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Motor Carriers

SB 0633 - Childers - Exempts truck-tractors equipped with short freight compartments from certain length restrictions
SB 0652 - Goode - Reduces speed limit by five mph for trucks on certain highways, expressways and interstates of this state
SB 0841 - Jacob - Restricts trucks to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways and restricts trucks to the right hand lane
SB 1079 - Graves - Mandates that commercial motor vehicles be equipped with brakes which do not create excessive noise when in use
HB 1152 - Troupe - Changes penalties for certain assaults
HB 1441 - Koller - Revises the division of motor carrier and railroad safety law
HB 1515 - Champion - Increases the weight limit of trucks that can have the combat infantryman badge special license plate
HB 1577 - Patek - Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to study the viability of establishing designated truck
HB 1645 - Luetkenhaus - Changes traffic regulations for large trucks
HB 1748 - Bray - Regulates truck traffic
HB 1797 - Gratz - Creates the Insurance Identification Database Fund and modifies other laws relating to motor vehicles
HB 1898 - Koller - Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers
HB 1900 - Green - Requires backup devices for certain trucks
HB 1926 - Wiggins - Permits the Director of the Department of Agriculture to supercede certain tank wagon regulations
HB 1948 - Gratz - Changes law regarding permits for concrete pump trucks, length limits for dromedary units and auto insurance
HB 2098 - Merideth III - Changes the powers of commercial vehicle officers

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Motor Fuel

SB 0793 - Staples - Allows suspension of a person's driver's license for theft of gas from a gas station
SB 0966 - Kinder - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in programs
HB 1588 - Ostmann - Limits the amount of reimbursement that state agencies and departments can receive from the motor fuel tax fund
HB 1623 - Koller - Revises the division of motor carrier and railroad safety law
HB 1926 - Wiggins - Permits the Director of the Department of Agriculture to supercede certain tank wagon regulations
HB 2039 - Wiggins - Regulates the sale of oxygenated gasoline
HB 2088 - Schilling - Creates an income tax credit for tax years 2001 to 2005 for purchases and leases of alternative fuel vehicles
HB 2157 - Dougherty - Creates an income tax credit for the purchase of and conversion to a qualifying alternative motor fuel vehicle,

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Motor Vehicles

SB 0538 - Russell - Closes personal records held by the Division of Motor Vehicles and Driver's Licensing
SB 0541 - Mathewson - Allows school bus exhaust tailpipes to extend two inches beyond of the perimeter of the body or bumper
SB 0545 - Staples - Allows Native Americans to acquire specialized license plates
SB 0565 - Rohrbach - Prohibits the bulk disclosure of motor vehicle records by the Department of Revenue
SB 0568 - Clay - Requires that motor vehicle license plate renewal stickers be placed in the windshield and rear window
SB 0578 - Westfall - Lowers blood alcohol content to .08% for drunk driving arrests
SB 0579 - Westfall - Prohibits passengers from consuming or possessing open alcoholic beverages in a motor vehicle
SB 0590 - Yeckel - Creates crime of trespass of a school bus
SB 0607 - Russell - Exempts certain members of the armed services from paying registration fees on one motor vehicle
SB 0610 - Staples - Requires that all persons under 21 years of age wear motorcycle helmets
SB 0613 - Goode - Revises law regarding graduated driver's licensing and requirements of filing high-risk insurance
SB 0615 - Howard - Requires used automobile dealers to attend an educational seminar annually before receiving their dealer's license
SB 0628 - Westfall - Allows license plates relating to a civil war battlefield park
SB 0633 - Childers - Exempts truck-tractors equipped with short freight compartments from certain length restrictions
SB 0647 - Russell - Exempts retired members of the armed services from paying personalized license plate fee
SB 0651 - Goode - Specifies that article used in trade-in to offset sales tax must have had tax paid or been exempted from tax
SB 0652 - Goode - Reduces speed limit by five mph for trucks on certain highways, expressways and interstates of this state
SB 0683 - Childers - Imposes an additional fine for speeding in a construction or work zone
SB 0701 - Wiggins - Creates the Missouri Alternatives to Abortion Support Fund and allows drivers to obtain "Respect Life" license plates
SB 0728 - Flotron - Allows members of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America to apply for a specialized license plate
SB 0731 - Bentley - Allows Purple Heart recipients to receive free registration and specialized license plates
SB 0765 - Kenney - Allows individuals to obtain POW/MIA specialized license plates
SB 0770 - DePasco - Limits sound amplification in motor vehicles
SB 0782 - Westfall - Revises provisions regarding repeat alcohol-related traffic offenders
SB 0791 - Goode - Revises motor vehicle emissions inspections for certain areas
SB 0792 - Sims - Reduces speed limit from 70 mph to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways
SB 0793 - Staples - Allows suspension of a person's driver's license for theft of gas from a gas station
SB 0799 - Ehlmann - Creates the offense of aggressive driving
SB 0826 - Jacob - Revises the motor vehicle franchise law
SB 0831 - Childers - Allows any person replacing stolen license plates to receive at no cost up to two license plates per year
SB 0832 - Childers - Allows owners of different classes of motor vehicles to apply for Korean War Veteran license plates
SB 0833 - Childers - Forbids insurers from charging higher auto insurance rates to those who had no prior coverage due to military service
SB 0834 - Kenney - Allows members of the nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America to apply for a specialized license plate
SB 0835 - Staples - Permits police officers to enforce seatbelt law if the violation is clearly visible to the officer
SB 0841 - Jacob - Restricts trucks to 65 mph on rural interstates and freeways and restricts trucks to the right hand lane
SB 0895 - Staples - Changes law regarding car window tinting
SB 0896 - Klarich - Modifies law regarding LLC's, LLP's, corporations, financial institutions and other financial arrangements
SB 0907 - Caskey - Amends motor vehicle tinted window prohibition
SB 0934 - Caskey - Revises laws regarding intoxication-related traffic offenses
SB 0966 - Kinder - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in programs
SB 0988 - Westfall - Requires drivers to take certain actions when emergency vehicle approaching
SB 0995 - Goode - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions inspection program
SB 1026 - Wiggins - Revises placement of Proposition C sales tax revenue from motor vehicles
SB 1079 - Graves - Mandates that commercial motor vehicles be equipped with brakes which do not create excessive noise when in use
SB 1080 - Graves - Repeals the biennial inspection of motor vehicles
SCR 033 - Kinder - Requests Congress to reduce the federal excise tax on gasoline by 4.3 cents per gallon
HB 1078 - Relford - Increases allowable weight for military specialty license plates, eliminates personalization fee on specialized
HB 1093 - Scheve - Creates a Boy Scouts of America license plate
HB 1137 - Ward - Allows person over twenty-five years of age to operate or ride motorcycles without helmets on certain highways
HB 1142 - Ransdall - Removes fee for a special permit to move oversized loads and requires the repurchasing of certain farm equipment
HB 1145 - Ward - Permits renewal of drivers' licenses by prisoners without photographs
HB 1170 - Smith (011) - Creates special license plates for parents of Missouri 4-H members
HB 1180 - Backer - Creates a Shriners license plate
HB 1194 - Stokan - Creates the Distinguished Flying Cross special license plate
HB 1211 - Gross - Requires Director of Revenue to enter into recognition of disabled persons' license plates agreement with the federal
HB 1228 - Surface - Changes law regarding car window tinting
HB 1250 - Kissell - Permits primary enforcement of seat belt violations
HB 1251 - Kissell - Clarifies the amateur radio license plates statute
HB 1258 - Lograsso - Requires only persons under twenty-one years of age to wear motorcycle helmets
HB 1278 - Thompson - Requires sealing of certain traffic violation records
HB 1285 - Marble - Changes requirements for licenses of motor vehicles
HB 1301 - Hanaway - Exempts all sales of motor vehicles from sales and use tax
HB 1306 - Rizzo - Requires license renewal stickers to be placed on window of vehicle
HB 1322 - Hartzler - Changes law regarding the careless operation of motor vehicles
HB 1333 - Abel - Exempts the first five thousand dollars of the purchase price of a new or used motor vehicle from sales and use tax
HB 1347 - Hosmer - Changes various traffic regulations and penalties
HB 1364 - Hosmer - Requires continuing education for used motor vehicle dealers
HB 1380 - Pouche - Requires assessment of motor vehicles at seventy percent of trade-in value and a physical inspection of tangible
HB 1387 - Lakin - Increases the fine for subsequent violations of child passenger restraint systems from twenty-five to one hundred
HB 1399 - Seigfreid - Creates the Civil Air Patrol license plate
HB 1427 - Hosmer - Raises the age for compulsory school attendance to eighteen and conditions driving privileges upon school enrollment
HB 1441 - Koller - Revises the division of motor carrier and railroad safety law
HB 1442 - Koller - Defines dromedary for motor vehicle length restrictions
HB 1444 - Ballard - Exempts certain farm wagons from licensing requirements
HB 1447 - Ford - Exempts highway permit for heavy machinery within twenty-five miles
HB 1480 - Loudon - Creates a Shriners' special license plate
HB 1510 - Champion - Changes the detail base review procedures for state departments
HB 1515 - Champion - Increases the weight limit of trucks that can have the combat infantryman badge special license plate
HB 1577 - Patek - Requires the State Highways and Transportation Commission to study the viability of establishing designated truck
HB 1601 - Leake - Requires sellers of motor fuel to label oxygenate additives
HB 1603 - O'Connor - Revises the motor vehicle franchise law
HB 1672 - Bennett - Changes speed limit for certain trucks on certain highways; allows certain rules establishing lanes for truck travel;
HB 1690 - Hickey - Reduces the sales and use tax on motor vehicles to two percent
HB 1703 - Ward - Removes requirement to maintain liability insurance on a motor vehicle
HB 1715 - Campbell - Creates special license plates for the St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield Zoos
HB 1722 - Ross - Requires director of revenue to issue license to another state's holder of driver's license upon eye exam and
HB 1748 - Bray - Regulates truck traffic
HB 1767 - Williams (159) - Creates a Girl Scouts of America special license plate
HB 1773 - Evans - Eliminates Department of Revenue fee offices
HB 1783 - Gibbons - Creates the D.a.r.e license plate
HB 1797 - Gratz - Creates the Insurance Identification Database Fund and modifies other laws relating to motor vehicles
HB 1823 - Scott - Waives renewal fees for military medal and prisoner of war special license plates
HB 1838 - Hollingsworth - Prohibits the parking of motor vehicles in a commuter parking lot for the primary purpose of selling the motor
HB 1859 - Liese - Changes definition of "motor vehicle" for motor vehicle time sales purposes
HB 1861 - Froelker - Exempts from sales and use tax sales of certain motor vehicles manufactured at least seven years prior to the
HB 1863 - Black - Creates an American Legion special license plate
HB 1866 - O'Connor - Creates the respect life special license plate
HB 1885 - Koller - Revises law regarding graduated driver's licensing and requirements of filing high-risk insurance
HB 1898 - Koller - Requires drug and alcohol testing for motor carriers
HB 1900 - Green - Requires backup devices for certain trucks
HB 1903 - Hoppe - Regulates stretcher vans
HB 1905 - Abel - Exempts the first five thouand dollars of the sale price of motor vehicles from sales and use tax and replaces lost
HB 1939 - Graham - Regulates stretcher van services
HB 1944 - Relford - Creates a Mo-Ag Businesses special license plate
HB 1948 - Gratz - Changes law regarding permits for concrete pump trucks, length limits for dromedary units and auto insurance
HB 1969 - Kissell - Requires two-year revocation of driver's license for committing two or more violations while fleeing a law
HB 1970 - Koller - Changes bridge weight restrictions
HB 1984 - Elliott - Increases the number of persons allowed to apply for a transfer of license plates
HB 2009 - Rizzo - Requires department of revenue to refund costs and fines paid if person is acquitted of an intoxication-related
HB 2024 - Kreider - Authorizes municipalities to regulate speed limits in areas designated as school zones without the consent of the state
HB 2034 - Barnett - Requires the department of revenue to send notice of motor vehicle registration
HB 2052 - Koller - Allows the general assembly to provide the state highways and transportation commission funding for public transit
HB 2067 - Selby - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions program
HB 2088 - Schilling - Creates an income tax credit for tax years 2001 to 2005 for purchases and leases of alternative fuel vehicles
HB 2102 - Hampton - Changes law regarding motor vehicle record dissemination
HB 2106 - Gibbons - Changes law on disabled license plates and windshield placards
HB 2149 - Evans - Phases out property tax on motor vehicles
HB 2158 - Boucher - Requires the department of revenue to permit the renewal of motor vehicle registrations over the Internet
HB 2167 - Dougherty - Removes the requirement of motorcycle helmets for those twenty-one years of age or older

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Museums

SB 0636 - Bland - Preserves Walt Disney film studio as historic site

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National Guard

SB 0732 - Schneider - Creates civil recovery for false or fraudulent monetary claims made to the state
SB 0948 - Howard - Requires National Guard to establish pilot public school program to teach military discipline
SB 0961 - Stoll - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, recognition of veterans
HB 1923 - Ransdall - Revises National Guard Scholarship Program, creates tax holiday
HB 2055 - Surface - Authorizes the conveyance of certain properties between the Missouri national guard and the city of Joplin

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Natural Resources Dept.

SB 0555 - Singleton - Authorizes DNR acquisition of the Newtonia Battlefield
SB 0577 - Maxwell - Revises hazardous waste laws
SB 0723 - Goode - Creates Invasive Species Council
SB 0741 - Maxwell - Revises water resource laws
SB 0750 - Rohrbach - Certain DNR rules may be no stricter than federal regulations with exceptions
SB 0791 - Goode - Revises motor vehicle emissions inspections for certain areas
SB 0939 - Clay - Allows law enforcement personnel to form unions and enter into collective bargaining agreements
SB 0966 - Kinder - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas and allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in programs
SB 0983 - Goode - Establishes a fee structure for fees collected for waste water treatment
SB 0995 - Goode - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions inspection program
SB 1003 - Wiggins - Requires regulation of on-site sewage treatment systems
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles
SCR 023 - Klarich - Directs Natural Resources Department to assess MBTE contamination of ground & surface water in St. Louis
SCR 042 - Rohrbach - EPA - proposed rules regarding the Clean Water Act
SJR 055 - Goode - Exempts certain fees paid to the Dept. of Natural Resources from the calculation of total state revenue
HB 1074 - Relford - Authorizes bonds for water pollution and stormwater control; sewer line fees
HB 1106 - Franklin - Appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
HB 1143 - Scheve - Establishes the senior environmental corps
HB 1422 - Dougherty - Establishes a lead abatement loan program and fund to provide financial assistance to owners of dwellings in
HB 1439 - Rizzo - Allows yard waste to be disposed in solid waste area if such disposal is part of municipally approved clean up
HB 1550 - Richardson - Prohibits Dnr rules from being stricter than federal regulations
HB 1619 - Smith (011) - Enacts additional notice and hearing requirements for surface mining permits
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit
HB 1716 - Howerton - Creates an environmental audit privilege
HB 1801 - Myers - Mandates ethanol phase-in in certain metropolitan areas, allows other areas to adopt ethanol phase-in if they so
HB 1913 - Luetkenhaus - Extends clean water permit fee sunset until the end of 2003
HB 1927 - Wiggins - Revises water pollution permit requirements and permit fees
HB 1945 - Kennedy - Expands property reuse fund to include brownfield site investigations by municipalities and counties, and urges
HB 2025 - Kreider - Requires landfills to be open for at least four hours during the weekend
HB 2067 - Selby - Allows for suspension of motor vehicle emissions program
HB 2136 - Naeger - Amends various portions of on-site sewage system law
HCR 014 - Griesheimer - Urges the Governor to opt out of the Epa's reformulated gasoline program until a safer substitute for Mtbe is found
HCR 032 - Loudon - Urges the Governor to allow St. Louis to opt out of the Epa's reformulated gasoline program until a safer

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Nurses

SB 0574 - House - Requires health plans to cover all services provided or ordered by registered nurse first assistants
SB 0598 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting and investigation of abuse and neglect of in-home services clients
SB 0889 - Howard - Allows registered professional nurses who are registered nurse anesthetists to dispense controlled substances
SB 0949 - Howard - Allows psychologists to administer, order, and prescribe medications after obtaining specific tranining
SB 0959 - Howard - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly
SB 0972 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 1030 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
HB 1497 - Barry - Allows registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe and administer certain drugs
HB 1568 - Wilson - Allows tests of certain mothers for syphilis and establishes the Office on Women's Health
HB 2047 - Treadway - Authorizes advanced practice nurse recognition

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Nursing and Boarding Homes

SB 0846 - House - Provides income tax credit for up to $1000 for residents of long term care facilities and home health care
SB 0854 - Sims - Terminates the Certificate of Need process for long-term care facilities
SB 0856 - Maxwell - Makes various changes to the managed care statutes
SB 0952 - Stoll - The Attorney General may investigate the abuse and neglect of residents of long term care facilities
SB 0972 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 1030 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
SB 1071 - Sims - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and payment of penalties related to nursing home violations
SB 1081 - Howard - Modifies employee disqualification provisions and various nursing home violations
HB 1591 - Backer - Allows a nursing home administrator to retire his or her license
HB 1615 - Hosmer - Modifies various provisions relating to protection of the elderly
HB 1737 - Monaco - Requires long-term health care insurers to identify whether policies are tax qualified
HB 1817 - Wiggins - Allows denials of licensure by long-term care facilities to be filed in circuit court
HB 1830 - Levin - Increases the income tax deduction for long-term health insurance premiums from fifty to one hundred percent
HB 1871 - Hendrickson - Reduces by 50% any fee imposed on a long-term care facility by the Division of Aging if such facility maintains
HB 2075 - Patek - Exempts nursing facilities that do not have a Medicaid provider agreement with the Department of Social Services
HB 2128 - Skaggs - Repeals the sunset provision for certificate of need for acute care facilities
HCR 038 - Townley - Objects to Hcfa's actions relating to the Frene Valley Healthcare South nursing home

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Parks and Recreation

SB 0555 - Singleton - Authorizes DNR acquisition of the Newtonia Battlefield
SB 1076 - Ehlmann - Makes numerous changes in laws affecting the City of St. Louis
HB 1238 - Hoppe - Numerous changes concerning urban affairs, taxation and economic programs
HB 1434 - Skaggs - Regulation of amusement ride providers
HB 1806 - Crump - Regulates the taking and killing of feral hogs
HB 2117 - Ridgeway - Gives additional powers to park rangers in certain counties

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Pawnbrokers

HB 1381 - Pouche - Requires pawnbrokers to return stolen items without payment of amount due
HB 1382 - Pouche - Changes pawnbrokers duties in regards to stolen property

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Pharmacy

SB 0639 - Steelman - Creates a pharmaceutical assistance program for qualified senior citizens
SB 0699 - Bland - Creates protections for health care consumers
HB 1199 - Hosmer - Establishes an organ transplant program within the Missouri kidney program in the University of Missouri
HB 1219 - Kennedy - Creates the St. Louis College of Pharmacy special license plate
HB 1635 - Troupe - Requires all health benfit plans to issue uniform prescription drug information cards
HB 1711 - Abel - Requires participating pharmacies in the Medicaid program to provide Medicare prescriptions at the Medicaid rate
HB 1743 - Foley - Makes various changes regarding pharmacies
HB 2043 - Chrismer - Allows a pharmacist to refuse to fill a prescription that the pharmacist has a moral reason to oppose

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Physicians

SB 0593 - Bland - Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all MO citizens
SB 0598 - Steelman - Modifies the reporting and investigation of abuse and neglect of in-home services clients
SB 0617 - Johnson - Modifies Missouri's Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
SB 0645 - Wiggins - Creates new sections relating to the protection of health care consumers
SB 0646 - Wiggins - Modifies Missouri's Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
SB 0699 - Bland - Creates protections for health care consumers
SB 0747 - Singleton - Requires certain insurance companies to authorize or deny coverage for surgical procedures within specific time limits
SB 0794 - Singleton - Health carriers shall accept any willing provider if the provider meets selection criteria
SB 0829 - Singleton - Creates procedures for physicians to engage in negotiations with HMOs and certain other insurance companies
SB 0850 - Scott - Expands those who are not liable for information reported to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
SB 0874 - Caskey - Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants
SB 0921 - Scott - Appointments to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts; Physicians' Health Program
SB 0930 - Jacob - Closes portions of hospital records and meetings in certain situations
SB 0947 - Sims - Revises the licensure of home health care agencies under the Department of Health
SB 0959 - Howard - Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly
SB 0986 - Kenney - Creates spinal cord injury research grants, administered by a new advisory board created for that purpose
SB 1011 - Singleton - Requires physicians to disclose affiliations with health care providers in referral situations
SB 1012 - Singleton - Prohibits the use of non-competition clauses in certain physician contracts
SB 1070 - Kenney - Revises medical record copying fees and repeals section 191.233
HB 1568 - Wilson - Allows tests of certain mothers for syphilis and establishes the Office on Women's Health
HB 1668 - Bennett - Requires the revocation of a physician's license for assisting in a suicide
HB 1848 - Treadway - Modifies provisions relating to the licensing of certain health practitioners
HB 1857 - Kennedy - Makes additions to the list of persons immune from liability for reporting to the State Board of Registration

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Physical Therapists

SB 0883 - Rohrbach - A license may not be issued to a Physical Therapy Assistant who has failed the test three times after August 28, 2000

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Planning and Zoning

SB 0945 - Staples - Exempts subdivisions with lots of 5 acres or more in unincorporated areas from subdivision regulations
SB 0990 - Howard - Allows a private property owner to seek compensation from the government for "regulatory taking"
HB 1077 - Relford - Repeals authorization to the City of Cameron for planning and zoning in unincorporated areas
HB 1795 - Myers - Allows for separate school district zoning ordinances in certain counties
HB 1798 - Williams (159) - Enacts the Private Property Protection Act, which requires compensation from government entities when government
HB 1811 - Kreider - Revises various county planning and zoning provisions

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Political Parties

HB 1636 - Abel - Allows anyone to vote absentee; establishes an alternative single-ballot primary pilot project
HB 1934 - Bray - Establishes a public campaign financing system, with voluntary participation
HB 2031 - Long - Includes state employees in the prohibition against expenditure of public funds on candidates or ballot

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Political Subdivisions

SB 0537 - Russell - Authorizes the creation of law enforcement districts
SB 0550 - Flotron - Revises burden of proof requirements in state tax cases
SB 0586 - Sims - Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans
SB 0596 - Steelman - Allows tourism tax for New Madrid, New Madrid Co., Stoddard Co., Bloomfield, Caruthersville and St. James
SB 0625 - Ehlmann - Revises Outstanding Schools Waivers
SB 0635 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0683 - Childers - Imposes an additional fine for speeding in a construction or work zone
SB 0702 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0704 - Kinder - Prohibits political subdivisions from suing firearms manufacturers for sale or marketing to public
SB 0727 - Goode - Revises sunset on closure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0732 - Schneider - Creates civil recovery for false or fraudulent monetary claims made to the state
SB 0740 - Wiggins - Allows State to withhold moneys due to political subdivisions for audits unreimbursed
SB 0752 - Clay - Revises election process for school board in St. Louis City
SB 0764 - Kenney - Limits or freezes assessed valuation of residential property for certain senior citizens
SB 0768 - Stoll - Clarifies restriction on financial contributions to bond elections by interested parties
SB 0789 - Mathewson - Authorizes a sales tax to fund Jail Districts
SB 0797 - Ehlmann - Prohibits political subdivisions from submitting the same question to the voters more than one time per year
SB 0803 - Goode - Revises various utility taxes and authorizes replacement taxes
SB 0818 - Maxwell - Prisons shall provide laundry or linen services only to state departments and employees
SB 0827 - Scott - Creates Downtown Revitalization Act for St. Louis
SB 0836 - Mueller - Clarifies a not-for-profit statute that limits corporate distributions
SB 0842 - Flotron - Numerous provisions relating to public safety
SB 0847 - House - Allows a credit of up to $200 against income tax liability for property taxes paid
SB 0858 - Maxwell - Revises the standard of proof for violations of the Sunshine Law
SB 0864 - Caskey - Exempts township governments from certain penalties under the employment security law
SB 0868 - Stoll - Allows Board of Trustees to be responsible for certain county sewer districts
SB 0898 - Bland - Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0909 - Bland - Exempts food local sales tax and reduces federal income tax deduction, subject to referendum
SB 0915 - Clay - A political subdivision may take ownership of an abandoned cemetery and convey it to a civic association
SB 0916 - Singleton - Revises peace officer training and certification laws
SB 0924 - Maxwell - Authorizes Kirksville to impose a sales tax for economic development to fund a transportation corporation
SB 0950 - Schneider - Government shall not have sovereign immunity when engaged in proprietary functions
SB 0978 - House - Allows political subdivisions to pay for health insurance for the dependents of retired or deceased employees
SB 0989 - Westfall - Revises state school aid formula, reduces minimum levy to $1.25, increases income tax and sales tax
SB 0994 - Flotron - Allows citizens to register their vehicles, pay taxes and access various agency services via the Internet
SB 1016 - Jacob - Exempts clothing purchased between August 12, 2000 through August 20, 2000 from state and local sales and use taxation
SB 1040 - Caskey - Revises state school aid formula
SB 1050 - House - Allows specified compensation of members of ambulance district boards
SJR 041 - Yeckel - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority
SJR 045 - House - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority, freezes property tax for seniors
SJR 046 - Goode - Authorizes replacement taxes for various utility taxes
SJR 054 - Westfall - Reduces maximum amount school levy without voter approval to $1.25 per $100 assessed value
HB 1097 - Hosmer - Revises civil liability for trespass
HB 1159 - Boucher - Makes numerous changes to the income taxes
HB 1338 - Auer - Establishes Metropolitan St. Louis Growth Management Advisory Commission
HB 1374 - Graham - Changes rules concerning when local governments may impose certain fees on court cases
HB 1483 - Merideth III - Increases the allowable population for enterprise zones not within metropolitan statistical area from twenty thousand
HB 1544 - Smith (011) - Clarifies a not-for-profit statute that limits corporate distributions
HB 1927 - Wiggins - Revises water pollution permit requirements and permit fees
HB 2011 - Overschmidt - Calculation of real property tax rates in all counties
HJR 043 - Barry - Allows approval of school bond issues by simple majority in most elections

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Prisons and Jails

SB 0530 - Schneider - Modifies various provisions relating to crimes and punishment
SB 0551 - Flotron - Limits restrictions of religious exercise to cases where a compelling government interest is shown
SB 0564 - Rohrbach - Prohibits future private prisons or jails
SB 0567 - Clay - Creates right of compensation for wrongful imprisonment
SB 0618 - Rohrbach - Revises contracting for telephone service for inmates
SB 0730 - Graves - Authorizes work camps for qualified inmates of the Corrections Department
SB 0738 - Maxwell - Allows prisons to provide laundry or linen services only to state departments and employees
SB 0789 - Mathewson - Authorizes a sales tax to fund Jail Districts
SB 0818 - Maxwell - Prisons shall provide laundry or linen services only to state departments and employees
SB 0892 - Quick - State to pay counties for health care costs of certain state prisoners
SB 1072 - Wiggins - Creates Commission on the Death Penalty
HB 1072 - Relford - Permits the imposition of a regional jail district sales tax
HB 1151 - Troupe - Forbids privatization of prisons
HB 1186 - Gratz - Authorizes Governor to convey certain property in Cole County which is part of Church Farm Correctional Facility
HB 1206 - Troupe - Creates the office of corrections ombudsman
HB 1207 - Troupe - Creates crime of offender sexual abuse
HB 1398 - Relford - Changes the penalty for aiding escape of a prisoner
HB 1814 - Williams (121) - Regulates the use and operation of private jails

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Probation and Parole

SB 0708 - DePasco - Increases penalty for littering
SB 0782 - Westfall - Revises provisions regarding repeat alcohol-related traffic offenders
HB 1646 - Smith (011) - Transfers the board of parole to the judicial branch
HB 1654 - Crawford - Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases
HB 1769 - Smith (011) - Requires court to issue warrant for arrest of persons on probation
HB 1800 - Kelley (047) - Provides for review of nonparoleable sentences

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Property, Real and Personal

SB 0577 - Maxwell - Revises hazardous waste laws
SB 0586 - Sims - Provides a homestead exemption from property taxes for totally disabled veterans
SB 0635 - Yeckel - Freezes residential property valuation for senior citizens
SB 0643 - Schneider - Modifies law regarding the amending of a condominium association's bylaws and declaration
SB 0650 - Goode - Allows all counties to establish homeless programs and increases fees on recorded instruments to $5
SB 0703 - Steelman - Expands list of donees for state surplus property
SB 0712 - DePasco - Changes the current two-year cycle of reassessment to a four-year cycle
SB 0845 - Rohrbach - Residential mortgage brokers who post sufficient bond not required to provide annual certified audits
SB 0851 - Wiggins - Revises Criminal Activity Forfeiture Act
SB 0893 - Quick - Payment of real estate taxes are first to be applied to back taxes; escrow accounts are exempt
SB 0894 - Quick - Numerous provisions relating to economic development, taxation and land use law
SB 0898 - Bland - Allows cities and counties to enact homestead exemption for certain senior citizens
SB 0904 - Johnson - Creates the separate office of Recorder of Deeds in third class counties
SB 0915 - Clay - A political subdivision may take ownership of an abandoned cemetery and convey it to a civic association
SB 0950 - Schneider - Government shall not have sovereign immunity when engaged in proprietary functions
SB 0960 - Howard - Creates new provisions relating to trespassing
SB 0990 - Howard - Allows a private property owner to seek compensation from the government for "regulatory taking"
SB 1031 - Sims - Revises and creates crimes regarding theft of merchandise
SB 1032 - Sims - Regulates sale of unused property (flea markets)
SB 1037 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
SB 1064 - Maxwell - Revises fees on hazardous waste, solid waste and commercial vehicles
SJR 048 - Goode - Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement
HB 1082 - Crump - Requires approval by the General Assembly of certain federal land acquisitions through eminent domain or condemnation
HB 1088 - Scheve - Changes the assessment of real property to every four years
HB 1097 - Hosmer - Revises civil liability for trespass
HB 1099 - Hosmer - Expands fraud provisions of unlawful merchandising practices
HB 1186 - Gratz - Authorizes Governor to convey certain property in Cole County which is part of Church Farm Correctional Facility
HB 1238 - Hoppe - Numerous changes concerning urban affairs, taxation and economic programs
HB 1298 - Hanaway - Freezes, for property tax purposes, assessed valuations of homesteads owned by persons eighty years of age and older
HB 1338 - Auer - Establishes Metropolitan St. Louis Growth Management Advisory Commission
HB 1344 - Rizzo - Limits late fees on self-service storage unit rentals
HB 1381 - Pouche - Requires pawnbrokers to return stolen items without payment of amount due
HB 1382 - Pouche - Changes pawnbrokers duties in regards to stolen property
HB 1395 - Robirds - Names kudzu a noxious weed and provides liability for persons who allow kudzu to grow to another's property
HB 1402 - Townley - Changes the fencing law
HB 1422 - Dougherty - Establishes a lead abatement loan program and fund to provide financial assistance to owners of dwellings in
HB 1451 - Hosmer - Limits fee on title loans
HB 1458 - O'Toole - Enacts additional licensure qualifications for termite inspectors involved in real estate transactions
HB 1481 - Smith (011) - Revises the Missouri Title Insurance Act
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1655 - Wiggins - Amends powers, duties and appointments of soil and water conservation district board members
HB 1656 - Wiggins - Allows certain municipalities to adopt expedited weed control ordinances
HB 1661 - Gambaro - Allows certain political subdivisions to have a mechanic's lien when they pay mechanics to perform abatement work on
HB 1662 - Gambaro - Allows local housing corporations and neighborhood associations to bring property receivership actions
HB 1706 - Gambaro - Expands allowable costs under the Brownfield program and provides for a demolition tax credit
HB 1798 - Williams (159) - Enacts the Private Property Protection Act, which requires compensation from government entities when government
HB 1821 - Scott - Prohibits theft by Internet
HB 1864 - McClelland - Creates an income tax credit in the amount of ten percent of all real property taxes paid
HB 1892 - Kelley (047) - Authorizes grave conveyances back to the county, city, town or village after fifty years if the grave is unused and
HB 2040 - Berkstresser - Allows for reimbursement of expenses in certain condemnation and inverse condemnation proceedings
HB 2053 - Kennedy - Changes required format and fees for items handled by the Recorder of Deeds
HB 2061 - Lakin - Amends statutes pertaining to the collecting of delinquent real property taxes
HB 2071 - Ransdall - Grants immunity to persons owning or possessing land adjoining certain streams or rivers
HB 2091 - Wilson - Requires landlords of manufactured or mobile home land lease communities to provide 180 days notice to vacate
HB 2153 - Ridgeway - Permits a materialman's lien when repairing or remodeling a residence
HB 2161 - Fraser - Requires local governments to provide municipal services to taxpaying residents of condominimus and other private
HB 2165 - Crawford - Authorizes various conveyances
HB 2166 - Crawford - Authorizes various easements and conveyances
HJR 050 - Wright - Proposes constitutional amendment to repeal the personal property tax and to substitute a state sales tax to

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Psychologists

SB 0663 - Schneider - Revises standards for licensure of psychologists and physician assistants
SB 0949 - Howard - Allows psychologists to administer, order, and prescribe medications after obtaining specific tranining
HB 1191 - Linton - Limits the psychiatric evaluation of students

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Public Assistance

SB 0597 - Steelman - Creates the "Adoption Awareness Law" to promote adoption as an alternative parenting option
SB 0650 - Goode - Allows all counties to establish homeless programs and increases fees on recorded instruments to $5
SB 0662 - Bland - Authorizes an appropriation to the MO Housing Development Commission for grants to local housing development groups
SB 0670 - Ehlmann - Creates the Community Partnership Program Pilot Project to address poverty issues and promote local volunteerism
SB 0681 - Russell - Requires the Div. of Family Services to check the attendance records of children whose families are receiving TANF
SB 0687 - Bland - Establishes the General Assembly Scholarship Program funded by a nonresident earnings tax
SB 0688 - Bland - Allows a waiver of bidding procedures for mental health services in certain situations
SB 0823 - Clay - Establishes the Missouri Works Program to help welfare recipients prepare for permanent employment
SB 0891 - Howard - Raises the dollar amount of resources exempted from consideration when determining Medicaid eligibility
SB 0901 - Flotron - Raises dollar amount of resources exempted from consideration when determining Medicaid eligibility
SB 0935 - Caskey - Establishes assistive technology programs for disabled persons
SB 0974 - Bentley - Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons
SB 1062 - Howard - Revises PSRS and NTRS disability benefits for Social Security purposes
SB 1063 - Maxwell - Creates the Family and Community Investment Trust in order to strengthen community support systems for MO's families
HB 1202 - Dougherty - Gives the General Assembly sole authority to determine income limits for public assistance
HB 1452 - Foley - Payments to Holocaust survivors exempted from tax and from determination of eligibility for public assistance
HB 1615 - Hosmer - Modifies various provisions relating to protection of the elderly
HB 1673 - Bennett - Requires the Division of Family Services to withhold public assistance payments from persons with outstanding arrest
HB 1869 - Treadway - Imposes additional user fee on recorded instruments for housing rehabilitation
HB 1910 - Hollingsworth - Provides for a proportional reduction in state-funded child care assistance for persons whose income or assets exceed
HB 2020 - Gunn - Creates the Missouri Works Program in the Department of Social Services for welfare recipients

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Public Buildings

SB 0589 - Childers - Allows certain political subdivisions to become exempt from the state prevailing wage
SB 0709 - DePasco - Establishes a memorial for workers killed or injured on the job
SB 0759 - Klarich - Requires all public office spaces not utilized by state employees to be leased to the highest bidder
HB 1110 - Franklin - Appropriations for the Departments of Mental Health/Health; the Bd. of Public Buildings and MO Health Facilities Review
HB 1213 - Chrismer - Permits the public display of the Ten Commandments in certain public buildings
HB 1249 - Hickey - Enacts additional requirements for certain contractors bidding on state building contracts
HB 1351 - Blunt - Mandates the display of any donated Pow/mia flag at any state building
HB 1428 - Hickey - Establishes a memorial on the Capitol grounds for workers killed or injured on the job in the state
HB 1632 - Foster - Prohibits alcohol in the capitol except upon order of the governor
HB 1733 - Williams (121) - Requires the construction of family restrooms in certain public buildings

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Public Officers

SB 0732 - Schneider - Creates civil recovery for false or fraudulent monetary claims made to the state
SB 0760 - Klarich - Makes the St. Louis County auditor an elected official
SB 0800 - Ehlmann - Authorizes penalties for filing an incorrect campaign finance disclosure report with gross negligence
SB 0813 - House - Modifies public safety, peace officer, and peace officer employee rights
SB 0946 - Johnson - Changes required format and fees for items handled by the Recorder of Deeds
SJR 035 - Goode - Revises the authority of the Salary Commission
HB 1112 - Franklin - Appropriations: Public Officers; General Assembly; Judges
HB 1351 - Blunt - Mandates the display of any donated Pow/mia flag at any state building
HB 1964 - Bray - Enacts the "public Employee Due Process Act"
HJR 064 - Scott - Submits to the voters the repeal of the constitutional provision relating to the Salary Commission

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Public Records, Public Meetings

SB 0727 - Goode - Revises sunset on closure of certain municipal utility records
SB 0729 - House - Revises laws regarding charter schools, teachers and school boards
SB 0796 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
SB 0825 - Jacob - Governing boards of state colleges and universities: Revises non-voting representative and confidentiality provisions
SB 0930 - Jacob - Closes portions of hospital records and meetings in certain situations
SB 0946 - Johnson - Changes required format and fees for items handled by the Recorder of Deeds
SB 0967 - Maxwell - Requires public hearing to determine necessity of proposed state rule
SB 1034 - Steelman - Allows the release of birth and death records after a certain length of time
SB 1054 - Clay - Requires the Secretary of State to assess records pertaining to the Underground Railroad in Missouri
SB 1077 - Clay - Prohibits institutions of higher education from providing certain student information to parents
HB 1216 - Kelly (027) - Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certifictes without a court order
HB 1289 - Auer - Gives local street departments right to copies of law enforcement accident and incident reports
HB 1294 - Gunn - Permits the sealing of certain criminal records
HB 1349 - Blunt - Requires all votes in public meetings to be roll call votes
HB 1353 - Farnen - Opens coroner's reports to any person involved in a fatal accident
HB 1396 - Farnen - Revises higher education laws
HB 1502 - Smith (011) - Requires posting of certain criminal offenders on Internet
HB 1675 - Wilson - Requires the implementation of the Uniform Crime Reporting System and the use of death review panels for all
HB 1693 - Patek - Prohibits the court from making public any social security number
HB 1718 - Smith (011) - Revises the standard of proof for violations of the sunshine law
HB 1899 - Loudon - Allows public records to be reproduced using a computer-generated electronic retrieval system
HB 1937 - Schilling - Requires the recording of testimony before a grand jury
HB 2089 - Luetkemeyer - Limits access by offenders to personal information
HB 2102 - Hampton - Changes law regarding motor vehicle record dissemination

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Public Safety Dept.

SB 0530 - Schneider - Modifies various provisions relating to crimes and punishment
SB 0532 - Wiggins - Bans assault weapons
SB 0535 - Banks - Requires the addition of fire sprinklers in certain buildings
SB 0692 - Kinder - Requires veterans' homes to ensure that the spiritual needs of veterans are met
SB 0739 - Maxwell - Revises premium tax for Fire Education Fund
SB 0787 - Childers - Establishes an ambulance district fund and revises the current funding mechanism for the fire education fund
SB 0791 - Goode - Revises motor vehicle emissions inspections for certain areas
SB 0813 - House - Modifies public safety, peace officer, and peace officer employee rights
SB 0822 - Clay - Requires the addition of fire sprinklers in certain buildings
SB 0842 - Flotron - Numerous provisions relating to public safety
SB 0872 - Flotron - Allows certain convicted felons to obtain post-conviction DNA testing
SB 0895 - Staples - Changes law regarding car window tinting
SB 0907 - Caskey - Amends motor vehicle tinted window prohibition
SB 0916 - Singleton - Revises peace officer training and certification laws
SB 0939 - Clay - Allows law enforcement personnel to form unions and enter into collective bargaining agreements
SB 0940 - Mathewson - Modifies trade practices for distributors and wholesalers of non-alcoholic beer and intoxicating liquor
SB 0979 - Kenney - Modifies domestic violence law
SB 0985 - Maxwell - Authorizes the conveyance of a small part of the property of the Mexico Veterans home
SJR 048 - Goode - Criminal activity forfeiture proceeds shall be divided between schools and law enforcement
HB 1108 - Franklin - Appropriations for the Department of Public Safety
HB 1434 - Skaggs - Regulation of amusement ride providers
HB 1493 - May (108) - Gives firefighters, police officers and medical personnel a cause of action against persons injuring them on the job
HB 1499 - Hoppe - Changes law concerning liquor licenses and payment of license fees and laws governing certain licensed resorts
HB 1585 - Hosmer - Changes peace officer certification
HB 1604 - Graham - Authorizes the conveyance of certain state property
HB 1652 - Hoppe - Regulates sale of tobacco products
HB 1665 - Pryor - Provides death and burial benefits for public safety officers killed in the line of duty
HB 1961 - Fraser - Prohibits stealing of pets and creates The Missing and Stolen Pet Registry
HB 2042 - Gaskill - Enacts a beverage container control law
HB 2120 - Schwab - Prohibits the granting of a liquor license for liquor sales within one hundred feet of a daycare center

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Public Service Commission

SB 0721 - Caskey - Establishes and revises several programs for disabled persons
SB 0745 - Goode - Increases penalties for violations of utility laws
SB 0781 - Goode - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0819 - Maxwell - Establishes retail electric customer choice
SB 0848 - Stoll - Enacts Missouri Retail Customer and Worker Protection Act
SB 0882 - Flotron - Establishes retail electric consumer choice
SB 1049 - Caskey - Prohibits water companies from charging one service area for plant costs in another area
SJR 040 - Childers - Establishes an election process for selecting Public Servic Commissioners
HB 1326 - Mays (050) - Increases penalties for violations of utility laws
HB 1778 - Mays (050) - Enacts the "electric Utility Restructuring Act"
HB 1842 - Burton - Establishes a framework for restructuring and deregulating electric utilities
HB 1878 - Burton - Establishes a two-year rate review process for water corporations providing private fire service
HB 1895 - Mays (050) - Establishes a framework for restructuring and deregulating utilities
HB 2090 - Hagan-Harrell - Allows regulatory law judges appointed by the Public Service Commission to be members of the Administrative Law
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