Senate Action for 2/5/2007

SB 1 - Gibbons - Requires criminal background checks for certain employees in positions with substantial direct contact with children
   LR: 0489S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 10 - Kennedy - Enacts licensing requirements for private investigators
   LR: 0157S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 27 - Bartle - Modifies regulations regarding sexually oriented billboards
   LR: 0440S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 38 - Ridgeway - Prohibits the use or possession of alcoholic beverage vaporizers
   LR: 0212S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0212S.02C)

SB 59 - Wilson - Exempts 25 percent of the amount of social security benefits included in senior citizen taxpayers' federal adjusted gross income
   LR: 0198S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 67 - Rupp - Modifies certain provisions relating to missing and endangered persons
   LR: 0287S.02P    SCS SB 67
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0287S.02C)

SB 107 - Wilson - Creates the crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park
   LR: 0127S.01P    
2/5/2007 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 162 - Vogel - Modifies the definition of "state agency" with regard to income tax set offs
   LR: 0055L.01T    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 163 - Mayer - Modifies various provisions with regards to the Basic Civil Legal Services Fund
   LR: 0605L.04T    HCS#2 SCS SB 163
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent (0605S.02C)

SB 169 - Rupp - Creates a tax credit for qualified equity investments
   LR: 0824S.02C    SCS SB 169
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 230 - Crowell - Exempts social security benefits from income taxation
   LR: 1003S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 234 - Crowell - Modifies provisions relating to juvenile courts and officers
   LR: 1195S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 242 - Nodler - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
   LR: 0846S.06C    SCS SB 242
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 256 - Loudon - Modifies provisions relating to the investigation of Internet sex crimes against children
   LR: 0535S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (0535S.03C)

SB 276 - Koster - Modifies the maximum number of members on the Clean Water Commission who may belong to the same political party
   LR: 1517S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 281 - Griesheimer - Establishes inactive license status and continuing education requirements for landscape architects
   LR: 1317S.01P    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 286 - Crowell - Exempts military pensions and retirement income from income taxation
   LR: 1519S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 289 - Engler - Amends the law relating to the practice of professional counselors
   LR: 1351S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 290 - Engler - Authorizes minimum amounts of compensation for certain corrections personnel
   LR: 1358S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 291 - Mayer - Requires licensure for wholesale distributors of prescription drugs
   LR: 1379L.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 300 - Bartle - Modifies the laws regulating sexually oriented businesses
   LR: 0500S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 308 - Crowell - Modifies licensing standards and practice of certain professionals
   LR: 1150S.08T    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 308
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 319 - Clemens - Modifies the income tax exemption for certain annuity, pension, and retirement incomes
   LR: 1038S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Ways & Means Committee

SB 420 - Gibbons - Provides that no more than four, rather than three, members of the Clean Water Commission may be from the same political party
   LR: 1964S.02T    SCS SB 420
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee
2/5/2007 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee - Consent (1964S.02C)

SB 423 - Green - Requires the Public Service Commission to develop and enforce certain standards for electric utility service
   LR: 1861S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 424 - Green - Bars employers from misclassifying employees as independent contractors
   LR: 1725S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Small Business, Insurance & Industrial Relations Committee

SB 425 - Rupp - Creates licensing standards for naturopathic physicians
   LR: 1686S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 426 - Justus - Allows the Supreme Court to direct the Judicial Finance Commission to consolidate its annual report with certain other reports
   LR: 1970S.01P    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 427 - Goodman - Allows sheriffs and jailers to refuse receiving a prisoner under certain circumstances unless the prisoner has been examined by a physician
   LR: 1926S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 428 - Purgason - Modifies various provisions relating to agriculture
   LR: 1607L.09C    HCS SS SCS SB 428
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Conservation, Parks & Natural Resources Committee

SB 429 - Gibbons - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
   LR: 0635L.09C    HCS SS SCS SB 429
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 430 - Shields - Creates the "Smart Start Scholarship Program"
   LR: 1285S.12P    SS#4 SCS SB 430
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways & Means Committee

SB 431 - Clemens - Bars sex offenders from winning the lottery
   LR: 1973S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 432 - Nodler - Modifies provisions on the presentation of information in public schools relating to contraception and sexually transmitted diseases
   LR: 2023S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 433 - Callahan - Changes laws relating to unemployment compensation for veterans
   LR: 1804S.01T    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 434 - Rupp - Adds a circuit judge position within the Forty-Fifth Judicial Circuit
   LR: 1989S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 435 - Rupp - Requires captioning of electronic video instructional material
   LR: 2019S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 436 - Rupp - Modifies provisions relating to the First Steps Program
   LR: 1772S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 437 - Ridgeway - Modifies fee disclosure requirements for rental cars
   LR: 1755S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 438 - Ridgeway - Gives the boards of election commissioners the discretion to waive residency requirements for their employees
   LR: 1876S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 439 - Days - Creates a commission to study the death penalty in Missouri and prohibits use of the death penalty for a time period
   LR: 1617S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 440 - Days - Changes the "Missouri Minority Business Advocacy Committee" to the "Missouri Minority and Women Business Advocacy Committee"
   LR: 2010S.01P    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 441 - Stouffer - Expands the definition of "eligible donation" for the Residential Treatment Agency Tax Credit Program
   LR: 1992S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 442 - Stouffer - Amends the requirements for management, design and construction of state buildings
   LR: 1972S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 443 - Smith - Creates the "Teach for Missouri Act"
   LR: 0870S.06I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 444 - Goodman - Directs the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority to pay certain loan interests and administer dairy business planning grants
   LR: 1487S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 445 - Goodman - Exempts church bus drivers who transport children from the child passenger restraint system requirements of Section 307.179
   LR: 1680S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 446 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to fire safety standards in long-term care facilities
   LR: 1979S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 447 - Goodman - Repeals superannuated provision of law from the Missouri Revised Statutes pertaining to the Housing Development Fund
   LR: 2067S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SB 448 - Coleman - Establishes recall elections for school board members
   LR: 2046S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S First Read

SCR 11 - Purgason - Urges Congress to repeal the implementation of the REAL ID Act
   LR: 1953S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions & Ethics Committee

SCR 12 - Ridgeway - Supports the negotiations of a Taiwan-United States free trade agreement
   LR: 2063S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S offered

SJR 9 - Crowell - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing the sexual offender registry laws to be applied retrospectively
   LR: 0928S.03P    SCS SJRs 9 & 17
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 17 - Coleman - Creates an exception to the prohibition against laws retrospective in operation by allowing the sexual offender registry laws to be applied retrospectively
   LR: 1124S.01I    
2/5/2007 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SJR 19 - Lager - Modifies procedures by which the General Assembly must approve salary recommendations from the Citizen's Commission on the Compensation of Elected Officials
   LR: 1880S.02I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial & Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SJR 20 - Bartle - Modifies constitutional provisions relating to health care research and human cloning
   LR: 1288S.04I    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil & Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SR 70 - Scott - Amends Senate Rule 96 to prohibit smoking in Senate Galleries
   
2/5/2007 -- S adopted

HB 15 - Icet - To appropriate money for supplemental purposes for the department of Social Services, and to transfer money amoung certain funds, from the funds designated for the fiscal period ending June 30, 2007
   LR: 0015L.01T    
2/5/2007 -- Second Read and Referred S Appropriations Committee

HCR 18 - Dempsey - State of the State of Transportation
   LR: 1969L.01I    
2/5/2007 -- S adopted