Missouri Senate
Senate Action for 2/14/01

SB 0007 - Scott - Allows notices of hearings on special business districts to be sent by regular mail
02/14/01 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0012 - Russell - Non-attorneys may represent corporations in certain state proceedings
02/14/01 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 0025 - Johnson - Removes prohibition on collection of "tuition" by the University of Missouri
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0032 - Kinder - Provides funds for education of hearing-impaired children not attending the Missouri School for the Deaf
02/14/01 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
02/14/01 -- Referred S Budget Control Committee

SB 0036 - Westfall - Provides for .08 DWI/BAC and increases collateral consequences; prohibits open containers for passengers
02/14/01 -- SSA 1 for SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Westfall)
02/14/01 -- SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Sims)
02/14/01 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Klarich)

SB 0044 - Bentley - Promotes adoption awareness and expedites the adoption of foster children by shortening certain waiting periods
02/14/01 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 0046 - Bentley - Allows dental students to enroll in the loan repayment program and establishes a donated dental services program
02/14/01 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 0052 - Childers - Maodifies traffic regulations relating to construction zones, bridge weight limits and emergency vehicles
02/14/01 -- SCS Voted Do Pass w/SCS SBs 52 & 91 S Transportation
Committee

SB 0058 - Stoll - Establishes a Bird Appreciation Day
02/14/01 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0070 - Loudon - Prohibits certain fraudulent use of the Internet
02/14/01 -- SCS Voted Do Pass w/SCS SBs 70 & 255 S Civil &
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0072 - Loudon - Allows electronic storage of business and public records
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0087 - Rohrbach - Requires assessment to be filed with petition for civil commitment of sexually violent predators
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0091 - Westfall - Requires drivers to take certain actions when emergency vehicle is approaching
02/14/01 -- Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 52 & 91 S Transportation Com.

SB 0114 - Loudon - Deems a positive test for controlled substances misconduct connected with work
02/14/01 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Labor & Industrial Relations
Committee

SB 0124 - Kinder - Allows community notification regarding registered sex offenders, based on assessment of danger
02/14/01 -- SCS Voted Do Pass w/SCS SBs 124, 214 & 209 S Civil &
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0125 - Bentley - Authorizes removal of property from the Springfield Community Improvement District
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0128 - Childers - Grants immunity from liability for injuries or death resulting from risks of paddlesport activities
02/14/01 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 0148 - Goode - Specifies the effective dates for laws passed by initiative and vetoed bills when veto is overridden
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Org.,
Vetersns' Affairs & Elections Committee-Consent

SB 0164 - Bland - Outlines minimum staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities
02/14/01 -- Hearing Cancelled S Public Health and Welfare

SB 0179 - Rohrbach - Exempts residential mortgage brokers who post sufficient bond from conducting annual certified audits
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Financial & Goverenmental Org.,
Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee-Consent

SB 0193 - Rohrbach - Governs the qualifications and procedures for the licensing of insurance procedures
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 0197 - Johnson - Expands grant of immunity for the donation of certain fire equipment
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0207 - Klarich - Expands those who are not liable for information reported to the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
02/14/01 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 0209 - DePasco - Removes statute of limitations for certain unclassified crimes
02/14/01 -- Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 124, 214 & 209 S Civil &
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0214 - Gross - Revises crime of possession of child pornography
02/14/01 -- Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 124, 214 & 209 S Civil &
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0235 - Sims - Repeals certificate of need law and enacts law regarding "review certification"
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0236 - Sims - Adds first cousins to the list of relatives eligible for adoption subsidies
02/14/01 -- H First Read

SB 0244 - Staples - Suspends a person's driver's license who steals gas from a gas station
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 0245 - Caskey - Revises numerous sentencing provisions
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0255 - Gross - Defines improper computer electronic mail communications
02/14/01 -- Bill Combined w/SCS SBs 70 & 255 S Civil & Criminal
Jurisprudence Committee

SB 0256 - Caskey - Political subdivisions may require connection to sewer system
02/14/01 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
02/14/01 -- H First Read (w/EC)

SB 0263 - Stoll - Establishes excess benefit plan in school retirement systems
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws
Committee-Consent

SB 0279 - Staples - Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act - Establishes treatment requirements for nonviolent drug offenders
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0287 - Klarich - Prohibits Department of Revenue from releasing information from its records regarding peace officers
02/14/01 -- Committee Vote Reconsidered S Transportation
Committee-Consent
02/14/01 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Transportation
Committee-Consent

SB 0290 - Wiggins - Revises pension benefits for police officers in Kansas City
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws
Committee-Consent

SB 0291 - Westfall - Prohibits open containers of alcohol in motor vehicles
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0295 - Stoll - Revises use of capital funds for public community colleges
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0309 - Steelman - Prohibits sealing of civil court records, with limited exceptions
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0316 - Stoll - Requires school retirement systems to promulgate joint rules
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws
Committee-Consent

SB 0319 - Carter - Limits use of assessments of students for whom English is a second language
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 0321 - Westfall - Allows sheltered workshops to file data with DESE via electronic means
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee-Consent
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0322 - Gross - Increases penalty for third or subsequent offense of second degree sexual misconduct
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0332 - Westfall - Allows student participation in events of certain organizations during school hours
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0333 - DePasco - Modifies the Kansas City Public School Retirement System
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws
Committee

SB 0336 - Caskey - Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass W/SCA 1 S Education Committee

SB 0337 - House - Limits the ability of the government to interfere with the exercise of religion
02/14/01 -- Hearing Cancelled S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 0339 - Stoll - Allocates funds from the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvements Trust Fund for veterans' service programs
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass w/SCA 1 S Financial & Governmental
Organization, Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee

SB 0344 - Rohrbach - Allows the estimation of contingent liabilities in order to fix the creditor's claim in a liquidation estate
02/14/01 -- Hearing Concucted S Insurance & Housing
Committee-Consent

SB 0351 - Singleton - Revises peace officer standards and training
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence
Committee

SB 0353 - Johnson - Revises "recalculated levy" used to determine state aid for certain school districts
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee-Consent

SB 0362 - House - Creates Missouri Tobacco Settlement Fund and allocates a portion to education
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

SB 0363 - Scott - Raises school compulsory attendance age to seventeen
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 0364 - Jacob - Establishes faculty representatives to governing boards of state colleges and universities
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 0366 - House - Corrects statutory cross-references in Chapter 288, Revised Statutes of MO
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Labor & Industrial Relations
Committee-Consent

SB 0367 - Steelman - Prohibits health carriers from requiring providers to use hospitalists and use all of the carrier's services
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0380 - House - Makes technical changes in industrial classification system for employer unemployment contributions
02/14/01 -- Voted Do Pass S Labor & Industrial Relations
Committee-Consent

SB 0391 - Rohrbach - Modifies provisions regarding reimbursements between health care professionals and health carriers
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 0395 - Carter - Provides additional protection to health care consumers
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 0397 - Schneider - Prohibits property owner associations from requiring their members to be members of other associations
02/14/01 -- Hearing Cancelled S Insurance & Housing Committee

SB 0433 - Kinder - Revises dram shop liability
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions and General Laws Comm.

SB 0445 - Singleton - Revises "prompt-pay" provisions for health carriers and places other restrictions on health carriers
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Public Health & Welfare Committee

SB 0486 - Yeckel - Fire district board members may be recalled for misconduct in office
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SB 0487 - Yeckel - Counties will make payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property acquired after January 1, 2002
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SB 0488 - Klindt - Creates the Corrections Officer Standards and Training Commission
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SB 0489 - Bentley - Provides for the licensure of baccalaureate social workers
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SB 0490 - Dougherty - Increases penalties for animal abuse
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SB 0491 - Rohrbach - Modifies election process for nursing home district directors
02/14/01 -- S First Read

SJR 013 - Sims - Establishes Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund
02/14/01 -- Hearing Conducted S Pensions & General Laws Committee

HCR 013 - Shoemyer - Urges Congress to consent to the Southern Dairy Compact
02/14/01 -- S First Read