - Bray - Modifies the type of appliances and consumer electronics for which minimum energy efficiency standards must be developed

SB 452 - Cunningham - Allows qualified companies that file for bankruptcy protection to continue to receive quality jobs benefits provided certain conditions are met

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development

SB 524 - Griesheimer - Creates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for certain printed products

SB 556 - Mayer - Prohibits certain large users of water from unduly disrupting farm irrigation activities

SB 572 - Dempsey - Establishes the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act

SCR 9 - Shoemyer - Urges Congress to amend the Patent Act regarding patented genetically modified seed

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

SCR 18 - Bartle - Condemns the federal government for passing and implementing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and urges Congress to refuse to pass any more "bailout bills"

HB 83 - Wood - Modifies provisions of law regarding travel clubs

HB 86 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions regarding the imposition of the corporate franchise tax

HB 170 - Cox - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts and lowers the age for concealed carry applications

HB 191 - Flook - Creates various tax incentives for job development

HB 278 - Meiners - Allows mobility motor vehicle dealers to purchase new motor vehicles and equip them for retail sale as mobility motor vehicles under certain conditions

HB 310 - Jones - Modifies certain liquor control provisions pertaining to wholesalers

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 540 - Jones - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums, automobile club memberships, home and auto security plans, and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 652 - Pratt - Defines the terms "certified mail" and "certified mail with return receipt requested" for the purposes of Missouri statutes where these terms are used

HB 658 - Dugger - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 698 - Zimmerman - Modifies signage requirements for certain donation receptacles

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

HB 751 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

HB 795 - Dethrow - Establishes the Small Business Get Off My Back Act

HB 915 - Hobbs - Modifies provisions relating to licensed grain dealers

HB 958 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxation

Campaign Finance (6)

SB 66 - Scott - Amends requirements for filing financial interest statements

SB 251 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to campaign expenditures and disclosure

SB 270 - Bray - Imposes campaign contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office

SB 434 - Green - Modifies various provisions relating to ethics

SB 466 - Smith - Creates a method to publicly finance election campaigns for legislative and gubernatorial candidates

SB 485 - Pearce - Requires the Ethics Commission to redact the bank account number contained on a committee's statement of organization before it makes the statement public

Capital Improvements (2)

SB 190 - Shoemyer - Requires all offices of elected officials in the State Capitol to be accessible to individuals with disabilities by December 31, 2014

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

Cemeteries (4)

SB 168 - Shoemyer - Allows cities, towns, villages and counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 416 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries

HB 111 - Day - Provides funeral establishments with immunity from liability with regard to disposal of unclaimed veterans' cremated remains

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

Certificate of Need (2)

SB 72 - Stouffer - Provides for transfer of long-term care beds to certain new health care facilities

SB 90 - Stouffer - Repeals the Certificate of Need Law

Charities (6)

SB 399 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County

SB 544 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions regarding organizations soliciting charitable contributions on roadways

HB 132 - Fallert - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

HB 210 - Deeken - Allows a retired state employee to request that contributions to the state employees charitable campaign be withheld from their monthly benefit

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 698 - Zimmerman - Modifies signage requirements for certain donation receptacles

Children and Minors (39)

SB 4 - Shields - Establishes a quality rating system for child care facilities

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 53 - Days - Allows adopted persons eighteen years of age and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate under certain circumstances

SB 54 - Days - Authorizes a court to appoint a standby guardian for a minor or an incapacitated adult

SB 62 - Wilson - Authorizes the court to appoint a parenting coordinator to assist with parental disputes regarding child custody or support

SB 68 - Bray - Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 94 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 104 - Justus - Provides information and the opportunity to be immunized for the human papilloma virus

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support

SB 141 - Smith - Modifies the law on the establishment of paternity

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 314 - Smith - Creates the Missouri Preschool Plus Grant Program

SB 316 - Smith - Modifies provisions on education courses regarding sexual predators, human sexuality and sexually transmitted disease

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 347 - Mayer - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

SB 432 - Vogel - Provides information to parents of students about immunizations against bacterial meningitis

SB 459 - Lager - Allows criminal prosecution of a mother for harm to an unborn child due to intentional and unlawful use of controlled substances

SB 529 - Goodman - Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use

SB 530 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to child abuse investigations

SB 536 - Wilson - Enacts the Foster Care and Adoptive Parents Recruitment and Retention Fund

SB 562 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to the electronic storage of support obligations

SCR 4 - Wright-Jones - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Child Support Enforcement Reform

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 69 - Storch - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 154 - Ruestman - Modifies provisions relating to placement of children

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 248 - Funderburk - Authorizes an income tax dependency exemption deduction for a taxpayer for the taxable year in which a stillborn child was born if the child would otherwise have been a member of the taxpayer's household

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 716 - Todd - Adds provisions related to newborns and newborn screenings

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways

Circuit Clerk (1)

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

Cities, Towns and Villages (31)

SB 6 - Griesheimer - Modifies when a city mayor shall vote on ordinances, resolutions, and motions before the city's governing body

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 32 - Wilson - Establishes the Duty Free Zone Act

SB 67 - Scott - Authorizes municipalities to allow golf carts and motorized wheelchairs to be operated upon city streets

SB 75 - Wilson - Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 164 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments

SB 168 - Shoemyer - Allows cities, towns, villages and counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 187 - Vogel - Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 248 - Schaefer - Authorizes the City of Ashland to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 325 - Ridgeway - Allows school boards to enter into agreements with a county, town, city, or village for educational facilities and purposes

SB 351 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of law regarding sales tax refunds

SB 359 - Purgason - Changes how a local government withdraws from a regional planning commission

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 387 - Barnitz - Allows the City of Waynesville to impose a transient guest tax

SB 419 - Purgason - Expands the required representation on solid waste management councils to include communities of less than 500 people

SB 447 - Pearce - Authorizes a city sales tax to fund public safety improvement

SB 489 - Dempsey - Allows cities to impose license taxes upon hotels and motels

SB 507 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities

SB 544 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions regarding organizations soliciting charitable contributions on roadways

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 400 - Nasheed - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

Civil Procedure (17)

SB 3 - Scott - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts

SB 54 - Days - Authorizes a court to appoint a standby guardian for a minor or an incapacitated adult

SB 62 - Wilson - Authorizes the court to appoint a parenting coordinator to assist with parental disputes regarding child custody or support

SB 202 - Schaefer - Modifies the law regarding the operation of a motorcycle, namely the assignment of fault for the operator's normal operation of such vehicle and the ability to forego wearing headgear while operating it

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 312 - Goodman - Repeals the current procedures regarding criminal activity forfeiture actions and establishes new procedures

SB 336 - Rupp - Creates a legal process for insurance companies to contest policy coverage issues without breaching certain agreements to their insureds

SB 355 - Dempsey - Allows motor vehicle dealers, boat dealers, and powersport dealers to charge administrative fees associated with the sale or lease of certain vehicles and vessels under certain conditions

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SJR 3 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to sexual offenders and other felons to be applied retrospectively

HB 170 - Cox - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts and lowers the age for concealed carry applications

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 294 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires courts to adopt certain procedures in cases where a landlord sues a tenant for unpaid rent and possession

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Civil Rights (5)

SB 108 - Justus - Expresses the General Assembly's recognition that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of the sex of any person

SB 109 - Justus - Prohibits discrimination based upon a person's sexual orientation

SCR 3 - Justus - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 12 - Bray - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 25 - Justus - Urges Congress to replace the "don't ask don't tell" policy with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

Commercial Code (1)

SB 209 - Clemens - Creates a central filing system for filing financing statements to perfect a security interest in farm products

Compacts (2)

SB 137 - Rupp - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

SB 237 - Lembke - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

Conservation Dept. (10)

SB 10 - Champion - Allows Missouri residents who own or lease at least 5 acres of land to hunt or fish on such land without a permit or in certain circumstances with a permit that is free-of-charge

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 350 - Clemens - Allows a hand-fishing season for catfish and carp during June and July on certain waterways

SB 372 - Dempsey - Allows the Conservation Commission to permanently revoke the hunting permit of any person who accidentally kills someone else while hunting

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state

HB 250 - Wilson - Modifies provisions pertaining to horseback riding on public land and the state soil and water conservation program

HB 568 - Dixon - Requires voter registration information to be made available to applicants for resident hunting and fishing permits

HB 845 - Munzlinger - Adds interference with lawful fishing to the activities for which courts are allowed to award damages for expenditures incurred by an individual when interference has occurred

Constitutional Amendments (25)

SCR 3 - Justus - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 10 - Rupp - Rescinds Missouri's 1983 call for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget

SJR 1 - Bartle - Creates the Missouri Savings Account in the Constitution

SJR 3 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to sexual offenders and other felons to be applied retrospectively

SJR 4 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected

SJR 7 - Rupp - Creates the Missouri Revenue Retention Fund in the Constitution

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

SJR 10 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying who presides over impeachment trials

SJR 11 - Lembke - Modifies Missouri's Bill of Rights to include a statement that all persons have a natural right to economic freedom

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

SJR 14 - Wilson - Authorizes the creation of tax free zones

SJR 15 - Cunningham - Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that the General Assembly is not required to enact legislation to comply with a court order declaring that it raise taxes

SJR 16 - Lager - Prohibits the imposition of any state or local income tax after January 1, 2024

SJR 17 - Lembke - Prohibits public funds to be used for abortion services, human cloning, or prohibited human research

SJR 18 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

HJR 10 - Cox - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

HJR 11 - McGhee - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HJR 17 - Nasheed - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund

HJR 23 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits

HJR 32 - Kelly - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund

HJR 36 - Emery - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace state income taxes, corporate and bank franchise taxes, and sales and use taxes, with a statewide tax on the sale, use, or consumption of retail sales and taxable services

HJR 37 - Cunningham - Requires voting by secret ballot for elections and employee representation

Construction and Building Codes (7)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 282 - Bray - Creates statutory warranties for home buyers and homeowners and also prevents home solicitors from engaging in certain deceptive practices

SB 427 - Griesheimer - Changes the organizational structure of the Missouri One Call System from a non-profit organization to a public governmental body

SB 428 - Griesheimer - Repeals the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Prevention Act

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 431 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for the construction or renovation of buildings using environmentally sustainable techniques

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

Consumer Protection (11)

SB 20 - Days - Amends laws relating to unsecured loans of $500 or less

SB 169 - Shoemyer - Regulates insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans

SB 186 - Bray - Creates the Healthy Pet Act

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 216 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to debt settlement providers

SB 228 - Scott - Modifies the construction-work-in-progress (CWIP) law for construction of certain new power plants and creates the Missouri Clean and Renewable Energy Construction Act

SB 245 - Schaefer - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 282 - Bray - Creates statutory warranties for home buyers and homeowners and also prevents home solicitors from engaging in certain deceptive practices

SB 370 - Bray - Modifies the law relating to foreclosures

SB 371 - Bray - Prohibits the use of expiration dates or service fees on gift certificates

SB 541 - Pearce - Institutes various provisions regulating practices involved in making residential mortgage loans

Contracts and Contractors (25)

SB 97 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to contract with an online test preparation company for a customized SAT and ACT preparation program for high school juniors

SB 102 - Green - Creates the Political Subdivision Services Bidding Standards Act

SB 128 - Rupp - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 155 - Goodman - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 156 - Goodman - Modifies provisions of law regarding travel clubs

SB 162 - Crowell - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 178 - Stouffer - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 194 - Shoemyer - Creates procedures for crop sampling by a patent holder of genetically modified seed

SB 282 - Bray - Creates statutory warranties for home buyers and homeowners and also prevents home solicitors from engaging in certain deceptive practices

SB 287 - Schaefer - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to create a central repository for school district budget information

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 311 - Goodman - Modifies the law that limits indemnity agreements in construction work contracts

SB 416 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SB 448 - Pearce - Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for projects costing more than $1,000,000

SB 456 - Lager - Makes it lawful for Caldwell County to enter into a contract with private corporations engaged in delivering water at wholesale for domestic consumption

SB 472 - Ridgeway - Requires the Governor and political subdivisions to disclose information regarding the distribution of public funds

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

HB 83 - Wood - Modifies provisions of law regarding travel clubs

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 281 - Weter - Modifies the laws regarding motor vehicle dealerships as they relate to manufacturer-authorized warranty work and repair

HB 359 - Denison - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the state highways and transportation commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

HB 381 - Silvey - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts

HB 544 - Smith - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

Cooperatives (4)

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian

SB 545 - Schmitt - Makes certain previously exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

HB 251 - Cunningham - Specifies that any return on savings given by a cooperative association to its members for the purchase of milk products will not be a violation of the Unfair Milk Sales Practices Act

HB 599 - Diehl - Makes certain previously-exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

Corporations (11)

SB 199 - McKenna - Modifies laws affecting limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and nonprofit companies

SB 217 - Goodman - Allows remote participation in certain corporate shareholders' meetings and allows limited liability companies and limited partnerships to administratively cancel their respective documents of organization

SB 224 - Goodman - Modifies the requirements of a restated articles of incorporation

SB 241 - Bray - Modifies various tax provisions

SB 249 - Schaefer - Modifies requirements for corporate filings

SB 294 - Barnitz - Restricts corporate name reservation

SB 367 - Ridgeway - Phases out the corporate income tax

SB 421 - Pearce - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank

HB 86 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions regarding the imposition of the corporate franchise tax

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 914 - Cunningham - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance's appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank

Corrections Dept. (9)

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children

SB 112 - Crowell - Prohibits felony sexual offenders whose victim was less than seventeen years of age from being allowed to participate in the one hundred twenty day "shock incarceration program" in the Department of Corrections

SB 250 - Smith - Requires the Department of Corrections to develop a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates

SB 321 - Days - Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri

SB 379 - McKenna - Establishes minimum salary requirements for all corrections officers and supervisors

SB 514 - Dempsey - Creates the Legislative Budget Office and modifies duties of various joint committees of the General Assembly

SB 551 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to drug offenses and substance abuse treatment

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 747 - Witte - Specifies that in order for a person to be guilty of the crime of sexual contact with a prisoner or offender, the prisoner or offender must be confined in a jail, prison, or correctional facility

Cosmetology (1)

HB 812 - Wasson - Repeals certain statutes regarding the board of cosmetology and the board of barber examiners which are no longer used and updates certain statutory references

Counties (32)

SB 5 - Griesheimer - Creates the Missouri County Planning Act

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 19 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

SB 38 - Rupp - Allows a county, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications

SB 75 - Wilson - Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 99 - Cunningham - Establishes the Predictable Property Tax Act

SB 123 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to county collectors

SB 168 - Shoemyer - Allows cities, towns, villages and counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 187 - Vogel - Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 196 - Shoemyer - Modifies the procedure for detaching territory from a public water supply district

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 242 - Pearce - Prohibits certain storm water management fees and provides an alternate procedure to approve bond issuance for a sewer subdistrict in Cass County

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 257 - Schaefer - Allows for the extension of certain county taxes upon voter approval

SB 276 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 325 - Ridgeway - Allows school boards to enter into agreements with a county, town, city, or village for educational facilities and purposes

SB 358 - Purgason - Increases the assessed valuation a county must maintain in order to move into a higher classification

SB 359 - Purgason - Changes how a local government withdraws from a regional planning commission

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 455 - Mayer - Increases the assessed valuation a county must maintain in order to move into a higher classification

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts

SB 544 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions regarding organizations soliciting charitable contributions on roadways

SB 574 - Rupp - Allows Lincoln County, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications

HB 65 - Wilson - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county

HB 148 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to county collectors and the collection of taxes

HB 234 - Wood - Modifies procedures for detaching territory from a public water supply district

HB 257 - Schieffer - Allows Lincoln county, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

County Government (15)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations

SB 247 - Schaefer - Allows counties of the first classification to control the minimum standards of occupancy for residential units rented or leased and to develop a licensing and inspecting program

SB 256 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to county purchases

SB 286 - Schaefer - Allows certain counties to adopt nuisance abatement ordinances involving land with tires or storm water runoff

SB 325 - Ridgeway - Allows school boards to enter into agreements with a county, town, city, or village for educational facilities and purposes

SB 333 - Barnitz - Provides procedures for cities and sewer districts in certain counties to develop agreements regarding sewer service for annexed areas

SB 354 - Dempsey - Requires the auditor of any county with a charter form of government to annually take an inventory of county property with an original value of $2,500 or more, rather than $250

SB 359 - Purgason - Changes how a local government withdraws from a regional planning commission

SB 385 - Lager - Allows counties without a charter form of government to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to control brush

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 456 - Lager - Makes it lawful for Caldwell County to enter into a contract with private corporations engaged in delivering water at wholesale for domestic consumption

SB 457 - Lager - Allows Caldwell County to establish a jail or holding facility outside of the county seat

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

County Officials (21)

SB 80 - Wilson - Increases the recording fee collected to fund the county homeless person assistance program from $3 to $10, upon voter approval, if such a program has been created by the charter county

SB 99 - Cunningham - Establishes the Predictable Property Tax Act

SB 123 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to county collectors

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 258 - Schaefer - Provides for the county counselor of Boone County to receive state money for performing duties related to mental health and mental health facilities

SB 268 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund

SB 315 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

SB 348 - Mayer - Changes how salaries of county sheriffs are established

SB 354 - Dempsey - Requires the auditor of any county with a charter form of government to annually take an inventory of county property with an original value of $2,500 or more, rather than $250

SB 362 - Griesheimer - Increases recording user fees and requires requests for records dated after December 31, 1969, to be made to the office in which the record was originally filed

SB 449 - Purgason - Requires agreements between business district advisory boards and the Director of Revenue for the collection of certain taxes

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership

SB 534 - Rupp - Requires coroners or medical examiners to perform certain testing on individuals who commit suicide and report the findings to the Department of Health and Senior Services

SB 557 - Mayer - Prohibits a reduction in a county official's salary when a county changes classifications until the current official leaves office

SB 575 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

SCR 23 - Schmitt - Urges the State Tax Commission and assessors to accurately reflect present market conditions and, where appropriate, decrease assessed values of property

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected

HB 148 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to county collectors and the collection of taxes

HB 306 - Schad - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues

HB 667 - Jones - Removes the 12-month grace period that newly elected sheriffs are allowed in order to become a licensed peace officer in order to execute police powers beginning January 1, 2010

Courts (49)

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 39 - Rupp - Adds a circuit judge position within the Forty-fifth Judicial Circuit

SB 62 - Wilson - Authorizes the court to appoint a parenting coordinator to assist with parental disputes regarding child custody or support

SB 109 - Justus - Prohibits discrimination based upon a person's sexual orientation

SB 114 - Crowell - Modifies a variety of provisions that relate to the judicial process in some manner

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support

SB 141 - Smith - Modifies the law on the establishment of paternity

SB 181 - Bartle - Gives the judge presiding in a domestic assault case discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

SB 186 - Bray - Creates the Healthy Pet Act

SB 196 - Shoemyer - Modifies the procedure for detaching territory from a public water supply district

SB 210 - Lembke - Prohibits the Supreme Court from establishing or maintaining a mandatory state bar association

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 225 - Goodman - Provides that the filing of criminal charges are not a prerequisite for release on bail under chapter 532, RSMo

SB 231 - Cunningham - Exempts landlords from liability for loss or damage to tenants' personal property when executing an order for possession of premises

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 265 - Mayer - Extends the collection of the statewide court automation fee until 2013

SB 322 - Barnitz - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

SB 333 - Barnitz - Provides procedures for cities and sewer districts in certain counties to develop agreements regarding sewer service for annexed areas

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

SB 399 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County

SB 401 - Goodman - Adds a circuit judge position to each of three judicial circuits

SB 402 - Goodman - Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to prohibit certain acts against prosecutors

SB 423 - Pearce - Adds a third circuit judge to the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit

SB 424 - Justus - Allows Kansas City to enact ordinances allowing the city building official to petition the circuit court for the appointment of a receiver to rehabilitate, demolish, or sell a vacant nuisance building

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

SJR 3 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to sexual offenders and other felons to be applied retrospectively

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

SJR 10 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying who presides over impeachment trials

SJR 15 - Cunningham - Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that the General Assembly is not required to enact legislation to comply with a court order declaring that it raise taxes

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 116 - Hoskins - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer

HB 177 - Cox - Gives the judge presiding in certain sexual offense cases discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 273 - Cox - Allows the personal representative of an estate to submit documentation other than vouchers to the court as evidence of expenditures on behalf of the estate

HB 294 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires courts to adopt certain procedures in cases where a landlord sues a tenant for unpaid rent and possession

HB 316 - Jones - Modifies provisions regarding public meetings and records, commonly known as the "Sunshine Law"

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 482 - Jones - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants

HB 546 - Smith - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

HB 622 - Roorda - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases

HB 652 - Pratt - Defines the terms "certified mail" and "certified mail with return receipt requested" for the purposes of Missouri statutes where these terms are used

HB 845 - Munzlinger - Adds interference with lawful fishing to the activities for which courts are allowed to award damages for expenditures incurred by an individual when interference has occurred

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways

HJR 10 - Cox - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

Courts, Juvenile (3)

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

Credit and Bankruptcy (1)

SB 216 - Scott - Modifies the law relating to debt settlement providers

Credit Unions (2)

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

Crimes and Punishment (73)

SB 2 - Scott - Prohibits certain activities on the rivers of this state

SB 3 - Scott - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts

SB 17 - Bray - Eliminates the death penalty

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers

SB 34 - Wilson - Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamp assistance

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 46 - Schaefer - Requires any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a felony on or after August 28, 2009, to serve a minimum prison term of eighty-five percent of his or her sentence

SB 63 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 68 - Bray - Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm

SB 81 - Wilson - Criminalizes displaying a noose for the purpose of intimidation

SB 82 - Wilson - Expands the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include discharging a firearm for celebrating in an urban area

SB 83 - Wilson - Prohibits the ownership, possession, or discharge of a taser or stun gun

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 93 - Green - Modifies various laws relating to intoxication

SB 106 - Justus - Bars disseminating certain information that would encourage voters to vote improperly

SB 112 - Crowell - Prohibits felony sexual offenders whose victim was less than seventeen years of age from being allowed to participate in the one hundred twenty day "shock incarceration program" in the Department of Corrections

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support

SB 159 - Clemens - Modifes the definition of livestock for which it is a crime to steal and makes stealing certain quail, pheasants, or deer a crime

SB 160 - Crowell - Changes the scheduling of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to be Schedule III Controlled Substances

SB 180 - Bartle - Specifies that knowledge of one's location is not necessary to commit certain criminal acts

SB 181 - Bartle - Gives the judge presiding in a domestic assault case discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

SB 182 - Bartle - Prohibits the use or attempted use of a false or misleading degree for admission to higher education institutions or in connection with businesses or employment

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

SB 192 - Shoemyer - Redefines the term "intoxication-related traffic offense"

SB 195 - Shoemyer - Requires farmers to register and pay a fee for retaining seed produced from patented genetically-modified seed

SB 200 - Cunningham - Modifies the law regarding stealing-related offenses

SB 201 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 219 - Ridgeway - Allows the court, as a condition of probation or parole, to require certain persons convicted of intoxication-related traffic offenses to submit to alcohol monitoring in certain circumstances

SB 221 - Goodman - Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention

SB 223 - Goodman - Regulates sexually oriented businesses

SB 225 - Goodman - Provides that the filing of criminal charges are not a prerequisite for release on bail under chapter 532, RSMo

SB 226 - Bartle - Regulates sexually oriented businesses

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 260 - Wright-Jones - Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

SB 261 - Bartle - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 264 - Mayer - Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions

SB 309 - Bray - Enacts a state-wide smoking ban

SB 310 - Bartle - Requires custodial interrogations of persons suspected of certain serious offenses to be recorded

SB 312 - Goodman - Repeals the current procedures regarding criminal activity forfeiture actions and establishes new procedures

SB 321 - Days - Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri

SB 328 - Bray - Creates the Task Force on the Use of Conducted Energy Devices

SB 330 - Justus - Creates the crimes of assault of a mass transit system employee in the first, second, and third degree

SB 339 - Goodman - Modifies the crime of making a false declaration

SB 342 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes

SB 356 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions of law relating to the regulation of Missouri waterways.

SB 395 - Ridgeway - Makes certain actions by school board members or employees in conjunction with the Public School Retirement System of Missouri a class C felony

SB 398 - Barnitz - Modifies property posting provisions

SB 402 - Goodman - Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to prohibit certain acts against prosecutors

SB 408 - Scott - Grants the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction with prosecuting attorneys to prosecute persons who have passed a bad check when the face amount of such check is at least $1,000

SB 417 - Goodman - Allows law enforcement agencies to hold a suspect arrested without a warrant for up to 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, before charging the person with a crime.

SB 435 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to contracts of the Department of Mental Health

SB 459 - Lager - Allows criminal prosecution of a mother for harm to an unborn child due to intentional and unlawful use of controlled substances

SB 529 - Goodman - Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use

SB 530 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to child abuse investigations

SB 535 - Days - Creates the crime of breach airport security

SB 551 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to drug offenses and substance abuse treatment

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 116 - Hoskins - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer

HB 152 - Ruestman - Requires persons arrest for certain offenses to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling analysis

HB 170 - Cox - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts and lowers the age for concealed carry applications

HB 177 - Cox - Gives the judge presiding in certain sexual offense cases discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

HB 384 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to criminal offenses and criminal procedure

HB 622 - Roorda - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases

HB 657 - Cooper - Modifies provisions relating to boat docks

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 685 - Jones - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants

HB 747 - Witte - Specifies that in order for a person to be guilty of the crime of sexual contact with a prisoner or offender, the prisoner or offender must be confined in a jail, prison, or correctional facility

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

Criminal Procedure (28)

SB 8 - Champion - Creates a Crime Laboratory Review Commission to independently review the operations of crime laboratories in the state of Missouri that receive state-administered funding

SB 17 - Bray - Eliminates the death penalty

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 46 - Schaefer - Requires any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a felony on or after August 28, 2009, to serve a minimum prison term of eighty-five percent of his or her sentence

SB 63 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 180 - Bartle - Specifies that knowledge of one's location is not necessary to commit certain criminal acts

SB 181 - Bartle - Gives the judge presiding in a domestic assault case discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

SB 192 - Shoemyer - Redefines the term "intoxication-related traffic offense"

SB 201 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to dog fighting

SB 261 - Bartle - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 310 - Bartle - Requires custodial interrogations of persons suspected of certain serious offenses to be recorded

SB 312 - Goodman - Repeals the current procedures regarding criminal activity forfeiture actions and establishes new procedures

SB 321 - Days - Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri

SB 417 - Goodman - Allows law enforcement agencies to hold a suspect arrested without a warrant for up to 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, before charging the person with a crime.

SB 435 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to contracts of the Department of Mental Health

SB 551 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to drug offenses and substance abuse treatment

SJR 3 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing certain laws pertaining to sexual offenders and other felons to be applied retrospectively

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 152 - Ruestman - Requires persons arrest for certain offenses to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling analysis

HB 177 - Cox - Gives the judge presiding in certain sexual offense cases discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 384 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to criminal offenses and criminal procedure

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 482 - Jones - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants

HB 622 - Roorda - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases

HB 685 - Jones - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

Dairies and Dairy Products (2)

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

Dentists (3)

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 361 - Crowell - Authorizes volunteer licenses for retired dentists and dental hygienists

SB 531 - Goodman - Eliminates certain restrictions on dental advertising

Disabilities (22)

SB 71 - Stouffer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to developmental disability care providers

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 101 - Green - Modifies the membership of the review panels convened by the Division of Developmental Disabilities

SB 146 - Dempsey - Increases the amount of tax credits available for taxpayers who modify their home for disabled persons and authorizes a credit for doing the same for seniors

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism

SB 190 - Shoemyer - Requires all offices of elected officials in the State Capitol to be accessible to individuals with disabilities by December 31, 2014

SB 244 - Dempsey - Creates a pilot program regarding personal care services for certain disabled adults

SB 460 - Nodler - Allows the Division of Developmental Disabilities to contract directly with case management providers in a defined region

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax

SB 546 - Schmitt - Increase the income disregard for eligibility in the Ticket-to-Work Health Assurance Program

SB 563 - Smith - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 570 - Lembke - Modifies provisions regarding non-MO HealthNet eligible persons in the Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services Program

HB 69 - Storch - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program

HB 289 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

HB 397 - Flook - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

HCR 4 - Schaaf - Encourages dog training programs and kennel clubs to provide training and education for community pet owners that result in dogs being "Canine Good Citizens"

HJR 15 - Chappelle-Nadal - Exempts real property used by certain former prisoners of war as a homestead from property tax

Domestic Relations (5)

SB 62 - Wilson - Authorizes the court to appoint a parenting coordinator to assist with parental disputes regarding child custody or support

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions

SB 347 - Mayer - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

SB 440 - Schaefer - Allows for temporary domestic relations orders for military families

SB 468 - Justus - Requires law enforcement officers to enter certain information regarding ex parte orders of protection into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System within twenty-four hours and modifies the age of an adult for adult abuse statutes

Drugs and Controlled Substances (15)

SB 73 - Stouffer - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 86 - Crowell - Requires drug screening and testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients

SB 160 - Crowell - Changes the scheduling of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to be Schedule III Controlled Substances

SB 183 - Bartle - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 322 - Barnitz - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

SB 459 - Lager - Allows criminal prosecution of a mother for harm to an unborn child due to intentional and unlawful use of controlled substances

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

SB 529 - Goodman - Criminalizes prenatal drug or alcohol use

SB 534 - Rupp - Requires coroners or medical examiners to perform certain testing on individuals who commit suicide and report the findings to the Department of Health and Senior Services

SB 551 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to drug offenses and substance abuse treatment

HB 30 - Brandom - Modifies provisions relating to substance abuse of applicants and recipients of state benefits

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 546 - Smith - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

Drunk Driving/Boating (4)

SB 93 - Green - Modifies various laws relating to intoxication

SB 192 - Shoemyer - Redefines the term "intoxication-related traffic offense"

SB 219 - Ridgeway - Allows the court, as a condition of probation or parole, to require certain persons convicted of intoxication-related traffic offenses to submit to alcohol monitoring in certain circumstances

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

Easements and Conveyances (7)

SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties

SB 205 - Shoemyer - Prohibits the condemnation of property owned by certain gun clubs or sportsmen's clubs

SB 540 - Schaefer - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

HB 282 - Stevenson - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Jasper County, known as the Joplin Regional Center, to Missouri Southern State University

HB 537 - Dixon - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 909 - Brandom - Authorizes the Governor to convey various state properties

HB 918 - Kelly - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

Economic Development (29)

SB 45 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of law regarding various tax incentives

SB 75 - Wilson - Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 113 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 191 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of the Missouri development finance board development fund contribution tax credit program

SB 212 - Griesheimer - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 252 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 274 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 278 - Cunningham - Modifies the job training program by expanding opportunities for pre-employment training

SB 279 - Schmitt - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 285 - Lembke - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 292 - Justus - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Act

SB 305 - Dempsey - Authorizes the creation of science and technology districts throughout the state

SB 326 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Neighborhood Assistance Act

SB 353 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of the Qualified Research Expense Tax Credit Program

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 393 - Green - Repeals the provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Act

SB 452 - Cunningham - Allows qualified companies that file for bankruptcy protection to continue to receive quality jobs benefits provided certain conditions are met

SB 479 - Shoemyer - Allows certain contributions to downtown revitalization preservation development projects to be substituted on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the local match of payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development

SB 528 - Nodler - Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to provide economic development incentives for alternative energy vehicle components

SB 572 - Dempsey - Establishes the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

HB 65 - Wilson - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county

HB 191 - Flook - Creates various tax incentives for job development

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 795 - Dethrow - Establishes the Small Business Get Off My Back Act

HB 802 - Tracy - Implements new median family income eligibility thresholds for persons living in owner-occupied units and rental units for purposes of receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Assistance Act

Economic Development Dept. (27)

SB 45 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of law regarding various tax incentives

SB 75 - Wilson - Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 85 - Crowell - Creates the Missouri Special Needs Scholarship Tax Credit Program

SB 113 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 136 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the New Markets Tax Credit Program

SB 191 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of the Missouri development finance board development fund contribution tax credit program

SB 193 - Shoemyer - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in qualified Missouri businesses

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 252 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 274 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 278 - Cunningham - Modifies the job training program by expanding opportunities for pre-employment training

SB 285 - Lembke - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 292 - Justus - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Act

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 353 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of the Qualified Research Expense Tax Credit Program

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 452 - Cunningham - Allows qualified companies that file for bankruptcy protection to continue to receive quality jobs benefits provided certain conditions are met

SB 479 - Shoemyer - Allows certain contributions to downtown revitalization preservation development projects to be substituted on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the local match of payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development

SB 528 - Nodler - Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to provide economic development incentives for alternative energy vehicle components

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

HB 65 - Wilson - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county

HB 191 - Flook - Creates various tax incentives for job development

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 802 - Tracy - Implements new median family income eligibility thresholds for persons living in owner-occupied units and rental units for purposes of receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Assistance Act

HB 914 - Cunningham - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance's appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank

Education, Elementary and Secondary (89)

SB 4 - Shields - Establishes a quality rating system for child care facilities

SB 12 - Bartle - Allows school districts to adopt policies to provide additional pay or stipends to teachers of certain subject areas

SB 23 - Callahan - Designates that the gaming revenues derived from the repeal of the loss limits will be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 24 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 25 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 33 - Wilson - Creates the Missouri Strive to Succeed Graduation Program to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 42 - Cunningham - Creates the Teacher Choice Compensation Package to provide performance-based salary stipends for participating teachers

SB 51 - Bray - Requires the State Board of Education to classify a charter school as "unaccredited" based on annual performance review scores

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 56 - Callahan - Requires gaming revenues from the repeal of the loss limits to be distributed to school districts based on a district's average daily attendance calculation

SB 60 - Wilson - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop teaching standards for Missouri public schools

SB 64 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

SB 76 - Wilson - Creates the Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program for public elementary and secondary schools

SB 78 - Wilson - Creates the Missouri Senior Cadet Program for mentoring of kindergarten through eighth grade students

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 85 - Crowell - Creates the Missouri Special Needs Scholarship Tax Credit Program

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 97 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to contract with an online test preparation company for a customized SAT and ACT preparation program for high school juniors

SB 116 - Bray - Creates the Persistence to Graduation Fund to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 117 - Green - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to recalculate state school aid for Riverview Gardens School District to correct an error

SB 127 - Rupp - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

SB 132 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to school anti-bullying policies

SB 135 - Dempsey - Requires school districts to pay registered professional school nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

SB 139 - Mayer - Uses revenue from the repeal of the gaming loss limits to fund minimum salary supplements for teachers, early childhood, and school transportation

SB 151 - Clemens - Requires high school students to fulfill the personal finance graduation by completing a course through their school district or the virtual public school

SB 175 - Schmitt - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to produce "The Parents' Bill of Rights" for parents of children with an individualized education program

SB 208 - Rupp - Allows the State Board of Education to grant teaching certificates to individuals to teach part-time in specific areas

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 233 - Cunningham - Allows the State Board of Education to issue teacher certificates to certain individuals in the areas of banking and financial responsibility

SB 234 - Cunningham - Allows school districts to offer incentives or salary schedule modifications under certain circumstances

SB 253 - Justus - Modifies various provisions relating to elections

SB 259 - Wright-Jones - Modifies the definition of weighted average daily attendance in the elementary and secondary education funding formula

SB 287 - Schaefer - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to create a central repository for school district budget information

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 302 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for contributions to certain after school programs

SB 314 - Smith - Creates the Missouri Preschool Plus Grant Program

SB 316 - Smith - Modifies provisions on education courses regarding sexual predators, human sexuality and sexually transmitted disease

SB 317 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to charter schools

SB 325 - Ridgeway - Allows school boards to enter into agreements with a county, town, city, or village for educational facilities and purposes

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 345 - Lager - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week.

SB 373 - Mayer - Creates procedures for open enrollment of public school students across school district boundary lines

SB 395 - Ridgeway - Makes certain actions by school board members or employees in conjunction with the Public School Retirement System of Missouri a class C felony

SB 422 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings

SB 429 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate teacher assessment programs and creates teacher assessment requirements for unaccredited school districts

SB 432 - Vogel - Provides information to parents of students about immunizations against bacterial meningitis

SB 438 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 439 - Lembke - Prohibits school boards from placing restrictive covenants in deeds of real property that prohibit its use as a school and nullifies any existing restrictive covenants

SB 441 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to teacher termination proceedings

SB 445 - Rupp - Prohibits school district employees, volunteers, and independent contractors from placing a student receiving special education services into seclusion

SB 446 - Rupp - Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula

SB 448 - Pearce - Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for projects costing more than $1,000,000

SB 453 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to education funding

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years

SB 492 - Mayer - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration

SB 496 - Cunningham - Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, to have authority over extracurricular competitive activities

SB 497 - Cunningham - Allows a school district receiving students from a district that does not maintain an accredited school to request that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education withhold delinquent tuition payments

SB 498 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to include in their school accountability report cards whether they have a gifted education program and have had one over the past three years

SB 500 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to allow parents to withhold permission for students to participate in school-sponsored clubs and extracurricular activities

SB 502 - Cunningham - Establishes procedures for the evaluation of student credits when a student transfers to a public school from another educational setting

SB 503 - Cunningham - Allows two or more adjacent school districts to share a superintendent under certain circumstances

SB 505 - Cunningham - Prohibits a superintendent of an unaccredited or provisionally accredited school district from transferring a teacher if the principal of the receiving school refuses

SB 515 - Cunningham - Revises the conditions under which school districts may suspend or terminate teacher and administrator contracts in certain school districts

SB 516 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education personnel

SB 520 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for students in primary grades

SB 521 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for sixth through twelfth graders

SB 537 - Cunningham - Creates procedures for open enrollment across school district boundary lines for certain students

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

SB 564 - Smith - Allows the State Board of Education to revoke the charter of charter schools that have decreasing student assessment scores

SB 576 - Dempsey - Requires that records submitted to the State Literacy Hotline for student drop-outs be made publicly available

SCR 2 - Crowell - Recognizes October 3rd of each year as Science Day

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

SR 207 - Lembke - Urges the St. Louis School District to remove a restriction in the deeds of school buildings for sale

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 217 - Hoskins - Requires a school board to provide a reason to a parent or guardian for the refusal to admit a student from an unaccredited school district

HB 236 - Lipke - Requires school districts to adopt policies to allow students with a disability to participate in graduation ceremonies with their graduating class

HB 242 - Kingery - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week

HB 289 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings

HB 373 - Wallace - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration

HB 488 - Schad - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as unaccredited for two successive years

HB 490 - Schad - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program

HB 506 - Funderburk - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

HB 509 - Stream - Requires school districts to adopt nutritional standards for food and beverages and adopt physical education programs

HB 631 - Jones - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

HB 659 - Dusenberg - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district

HB 682 - Swinger - Creates an exception for the 2008-2009 school year for the number of school days to be made up due to inclement weather

HB 922 - Smith - Requires each school district to adopt a policy on allergy prevention and response

Education, Higher (31)

SB 23 - Callahan - Designates that the gaming revenues derived from the repeal of the loss limits will be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 29 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after a certain date to be a biodiesel-blended fuel

SB 40 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the Bright Flight Scholarship Program

SB 76 - Wilson - Creates the Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program for public elementary and secondary schools

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 107 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for higher education expenses

SB 127 - Rupp - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

SB 133 - Smith - Modifies the definition of public benefit as it relates to non-residents attending a Missouri institution of higher education

SB 182 - Bartle - Prohibits the use or attempted use of a false or misleading degree for admission to higher education institutions or in connection with businesses or employment

SB 213 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program

SB 255 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri

SB 275 - Callahan - Requires certain funds from the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund to be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 331 - Justus - Provides that certain aliens will receive in-state tuition at colleges and universities that meet certain requirements

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 390 - Schaefer - Changes amounts of financial assistance awards for the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 493 - Mayer - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity

SB 504 - Cunningham - Requires students at public higher education institutions to pay the full cost of tuition if they take the same course more than twice

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

SB 572 - Dempsey - Establishes the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act

SCR 13 - Pearce - Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 390 - Nolte - Modifies the law relating to unauthorized aliens and employment safety programs

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 490 - Schad - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program

HB 506 - Funderburk - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

HB 631 - Jones - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

Elderly (11)

SB 89 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

SB 90 - Stouffer - Repeals the Certificate of Need Law

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 146 - Dempsey - Increases the amount of tax credits available for taxpayers who modify their home for disabled persons and authorizes a credit for doing the same for seniors

SB 169 - Shoemyer - Regulates insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 176 - Stouffer - Establishes an Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

SB 538 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities and fire marshal regulation as it relates to blasting licenses

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 272 - Chappelle-Nadal - Establishes the Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

Elections (30)

SB 14 - Nodler - Bars felons from holding public office

SB 21 - Days - Creates an advance voting system for elections

SB 22 - Days - Modifies the ballot requirements for elections

SB 35 - Goodman - Creates the Fair Ballot Commission to approve fair ballot language statements

SB 65 - Rupp - Modifies the state do-not-call list and creates "paid for by" requirements for political phone calls

SB 66 - Scott - Amends requirements for filing financial interest statements

SB 70 - Bray - Modifies the paperwork requirements for the formation of a new political party and the nomination of independent candidates

SB 74 - Wilson - Creates an income tax credit for poll workers

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 95 - Justus - Allows all registered voters to vote absentee for any or no reason

SB 106 - Justus - Bars disseminating certain information that would encourage voters to vote improperly

SB 115 - Bray - Modifies requirements pertaining to petition circulators

SB 122 - Griesheimer - Allows members of an ambulance district board of directors to be subject to recall from office

SB 145 - Wright-Jones - Modifies law relating to voter registration and election offenses

SB 253 - Justus - Modifies various provisions relating to elections

SB 257 - Schaefer - Allows for the extension of certain county taxes upon voter approval

SB 270 - Bray - Imposes campaign contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 303 - Smith - Allows instant runoff voting for municipalities and political subdivisions

SB 434 - Green - Modifies various provisions relating to ethics

SB 466 - Smith - Creates a method to publicly finance election campaigns for legislative and gubernatorial candidates

SB 523 - Bartle - Establishes advance voting and modifes voter identification requirements

SB 532 - Bray - Requires that electronic voting machines used in elections produce a paper ballot

SB 569 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the initiative and referendum process

HB 228 - Parson - Modifies requirements pertaining to initiative and referendum petitions and requires taxing authorities to submit tax reduction proposals to a vote of the people upon petition

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 568 - Dixon - Requires voter registration information to be made available to applicants for resident hunting and fishing permits

HB 681 - Smith - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator

HB 709 - Dusenberg - Modifies provisions relating to voter notification cards

HJR 37 - Cunningham - Requires voting by secret ballot for elections and employee representation

Elementary and Secondary Education Dept. (58)

SB 33 - Wilson - Creates the Missouri Strive to Succeed Graduation Program to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 42 - Cunningham - Creates the Teacher Choice Compensation Package to provide performance-based salary stipends for participating teachers

SB 51 - Bray - Requires the State Board of Education to classify a charter school as "unaccredited" based on annual performance review scores

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 56 - Callahan - Requires gaming revenues from the repeal of the loss limits to be distributed to school districts based on a district's average daily attendance calculation

SB 60 - Wilson - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop teaching standards for Missouri public schools

SB 76 - Wilson - Creates the Volunteer and Parents Incentive Program for public elementary and secondary schools

SB 78 - Wilson - Creates the Missouri Senior Cadet Program for mentoring of kindergarten through eighth grade students

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 97 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to contract with an online test preparation company for a customized SAT and ACT preparation program for high school juniors

SB 116 - Bray - Creates the Persistence to Graduation Fund to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts

SB 117 - Green - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to recalculate state school aid for Riverview Gardens School District to correct an error

SB 132 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to school anti-bullying policies

SB 139 - Mayer - Uses revenue from the repeal of the gaming loss limits to fund minimum salary supplements for teachers, early childhood, and school transportation

SB 175 - Schmitt - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to produce "The Parents' Bill of Rights" for parents of children with an individualized education program

SB 208 - Rupp - Allows the State Board of Education to grant teaching certificates to individuals to teach part-time in specific areas

SB 233 - Cunningham - Allows the State Board of Education to issue teacher certificates to certain individuals in the areas of banking and financial responsibility

SB 253 - Justus - Modifies various provisions relating to elections

SB 287 - Schaefer - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to create a central repository for school district budget information

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 314 - Smith - Creates the Missouri Preschool Plus Grant Program

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 345 - Lager - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week.

SB 373 - Mayer - Creates procedures for open enrollment of public school students across school district boundary lines

SB 429 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate teacher assessment programs and creates teacher assessment requirements for unaccredited school districts

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 438 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding

SB 443 - Days - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district

SB 445 - Rupp - Prohibits school district employees, volunteers, and independent contractors from placing a student receiving special education services into seclusion

SB 446 - Rupp - Modifies the elementary and secondary education funding formula

SB 453 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to education funding

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years

SB 492 - Mayer - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration

SB 493 - Mayer - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program

SB 496 - Cunningham - Allows the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, to have authority over extracurricular competitive activities

SB 497 - Cunningham - Allows a school district receiving students from a district that does not maintain an accredited school to request that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education withhold delinquent tuition payments

SB 498 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to include in their school accountability report cards whether they have a gifted education program and have had one over the past three years

SB 503 - Cunningham - Allows two or more adjacent school districts to share a superintendent under certain circumstances

SB 516 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education personnel

SB 520 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for students in primary grades

SB 521 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for sixth through twelfth graders

SB 537 - Cunningham - Creates procedures for open enrollment across school district boundary lines for certain students

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

SB 564 - Smith - Allows the State Board of Education to revoke the charter of charter schools that have decreasing student assessment scores

SB 576 - Dempsey - Requires that records submitted to the State Literacy Hotline for student drop-outs be made publicly available

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 217 - Hoskins - Requires a school board to provide a reason to a parent or guardian for the refusal to admit a student from an unaccredited school district

HB 242 - Kingery - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week

HB 289 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings

HB 373 - Wallace - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration

HB 488 - Schad - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as unaccredited for two successive years

HB 490 - Schad - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program

HB 509 - Stream - Requires school districts to adopt nutritional standards for food and beverages and adopt physical education programs

HB 659 - Dusenberg - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district

HB 682 - Swinger - Creates an exception for the 2008-2009 school year for the number of school days to be made up due to inclement weather

HB 922 - Smith - Requires each school district to adopt a policy on allergy prevention and response

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Emblems (1)

HB 807 - Wilson - Designates the Missouri River as the official state waterway

Emergencies (11)

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 263 - Mayer - Modifies the law relating to the Second Capitol Commission, the Seismic Safety Commission and liability of volunteers during declared emergencies

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

SB 454 - Mayer - Waives the waiting week for seekers of unemployment benefits adversely affected by the winter storm of January 2009

SB 462 - Crowell - Modifies provisions pertaining to hazardous substance spills and emergencies

HB 103 - Wildberger - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

HB 390 - Nolte - Modifies the law relating to unauthorized aliens and employment safety programs

HB 485 - Wright - Modifies the membership and quorum requirements for the Seismic Safety Commission

HB 580 - Bruns - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

HB 844 - Aull - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances

Employees - Employers (22)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

SB 103 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for small businesses and farmers that provide health insurance coverage for employees

SB 120 - Bray - Allows small employers to obtain medical coverage through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan

SB 147 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program

SB 149 - Dempsey - Enacts provisions relating to health care technology

SB 203 - Justus - Modifies the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

SB 212 - Griesheimer - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 278 - Cunningham - Modifies the job training program by expanding opportunities for pre-employment training

SB 279 - Schmitt - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 374 - Mayer - Codifies the employment-at-will doctrine

SB 465 - Pearce - Creates the Division of Job Development and Training and modifies the reporting requirements for obtaining unemployment benefits

SB 473 - Bray - Institutes procedures for public employee collective bargaining

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

SCR 24 - Lager - Urges Congress to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act

SR 153 - Engler - Establishes the rates of pay for Senate employees

HB 231 - Yates - Requires group health insurance policies issued to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law to provide terminated employees continuation coverage rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law

HB 258 - Jones - Modifies the prevailing and tipped employee wage rate

HB 390 - Nolte - Modifies the law relating to unauthorized aliens and employment safety programs

HB 844 - Aull - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances

HJR 37 - Cunningham - Requires voting by secret ballot for elections and employee representation

Employment Security (5)

SB 374 - Mayer - Codifies the employment-at-will doctrine

SB 461 - Callahan - Bars the state from contracting with banks that charge fees for unemployment insurance debit cards

SB 465 - Pearce - Creates the Division of Job Development and Training and modifies the reporting requirements for obtaining unemployment benefits

SB 495 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to employment security

HB 1075 - Fisher - Modifies various provisions relating to unemployment compensation

Energy (19)

SB 173 - Green - Creates a grant program to assist homeowners with installation of renewable energy generation equipment

SB 299 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions related to rates charged by natural gas corporations and provisions of Utilicare assistance

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency

SB 391 - Schaefer - Limits liability for personal injury or death arising from geologic sequestration activities in certain areas

SB 420 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for purchases of processed biomass engineered fiber fuel

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 433 - Bray - Modifies the type of appliances and consumer electronics for which minimum energy efficiency standards must be developed

SB 437 - Lager - Specifies that renewable energy resource property will be considered tangible personal property for property tax purposes

SB 539 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to environmental protection

SB 542 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's Linked Deposit Loan Program

SB 543 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for homes built under green build standards

SB 545 - Schmitt - Makes certain previously exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

SCR 7 - Pearce - Urges Congress to secure greater energy independence for the United States by allowing new off-shore drilling

SCR 21 - Clemens - Expresses support of the "25 by 25" national renewable energy initiative

HB 599 - Diehl - Makes certain previously-exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 751 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

HB 883 - Flook - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's linked deposit loan program

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Engineers (3)

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects

SB 448 - Pearce - Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for projects costing more than $1,000,000

Entertainment, Sports and Amusements (1)

HB 299 - Wilson - Removes the cap on appropriations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

Environmental Protection (13)

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 340 - Bray - Requires supermarkets and certain pharmacies to provide only certain environmentally friendly bags for carrying out purchased merchandise

SB 364 - Clemens - Provides labeling and recycling requirements for television manufacturers

SB 409 - Stouffer - Extends the expiration date until January 1, 2020 for the scrap tire fee and modifies uses of the fee proceeds

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 462 - Crowell - Modifies provisions pertaining to hazardous substance spills and emergencies

SR 210 - Schaefer - Urges Missourians to recycle their analog televisions

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Estates, Wills and Trusts (5)

SB 54 - Days - Authorizes a court to appoint a standby guardian for a minor or an incapacitated adult

SB 166 - Justus - Modifies the law regarding the Missouri Uniform Trust Code

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 273 - Cox - Allows the personal representative of an estate to submit documentation other than vouchers to the court as evidence of expenditures on behalf of the estate

Ethics (8)

SB 65 - Rupp - Modifies the state do-not-call list and creates "paid for by" requirements for political phone calls

SB 251 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to campaign expenditures and disclosure

SB 270 - Bray - Imposes campaign contribution limits for individuals and committees in support of candidates running for public office

SB 389 - Bray - Modifies provisions regarding public officials, lobbyists and campaign finance

SB 434 - Green - Modifies various provisions relating to ethics

SB 458 - Lager - Imposes duties of confidentiality upon employees of the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research

SB 485 - Pearce - Requires the Ethics Commission to redact the bank account number contained on a committee's statement of organization before it makes the statement public

HB 316 - Jones - Modifies provisions regarding public meetings and records, commonly known as the "Sunshine Law"

Evidence (2)

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways

Family Law (17)

SB 53 - Days - Allows adopted persons eighteen years of age and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate under certain circumstances

SB 94 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support

SB 141 - Smith - Modifies the law on the establishment of paternity

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 322 - Barnitz - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

SB 347 - Mayer - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

SB 440 - Schaefer - Allows for temporary domestic relations orders for military families

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SB 468 - Justus - Requires law enforcement officers to enter certain information regarding ex parte orders of protection into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System within twenty-four hours and modifies the age of an adult for adult abuse statutes

HB 154 - Ruestman - Modifies provisions relating to placement of children

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Family Services Division (2)

HB 154 - Ruestman - Modifies provisions relating to placement of children

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Federal - State Relations (19)

SB 281 - Bray - Directs the Air Conservation Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for limiting non-natural night time light emission near designated places

SB 313 - Nodler - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

SCR 5 - Stouffer - Urges Congress to deny any request that would authorize a study of the Missouri River's congressionally authorized purposes

SCR 10 - Rupp - Rescinds Missouri's 1983 call for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget

SCR 11 - Bartle - Expresses the General Assembly's opposition to the federal Freedom of Choice Act

SCR 12 - Bray - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 17 - Shields - Petitions the Council of State Governments to move the state of Missouri from the Southern Region of the Council to the Midwest Region of the Council

SCR 18 - Bartle - Condemns the federal government for passing and implementing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and urges Congress to refuse to pass any more "bailout bills"

SCR 20 - Pearce - Urges Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act

SCR 21 - Clemens - Expresses support of the "25 by 25" national renewable energy initiative

SCR 22 - Bray - Urges Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers

SCR 24 - Lager - Urges Congress to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act

SCR 27 - Rupp - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus and Stabilization Funds

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion

HB 361 - Guest - Prohibits the Department of Revenue from amending its driver's license application procedures in order to comply with the federal REAL ID Act

HB 459 - Schaaf - Imposes a gross receipts tax on certain ambulance service providers

HB 744 - Icet - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

HCR 13 - Guest - Claims sovereignty for the states under the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution for all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government under the Constitution

HCR 16 - Tracy - Strongly urges Congress to reject any asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or state medical care of any suspected terrorists released from United States operated foreign prisons

Fees (22)

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 80 - Wilson - Increases the recording fee collected to fund the county homeless person assistance program from $3 to $10, upon voter approval, if such a program has been created by the charter county

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 249 - Schaefer - Modifies requirements for corporate filings

SB 265 - Mayer - Extends the collection of the statewide court automation fee until 2013

SB 267 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions relating to real estate liens

SB 268 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 297 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

SB 355 - Dempsey - Allows motor vehicle dealers, boat dealers, and powersport dealers to charge administrative fees associated with the sale or lease of certain vehicles and vessels under certain conditions

SB 362 - Griesheimer - Increases recording user fees and requires requests for records dated after December 31, 1969, to be made to the office in which the record was originally filed

SB 397 - Shoemyer - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts

SB 561 - Green - Requires fee offices to be awarded through a competitive bidding process

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 381 - Silvey - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts

HB 482 - Jones - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

HB 751 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

Fire Protection (15)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 161 - Crowell - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

SB 164 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements

SB 220 - Goodman - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 284 - Lembke - Modifies the provisions governing fire department residency requirements

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

SB 447 - Pearce - Authorizes a city sales tax to fund public safety improvement

SB 462 - Crowell - Modifies provisions pertaining to hazardous substance spills and emergencies

SB 506 - Callahan - Creates fire sprinkler business regulations

SB 544 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions regarding organizations soliciting charitable contributions on roadways

HB 116 - Hoskins - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer

HB 205 - Parson - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

HB 580 - Bruns - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

HB 859 - Dieckhaus - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies

Firearms and Fireworks (7)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 52 - Bray - Modifies various provisions relating to domestic violence

SB 68 - Bray - Creates the crime of negligent storage of a firearm

SB 82 - Wilson - Expands the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include discharging a firearm for celebrating in an urban area

SB 205 - Shoemyer - Prohibits the condemnation of property owned by certain gun clubs or sportsmen's clubs

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

Fishing and Hunting (4)

SB 10 - Champion - Allows Missouri residents who own or lease at least 5 acres of land to hunt or fish on such land without a permit or in certain circumstances with a permit that is free-of-charge

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer

SB 350 - Clemens - Allows a hand-fishing season for catfish and carp during June and July on certain waterways

SB 372 - Dempsey - Allows the Conservation Commission to permanently revoke the hunting permit of any person who accidentally kills someone else while hunting

Funerals and Funeral Directors (3)

SB 1 - Scott - Establishes licensing and contract requirements for preneed funeral contract sellers, providers, and seller agents

HB 111 - Day - Provides funeral establishments with immunity from liability with regard to disposal of unclaimed veterans' cremated remains

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

Gambling (1)

SB 404 - Mayer - Repeals certain taxes imposed upon suppliers of bingo and pull-tab cards

General Assembly (59)

SB 31 - Stouffer - Eliminates the position of the Transportation Inspector General contained within the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight

SB 108 - Justus - Expresses the General Assembly's recognition that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of the sex of any person

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 304 - Crowell - Requires the Office of Administration to provide senators and representatives with access to the dome of the State Capitol

SB 349 - Goodman - Requires the Director of the Oversight Division of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to seek information directly from the Division of Tourism for bills that affect the tourism industry

SB 383 - Dempsey - Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on the Public School Retirement System of Missouri

SB 389 - Bray - Modifies provisions regarding public officials, lobbyists and campaign finance

SB 458 - Lager - Imposes duties of confidentiality upon employees of the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity

SB 514 - Dempsey - Creates the Legislative Budget Office and modifies duties of various joint committees of the General Assembly

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

SCR 1 - Shields - Appoints a 34-member joint committee to assist in the Inauguration ceremonies

SRM 1 - Green - Remonstrance against issuance of tax credits for the Kansas City Chiefs Football Team

SCR 3 - Justus - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 4 - Wright-Jones - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Child Support Enforcement Reform

SCR 5 - Stouffer - Urges Congress to deny any request that would authorize a study of the Missouri River's congressionally authorized purposes

SCR 6 - Lager - Disapproves the salary recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials

SCR 10 - Rupp - Rescinds Missouri's 1983 call for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget

SCR 12 - Bray - Urges Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

SCR 13 - Pearce - Encourages students and faculty to promote international education at Missouri colleges and universities

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

SCR 16 - Pearce - Urges the Air Force to select Whiteman Air Force Base as the headquarters for Global Strike Command

SCR 17 - Shields - Petitions the Council of State Governments to move the state of Missouri from the Southern Region of the Council to the Midwest Region of the Council

SCR 18 - Bartle - Condemns the federal government for passing and implementing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and urges Congress to refuse to pass any more "bailout bills"

SCR 19 - Crowell - Urges the Office of Administration and the Board of Public Buildings to payoff certain revenue bonds by fiscal year 2014

SCR 20 - Pearce - Urges Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act

SCR 21 - Clemens - Expresses support of the "25 by 25" national renewable energy initiative

SCR 22 - Bray - Urges Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers

SCR 27 - Rupp - Creates the Joint Interim Committee on Oversight of Federal Stimulus and Stabilization Funds

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

SR 49 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the use of Senate Chamber by the Missouri Community College Association

SR 86 - Shields - Changes Senate Rules 25 and 28 relating to Senate standing committees

SR 102 - Bartle - Authorizes the use of laptop computers in the Senate Chamber

SR 103 - Vogel - Authorizes use of the Senate Chamber by the Jefferson City Rotary Club

SR 104 - Bray - Authorizes the use of Senate Chamber by Missouri Girls State

SR 139 - Engler - Amends Senate Rule 64

SR 140 - Engler - Changes the Senate Rule about Senator office assignments and chamber seating

SR 141 - Engler - Authorizes the use of laptops on the Senate floor under certain circumstances

SR 153 - Engler - Establishes the rates of pay for Senate employees

SR 177 - Champion - Notice of Proposed Rule Change/Rule 64

SR 207 - Lembke - Urges the St. Louis School District to remove a restriction in the deeds of school buildings for sale

SR 211 - Nodler - Notice of Proposed Rule Change/Rule 28

SR 238 - Bray - Urges Congress and the President to maximize the investment in expanded and improved passenger train service as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan

SR 302 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Job Creation 2020 Committee

SR 303 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Healthy Missourians 2020 Committee

SR 304 - Shields - Creates the Missouri Senate Educated Workforce 2020 Committee

SR 361 - Dempsey - Recognizes March as Kidney Month in Missouri

SR 579 - Justus - Creates a procedure for adoption of courtesy resolutions

SR 1114 - Ridgeway - Designates May 2009 as Skin Cancer and UV Radiation Awareness Month in Missouri

HB 124 - Komo - Modifies the scope and duration of the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security

HCR 5 - McGhee - Disapproves the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials salary recommendations

HCR 10 - Tilley - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 27, 2009 for the State of the State message from Governor Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon

HCR 11 - Tilley - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 28, 2009, for the State of the Judiciary message, from Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith

HCR 13 - Guest - Claims sovereignty for the states under the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution for all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government under the Constitution

HCR 16 - Tracy - Strongly urges Congress to reject any asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or state medical care of any suspected terrorists released from United States operated foreign prisons

HCR 22 - Hoskins - Strongly urges the United States Air Force to select Whiteman Air Force Base as the permanent headquarters for the new Global Strike Command

HJR 17 - Nasheed - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund

HJR 23 - Icet - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits

Governor & Lt. Governor (26)

SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 127 - Rupp - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

SB 155 - Goodman - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 162 - Crowell - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities

SB 341 - Bray - Requires racial and gender equity in the membership of boards, commissions, committees, and councils

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 366 - Schmitt - Establishes each February 14th as Epilepsy Awareness Day

SB 472 - Ridgeway - Requires the Governor and political subdivisions to disclose information regarding the distribution of public funds

SB 540 - Schaefer - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

SCR 1 - Shields - Appoints a 34-member joint committee to assist in the Inauguration ceremonies

SCR 15 - Shoemyer - Urges the Governor and Office of Administration to deposit stimulus money received from the federal government into the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund for capital improvements at public colleges and universities

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

HB 282 - Stevenson - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Jasper County, known as the Joplin Regional Center, to Missouri Southern State University

HB 506 - Funderburk - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

HB 537 - Dixon - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 544 - Smith - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome

HB 681 - Smith - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator

HB 895 - Sander - Authorizes the Governor to convey all interest in an easement across state property located in Macon County to certain private property owners for obtaining access to their property

HB 909 - Brandom - Authorizes the Governor to convey various state properties

HB 918 - Kelly - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

HCR 10 - Tilley - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 27, 2009 for the State of the State message from Governor Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon

HJR 10 - Cox - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

Guardians (3)

SB 54 - Days - Authorizes a court to appoint a standby guardian for a minor or an incapacitated adult

HB 154 - Ruestman - Modifies provisions relating to placement of children

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Health Care (44)

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance

SB 18 - Bray - Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Commission and modifies eligibility for MO HealthNet

SB 77 - Stouffer - Adds comprehensive day services as a covered service under MO HealthNet

SB 144 - Wright-Jones - Establishes a prostate cancer pilot program to provide screening, referral services, treatment and outreach

SB 148 - Dempsey - Provides a tax deduction for the premiums paid by a taxpayer for high deductible health plans used with a health savings account

SB 170 - Shoemyer - Modifies the membership of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee

SB 176 - Stouffer - Establishes an Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

SB 197 - Goodman - Prescribes requirments as to billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 306 - Dempsey - Establishes the Show-Me Health Coverage Plan and modifies provisions relating to health care services

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 352 - Bray - Establishes the Commission on the Reorganization of State Health Care

SB 365 - Clemens - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel

SB 369 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions related to pharmacy

SB 375 - Mayer - Provides health insurance coverage for Phase I clinical trials for cancer treatment

SB 378 - Nodler - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

SB 407 - Scott - Requires a comprehensive study on how other states administer their state employee health care plans

SB 412 - Dempsey - Establishes a grant for a feasibility study on creating a single comprehensive health care plan at the local level

SB 413 - Dempsey - Provides for a one time grant by the Department of Social Services for use by free health care clinics

SB 414 - Dempsey - Prohibits hospitals from billing for certain medical errors

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services

SB 548 - Schmitt - Allows for the establishment of health record banks

SB 549 - Schmitt - Requires the establishment of a MO HealthNet data transparency program

SB 552 - Crowell - Modifies provisions regarding MO HealthNet's authority to collect payment from third party payers

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

SB 570 - Lembke - Modifies provisions regarding non-MO HealthNet eligible persons in the Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services Program

SCR 22 - Bray - Urges Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers

SJR 17 - Lembke - Prohibits public funds to be used for abortion services, human cloning, or prohibited human research

SR 1114 - Ridgeway - Designates May 2009 as Skin Cancer and UV Radiation Awareness Month in Missouri

HB 231 - Yates - Requires group health insurance policies issued to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law to provide terminated employees continuation coverage rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 259 - Tilley - Modifies Missouri’s prompt pay statute with respect to the payment of health insurance claims

HB 272 - Chappelle-Nadal - Establishes the Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

HB 286 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control

HB 459 - Schaaf - Imposes a gross receipts tax on certain ambulance service providers

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

HB 919 - Ruestman - Permits associations to provide group health insurance policies to sole-proprietorships and self-employed individuals

Health Care Professionals (26)

SB 87 - Crowell - Exempts MO HealthNet expense reimbursements received by doctors, dentists, and nurses from state income tax

SB 167 - Rupp - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders under certain conditions

SB 170 - Shoemyer - Modifies the membership of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee

SB 197 - Goodman - Prescribes requirments as to billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

SB 203 - Justus - Modifies the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists

SB 236 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions of the prompt pay statutes as they relate to the calculation of interest and penalties, the payment of attorney fees, and other ancillary matters

SB 283 - Lembke - Prohibits health carriers from imposing co-insurance or co-payment amounts that exceeds 50% of the total cost of any single health care service

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 308 - Bray - Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 378 - Nodler - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

SB 410 - Stouffer - Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance

SB 425 - Justus - Requires health insurance policies to cover dental care services for pregnant women

SB 463 - Days - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for the treatment and diagnosis of eating disorders

SB 478 - Shoemyer - Forbids health carriers from requiring providers to disclose their reimbursement rates with other carriers as a condition to contract

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services

SB 531 - Goodman - Eliminates certain restrictions on dental advertising

SB 547 - Schmitt - Modifies several provisions of law relating to health insurance

SB 548 - Schmitt - Allows for the establishment of health record banks

HB 229 - Ervin - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance

HB 286 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control

Health Dept. (38)

SB 4 - Shields - Establishes a quality rating system for child care facilities

SB 18 - Bray - Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Commission and modifies eligibility for MO HealthNet

SB 53 - Days - Allows adopted persons eighteen years of age and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate under certain circumstances

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 72 - Stouffer - Provides for transfer of long-term care beds to certain new health care facilities

SB 89 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

SB 90 - Stouffer - Repeals the Certificate of Need Law

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 104 - Justus - Provides information and the opportunity to be immunized for the human papilloma virus

SB 144 - Wright-Jones - Establishes a prostate cancer pilot program to provide screening, referral services, treatment and outreach

SB 147 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program

SB 149 - Dempsey - Enacts provisions relating to health care technology

SB 160 - Crowell - Changes the scheduling of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to be Schedule III Controlled Substances

SB 176 - Stouffer - Establishes an Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

SB 229 - Bray - Requires the posting of nurse staffing levels at hospitals

SB 244 - Dempsey - Creates a pilot program regarding personal care services for certain disabled adults

SB 260 - Wright-Jones - Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

SB 264 - Mayer - Enacts provisions regarding the coercion of abortions

SB 308 - Bray - Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 338 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to crime victims

SB 352 - Bray - Establishes the Commission on the Reorganization of State Health Care

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

SB 432 - Vogel - Provides information to parents of students about immunizations against bacterial meningitis

SB 482 - Ridgeway - Regulates tanning facilities

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services

SB 534 - Rupp - Requires coroners or medical examiners to perform certain testing on individuals who commit suicide and report the findings to the Department of Health and Senior Services

SCR 26 - Wilson - Declares that extending the flu vaccination season may help protect children, adults, and high risk groups

HB 46 - Davis - Modifies provisions regarding informed consent for abortions

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 272 - Chappelle-Nadal - Establishes the Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force

HB 286 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 716 - Todd - Adds provisions related to newborns and newborn screenings

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

Health, Public (29)

SB 77 - Stouffer - Adds comprehensive day services as a covered service under MO HealthNet

SB 104 - Justus - Provides information and the opportunity to be immunized for the human papilloma virus

SB 144 - Wright-Jones - Establishes a prostate cancer pilot program to provide screening, referral services, treatment and outreach

SB 147 - Dempsey - Establishes the Missouri Healthy Workplace Recognition Program

SB 149 - Dempsey - Enacts provisions relating to health care technology

SB 197 - Goodman - Prescribes requirments as to billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

SB 203 - Justus - Modifies the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

SB 229 - Bray - Requires the posting of nurse staffing levels at hospitals

SB 250 - Smith - Requires the Department of Corrections to develop a comprehensive policy to provide HIV testing, treatment, and prevention for inmates

SB 260 - Wright-Jones - Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

SB 306 - Dempsey - Establishes the Show-Me Health Coverage Plan and modifies provisions relating to health care services

SB 308 - Bray - Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 309 - Bray - Enacts a state-wide smoking ban

SB 352 - Bray - Establishes the Commission on the Reorganization of State Health Care

SB 366 - Schmitt - Establishes each February 14th as Epilepsy Awareness Day

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 412 - Dempsey - Establishes a grant for a feasibility study on creating a single comprehensive health care plan at the local level

SB 413 - Dempsey - Provides for a one time grant by the Department of Social Services for use by free health care clinics

SB 414 - Dempsey - Prohibits hospitals from billing for certain medical errors

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers

SB 432 - Vogel - Provides information to parents of students about immunizations against bacterial meningitis

SB 482 - Ridgeway - Regulates tanning facilities

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SCR 22 - Bray - Urges Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers

SCR 26 - Wilson - Declares that extending the flu vaccination season may help protect children, adults, and high risk groups

SR 361 - Dempsey - Recognizes March as Kidney Month in Missouri

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 286 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control

HB 716 - Todd - Adds provisions related to newborns and newborn screenings

Higher Education Dept. (8)

SB 23 - Callahan - Designates that the gaming revenues derived from the repeal of the loss limits will be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 40 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the Bright Flight Scholarship Program

SB 275 - Callahan - Requires certain funds from the Lewis & Clark Discovery Fund to be used for higher education tuition reduction

SB 344 - Lager - Creates the P-20 Council to create a more efficient and effective education system

SB 390 - Schaefer - Changes amounts of financial assistance awards for the Access Missouri Financial Assistance Program

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity

SB 558 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to higher education scholarships

HB 631 - Jones - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

Highway Patrol (10)

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 47 - Scott - Modifies requirements for certain law enforcement personnel

SB 52 - Bray - Modifies various provisions relating to domestic violence

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 150 - Griesheimer - Specifies that overtime or compensatory time is not included in certain retirement benefit calculations for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

HB 685 - Jones - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants

Historic Preservation (1)

SB 190 - Shoemyer - Requires all offices of elected officials in the State Capitol to be accessible to individuals with disabilities by December 31, 2014

Holidays (5)

SB 366 - Schmitt - Establishes each February 14th as Epilepsy Awareness Day

SR 361 - Dempsey - Recognizes March as Kidney Month in Missouri

SR 1114 - Ridgeway - Designates May 2009 as Skin Cancer and UV Radiation Awareness Month in Missouri

HB 128 - Cunningham - Requires public bodies to use the traditional name of any holiday that such body observes or recognizes and designates December 25th of every year as Christmas

HB 678 - Wasson - Designates May 1 of each year as "Silver Star Families of America Day" to honor the wounded members of the United States armed forces

Hospitals (5)

SB 229 - Bray - Requires the posting of nurse staffing levels at hospitals

SB 260 - Wright-Jones - Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

SB 308 - Bray - Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 414 - Dempsey - Prohibits hospitals from billing for certain medical errors

Housing (14)

SB 69 - Bray - Modifies law regarding property insurance

SB 80 - Wilson - Increases the recording fee collected to fund the county homeless person assistance program from $3 to $10, upon voter approval, if such a program has been created by the charter county

SB 230 - Bray - Adopts the Uniform Planned Community Act

SB 247 - Schaefer - Allows counties of the first classification to control the minimum standards of occupancy for residential units rented or leased and to develop a licensing and inspecting program

SB 268 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund

SB 326 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Neighborhood Assistance Act

SB 424 - Justus - Allows Kansas City to enact ordinances allowing the city building official to petition the circuit court for the appointment of a receiver to rehabilitate, demolish, or sell a vacant nuisance building

SB 469 - Justus - Requires certain notices to tenants in cases of foreclosure and provides additional time before eviction actions may begin

SB 543 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for homes built under green build standards

HB 320 - Swinger - Authorizes a tax credit for storm shelter construction

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 802 - Tracy - Implements new median family income eligibility thresholds for persons living in owner-occupied units and rental units for purposes of receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Assistance Act

HB 836 - Curls - Requires certain notices to occupants of residential property in cases of foreclosure before the new owner may bring an action seeking possession of the property

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Identity Theft and Protection (2)

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 245 - Schaefer - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

Immigration (4)

SB 133 - Smith - Modifies the definition of public benefit as it relates to non-residents attending a Missouri institution of higher education

SB 331 - Justus - Provides that certain aliens will receive in-state tuition at colleges and universities that meet certain requirements

HB 124 - Komo - Modifies the scope and duration of the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security

HB 390 - Nolte - Modifies the law relating to unauthorized aliens and employment safety programs

Insurance - Automobile (7)

SB 16 - Nodler - Criminalizes the production, manufacture, possession and a sale of fraudulent documents intended to serve as insurance identification cards

SB 202 - Schaefer - Modifies the law regarding the operation of a motorcycle, namely the assignment of fault for the operator's normal operation of such vehicle and the ability to forego wearing headgear while operating it

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 335 - Rupp - Modifies the law with respect to Missouri's motor vehicle financial responsibility law

SB 397 - Shoemyer - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 571 - Lembke - Prohibits insurers and their agents from engaging in certain activities with respect to motor vehicle collision repair claims

Insurance - General (9)

SB 126 - Rupp - Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel destinations unless such action is based upon sound actuarial principles

SB 269 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of captive insurance companies

SB 280 - Rupp - Specifies that insurance companies subject to an annual tax on gross premium receipts are exempt from the imposition of Missouri's corporate income and franchise taxes

SB 336 - Rupp - Creates a legal process for insurance companies to contest policy coverage issues without breaching certain agreements to their insureds

SB 410 - Stouffer - Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance

SB 467 - Justus - Requires nursing home facilities to carry liability insurance with limits of no less than $1 million per occurrence to compensate residents for damages

SB 483 - Rupp - Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model regulations

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance

Insurance - Life (3)

SB 1 - Scott - Establishes licensing and contract requirements for preneed funeral contract sellers, providers, and seller agents

SB 126 - Rupp - Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel destinations unless such action is based upon sound actuarial principles

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance

Insurance - Medical (34)

SB 18 - Bray - Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Commission and modifies eligibility for MO HealthNet

SB 103 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for small businesses and farmers that provide health insurance coverage for employees

SB 104 - Justus - Provides information and the opportunity to be immunized for the human papilloma virus

SB 120 - Bray - Allows small employers to obtain medical coverage through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan

SB 148 - Dempsey - Provides a tax deduction for the premiums paid by a taxpayer for high deductible health plans used with a health savings account

SB 167 - Rupp - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders under certain conditions

SB 169 - Shoemyer - Regulates insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans

SB 236 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions of the prompt pay statutes as they relate to the calculation of interest and penalties, the payment of attorney fees, and other ancillary matters

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 283 - Lembke - Prohibits health carriers from imposing co-insurance or co-payment amounts that exceeds 50% of the total cost of any single health care service

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 306 - Dempsey - Establishes the Show-Me Health Coverage Plan and modifies provisions relating to health care services

SB 320 - Days - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for prosthetic devices under certain conditions

SB 352 - Bray - Establishes the Commission on the Reorganization of State Health Care

SB 375 - Mayer - Provides health insurance coverage for Phase I clinical trials for cancer treatment

SB 407 - Scott - Requires a comprehensive study on how other states administer their state employee health care plans

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers

SB 425 - Justus - Requires health insurance policies to cover dental care services for pregnant women

SB 463 - Days - Requires health carriers to provide coverage for the treatment and diagnosis of eating disorders

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance

SB 475 - Wright-Jones - Requires health carriers to devote a certain percentage of their total annual Missouri-associated revenues on health care services

SB 478 - Shoemyer - Forbids health carriers from requiring providers to disclose their reimbursement rates with other carriers as a condition to contract

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services

SB 547 - Schmitt - Modifies several provisions of law relating to health insurance

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

HB 218 - Ervin - Modifies the eligibility rules for health insurance coverage under the Missouri Health Insurance Pool

HB 229 - Ervin - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance

HB 231 - Yates - Requires group health insurance policies issued to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law to provide terminated employees continuation coverage rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law

HB 259 - Tilley - Modifies Missouri’s prompt pay statute with respect to the payment of health insurance claims

HB 326 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions relating to certain mental health professionals

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance

HB 919 - Ruestman - Permits associations to provide group health insurance policies to sole-proprietorships and self-employed individuals

Insurance - Property (2)

SB 69 - Bray - Modifies law regarding property insurance

SB 357 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions of law relating to transportation

Insurance Dept. (20)

SB 69 - Bray - Modifies law regarding property insurance

SB 126 - Rupp - Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel destinations unless such action is based upon sound actuarial principles

SB 169 - Shoemyer - Regulates insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans

SB 269 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of captive insurance companies

SB 370 - Bray - Modifies the law relating to foreclosures

SB 410 - Stouffer - Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance

SB 464 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions relating to insurance

SB 475 - Wright-Jones - Requires health carriers to devote a certain percentage of their total annual Missouri-associated revenues on health care services

SB 483 - Rupp - Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model regulations

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services

SB 547 - Schmitt - Modifies several provisions of law relating to health insurance

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 218 - Ervin - Modifies the eligibility rules for health insurance coverage under the Missouri Health Insurance Pool

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 577 - Yates - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance

HB 811 - Wasson - Requires applicants for licensing as a dietitian to have a current registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration

HB 812 - Wasson - Repeals certain statutes regarding the board of cosmetology and the board of barber examiners which are no longer used and updates certain statutory references

HB 919 - Ruestman - Permits associations to provide group health insurance policies to sole-proprietorships and self-employed individuals

Internet, World-wide Web & E-mail (2)

SB 207 - Rupp - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

SB 245 - Schaefer - Creates consumer notification requirements for data security breaches

Interstate Cooperation (1)

SB 19 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

Jackson County (4)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 399 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

Judges (23)

SB 39 - Rupp - Adds a circuit judge position within the Forty-fifth Judicial Circuit

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 239 - Bartle - Modifies the compensation rate for senior judges or senior commissioners

SB 322 - Barnitz - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

SB 401 - Goodman - Adds a circuit judge position to each of three judicial circuits

SB 423 - Pearce - Adds a third circuit judge to the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit

SB 444 - Wilson - Creates general standards for the use of mediation to resolve disputes

SCR 6 - Lager - Disapproves the salary recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials

SJR 6 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials

SJR 9 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

SJR 10 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying who presides over impeachment trials

SJR 15 - Cunningham - Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that the General Assembly is not required to enact legislation to comply with a court order declaring that it raise taxes

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 237 - Jones - Modifies provisions relating to courts

HB 238 - Jones - Allows the consolidation of the report of the Judicial Finance Commission with any annual report prepared by the Supreme Court or the Office of State Court Administrator

HB 294 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires courts to adopt certain procedures in cases where a landlord sues a tenant for unpaid rent and possession

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 482 - Jones - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants

HB 546 - Smith - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

HB 863 - Dixon - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways

HCR 11 - Tilley - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 28, 2009, for the State of the Judiciary message, from Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith

HJR 10 - Cox - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions

Juries (2)

SB 218 - Ridgeway - Allows jury trials in termination of parental rights actions

SB 476 - Wright-Jones - Allows elected officials to be excused from jury duty during their term of office

Kansas City (7)

SB 189 - Shields - Modifies the law currently prohibiting Kansas City police officers from participating in some political activities

SB 253 - Justus - Modifies various provisions relating to elections

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 424 - Justus - Allows Kansas City to enact ordinances allowing the city building official to petition the circuit court for the appointment of a receiver to rehabilitate, demolish, or sell a vacant nuisance building

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities

SRM 1 - Green - Remonstrance against issuance of tax credits for the Kansas City Chiefs Football Team

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

Labor and Industrial Relations Dept. (10)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index

SB 323 - Ridgeway - Restricts certain workers' compensation benefits to instances when an employee's disfigurement is a hindrance to employment

SB 338 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to crime victims

SB 441 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to teacher termination proceedings

SB 454 - Mayer - Waives the waiting week for seekers of unemployment benefits adversely affected by the winter storm of January 2009

SB 465 - Pearce - Creates the Division of Job Development and Training and modifies the reporting requirements for obtaining unemployment benefits

SB 495 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to employment security

HB 258 - Jones - Modifies the prevailing and tipped employee wage rate

HB 1075 - Fisher - Modifies various provisions relating to unemployment compensation

Labor and Management (7)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index

SB 473 - Bray - Institutes procedures for public employee collective bargaining

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SCR 24 - Lager - Urges Congress to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act

HB 258 - Jones - Modifies the prevailing and tipped employee wage rate

HJR 37 - Cunningham - Requires voting by secret ballot for elections and employee representation

Lakes, Rivers and Waterways (6)

SB 2 - Scott - Prohibits certain activities on the rivers of this state

SB 350 - Clemens - Allows a hand-fishing season for catfish and carp during June and July on certain waterways

SCR 5 - Stouffer - Urges Congress to deny any request that would authorize a study of the Missouri River's congressionally authorized purposes

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion

HB 657 - Cooper - Modifies provisions relating to boat docks

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

Landlords and Tenants (8)

SB 231 - Cunningham - Exempts landlords from liability for loss or damage to tenants' personal property when executing an order for possession of premises

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 469 - Justus - Requires certain notices to tenants in cases of foreclosure and provides additional time before eviction actions may begin

HB 171 - Cox - Excuses tenant from paying rent when his or her residence is destroyed by an act of God or other natural or man-made disaster, provided the tenant was not the cause of the disaster

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 294 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires courts to adopt certain procedures in cases where a landlord sues a tenant for unpaid rent and possession

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 836 - Curls - Requires certain notices to occupants of residential property in cases of foreclosure before the new owner may bring an action seeking possession of the property

Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies (49)

SB 8 - Champion - Creates a Crime Laboratory Review Commission to independently review the operations of crime laboratories in the state of Missouri that receive state-administered funding

SB 13 - Bartle - Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions

SB 30 - Stouffer - Requires certain motorists who have had their driver's licenses revoked two or more times to display restricted license plates

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 47 - Scott - Modifies requirements for certain law enforcement personnel

SB 52 - Bray - Modifies various provisions relating to domestic violence

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 161 - Crowell - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

SB 164 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

SB 189 - Shields - Modifies the law currently prohibiting Kansas City police officers from participating in some political activities

SB 221 - Goodman - Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention

SB 227 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to dangerous animal registration

SB 261 - Bartle - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 301 - Pearce - Requires law enforcement agencies and officers to use canine teams which have been certified by an association approved by the Department of Public Safety

SB 310 - Bartle - Requires custodial interrogations of persons suspected of certain serious offenses to be recorded

SB 328 - Bray - Creates the Task Force on the Use of Conducted Energy Devices

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

SB 346 - Schaefer - Requires that after January 1, 2010, any self-service display of tobacco products may only be located in a tobacco specialty store

SB 348 - Mayer - Changes how salaries of county sheriffs are established

SB 372 - Dempsey - Allows the Conservation Commission to permanently revoke the hunting permit of any person who accidentally kills someone else while hunting

SB 417 - Goodman - Allows law enforcement agencies to hold a suspect arrested without a warrant for up to 48 hours, rather than 24 hours, before charging the person with a crime.

SB 447 - Pearce - Authorizes a city sales tax to fund public safety improvement

SB 468 - Justus - Requires law enforcement officers to enter certain information regarding ex parte orders of protection into the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System within twenty-four hours and modifies the age of an adult for adult abuse statutes

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 518 - Lembke - Requires a study of crediting unused sick leave to St. Louis police officers' retirement

SB 544 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions regarding organizations soliciting charitable contributions on roadways

SB 563 - Smith - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 565 - Wright-Jones - Modifies police retirement systems provisions relating to reserve officers

SB 566 - Wright-Jones - Modifies provisions regarding reserve police officers of St. Louis City

SB 567 - Wright-Jones - Allows the Board of Police Commissioners to determine the number and ranks of police officers necessary for St. Louis City

HB 62 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to crime

HB 116 - Hoskins - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer

HB 152 - Ruestman - Requires persons arrest for certain offenses to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling analysis

HB 384 - Lipke - Modifies various provisions relating to criminal offenses and criminal procedure

HB 397 - Flook - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

HB 426 - Sutherland - Creates the Large Carnivore Act which regulates the possession and care of certain non-native big cats and bears

HB 580 - Bruns - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

HB 593 - Viebrock - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

HB 622 - Roorda - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases

HB 667 - Jones - Removes the 12-month grace period that newly elected sheriffs are allowed in order to become a licensed peace officer in order to execute police powers beginning January 1, 2010

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 685 - Jones - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

HB 747 - Witte - Specifies that in order for a person to be guilty of the crime of sexual contact with a prisoner or offender, the prisoner or offender must be confined in a jail, prison, or correctional facility

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

Liability (17)

SB 3 - Scott - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

SB 194 - Shoemyer - Creates procedures for crop sampling by a patent holder of genetically modified seed

SB 231 - Cunningham - Exempts landlords from liability for loss or damage to tenants' personal property when executing an order for possession of premises

SB 311 - Goodman - Modifies the law that limits indemnity agreements in construction work contracts

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

SB 391 - Schaefer - Limits liability for personal injury or death arising from geologic sequestration activities in certain areas

SB 410 - Stouffer - Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers

SB 568 - Rupp - Establishes the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and creates a state false claims act

HB 111 - Day - Provides funeral establishments with immunity from liability with regard to disposal of unclaimed veterans' cremated remains

HB 170 - Cox - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts and lowers the age for concealed carry applications

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

Libraries and Archives (2)

SB 266 - Mayer - Allows public library districts to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund libraries within such districts

SB 450 - Cunningham - Requires public libraries to adopt policies on the placement of books and other materials that are obscene or pornographic for minors

Licenses - Driver's (10)

SB 30 - Stouffer - Requires certain motorists who have had their driver's licenses revoked two or more times to display restricted license plates

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 343 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions of law relating to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission leadership and commercial driver license regulation

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 522 - Stouffer - Amends several provisions of law relating to the regulation of commercial drivers' licenses

SB 561 - Green - Requires fee offices to be awarded through a competitive bidding process

HB 361 - Guest - Prohibits the Department of Revenue from amending its driver's license application procedures in order to comply with the federal REAL ID Act

HB 381 - Silvey - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

Licenses - Liquor and Beer (7)

SB 171 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

SB 188 - Dempsey - Modifies various provisions relating to liquor control

SB 396 - Justus - Modifies various laws relating to liquor control

SB 426 - Griesheimer - Repeals the current provisions regulating nonintoxicating beer and requires such beer to be regulated in the same manner as other intoxicating liquors

SB 442 - Callahan - Prohibits any person or business from having more than five liquor licenses, rather than three

SB 451 - Cunningham - Allows any winery, distiller, manufacturer, wholesaler or brewer to provide beverage samples on a licensed retail premises for tasting purposes

HB 132 - Fallert - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

Licenses - Misc (3)

SB 20 - Days - Amends laws relating to unsecured loans of $500 or less

SB 388 - Barnitz - Modifies various provisions relating to foster care and adoption

HB 400 - Nasheed - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government

Licenses - Motor Vehicle (18)

SB 30 - Stouffer - Requires certain motorists who have had their driver's licenses revoked two or more times to display restricted license plates

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 114 - Crowell - Modifies a variety of provisions that relate to the judicial process in some manner

SB 129 - McKenna - Prohibits school bus drivers from using wireless telephones or other electronic wireless communication devices while operating school buses on the highways

SB 134 - Dempsey - Authorizes the issuance of several special license plates and modifies the procedure for their issuance

SB 342 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes

SB 343 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions of law relating to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission leadership and commercial driver license regulation

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 525 - Griesheimer - Modifies the law with respect to certain off-highway vehicles (ATVs and recreational off-highway vehicles)

SB 561 - Green - Requires fee offices to be awarded through a competitive bidding process

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

HB 278 - Meiners - Allows mobility motor vehicle dealers to purchase new motor vehicles and equip them for retail sale as mobility motor vehicles under certain conditions

HB 381 - Silvey - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts

HB 400 - Nasheed - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 644 - Wilson - Requires operators of salvage pool or salvage disposal sales, rather than sellers, who sell nonrepairable vehicles to foreign residents to complete certain statutory duties

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

Licenses - Professional (29)

SB 1 - Scott - Establishes licensing and contract requirements for preneed funeral contract sellers, providers, and seller agents

SB 137 - Rupp - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

SB 152 - Clemens - Modifies definition of eligible student for nursing student loan program

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists

SB 210 - Lembke - Prohibits the Supreme Court from establishing or maintaining a mandatory state bar association

SB 237 - Lembke - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

SB 295 - Scott - Specifies that licensed professional counseling includes the diagnosis of mental, emotional, and behavior disorders and allows the Committee for Professional Counselors to require certain education or training in diagnostic skills

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects

SB 318 - Lembke - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

SB 361 - Crowell - Authorizes volunteer licenses for retired dentists and dental hygienists

SB 365 - Clemens - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel

SB 384 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to geographical information systems

SB 397 - Shoemyer - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 416 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries

SB 506 - Callahan - Creates fire sprinkler business regulations

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

SB 531 - Goodman - Eliminates certain restrictions on dental advertising

SB 541 - Pearce - Institutes various provisions regulating practices involved in making residential mortgage loans

HB 103 - Wildberger - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 326 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions relating to certain mental health professionals

HB 382 - Cox - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

HB 811 - Wasson - Requires applicants for licensing as a dietitian to have a current registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration

HB 812 - Wasson - Repeals certain statutes regarding the board of cosmetology and the board of barber examiners which are no longer used and updates certain statutory references

HB 842 - Wood - Defines certain boat docks as real property for the purposes of real estate appraisers and modifies the definition of "commercial real estate" as it is used in licensing real estate brokers and agents

HB 866 - Wells - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

Liens (6)

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 267 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions relating to real estate liens

SB 319 - Lembke - Modifies the manner in which lien titles for motor vehicles, trailers, outboard motors, aircrafts, and vessels are issued

SB 405 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to manufactured homes, including the procedure for obtaining a title to an abandoned manufactured home

SB 513 - Dempsey - Modifies the filing requirements for certain real estate broker liens and requires builders to offer to install sprinklers in some instances

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

Lobbying (1)

SB 389 - Bray - Modifies provisions regarding public officials, lobbyists and campaign finance

Manufactured Housing (4)

SB 214 - Scott - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 405 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to manufactured homes, including the procedure for obtaining a title to an abandoned manufactured home

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

Marriage and Divorce (3)

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Medicaid (10)

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance

SB 77 - Stouffer - Adds comprehensive day services as a covered service under MO HealthNet

SB 170 - Shoemyer - Modifies the membership of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee

SB 538 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities and fire marshal regulation as it relates to blasting licenses

SB 546 - Schmitt - Increase the income disregard for eligibility in the Ticket-to-Work Health Assurance Program

SB 549 - Schmitt - Requires the establishment of a MO HealthNet data transparency program

SB 552 - Crowell - Modifies provisions regarding MO HealthNet's authority to collect payment from third party payers

SB 570 - Lembke - Modifies provisions regarding non-MO HealthNet eligible persons in the Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services Program

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

Medical Procedures and Personnel (9)

SB 144 - Wright-Jones - Establishes a prostate cancer pilot program to provide screening, referral services, treatment and outreach

SB 164 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

SB 375 - Mayer - Provides health insurance coverage for Phase I clinical trials for cancer treatment

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 286 - Schaaf - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control

HB 580 - Bruns - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

Mental Health (6)

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance

SB 101 - Green - Modifies the membership of the review panels convened by the Division of Developmental Disabilities

SB 258 - Schaefer - Provides for the county counselor of Boone County to receive state money for performing duties related to mental health and mental health facilities

SB 295 - Scott - Specifies that licensed professional counseling includes the diagnosis of mental, emotional, and behavior disorders and allows the Committee for Professional Counselors to require certain education or training in diagnostic skills

SB 378 - Nodler - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

Mental Health Dept. (10)

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 101 - Green - Modifies the membership of the review panels convened by the Division of Developmental Disabilities

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism

SB 435 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to contracts of the Department of Mental Health

SB 460 - Nodler - Allows the Division of Developmental Disabilities to contract directly with case management providers in a defined region

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

HB 525 - Grisamore - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

Merchandising Practices (8)

SB 282 - Bray - Creates statutory warranties for home buyers and homeowners and also prevents home solicitors from engaging in certain deceptive practices

SB 340 - Bray - Requires supermarkets and certain pharmacies to provide only certain environmentally friendly bags for carrying out purchased merchandise

SB 346 - Schaefer - Requires that after January 1, 2010, any self-service display of tobacco products may only be located in a tobacco specialty store

SB 371 - Bray - Prohibits the use of expiration dates or service fees on gift certificates

SB 531 - Goodman - Eliminates certain restrictions on dental advertising

HB 278 - Meiners - Allows mobility motor vehicle dealers to purchase new motor vehicles and equip them for retail sale as mobility motor vehicles under certain conditions

HB 281 - Weter - Modifies the laws regarding motor vehicle dealerships as they relate to manufacturer-authorized warranty work and repair

HB 698 - Zimmerman - Modifies signage requirements for certain donation receptacles

Merit System (1)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

Military Affairs (14)

SB 281 - Bray - Directs the Air Conservation Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for limiting non-natural night time light emission near designated places

SB 334 - Pearce - Authorizes an income tax deduction for all military retirement benefits

SB 403 - Vogel - Requires that certain state officials engaged in military service receive their state salary only to the same extent as other state employees

SB 440 - Schaefer - Allows for temporary domestic relations orders for military families

SB 533 - Rupp - Requires that members of the National Guard be informed of the risks of depleted uranium and that certain veterans be informed of available federal treatment for exposure to depleted uranium

SB 554 - Crowell - Allows the Adjutant General to assign the number of assistant adjutants general that are authorized by National Guard Bureau rules and regulations rather than limiting the number to two

SCR 16 - Pearce - Urges the Air Force to select Whiteman Air Force Base as the headquarters for Global Strike Command

SCR 25 - Justus - Urges Congress to replace the "don't ask don't tell" policy with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

HB 82 - Kraus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits and creates a six year phased-in income tax exemption for military retirement income

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 678 - Wasson - Designates May 1 of each year as "Silver Star Families of America Day" to honor the wounded members of the United States armed forces

HB 861 - Day - Allows the Adjutant General to assign the number of assistant adjutants general that are authorized by National Guard Bureau rules and regulations rather than limiting the number to two

HCR 16 - Tracy - Strongly urges Congress to reject any asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or state medical care of any suspected terrorists released from United States operated foreign prisons

HCR 22 - Hoskins - Strongly urges the United States Air Force to select Whiteman Air Force Base as the permanent headquarters for the new Global Strike Command

Mining and Oil and Gas Production (3)

SB 391 - Schaefer - Limits liability for personal injury or death arising from geologic sequestration activities in certain areas

SCR 7 - Pearce - Urges Congress to secure greater energy independence for the United States by allowing new off-shore drilling

HB 246 - Loehner - Modifies laws regarding surface mining and sand and gravel removal

Mortgages and Deeds (4)

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 360 - Scott - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators

SB 469 - Justus - Requires certain notices to tenants in cases of foreclosure and provides additional time before eviction actions may begin

HB 836 - Curls - Requires certain notices to occupants of residential property in cases of foreclosure before the new owner may bring an action seeking possession of the property

Motels and Hotels (9)

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments

SB 187 - Vogel - Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 248 - Schaefer - Authorizes the City of Ashland to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 276 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 387 - Barnitz - Allows the City of Waynesville to impose a transient guest tax

SB 449 - Purgason - Requires agreements between business district advisory boards and the Director of Revenue for the collection of certain taxes

SB 489 - Dempsey - Allows cities to impose license taxes upon hotels and motels

SB 507 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax

HB 306 - Schad - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues

Motor Carriers (1)

SB 240 - Bray - Imposes various regulations (hours of operation, acquisition, review and maintenance of driving records, liability insurance standards, etc.) on contract carriers that transport railroad employees

Motor Fuel (6)

SB 11 - Bartle - Repeals the Missouri Renewable Fuel Standard Act

SB 29 - Stouffer - Requires all diesel fuel sold at retail in Missouri after a certain date to be a biodiesel-blended fuel

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

HJR 32 - Kelly - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund

Motor Vehicles (44)

SB 13 - Bartle - Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions

SB 16 - Nodler - Criminalizes the production, manufacture, possession and a sale of fraudulent documents intended to serve as insurance identification cards

SB 27 - Ridgeway - Exempts persons 21 years of age or older from wearing protective headgear except when operating or riding motorcycles upon interstate highways

SB 30 - Stouffer - Requires certain motorists who have had their driver's licenses revoked two or more times to display restricted license plates

SB 49 - Scott - Modifies provisions of law regarding the imposition of sales tax on trade-in or exchange transactions

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 67 - Scott - Authorizes municipalities to allow golf carts and motorized wheelchairs to be operated upon city streets

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 98 - Smith - Creates an income tax deduction for the purchase of qualified hybrid motor vehicles

SB 114 - Crowell - Modifies a variety of provisions that relate to the judicial process in some manner

SB 129 - McKenna - Prohibits school bus drivers from using wireless telephones or other electronic wireless communication devices while operating school buses on the highways

SB 130 - McKenna - Prohibits drivers from sending text messages or electronic messages while operating motor vehicles on highways within Missouri except under limited circumstances

SB 134 - Dempsey - Authorizes the issuance of several special license plates and modifies the procedure for their issuance

SB 163 - Justus - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of hybrid vehicles

SB 177 - Stouffer - Allows all residents of the United States to attend salvage pool or salvage disposal sales rather than just licensed salvage dealers

SB 202 - Schaefer - Modifies the law regarding the operation of a motorcycle, namely the assignment of fault for the operator's normal operation of such vehicle and the ability to forego wearing headgear while operating it

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations

SB 240 - Bray - Imposes various regulations (hours of operation, acquisition, review and maintenance of driving records, liability insurance standards, etc.) on contract carriers that transport railroad employees

SB 293 - Barnitz - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

SB 319 - Lembke - Modifies the manner in which lien titles for motor vehicles, trailers, outboard motors, aircrafts, and vessels are issued

SB 335 - Rupp - Modifies the law with respect to Missouri's motor vehicle financial responsibility law

SB 342 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes

SB 355 - Dempsey - Allows motor vehicle dealers, boat dealers, and powersport dealers to charge administrative fees associated with the sale or lease of certain vehicles and vessels under certain conditions

SB 357 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 363 - Griesheimer - Allows Department of Revenue to appoint motor vehicle dealers to serve as agents for the purpose of collecting and remitting motor vehicle sales and use taxes

SB 368 - Stouffer - Provides an affirmative defense to bicyclists and motorcyclists who run red lights under certain conditions

SB 397 - Shoemyer - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 522 - Stouffer - Amends several provisions of law relating to the regulation of commercial drivers' licenses

SB 525 - Griesheimer - Modifies the law with respect to certain off-highway vehicles (ATVs and recreational off-highway vehicles)

SB 561 - Green - Requires fee offices to be awarded through a competitive bidding process

SB 571 - Lembke - Prohibits insurers and their agents from engaging in certain activities with respect to motor vehicle collision repair claims

SJR 2 - Bartle - Proposes constitutional change to allow Department of Transportation to construct and maintain toll roads

HB 89 - Brown - Requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians and bicyclists crossing in a crosswalk on a city or neighborhood street in Kansas City

HB 93 - Thomson - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

HB 253 - Davis - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity if certain modulation standards are met

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

HB 278 - Meiners - Allows mobility motor vehicle dealers to purchase new motor vehicles and equip them for retail sale as mobility motor vehicles under certain conditions

HB 281 - Weter - Modifies the laws regarding motor vehicle dealerships as they relate to manufacturer-authorized warranty work and repair

HB 553 - Spreng - Creates a tax credit equal to the sales tax paid on motor vehicles manufactured and sold in this state

HB 644 - Wilson - Requires operators of salvage pool or salvage disposal sales, rather than sellers, who sell nonrepairable vehicles to foreign residents to complete certain statutory duties

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

National Guard (2)

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 533 - Rupp - Requires that members of the National Guard be informed of the risks of depleted uranium and that certain veterans be informed of available federal treatment for exposure to depleted uranium

Natural Resources Dept. (29)

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 118 - Griesheimer - Modifies duties of the Department of Natural Resources regarding solid waste planning

SB 154 - Goodman - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

SB 173 - Green - Creates a grant program to assist homeowners with installation of renewable energy generation equipment

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 281 - Bray - Directs the Air Conservation Commission to develop voluntary guidelines for limiting non-natural night time light emission near designated places

SB 297 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

SB 340 - Bray - Requires supermarkets and certain pharmacies to provide only certain environmentally friendly bags for carrying out purchased merchandise

SB 364 - Clemens - Provides labeling and recycling requirements for television manufacturers

SB 384 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to geographical information systems

SB 391 - Schaefer - Limits liability for personal injury or death arising from geologic sequestration activities in certain areas

SB 409 - Stouffer - Extends the expiration date until January 1, 2020 for the scrap tire fee and modifies uses of the fee proceeds

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 431 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for the construction or renovation of buildings using environmentally sustainable techniques

SB 433 - Bray - Modifies the type of appliances and consumer electronics for which minimum energy efficiency standards must be developed

SB 462 - Crowell - Modifies provisions pertaining to hazardous substance spills and emergencies

SB 539 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to environmental protection

SB 556 - Mayer - Prohibits certain large users of water from unduly disrupting farm irrigation activities

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state

SR 210 - Schaefer - Urges Missourians to recycle their analog televisions

HB 246 - Loehner - Modifies laws regarding surface mining and sand and gravel removal

HB 250 - Wilson - Modifies provisions pertaining to horseback riding on public land and the state soil and water conservation program

HB 283 - Wood - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

HB 751 - Schad - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Newspapers and Publications (2)

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 524 - Griesheimer - Creates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for certain printed products

Nurses (10)

SB 135 - Dempsey - Requires school districts to pay registered professional school nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

SB 137 - Rupp - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

SB 152 - Clemens - Modifies definition of eligible student for nursing student loan program

SB 229 - Bray - Requires the posting of nurse staffing levels at hospitals

SB 237 - Lembke - Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 631 - Jones - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

Nursing and Boarding Homes (6)

SB 72 - Stouffer - Provides for transfer of long-term care beds to certain new health care facilities

SB 89 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

SB 90 - Stouffer - Repeals the Certificate of Need Law

SB 467 - Justus - Requires nursing home facilities to carry liability insurance with limits of no less than $1 million per occurrence to compensate residents for damages

SB 538 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities and fire marshal regulation as it relates to blasting licenses

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

Parks and Recreation (3)

SB 10 - Champion - Allows Missouri residents who own or lease at least 5 acres of land to hunt or fish on such land without a permit or in certain circumstances with a permit that is free-of-charge

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts

HB 250 - Wilson - Modifies provisions pertaining to horseback riding on public land and the state soil and water conservation program

Pharmacy (7)

SB 203 - Justus - Modifies the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 329 - Bray - Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 369 - Stouffer - Modifies provisions related to pharmacy

SB 394 - Ridgeway - Allows certain businesses to use terms such as drug store in their business name

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

Physicians (6)

SB 197 - Goodman - Prescribes requirments as to billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

SB 318 - Lembke - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

SB 382 - Schaefer - Requires hospitals to report adverse health events to a patient safety organization for review

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

HB 866 - Wells - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals

Planning and Zoning (2)

SB 5 - Griesheimer - Creates the Missouri County Planning Act

SB 359 - Purgason - Changes how a local government withdraws from a regional planning commission

Political Parties (3)

SB 65 - Rupp - Modifies the state do-not-call list and creates "paid for by" requirements for political phone calls

SB 70 - Bray - Modifies the paperwork requirements for the formation of a new political party and the nomination of independent candidates

SB 189 - Shields - Modifies the law currently prohibiting Kansas City police officers from participating in some political activities

Political Subdivisions (17)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 102 - Green - Creates the Political Subdivision Services Bidding Standards Act

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 242 - Pearce - Prohibits certain storm water management fees and provides an alternate procedure to approve bond issuance for a sewer subdistrict in Cass County

SB 299 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions related to rates charged by natural gas corporations and provisions of Utilicare assistance

SB 325 - Ridgeway - Allows school boards to enter into agreements with a county, town, city, or village for educational facilities and purposes

SB 337 - Rupp - Extends the term of office for certain ambulance district directors

SB 381 - Schaefer - Allows certain governmental and charitable entities to hold conservation easements

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 539 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to environmental protection

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

SJR 16 - Lager - Prohibits the imposition of any state or local income tax after January 1, 2024

HB 246 - Loehner - Modifies laws regarding surface mining and sand and gravel removal

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 495 - Parson - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

Prisons and Jails (10)

SB 17 - Bray - Eliminates the death penalty

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children

SB 44 - Pearce - Modifies various provisions relating to private jails

SB 46 - Schaefer - Requires any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a felony on or after August 28, 2009, to serve a minimum prison term of eighty-five percent of his or her sentence

SB 112 - Crowell - Prohibits felony sexual offenders whose victim was less than seventeen years of age from being allowed to participate in the one hundred twenty day "shock incarceration program" in the Department of Corrections

SB 435 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to contracts of the Department of Mental Health

SB 457 - Lager - Allows Caldwell County to establish a jail or holding facility outside of the county seat

SB 551 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to drug offenses and substance abuse treatment

HB 747 - Witte - Specifies that in order for a person to be guilty of the crime of sexual contact with a prisoner or offender, the prisoner or offender must be confined in a jail, prison, or correctional facility

HB 826 - Brown - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed

Probation and Parole (2)

SB 46 - Schaefer - Requires any person who pleads guilty to or is found guilty of a felony on or after August 28, 2009, to serve a minimum prison term of eighty-five percent of his or her sentence

SB 221 - Goodman - Expands the crime of resisting arrest, stop, or detention

Property, Real and Personal (27)

SB 10 - Champion - Allows Missouri residents who own or lease at least 5 acres of land to hunt or fish on such land without a permit or in certain circumstances with a permit that is free-of-charge

SB 99 - Cunningham - Establishes the Predictable Property Tax Act

SB 131 - Smith - Allows St. Louis City to increase its semiannual registration fee for certain vacant property to $2,000

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities

SB 205 - Shoemyer - Prohibits the condemnation of property owned by certain gun clubs or sportsmen's clubs

SB 231 - Cunningham - Exempts landlords from liability for loss or damage to tenants' personal property when executing an order for possession of premises

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 271 - Bray - Allows senior citizens and disabled persons to defer property tax payment

SB 282 - Bray - Creates statutory warranties for home buyers and homeowners and also prevents home solicitors from engaging in certain deceptive practices

SB 381 - Schaefer - Allows certain governmental and charitable entities to hold conservation easements

SB 385 - Lager - Allows counties without a charter form of government to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to control brush

SB 398 - Barnitz - Modifies property posting provisions

SB 399 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County

SB 437 - Lager - Specifies that renewable energy resource property will be considered tangible personal property for property tax purposes

SB 439 - Lembke - Prohibits school boards from placing restrictive covenants in deeds of real property that prohibit its use as a school and nullifies any existing restrictive covenants

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership

SCR 23 - Schmitt - Urges the State Tax Commission and assessors to accurately reflect present market conditions and, where appropriate, decrease assessed values of property

SJR 4 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

SJR 18 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

HB 246 - Loehner - Modifies laws regarding surface mining and sand and gravel removal

HB 287 - Day - Classifies sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property tax purposes

HB 495 - Parson - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service

HB 537 - Dixon - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 668 - Jones - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force

HB 842 - Wood - Defines certain boat docks as real property for the purposes of real estate appraisers and modifies the definition of "commercial real estate" as it is used in licensing real estate brokers and agents

HB 895 - Sander - Authorizes the Governor to convey all interest in an easement across state property located in Macon County to certain private property owners for obtaining access to their property

Psychologists (1)

SB 204 - Goodman - Creates licensing requirements for prescribing psychologists

Public Assistance (8)

SB 34 - Wilson - Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamp assistance

SB 73 - Stouffer - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 86 - Crowell - Requires drug screening and testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients

SB 183 - Bartle - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 268 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Housing Trust Fund

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

HB 30 - Brandom - Modifies provisions relating to substance abuse of applicants and recipients of state benefits

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

Public Buildings (7)

SB 190 - Shoemyer - Requires all offices of elected officials in the State Capitol to be accessible to individuals with disabilities by December 31, 2014

SB 304 - Crowell - Requires the Office of Administration to provide senators and representatives with access to the dome of the State Capitol

SB 540 - Schaefer - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

SCR 19 - Crowell - Urges the Office of Administration and the Board of Public Buildings to payoff certain revenue bonds by fiscal year 2014

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HB 918 - Kelly - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia

HJR 11 - McGhee - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

Public Officers (11)

SB 14 - Nodler - Bars felons from holding public office

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system

SB 66 - Scott - Amends requirements for filing financial interest statements

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index

SB 239 - Bartle - Modifies the compensation rate for senior judges or senior commissioners

SB 339 - Goodman - Modifies the crime of making a false declaration

SB 476 - Wright-Jones - Allows elected officials to be excused from jury duty during their term of office

SCR 6 - Lager - Disapproves the salary recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials

SJR 6 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials

SJR 10 - Lembke - Proposes a constitutional amendment modifying who presides over impeachment trials

HCR 5 - McGhee - Disapproves the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials salary recommendations

Public Records, Public Meetings (11)

SB 21 - Days - Creates an advance voting system for elections

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years

SB 576 - Dempsey - Requires that records submitted to the State Literacy Hotline for student drop-outs be made publicly available

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HB 177 - Cox - Gives the judge presiding in certain sexual offense cases discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

HB 255 - Scharnhorst - Removes the Director of the Forms Management Unit as a voting member of the State Records Commission and replaces him or her with the Commissioner of the Office of Administration

HB 265 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

HB 316 - Jones - Modifies provisions regarding public meetings and records, commonly known as the "Sunshine Law"

HB 488 - Schad - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as unaccredited for two successive years

Public Safety Dept. (12)

SB 8 - Champion - Creates a Crime Laboratory Review Commission to independently review the operations of crime laboratories in the state of Missouri that receive state-administered funding

SB 26 - Ridgeway - Prohibits alcohol beverage vaporizers

SB 119 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the imposition of a fee on wireless phone services to fund enhanced 911 service

SB 301 - Pearce - Requires law enforcement agencies and officers to use canine teams which have been certified by an association approved by the Department of Public Safety

SB 338 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to crime victims

SB 346 - Schaefer - Requires that after January 1, 2010, any self-service display of tobacco products may only be located in a tobacco specialty store

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

HB 103 - Wildberger - Modifies provisions relating to public safety

HB 132 - Fallert - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control

HB 310 - Jones - Modifies certain liquor control provisions pertaining to wholesalers

HB 485 - Wright - Modifies the membership and quorum requirements for the Seismic Safety Commission

HB 844 - Aull - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances

Public Service Commission (14)

SB 154 - Goodman - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

SB 172 - Green - Modifies provisions relating to sewer districts and sewer subdistricts

SB 173 - Green - Creates a grant program to assist homeowners with installation of renewable energy generation equipment

SB 185 - Bray - Repeals a portion of the law that provides certain utilities the opportunity to apply for alternate rate schedules in certain circumstances

SB 228 - Scott - Modifies the construction-work-in-progress (CWIP) law for construction of certain new power plants and creates the Missouri Clean and Renewable Energy Construction Act

SB 299 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions related to rates charged by natural gas corporations and provisions of Utilicare assistance

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency

SB 474 - Wright-Jones - Allows certain public utilities to require deposits for new or continued service only in certain circumstances

SB 545 - Schmitt - Makes certain previously exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

SB 555 - Lager - Requires certain telephone companies to achieve parity between their in-state and out-of-state exchange access rates

HB 283 - Wood - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

HB 495 - Parson - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service

HB 599 - Diehl - Makes certain previously-exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

Railroads (2)

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 240 - Bray - Imposes various regulations (hours of operation, acquisition, review and maintenance of driving records, liability insurance standards, etc.) on contract carriers that transport railroad employees

Religion (2)

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HJR 11 - McGhee - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

Retirement - Local Government (9)

SB 512 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri local government employees' retirement system (LAGERS)

SB 518 - Lembke - Requires a study of crediting unused sick leave to St. Louis police officers' retirement

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

SB 563 - Smith - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 565 - Wright-Jones - Modifies police retirement systems provisions relating to reserve officers

HB 214 - Deeken - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri local government employees' retirement system (LAGERS)

HB 397 - Flook - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

HB 593 - Viebrock - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

Retirement - Schools (12)

SB 198 - McKenna - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems

SB 324 - Ridgeway - Modifies provisons relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems

SB 327 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems

SB 383 - Dempsey - Establishes the Joint Interim Committee on the Public School Retirement System of Missouri

SB 395 - Ridgeway - Makes certain actions by school board members or employees in conjunction with the Public School Retirement System of Missouri a class C felony

SB 411 - Crowell - Makes certain employees of the Missouri Development Finance Board members of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 516 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education personnel

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

SB 563 - Smith - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SCR 20 - Pearce - Urges Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act

HB 265 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

HB 373 - Wallace - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration

Retirement - State (6)

SB 28 - Ridgeway - Modifies provisions relating to vested members of Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and Missouri Public Employees' Retirement System

SB 150 - Griesheimer - Specifies that overtime or compensatory time is not included in certain retirement benefit calculations for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

SB 411 - Crowell - Makes certain employees of the Missouri Development Finance Board members of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 550 - Crowell - Requires all state retirement systems to monitor their investments for fraud

SJR 6 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials

HB 210 - Deeken - Allows a retired state employee to request that contributions to the state employees charitable campaign be withheld from their monthly benefit

Retirement Systems and Benefits - General (8)

SB 161 - Crowell - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

SB 290 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the State of Missouri Deferred Compensation Plan

SB 565 - Wright-Jones - Modifies police retirement systems provisions relating to reserve officers

SB 573 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits

HB 82 - Kraus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits and creates a six year phased-in income tax exemption for military retirement income

HB 210 - Deeken - Allows a retired state employee to request that contributions to the state employees charitable campaign be withheld from their monthly benefit

HB 593 - Viebrock - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

Revenue Dept. (47)

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 113 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 134 - Dempsey - Authorizes the issuance of several special license plates and modifies the procedure for their issuance

SB 163 - Justus - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of hybrid vehicles

SB 191 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of the Missouri development finance board development fund contribution tax credit program

SB 220 - Goodman - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

SB 235 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes and allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums with respect to certain loan transactions

SB 274 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services

SB 315 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

SB 319 - Lembke - Modifies the manner in which lien titles for motor vehicles, trailers, outboard motors, aircrafts, and vessels are issued

SB 335 - Rupp - Modifies the law with respect to Missouri's motor vehicle financial responsibility law

SB 351 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of law regarding sales tax refunds

SB 357 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 363 - Griesheimer - Allows Department of Revenue to appoint motor vehicle dealers to serve as agents for the purpose of collecting and remitting motor vehicle sales and use taxes

SB 405 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to manufactured homes, including the procedure for obtaining a title to an abandoned manufactured home

SB 409 - Stouffer - Extends the expiration date until January 1, 2020 for the scrap tire fee and modifies uses of the fee proceeds

SB 449 - Purgason - Requires agreements between business district advisory boards and the Director of Revenue for the collection of certain taxes

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 477 - Wright-Jones - Creates special rules for transportation development districts that are formed for the operation of public mass transportation systems

SB 490 - Wilson - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax

SB 561 - Green - Requires fee offices to be awarded through a competitive bidding process

SB 575 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

HB 64 - Lipke - Modifies provisions of state income tax law

HB 69 - Storch - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program

HB 86 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions regarding the imposition of the corporate franchise tax

HB 205 - Parson - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

HB 248 - Funderburk - Authorizes an income tax dependency exemption deduction for a taxpayer for the taxable year in which a stillborn child was born if the child would otherwise have been a member of the taxpayer's household

HB 269 - Parson - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership

HB 299 - Wilson - Removes the cap on appropriations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

HB 306 - Schad - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues

HB 320 - Swinger - Authorizes a tax credit for storm shelter construction

HB 354 - Schlottach - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 361 - Guest - Prohibits the Department of Revenue from amending its driver's license application procedures in order to comply with the federal REAL ID Act

HB 381 - Silvey - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts

HB 400 - Nasheed - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government

HB 553 - Spreng - Creates a tax credit equal to the sales tax paid on motor vehicles manufactured and sold in this state

HB 644 - Wilson - Requires operators of salvage pool or salvage disposal sales, rather than sellers, who sell nonrepairable vehicles to foreign residents to complete certain statutory duties

HB 658 - Dugger - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 952 - Sutherland - Establishes the Independence Day Sales Tax Holiday

HB 958 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxation

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

HJR 36 - Emery - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace state income taxes, corporate and bank franchise taxes, and sales and use taxes, with a statewide tax on the sale, use, or consumption of retail sales and taxable services

Roads and Highways (41)

SB 13 - Bartle - Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions

SB 27 - Ridgeway - Exempts persons 21 years of age or older from wearing protective headgear except when operating or riding motorcycles upon interstate highways

SB 57 - Stouffer - Imposes various billboard standards to billboards adjacent to Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 during periods of interstate construction

SB 67 - Scott - Authorizes municipalities to allow golf carts and motorized wheelchairs to be operated upon city streets

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 93 - Green - Modifies various laws relating to intoxication

SB 110 - Crowell - Establishes an interstate interchange designation program, to be known as the "Heroes Way Interstate Interchange Designation Program", to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who have been killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq on or after September 11, 2001

SB 124 - Bray - Prohibits tri-vision, projection, digital, or other changeable copy technologies from being used on billboards

SB 128 - Rupp - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 129 - McKenna - Prohibits school bus drivers from using wireless telephones or other electronic wireless communication devices while operating school buses on the highways

SB 130 - McKenna - Prohibits drivers from sending text messages or electronic messages while operating motor vehicles on highways within Missouri except under limited circumstances

SB 178 - Stouffer - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities

SB 289 - Griesheimer - Redefines the term "project" as it is used in the Missouri Transportation Development District Act to exclude certain types of improvements

SB 293 - Barnitz - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

SB 343 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions of law relating to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission leadership and commercial driver license regulation

SB 368 - Stouffer - Provides an affirmative defense to bicyclists and motorcyclists who run red lights under certain conditions

SB 385 - Lager - Allows counties without a charter form of government to adopt ordinances requiring property owners to control brush

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission

SB 488 - Vogel - Allows the city of Lake Ozark to withdraw from a special road district located in Camden and Miller Counties and form a new district with boundaries identical to the city's boundaries

SB 522 - Stouffer - Amends several provisions of law relating to the regulation of commercial drivers' licenses

SB 525 - Griesheimer - Modifies the law with respect to certain off-highway vehicles (ATVs and recreational off-highway vehicles)

SB 527 - Nodler - Directs federal highway funds currently credited to the State Road Fund by statute to a newly created fund known as the "Federal Highways and Bridge Fund"

SJR 2 - Bartle - Proposes constitutional change to allow Department of Transportation to construct and maintain toll roads

HB 89 - Brown - Requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians and bicyclists crossing in a crosswalk on a city or neighborhood street in Kansas City

HB 91 - Pollock - Designates various highways and bridges within the state of Missouri

HB 93 - Thomson - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

HB 250 - Wilson - Modifies provisions pertaining to horseback riding on public land and the state soil and water conservation program

HB 253 - Davis - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity if certain modulation standards are met

HB 354 - Schlottach - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 358 - Day - Designates the bridge over the Gasconade River on State Highway 17 in Pulaski County as the "WWII Okinawa Veterans Memorial Bridge" and designates a portion of Interstate 435 as the "Lamar Hunt Memorial Highway"

HB 359 - Denison - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the state highways and transportation commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 537 - Dixon - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 685 - Jones - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants

HB 867 - Guest - Designates a portion of U. S. Highway 36 in DeKalb County as the "CW2 Matthew G. Kelley Memorial Highway"

HB 928 - Dieckhaus - Designates a portion of State Highway 100 located in Franklin Count as the "Veterans Memorial Highway"

HJR 32 - Kelly - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund

Saint Louis (13)

SB 131 - Smith - Allows St. Louis City to increase its semiannual registration fee for certain vacant property to $2,000

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 284 - Lembke - Modifies the provisions governing fire department residency requirements

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 441 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to teacher termination proceedings

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities

SB 563 - Smith - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 566 - Wright-Jones - Modifies provisions regarding reserve police officers of St. Louis City

SB 567 - Wright-Jones - Allows the Board of Police Commissioners to determine the number and ranks of police officers necessary for St. Louis City

SR 207 - Lembke - Urges the St. Louis School District to remove a restriction in the deeds of school buildings for sale

HB 397 - Flook - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

HB 947 - Leara - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City

Saint Louis County (2)

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected

Salaries (9)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index

SB 239 - Bartle - Modifies the compensation rate for senior judges or senior commissioners

SB 284 - Lembke - Modifies the provisions governing fire department residency requirements

SB 348 - Mayer - Changes how salaries of county sheriffs are established

SB 379 - McKenna - Establishes minimum salary requirements for all corrections officers and supervisors

SB 403 - Vogel - Requires that certain state officials engaged in military service receive their state salary only to the same extent as other state employees

SCR 6 - Lager - Disapproves the salary recommendations of the Missouri Citizen's Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials

SJR 6 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Missouri Citizens' Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials

Savings and Loan (4)

SB 152 - Clemens - Modifies definition of eligible student for nursing student loan program

SB 277 - Cunningham - Authorizes financial institutions to assign fiduciary obligations relating to irrevocable life insurance trusts

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 247 - Loehner - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program

Science and Technology (9)

SB 8 - Champion - Creates a Crime Laboratory Review Commission to independently review the operations of crime laboratories in the state of Missouri that receive state-administered funding

SB 127 - Rupp - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week

SB 353 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of the Qualified Research Expense Tax Credit Program

SB 365 - Clemens - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 384 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to geographical information systems

SB 572 - Dempsey - Establishes the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act

SCR 2 - Crowell - Recognizes October 3rd of each year as Science Day

HB 152 - Ruestman - Requires persons arrest for certain offenses to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling analysis

Search and Seizure (1)

SB 184 - Bartle - Creates penalties for owners of dogs that cause injury and creates an absolute defense against civil liability or prosecution for killing or injuring certain threatening dogs

Secretary of State (20)

SB 21 - Days - Creates an advance voting system for elections

SB 35 - Goodman - Creates the Fair Ballot Commission to approve fair ballot language statements

SB 70 - Bray - Modifies the paperwork requirements for the formation of a new political party and the nomination of independent candidates

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 92 - Green - Modifies Missouri securities law

SB 209 - Clemens - Creates a central filing system for filing financing statements to perfect a security interest in farm products

SB 249 - Schaefer - Modifies requirements for corporate filings

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 294 - Barnitz - Restricts corporate name reservation

SB 303 - Smith - Allows instant runoff voting for municipalities and political subdivisions

SB 362 - Griesheimer - Increases recording user fees and requires requests for records dated after December 31, 1969, to be made to the office in which the record was originally filed

SB 480 - Shoemyer - Creates the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and modifies the name and duties of the Second Capitol Commission

SB 569 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the initiative and referendum process

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 568 - Dixon - Requires voter registration information to be made available to applicants for resident hunting and fishing permits

HB 681 - Smith - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator

HB 709 - Dusenberg - Modifies provisions relating to voter notification cards

HB 807 - Wilson - Designates the Missouri River as the official state waterway

Securities (3)

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 92 - Green - Modifies Missouri securities law

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

Sewers and Sewer Districts (6)

SB 172 - Green - Modifies provisions relating to sewer districts and sewer subdistricts

SB 242 - Pearce - Prohibits certain storm water management fees and provides an alternate procedure to approve bond issuance for a sewer subdistrict in Cass County

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 333 - Barnitz - Provides procedures for cities and sewer districts in certain counties to develop agreements regarding sewer service for annexed areas

SB 539 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to environmental protection

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

Sexual Offenses (2)

SB 36 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to forcible sexual offenses against children

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

Social Services Dept. (26)

SB 4 - Shields - Establishes a quality rating system for child care facilities

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 71 - Stouffer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to developmental disability care providers

SB 73 - Stouffer - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 86 - Crowell - Requires drug screening and testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients

SB 94 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 183 - Bartle - Requires drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applicants and recipients based upon reasonable suspicion

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 306 - Dempsey - Establishes the Show-Me Health Coverage Plan and modifies provisions relating to health care services

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services

SB 347 - Mayer - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency

SB 413 - Dempsey - Provides for a one time grant by the Department of Social Services for use by free health care clinics

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax

SB 530 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to child abuse investigations

SB 536 - Wilson - Enacts the Foster Care and Adoptive Parents Recruitment and Retention Fund

SB 546 - Schmitt - Increase the income disregard for eligibility in the Ticket-to-Work Health Assurance Program

SB 548 - Schmitt - Allows for the establishment of health record banks

SB 549 - Schmitt - Requires the establishment of a MO HealthNet data transparency program

SB 562 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to the electronic storage of support obligations

HB 30 - Brandom - Modifies provisions relating to substance abuse of applicants and recipients of state benefits

HB 156 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to health care services

HB 395 - Nance - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities

HB 459 - Schaaf - Imposes a gross receipts tax on certain ambulance service providers

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

Sovereign or Official Immunity (1)

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

State Departments (3)

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 381 - Schaefer - Allows certain governmental and charitable entities to hold conservation easements

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

State Employees (13)

SB 28 - Ridgeway - Modifies provisions relating to vested members of Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and Missouri Public Employees' Retirement System

SB 206 - Shoemyer - Requires state employee salaries to be annually adjusted by the Consumer Price Index

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program

SB 290 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the State of Missouri Deferred Compensation Plan

SB 407 - Scott - Requires a comprehensive study on how other states administer their state employee health care plans

SB 411 - Crowell - Makes certain employees of the Missouri Development Finance Board members of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System and modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

SB 473 - Bray - Institutes procedures for public employee collective bargaining

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

SJR 12 - Scott - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion

HB 210 - Deeken - Allows a retired state employee to request that contributions to the state employees charitable campaign be withheld from their monthly benefit

HB 231 - Yates - Requires group health insurance policies issued to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law to provide terminated employees continuation coverage rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law

HB 255 - Scharnhorst - Removes the Director of the Forms Management Unit as a voting member of the State Records Commission and replaces him or her with the Commissioner of the Office of Administration

State Tax Commission (2)

SCR 23 - Schmitt - Urges the State Tax Commission and assessors to accurately reflect present market conditions and, where appropriate, decrease assessed values of property

HB 287 - Day - Classifies sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property tax purposes

Sunshine Law (2)

SB 327 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school employee retirement systems

HB 265 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems

Surveyors (2)

SB 296 - Scott - Modifies laws regarding cemeteries and cemetery operators, physician assistants, the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects, Dental Care Professionals, Nurses, Pharmacy, and Mental Health Benefits

SB 298 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects

Tax Credits (39)

SB 45 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of law regarding various tax incentives

SB 71 - Stouffer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to developmental disability care providers

SB 85 - Crowell - Creates the Missouri Special Needs Scholarship Tax Credit Program

SB 113 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Infrastructure Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 121 - Purgason - Institutes a two-year moratorium on all state tax credits

SB 136 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the New Markets Tax Credit Program

SB 142 - Bartle - Requires mandatory review and sunset of certain tax credit programs

SB 146 - Dempsey - Increases the amount of tax credits available for taxpayers who modify their home for disabled persons and authorizes a credit for doing the same for seniors

SB 155 - Goodman - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 162 - Crowell - Requires the Governor to disclose information regarding tax credits and state contracts

SB 191 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of the Missouri development finance board development fund contribution tax credit program

SB 193 - Shoemyer - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in qualified Missouri businesses

SB 252 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

SB 274 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Missouri Development Finance Board Development Fund Contribution Tax Credit Program

SB 285 - Lembke - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 292 - Justus - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Act

SB 300 - Bray - Modifies provisions relating to the individual income tax

SB 302 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for contributions to certain after school programs

SB 305 - Dempsey - Authorizes the creation of science and technology districts throughout the state

SB 326 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of the Neighborhood Assistance Act

SB 353 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of the Qualified Research Expense Tax Credit Program

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 420 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for purchases of processed biomass engineered fiber fuel

SB 431 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for the construction or renovation of buildings using environmentally sustainable techniques

SB 452 - Cunningham - Allows qualified companies that file for bankruptcy protection to continue to receive quality jobs benefits provided certain conditions are met

SB 472 - Ridgeway - Requires the Governor and political subdivisions to disclose information regarding the distribution of public funds

SB 543 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for homes built under green build standards

SRM 1 - Green - Remonstrance against issuance of tax credits for the Kansas City Chiefs Football Team

HB 69 - Storch - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program

HB 191 - Flook - Creates various tax incentives for job development

HB 320 - Swinger - Authorizes a tax credit for storm shelter construction

HB 544 - Smith - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome

HB 553 - Spreng - Creates a tax credit equal to the sales tax paid on motor vehicles manufactured and sold in this state

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 658 - Dugger - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

HB 802 - Tracy - Implements new median family income eligibility thresholds for persons living in owner-occupied units and rental units for purposes of receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Assistance Act

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Taxation and Revenue - General (43)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 119 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the imposition of a fee on wireless phone services to fund enhanced 911 service

SB 123 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to county collectors

SB 136 - Rupp - Modifies provisions of the New Markets Tax Credit Program

SB 148 - Dempsey - Provides a tax deduction for the premiums paid by a taxpayer for high deductible health plans used with a health savings account

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments

SB 187 - Vogel - Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 193 - Shoemyer - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in qualified Missouri businesses

SB 241 - Bray - Modifies various tax provisions

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 248 - Schaefer - Authorizes the City of Ashland to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 257 - Schaefer - Allows for the extension of certain county taxes upon voter approval

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 276 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 280 - Rupp - Specifies that insurance companies subject to an annual tax on gross premium receipts are exempt from the imposition of Missouri's corporate income and franchise taxes

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services

SB 353 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of the Qualified Research Expense Tax Credit Program

SB 377 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions relating to business incentives

SB 378 - Nodler - Extends the sunsets on certain provider taxes

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 387 - Barnitz - Allows the City of Waynesville to impose a transient guest tax

SB 404 - Mayer - Repeals certain taxes imposed upon suppliers of bingo and pull-tab cards

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance

SB 449 - Purgason - Requires agreements between business district advisory boards and the Director of Revenue for the collection of certain taxes

SB 479 - Shoemyer - Allows certain contributions to downtown revitalization preservation development projects to be substituted on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the local match of payments in lieu of taxes and economic activity taxes

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development

SB 489 - Dempsey - Allows cities to impose license taxes upon hotels and motels

SB 507 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax

SB 528 - Nodler - Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to provide economic development incentives for alternative energy vehicle components

SCR 14 - Schmitt - Creates the Blue Ribbon Panel on Job Retention and Economic Growth

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

SJR 14 - Wilson - Authorizes the creation of tax free zones

SJR 15 - Cunningham - Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that the General Assembly is not required to enact legislation to comply with a court order declaring that it raise taxes

HB 86 - Sutherland - Modifies provisions regarding the imposition of the corporate franchise tax

HB 148 - Franz - Modifies provisions relating to county collectors and the collection of taxes

HB 306 - Schad - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 740 - Icet - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.

HB 952 - Sutherland - Establishes the Independence Day Sales Tax Holiday

HJR 36 - Emery - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace state income taxes, corporate and bank franchise taxes, and sales and use taxes, with a statewide tax on the sale, use, or consumption of retail sales and taxable services

Taxation and Revenue - Income (47)

SB 45 - Pearce - Modifies provisions of law regarding various tax incentives

SB 71 - Stouffer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to developmental disability care providers

SB 74 - Wilson - Creates an income tax credit for poll workers

SB 87 - Crowell - Exempts MO HealthNet expense reimbursements received by doctors, dentists, and nurses from state income tax

SB 98 - Smith - Creates an income tax deduction for the purchase of qualified hybrid motor vehicles

SB 103 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for small businesses and farmers that provide health insurance coverage for employees

SB 105 - Justus - Creates the Missouri Earned Income Tax Credit

SB 107 - Green - Creates an income tax deduction for higher education expenses

SB 111 - Crowell - Repeals the ten million dollar annual cap on allocations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

SB 138 - Smith - Creates an earned income tax credit

SB 163 - Justus - Creates an income tax deduction for purchases of hybrid vehicles

SB 212 - Griesheimer - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 238 - Callahan - Disallows the domestic production deduction for Missouri income tax purposes

SB 241 - Bray - Modifies various tax provisions

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations

SB 252 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 254 - Barnitz - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

SB 279 - Schmitt - Provides tax incentives for small business expansion

SB 280 - Rupp - Specifies that insurance companies subject to an annual tax on gross premium receipts are exempt from the imposition of Missouri's corporate income and franchise taxes

SB 285 - Lembke - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies

SB 288 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions of law authorizing a tax credit for qualified research expenses

SB 292 - Justus - Creates a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Act

SB 300 - Bray - Modifies provisions relating to the individual income tax

SB 305 - Dempsey - Authorizes the creation of science and technology districts throughout the state

SB 334 - Pearce - Authorizes an income tax deduction for all military retirement benefits

SB 367 - Ridgeway - Phases out the corporate income tax

SB 392 - Shields - Phases out the corporate income tax

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance

SB 420 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for purchases of processed biomass engineered fiber fuel

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices

SB 436 - Ridgeway - Exempts unemployment benefits from income tax for tax years 2009 and 2010.

SB 470 - Ridgeway - Modifies the individual income tax rates

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities

SB 572 - Dempsey - Establishes the Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act

SB 573 - Crowell - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits

SJR 13 - Lager - Limits general revenue appropriations and mandates state income tax rate reductions in certain situations

SJR 16 - Lager - Prohibits the imposition of any state or local income tax after January 1, 2024

HB 64 - Lipke - Modifies provisions of state income tax law

HB 69 - Storch - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program

HB 82 - Kraus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits and creates a six year phased-in income tax exemption for military retirement income

HB 248 - Funderburk - Authorizes an income tax dependency exemption deduction for a taxpayer for the taxable year in which a stillborn child was born if the child would otherwise have been a member of the taxpayer's household

HB 299 - Wilson - Removes the cap on appropriations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council

HB 320 - Swinger - Authorizes a tax credit for storm shelter construction

HB 553 - Spreng - Creates a tax credit equal to the sales tax paid on motor vehicles manufactured and sold in this state

HB 575 - Diehl - Modifies various economic development programs

HB 658 - Dugger - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production

HJR 36 - Emery - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace state income taxes, corporate and bank franchise taxes, and sales and use taxes, with a statewide tax on the sale, use, or consumption of retail sales and taxable services

Taxation and Revenue - Property (18)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 99 - Cunningham - Establishes the Predictable Property Tax Act

SB 168 - Shoemyer - Allows cities, towns, villages and counties to impose a property tax to fund cemetery maintenance

SB 174 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions of law relating to property taxation

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation

SB 271 - Bray - Allows senior citizens and disabled persons to defer property tax payment

SB 315 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

SB 399 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the compromise of taxes and penalties for properties subject to certain actions as abandoned property in Jackson County

SB 437 - Lager - Specifies that renewable energy resource property will be considered tangible personal property for property tax purposes

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts

SB 575 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law requiring the submission of personal property lists

SCR 23 - Schmitt - Urges the State Tax Commission and assessors to accurately reflect present market conditions and, where appropriate, decrease assessed values of property

SJR 4 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

SJR 18 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed valuation of real property caused by reassessment until a transfer of ownership occurs

HB 287 - Day - Classifies sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property tax purposes

HJR 15 - Chappelle-Nadal - Exempts real property used by certain former prisoners of war as a homestead from property tax

Taxation and Revenue - Sales and Use (31)

SB 7 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance

SB 19 - Bray - Implements the provisions of the streamlined sales and use tax agreement

SB 32 - Wilson - Establishes the Duty Free Zone Act

SB 49 - Scott - Modifies provisions of law regarding the imposition of sales tax on trade-in or exchange transactions

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 164 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments

SB 173 - Green - Creates a grant program to assist homeowners with installation of renewable energy generation equipment

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation

SB 241 - Bray - Modifies various tax provisions

SB 266 - Mayer - Allows public library districts to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund libraries within such districts

SB 276 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax

SB 349 - Goodman - Requires the Director of the Oversight Division of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to seek information directly from the Division of Tourism for bills that affect the tourism industry

SB 351 - Shoemyer - Modifies provisions of law regarding sales tax refunds

SB 363 - Griesheimer - Allows Department of Revenue to appoint motor vehicle dealers to serve as agents for the purpose of collecting and remitting motor vehicle sales and use taxes

SB 380 - Stouffer - Creates a state and local sales tax exemption for sales of farm products at farmers' markets

SB 386 - Lager - Modifies various provisions of law regarding political subdivisions

SB 387 - Barnitz - Allows the City of Waynesville to impose a transient guest tax

SB 447 - Pearce - Authorizes a city sales tax to fund public safety improvement

SB 477 - Wright-Jones - Creates special rules for transportation development districts that are formed for the operation of public mass transportation systems

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications

SB 524 - Griesheimer - Creates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for certain printed products

SJR 14 - Wilson - Authorizes the creation of tax free zones

HB 191 - Flook - Creates various tax incentives for job development

HB 306 - Schad - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues

HB 354 - Schlottach - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 376 - Hobbs - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions

HB 952 - Sutherland - Establishes the Independence Day Sales Tax Holiday

HB 958 - Smith - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxation

Teachers (20)

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 42 - Cunningham - Creates the Teacher Choice Compensation Package to provide performance-based salary stipends for participating teachers

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 60 - Wilson - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop teaching standards for Missouri public schools

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 139 - Mayer - Uses revenue from the repeal of the gaming loss limits to fund minimum salary supplements for teachers, early childhood, and school transportation

SB 208 - Rupp - Allows the State Board of Education to grant teaching certificates to individuals to teach part-time in specific areas

SB 233 - Cunningham - Allows the State Board of Education to issue teacher certificates to certain individuals in the areas of banking and financial responsibility

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 395 - Ridgeway - Makes certain actions by school board members or employees in conjunction with the Public School Retirement System of Missouri a class C felony

SB 429 - Smith - Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to designate teacher assessment programs and creates teacher assessment requirements for unaccredited school districts

SB 441 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to teacher termination proceedings

SB 445 - Rupp - Prohibits school district employees, volunteers, and independent contractors from placing a student receiving special education services into seclusion

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations

SB 505 - Cunningham - Prohibits a superintendent of an unaccredited or provisionally accredited school district from transferring a teacher if the principal of the receiving school refuses

SB 515 - Cunningham - Revises the conditions under which school districts may suspend or terminate teacher and administrator contracts in certain school districts

HB 96 - Wallace - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures

HB 217 - Hoskins - Requires a school board to provide a reason to a parent or guardian for the refusal to admit a student from an unaccredited school district

HB 509 - Stream - Requires school districts to adopt nutritional standards for food and beverages and adopt physical education programs

HB 631 - Jones - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers

Telecommunications (7)

SB 43 - Pearce - Allows cell phone numbers to be included on the no-call list and prohibits certain automated calls to persons on the no-call list

SB 65 - Rupp - Modifies the state do-not-call list and creates "paid for by" requirements for political phone calls

SB 119 - Griesheimer - Authorizes the imposition of a fee on wireless phone services to fund enhanced 911 service

SB 130 - McKenna - Prohibits drivers from sending text messages or electronic messages while operating motor vehicles on highways within Missouri except under limited circumstances

SB 555 - Lager - Requires certain telephone companies to achieve parity between their in-state and out-of-state exchange access rates

HB 495 - Parson - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

Television (3)

SB 364 - Clemens - Provides labeling and recycling requirements for television manufacturers

SR 210 - Schaefer - Urges Missourians to recycle their analog televisions

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

Terrorism (1)

HB 124 - Komo - Modifies the scope and duration of the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security

Tobacco Products (6)

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 220 - Goodman - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

SB 309 - Bray - Enacts a state-wide smoking ban

SB 346 - Schaefer - Requires that after January 1, 2010, any self-service display of tobacco products may only be located in a tobacco specialty store

SB 490 - Wilson - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

HB 205 - Parson - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards

Tourism (2)

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments

SB 349 - Goodman - Requires the Director of the Oversight Division of the Joint Committee on Legislative Research to seek information directly from the Division of Tourism for bills that affect the tourism industry

Transportation (38)

SB 27 - Ridgeway - Exempts persons 21 years of age or older from wearing protective headgear except when operating or riding motorcycles upon interstate highways

SB 31 - Stouffer - Eliminates the position of the Transportation Inspector General contained within the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 58 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 110 - Crowell - Establishes an interstate interchange designation program, to be known as the "Heroes Way Interstate Interchange Designation Program", to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who have been killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq on or after September 11, 2001

SB 125 - Bray - Requires the Department of Transportation to embrace principles of context sensitive design and context sensitive solutions in its transportation project policies and procedures

SB 130 - McKenna - Prohibits drivers from sending text messages or electronic messages while operating motor vehicles on highways within Missouri except under limited circumstances

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation

SB 240 - Bray - Imposes various regulations (hours of operation, acquisition, review and maintenance of driving records, liability insurance standards, etc.) on contract carriers that transport railroad employees

SB 289 - Griesheimer - Redefines the term "project" as it is used in the Missouri Transportation Development District Act to exclude certain types of improvements

SB 293 - Barnitz - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

SB 330 - Justus - Creates the crimes of assault of a mass transit system employee in the first, second, and third degree

SB 342 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes

SB 343 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions of law relating to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission leadership and commercial driver license regulation

SB 368 - Stouffer - Provides an affirmative defense to bicyclists and motorcyclists who run red lights under certain conditions

SB 471 - Ridgeway - Establishes a procedure to suspend driver's licenses and vehicle registrations for failure to pay towing charges and allows the Highway Patrol to use rotation list to remove abandoned property

SB 477 - Wright-Jones - Creates special rules for transportation development districts that are formed for the operation of public mass transportation systems

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission

SB 527 - Nodler - Directs federal highway funds currently credited to the State Road Fund by statute to a newly created fund known as the "Federal Highways and Bridge Fund"

SCR 5 - Stouffer - Urges Congress to deny any request that would authorize a study of the Missouri River's congressionally authorized purposes

SR 238 - Bray - Urges Congress and the President to maximize the investment in expanded and improved passenger train service as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan

HB 89 - Brown - Requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians and bicyclists crossing in a crosswalk on a city or neighborhood street in Kansas City

HB 93 - Thomson - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

HB 116 - Hoskins - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer

HB 253 - Davis - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity if certain modulation standards are met

HB 354 - Schlottach - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 537 - Dixon - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 652 - Pratt - Defines the terms "certified mail" and "certified mail with return receipt requested" for the purposes of Missouri statutes where these terms are used

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 752 - Schieffer - Eliminates the position of Transportation Inspector General for the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight and modifies the law regarding the leadership of the Highways and Transportation Commission

HB 867 - Guest - Designates a portion of U. S. Highway 36 in DeKalb County as the "CW2 Matthew G. Kelley Memorial Highway"

HB 909 - Brandom - Authorizes the Governor to convey various state properties

HB 928 - Dieckhaus - Designates a portion of State Highway 100 located in Franklin Count as the "Veterans Memorial Highway"

HJR 32 - Kelly - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund

Transportation Dept. (28)

SB 13 - Bartle - Allows the Department of Transportation to construct toll roads under certain conditions

SB 57 - Stouffer - Imposes various billboard standards to billboards adjacent to Interstate 70 and Interstate 44 during periods of interstate construction

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 93 - Green - Modifies various laws relating to intoxication

SB 110 - Crowell - Establishes an interstate interchange designation program, to be known as the "Heroes Way Interstate Interchange Designation Program", to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who have been killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq on or after September 11, 2001

SB 124 - Bray - Prohibits tri-vision, projection, digital, or other changeable copy technologies from being used on billboards

SB 125 - Bray - Requires the Department of Transportation to embrace principles of context sensitive design and context sensitive solutions in its transportation project policies and procedures

SB 128 - Rupp - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 150 - Griesheimer - Specifies that overtime or compensatory time is not included in certain retirement benefit calculations for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System

SB 178 - Stouffer - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities

SB 240 - Bray - Imposes various regulations (hours of operation, acquisition, review and maintenance of driving records, liability insurance standards, etc.) on contract carriers that transport railroad employees

SB 293 - Barnitz - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

SB 343 - Stouffer - Modifies various provisions of law relating to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission leadership and commercial driver license regulation

SB 427 - Griesheimer - Changes the organizational structure of the Missouri One Call System from a non-profit organization to a public governmental body

SB 428 - Griesheimer - Repeals the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Prevention Act

SB 477 - Wright-Jones - Creates special rules for transportation development districts that are formed for the operation of public mass transportation systems

SB 484 - Rupp - Provides that the St. Louis Region Transportation District shall receive at least 33% of any federal highway and bridge funds received by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission

SB 527 - Nodler - Directs federal highway funds currently credited to the State Road Fund by statute to a newly created fund known as the "Federal Highways and Bridge Fund"

SB 553 - Crowell - Reorganizes the state health care system

SJR 2 - Bartle - Proposes constitutional change to allow Department of Transportation to construct and maintain toll roads

HB 93 - Thomson - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances

HB 354 - Schlottach - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 358 - Day - Designates the bridge over the Gasconade River on State Highway 17 in Pulaski County as the "WWII Okinawa Veterans Memorial Bridge" and designates a portion of Interstate 435 as the "Lamar Hunt Memorial Highway"

HB 359 - Denison - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the state highways and transportation commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts

HB 683 - Schieffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

HB 752 - Schieffer - Eliminates the position of Transportation Inspector General for the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight and modifies the law regarding the leadership of the Highways and Transportation Commission

Treasurer, State (9)

SB 61 - Wilson - Creates a trust fund and commission for comprehensive tobacco control

SB 213 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program

SB 307 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxes to fund certain health care services

SB 313 - Nodler - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

SB 371 - Bray - Prohibits the use of expiration dates or service fees on gift certificates

SB 542 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's Linked Deposit Loan Program

HB 681 - Smith - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator

HB 744 - Icet - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

HB 883 - Flook - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's linked deposit loan program

Trees and Other Plants (2)

SB 194 - Shoemyer - Creates procedures for crop sampling by a patent holder of genetically modified seed

SB 195 - Shoemyer - Requires farmers to register and pay a fee for retaining seed produced from patented genetically-modified seed

Unemployment Compensation (5)

SB 436 - Ridgeway - Exempts unemployment benefits from income tax for tax years 2009 and 2010.

SB 454 - Mayer - Waives the waiting week for seekers of unemployment benefits adversely affected by the winter storm of January 2009

SB 461 - Callahan - Bars the state from contracting with banks that charge fees for unemployment insurance debit cards

SB 465 - Pearce - Creates the Division of Job Development and Training and modifies the reporting requirements for obtaining unemployment benefits

SB 495 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to employment security

Uniform Laws (6)

SB 166 - Justus - Modifies the law regarding the Missouri Uniform Trust Code

SB 230 - Bray - Adopts the Uniform Planned Community Act

SB 347 - Mayer - Enacts the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 239 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates

HB 481 - Jones - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions

Utilities (18)

SB 154 - Goodman - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

SB 172 - Green - Modifies provisions relating to sewer districts and sewer subdistricts

SB 173 - Green - Creates a grant program to assist homeowners with installation of renewable energy generation equipment

SB 185 - Bray - Repeals a portion of the law that provides certain utilities the opportunity to apply for alternate rate schedules in certain circumstances

SB 196 - Shoemyer - Modifies the procedure for detaching territory from a public water supply district

SB 228 - Scott - Modifies the construction-work-in-progress (CWIP) law for construction of certain new power plants and creates the Missouri Clean and Renewable Energy Construction Act

SB 299 - Griesheimer - Modifies provisions related to rates charged by natural gas corporations and provisions of Utilicare assistance

SB 376 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to energy and energy efficiency

SB 391 - Schaefer - Limits liability for personal injury or death arising from geologic sequestration activities in certain areas

SB 427 - Griesheimer - Changes the organizational structure of the Missouri One Call System from a non-profit organization to a public governmental body

SB 428 - Griesheimer - Repeals the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Prevention Act

SB 474 - Wright-Jones - Allows certain public utilities to require deposits for new or continued service only in certain circumstances

SB 545 - Schmitt - Makes certain previously exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

HB 234 - Wood - Modifies procedures for detaching territory from a public water supply district

HB 283 - Wood - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas

HB 599 - Diehl - Makes certain previously-exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission

HB 736 - Pollock - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations

HB 978 - Pratt - Modifies provisions relating to the environment

Veterans (9)

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 110 - Crowell - Establishes an interstate interchange designation program, to be known as the "Heroes Way Interstate Interchange Designation Program", to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who have been killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq on or after September 11, 2001

SB 533 - Rupp - Requires that members of the National Guard be informed of the risks of depleted uranium and that certain veterans be informed of available federal treatment for exposure to depleted uranium

HB 111 - Day - Provides funeral establishments with immunity from liability with regard to disposal of unclaimed veterans' cremated remains

HB 400 - Nasheed - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government

HB 427 - Largent - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families

HB 678 - Wasson - Designates May 1 of each year as "Silver Star Families of America Day" to honor the wounded members of the United States armed forces

HB 928 - Dieckhaus - Designates a portion of State Highway 100 located in Franklin Count as the "Veterans Memorial Highway"

HJR 15 - Chappelle-Nadal - Exempts real property used by certain former prisoners of war as a homestead from property tax

Veterinarians (4)

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer

SB 186 - Bray - Creates the Healthy Pet Act

SB 526 - Clemens - Authorizes the state veterinarian to restrict the movement of animals or birds under investigation for carrying a toxin

HB 426 - Sutherland - Creates the Large Carnivore Act which regulates the possession and care of certain non-native big cats and bears

Victims of Crime (9)

SB 41 - Cunningham - Creates the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

SB 52 - Bray - Modifies various provisions relating to domestic violence

SB 91 - Green - Provides for additional penalties for securities fraud crimes against the elderly or disabled

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children

SB 181 - Bartle - Gives the judge presiding in a domestic assault case discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity

SB 222 - Goodman - Modifies the use and disclosure of certain personal identification information in certain documents

SB 338 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to crime victims

HB 187 - Flook - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.

HB 622 - Roorda - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases

Vital Statistics (1)

SB 53 - Days - Allows adopted persons eighteen years of age and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate under certain circumstances

Waste - Hazardous (2)

SB 88 - Stouffer - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation

SB 462 - Crowell - Modifies provisions pertaining to hazardous substance spills and emergencies

Waste - Radioactive (2)

SB 59 - Stouffer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

SB 100 - Schaefer - Assesses fee on shippers that transport radioactive waste within Missouri

Waste - Solid (4)

SB 118 - Griesheimer - Modifies duties of the Department of Natural Resources regarding solid waste planning

SB 409 - Stouffer - Extends the expiration date until January 1, 2020 for the scrap tire fee and modifies uses of the fee proceeds

SB 419 - Purgason - Expands the required representation on solid waste management councils to include communities of less than 500 people

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

Water Resources and Water Districts (11)

SB 172 - Green - Modifies provisions relating to sewer districts and sewer subdistricts

SB 196 - Shoemyer - Modifies the procedure for detaching territory from a public water supply district

SB 272 - Lager - Extends expiration date to December 31, 2010 for water pollution control permit fees

SB 456 - Lager - Makes it lawful for Caldwell County to enter into a contract with private corporations engaged in delivering water at wholesale for domestic consumption

SB 539 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions pertaining to environmental protection

SB 556 - Mayer - Prohibits certain large users of water from unduly disrupting farm irrigation activities

SCR 28 - Stouffer - Urges Congress not to authorize diversion of water from the upper Missouri River via the Garrison Diversion

HB 234 - Wood - Modifies procedures for detaching territory from a public water supply district

HB 661 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources

HB 734 - Ruzicka - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution

HB 807 - Wilson - Designates the Missouri River as the official state waterway

Weapons (5)

SB 82 - Wilson - Expands the crime of unlawful use of weapons to include discharging a firearm for celebrating in an urban area

SB 83 - Wilson - Prohibits the ownership, possession, or discharge of a taser or stun gun

SB 262 - Bartle - Modifies several provisions of law relating to the courts, judicial proceedings, and various other provisions

SB 328 - Bray - Creates the Task Force on the Use of Conducted Energy Devices

SB 445 - Rupp - Prohibits school district employees, volunteers, and independent contractors from placing a student receiving special education services into seclusion

Workers Compensation (4)

SB 323 - Ridgeway - Restricts certain workers' compensation benefits to instances when an employee's disfigurement is a hindrance to employment

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty

SB 552 - Crowell - Modifies provisions regarding MO HealthNet's authority to collect payment from third party payers

HB 580 - Bruns - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty