Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 2/24/98

SB 0526 - Childers - Inspections of seasonal resorts to be done by August 1, annually
02/24/98 -- H First Read

SB 0536 - Caskey - Allows any county to regulate fireworks
02/24/98 -- SCS S adopted
02/24/98 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0541 - Goode - Modifies motor vehicle emissions inspections for St. Louis area
02/24/98 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Klarich)
02/24/98 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Schneider)
02/24/98 -- SA 4 to SCS S offered (Yeckel)
02/24/98 -- SSA 1 for SA 4 to SCS S offered & adopted (Goode)
02/24/98 -- SA 5 to SCS S offered & Ruled out of order (Yeckel)
02/24/98 -- SA 6 to SCS S offered & defeated (Yeckel)
02/24/98 -- SA 7 to SCS S offered & adopted (Flotron)
02/24/98 -- SA 8 to SCS S offered & adopted (Ehlmann)

SB 0604 - Rohrbach - Simplifies applications for motor fuel tax refunds
02/24/98 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee-Consent

SB 0625 - Caskey - Revises provisions regarding emergency services
02/24/98 -- SA 2 to SCS S defeated
02/24/98 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Childers)
02/24/98 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
02/24/98 -- Perfected

SB 0650 - McKenna - Creates the State Committee of Dietitians to regulate dietitians
02/24/98 -- Perfected

SB 0652 - Childers - Allows county tax books to be kept electronically
02/24/98 -- SCS S adopted
02/24/98 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0675 - Johnson - Lowers age for circuit breaker to 62; raises minimum base to $8,900 and maximum upper limit to $18,000
02/24/98 -- SS for SCS S offered (Johnson)
02/24/98 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered (Klarich)
02/24/98 -- SA 1 to SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered &
defeated (Schneider)
02/24/98 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered &
adopted (Klarich)
02/24/98 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Childers)
02/24/98 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
02/24/98 -- Perfected
02/24/98 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
02/24/98 -- Referred S Budget Control Committee

SB 0678 - Westfall - Homemade trailers shall be inspected by the sheriff before titling
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 0680 - Wiggins - Merger of domestic corporation with subsidiary without shareholder election
02/24/98 -- H First Read

SB 0683 - Westfall - Allows license plates relating to a civil war battlefield park
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee-Consent

SB 0706 - Flotron - Allows all cities to regulate billboards more strictly than the state
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 0728 - Kinder - Establishes retail electric customer choice
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce & Environment Committee

SB 0746 - Wiggins - Postmark rule for mailing license taxes; DOR to state reason for taxpayer negligence in income tax assessment
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0748 - Lybyer - Modifies MOSERS survivor options provisions
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Elections, Pensions & Veterans'
Affairs Committee

SB 0776 - Flotron - Requires all state tax laws to be strictly construed against taxing authority, which bears ultimate burden of proof
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0779 - Jacob - Allows for the public financing of certain election campaigns
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Elections, Pensions & Veterans'
Affairs Committee

SB 0781 - House - Revises provisions relating to school desegregation, school funding and urban schools
02/24/98 -- Reported From S Education Committee to Floor w/SCS

SB 0791 - Russell - Allows hospital districts to impose sales tax with voter approval
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0799 - DePasco - Modifies provisions of the Kansas City Police and Civilian Retirement Systems
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Elections, Pensions & Veterans'
Affairs Committee
02/24/98 -- Voted do Pass w/SCA 1 S Elections, Pensions &
Veterans' Affairs Committee

SB 0824 - Russell - Authorizes state income tax credit for sponsoring and mentoring programs for at-risk students
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0832 - Mathewson - Corporate swine farm ownership of agricultural land
02/24/98 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Mathewson)
02/24/98 -- S Third Read and Passed, as amended - Consent

SB 0838 - Sims - Authorizes automated traffic enforcement programs
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass w/SCA 1 S Transportation Committee

SB 0841 - Caskey - Allows reduced early benefits for certain surviving spouses in county employees' retirement system
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Elections, Pensions & Veterans'
Affairs Committee-Consent

SB 0848 - Mueller - Allows use of local park tax outside of municipality or county if a cooperative agreement exists
02/24/98 -- Reported From S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 0849 - Caskey - Specifies original assessment of distributable property of freight line companies; director of revenue to collect tax
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee-Consent

SB 0852 - Quick - Various changes to banking and credit practices
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass W/SCS SBs 852 & 913 S Financial &

SB 0856 - McKenna - Grants Jefferson County right to establish a county municipal court plan
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass w/SCA 1 S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee

SB 0857 - Jacob - Increases dependency exemption to $800
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0861 - Johnson - Transportation development districts-alternate tax collection; mortgages
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0873 - Kenney - Phases in full deductibility of federal income taxes for individual and corporate taxpayers
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0874 - Jacob - Clarifies scope of psychologist licensing requirements
02/24/98 -- Hearing Cancelled S Aging, Families & Mental Health
Committee

SB 0885 - DePasco - Modifies motorcycle helmet law to apply only to persons under age 21
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 0887 - Schneider - Increases dependency exemption to $800 and increases income levels for circuit breaker bill
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0888 - Wiggins - Defines "food" to exclude food sold where gross receipts on those sales is more than 50% of total gross receipts
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0889 - Kenney - Blood alcohol content lowered to 0.08%
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 0895 - Staples - Allows free death certificates for family members of veterans
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Elections, Pensions & Veterans'
Affairs Committee

SB 0898 - Maxwell - Specifies that volunteer fire protection associations may respond to emergencies
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee-Consent

SB 0901 - Westfall - Driver's license applicants must complete driver's education course
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 0908 - Flotron - Administrative proceedings to remedy detrimental reliance
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 0910 - Caskey - Revises various provisions regarding child support enforcement
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Aging, Families & Mental Health
Committee
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass w/SCA 1 S Aging, Families & Mental
Health Committee

SB 0911 - McKenna - Allows various tax credits for encouraging small businesses in distressed communities
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee

SB 0917 - Caskey - Raises county and township non-bid limit; increases township officer per diem
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee
02/24/98 -- Voted Do Pass S Local Government & Economic
Development Committee-Consent

SB 0923 - Scott - Provides for the deregulation of the transmission and distribution of electricity
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce & Environment Committee

SB 0937 - Singleton - Relating to certain retirement systems
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0938 - Yeckel - Relating to tax credits for child care
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0939 - Kenney - Relating to regulation of the sale of bedding
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0940 - Maxwell - Relating to the regulation of pharmacies
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0941 - Banks - Relating to the eligibility for public assistance
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0942 - McKenna - Relating to excursion gambling boats
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0943 - Scott - Relating to certicates of authority to transact insurance
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0944 - McKenna - Relating to governmental bodies
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0945 - Howard - Relating to cotton growers referendum
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0946 - Westfall - Relating to driver's license applications
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0947 - Bentley - Relating to school boards
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0948 - Bentley - Relating to motor vehicles
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0949 - Sims - Relating to an income tax credit for certain property taxes
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SB 0950 - Goode - Relating to real property tax increment allocation redevelopment
02/24/98 -- S First Read

SJR 026 - Westfall - Exempts tangible personal property from tax and authorizes a replacement tax
02/24/98 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SJR 037 - DePasco - Relating to riverboat gambling
02/24/98 -- S First Read