Senate Action for 2/25/2009

SB 9 - Champion - Modifies provisions relating to the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee, the Hospital District Sales Tax Fund, and health insurance
   LR: 0368L.05C    HCS SCS#2 SB 9
2/25/2009 -- SCS#2 S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 15 - Nodler - Authorizes the conveyance and lease of certain state properties
   LR: 0439L.08T    HCS SCS SB 15
2/25/2009 -- SCS S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 18 - Bray - Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Commission and modifies eligibility for MO HealthNet
   LR: 0250S.02C    SCS SB 18
2/25/2009 -- SS for SCS S offered (Bray)--(0250S.03F)
2/25/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 37 - Goodman - Modifies provisions relating to the public defender system
   LR: 0516S.02T    SCS SB 37
2/25/2009 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
2/25/2009 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 44 - Pearce - Modifies various provisions relating to private jails
   LR: 0438S.12T    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 44
2/25/2009 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee (0438S.04C)

SB 50 - Bray - Requires equal pay for the same work regardless of gender and establishes a commission to study wage disparities
   LR: 0231S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee

SB 51 - Bray - Requires the State Board of Education to classify a charter school as "unaccredited" based on annual performance review scores
   LR: 0238S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Education Committee

SB 55 - Days - Modifies provisions relating to education
   LR: 0154L.03C    HCS SB 55
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 71 - Stouffer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to developmental disability care providers
   LR: 0326L.06C    HCS SCS SB 71
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

SB 79 - Wilson - Modifies provisions relating to education
   LR: 0052L.03C    HCS SB 79
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 84 - Purgason - Modifies several provisions of law pertaining to transportation
   LR: 0559L.03C    HCS SB 84
2/25/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
2/25/2009 -- SA 1 S offered & adopted (Crowell)--(0559S01.01S)
2/25/2009 -- SA 2 S offered & adopted (Green)--(8026S09.01S)
2/25/2009 -- Perfected

SB 94 - Justus - Modifies provisions on child care subsidies
   LR: 0253S.03C    SCS SB 94
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 96 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to the needs and rights of children
   LR: 0225L.06C    HCS SCS SB 96
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

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
   LR: 0282S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee

SB 109 - Justus - Prohibits discrimination based upon a person's sexual orientation
   LR: 0073S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee

SB 114 - Crowell - Modifies a variety of provisions that relate to the judicial process in some manner
   LR: 0582L.05C    HCS#2 SB 114
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Transportation Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 116 - Bray - Creates the Persistence to Graduation Fund to distribute grants to certain school districts for drop-out prevention efforts
   LR: 0255S.02I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 122 - Griesheimer - Allows members of an ambulance district board of directors to be subject to recall from office
   LR: 0727S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee - Consent

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
   LR: 0320L.06C    HCS SS SCS SB 128
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - EC adopted
2/25/2009 -- H First Read w/EC

SB 134 - Dempsey - Authorizes the issuance of several special license plates and modifies the procedure for their issuance
   LR: 0818L.08C    HCS SCS SB 134
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Cancelled S Transportation Committee

SB 140 - Smith - Modifies provisions relating to criminal non-support
   LR: 0849S.09T    SCS SB 140
2/25/2009 -- H First Read

SB 152 - Clemens - Modifies definition of eligible student for nursing student loan program
   LR: 0785L.04T    HCS SCS SB 152
2/25/2009 -- SCS S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 153 - Clemens - Modifies provisions pertaining to milk sales, the Rice Advisory Council and the state veterinarian
   LR: 0122S.03T    SCS SB 153
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

SB 157 - Schmitt - Codifies into law the five regional autism projects currently serving persons with autism
   LR: 0935L.06T    HCS SCS SB 157
2/25/2009 -- SCS S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 158 - Clemens - Provides certain jurisdiction to the Department of Agriculture regarding health management of privately owned deer
   LR: 0784S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 165 - Justus - Modifies provisions of law authorizing the imposition of various taxes by local governments
   LR: 0920L.03C    HCS SCS SBs 165, 164, 248 & 168
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

SB 179 - Wright-Jones - Authorizes several real property interest conveyances to various entities
   LR: 1104L.06T    HCS SCS SB 179
2/25/2009 -- SCS S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 196 - Shoemyer - Modifies the procedure for detaching territory from a public water supply district
   LR: 1060L.02T    HCS SB 196
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 211 - Lembke - Prohibits political subdivisions from using automated photo red light enforcement systems to enforce red light violations
   LR: 0878L.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Motion to vote bill do pass failed S Transportation Committee

SB 215 - Shields - Modifies various provisions of law relating to taxation
   LR: 0321L.04C    HCS SB 215
2/25/2009 -- Motion to Third Read Bill S withdrawn
2/25/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

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
   LR: 0997S.01T    
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 232 - Cunningham - Prohibits certain public agencies and political subdivisions from discrimination based on an individual's elementary and secondary education program
   LR: 0846S.01T    
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Progress and Development Committee - Consent

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
   LR: 0247L.13T    HCS SB 235
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Ways and Means Committee to Floor - Consent

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
   LR: 1130L.04T    CCS HCS SCS SB 242
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

SB 243 - Pearce - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions
   LR: 1410S.02T    SCS SB 243
2/25/2009 -- SCS S adopted
2/25/2009 -- S Third Read and Passed - Consent

SB 246 - Schaefer - Creates a tax credit for contributions to regional economic development organizations
   LR: 1233L.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

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
   LR: 1338S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 255 - Pearce - Modifies the composition of the Board of Curators for the University of Missouri
   LR: 1449S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- SA 1 S offered (Smith)--(1449S01.01L)
2/25/2009 -- SA 1 to SA 1 S offered (Scott)--(1449S01.01F)

SB 256 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to county purchases
   LR: 1337S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee - Consent

SB 261 - Bartle - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
   LR: 1517S.04C    SCS SBs 261, 159, 180 & 181
2/25/2009 -- SS for SCS S offered (Bartle)--(1517S.05F)
2/25/2009 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Ridgeway)--(1517S05.04S)
2/25/2009 -- SA 2 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Ridgeway)--(1517S05.02S)
2/25/2009 -- SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered (Scott)--(1517S05.01S)
2/25/2009 -- SA 1 to SA 3 to SS for SCS S offered (Smith)--(1517S05.16S)
2/25/2009 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 263 - Mayer - Modifies the law relating to the Second Capitol Commission, the Seismic Safety Commission and liability of volunteers during declared emergencies
   LR: 0798L.03C    HCS SB 263
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S General Laws Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 276 - Barnitz - Authorizes Montgomery County to seek voter approval for the imposition of a transient guest tax
   LR: 1538S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 277 - Cunningham - Authorizes financial institutions to assign fiduciary obligations relating to irrevocable life insurance trusts
   LR: 0451S.02T    
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor - Consent

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
   LR: 1434S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 284 - Lembke - Modifies the provisions governing fire department residency requirements
   LR: 1519L.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 291 - Shields - Modifies provisions relating to education
   LR: 1475L.07T    HCS#2 SS SB 291
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 293 - Barnitz - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances
   LR: 1687L.05C    HCS SCS SB 293
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee to Floor w/SCS - Consent

SB 297 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council
   LR: 1545S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee to Floor - Consent

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
   LR: 1730L.05T    HCS SCS SB 313
2/25/2009 -- Referred H Rules Committee

SB 332 - Dempsey - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty
   LR: 1550S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 333 - Barnitz - Provides procedures for cities and sewer districts in certain counties to develop agreements regarding sewer service for annexed areas
   LR: 1764S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 337 - Rupp - Extends the term of office for certain ambulance district directors
   LR: 1759S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 342 - Stouffer - Modifies numerous penalties for violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and equipment statutes
   LR: 1685S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 350 - Clemens - Allows a hand-fishing season for catfish and carp during June and July on certain waterways
   LR: 1783S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

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
   LR: 1846S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 368 - Stouffer - Provides an affirmative defense to bicyclists and motorcyclists who run red lights under certain conditions
   LR: 1891S.02T    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee
2/25/2009 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee - Consent
2/25/2009 -- Reported from S Transportation Committee to Floor - Consent

SB 372 - Dempsey - Allows the Conservation Commission to permanently revoke the hunting permit of any person who accidentally kills someone else while hunting
   LR: 0483S.02I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

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
   LR: 2016S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 400 - Dempsey - Licenses auto body repair facilities and physical damage appraisers
   LR: 1757S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 401 - Goodman - Adds a circuit judge position to each of three judicial circuits
   LR: 0868S.03I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 402 - Goodman - Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to prohibit certain acts against prosecutors
   LR: 1994S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

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
   LR: 1822S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 404 - Mayer - Repeals certain taxes imposed upon suppliers of bingo and pull-tab cards
   LR: 1988S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 405 - Scott - Modifies various provisions relating to manufactured homes, including the procedure for obtaining a title to an abandoned manufactured home
   LR: 1702S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 406 - Scott - Authorizes physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances and modifies the review of advanced practice registered nurses prescribing controlled substances
   LR: 1787S.06P    SS SCS SB 406
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 407 - Scott - Requires a comprehensive study on how other states administer their state employee health care plans
   LR: 1986S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

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
   LR: 0651S.02I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 409 - Stouffer - Extends the expiration date until January 1, 2020 for the scrap tire fee and modifies uses of the fee proceeds
   LR: 2034S.02C    SCS SB 409
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 410 - Stouffer - Modifies various laws governing medical malpractice insurance
   LR: 1203S.03I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

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
   LR: 2069L.03T    HCS SCS SB 411
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Veterans' Affairs, Pensions and Urban Affairs Committee

SB 412 - Dempsey - Establishes a grant for a feasibility study on creating a single comprehensive health care plan at the local level
   LR: 2031S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 413 - Dempsey - Provides for a one time grant by the Department of Social Services for use by free health care clinics
   LR: 2066S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 414 - Dempsey - Prohibits hospitals from billing for certain medical errors
   LR: 2043S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 415 - Dempsey - Modifies several provisions of laws relating to health insurance
   LR: 1376S.10I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 416 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries
   LR: 1863S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

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.
   LR: 2083S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 418 - Goodman - Enacts provisions relating to faith-based community health centers
   LR: 0960S.02I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 419 - Purgason - Expands the required representation on solid waste management councils to include communities of less than 500 people
   LR: 1832S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 420 - Pearce - Creates a tax credit for purchases of processed biomass engineered fiber fuel
   LR: 2102S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

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
   LR: 2092L.02C    HCS SB 421
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 422 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings
   LR: 1784S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 423 - Pearce - Adds a third circuit judge to the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit
   LR: 2103S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

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
   LR: 1209S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 425 - Justus - Requires health insurance policies to cover dental care services for pregnant women
   LR: 2084S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

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
   LR: 2004S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 427 - Griesheimer - Changes the organizational structure of the Missouri One Call System from a non-profit organization to a public governmental body
   LR: 2182S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 428 - Griesheimer - Repeals the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Prevention Act
   LR: 1813S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

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
   LR: 0634S.03I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 430 - Smith - Creates and modifies provisions pertaining to environmentally sustainable practices
   LR: 0081S.03I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 431 - Smith - Creates a tax credit for the construction or renovation of buildings using environmentally sustainable techniques
   LR: 1701S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 432 - Vogel - Provides information to parents of students about immunizations against bacterial meningitis
   LR: 2018S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 433 - Bray - Modifies the type of appliances and consumer electronics for which minimum energy efficiency standards must be developed
   LR: 2033S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 434 - Green - Modifies various provisions relating to ethics
   LR: 2032S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S General Laws Committee

SB 435 - Lembke - Modifies provisions relating to contracts of the Department of Mental Health
   LR: 2065S.03T    CCS HCS SB 435
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 436 - Ridgeway - Exempts unemployment benefits from income tax for tax years 2009 and 2010.
   LR: 2117S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 437 - Lager - Specifies that renewable energy resource property will be considered tangible personal property for property tax purposes
   LR: 2116S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Ways and Means Committee

SB 438 - Callahan - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education funding
   LR: 2070S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

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
   LR: 2079S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Second Read and Referred S Education Committee

SB 478 - Shoemyer - Forbids health carriers from requiring providers to disclose their reimbursement rates with other carriers as a condition to contract
   LR: 2063S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 478-Shoemyer

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
   LR: 2173S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 479-Shoemyer

SB 480 - Shoemyer - Creates the Missouri Board on Geographic Names and modifies the name and duties of the Second Capitol Commission
   LR: 2181L.02T    HCS SB 480
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 480-Shoemyer

SB 481 - Ridgeway - Creates income tax exemptions for corporations which do not receive funds from programs administered by the Department of Economic Development
   LR: 2174S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 481-Ridgeway

SB 482 - Ridgeway - Regulates tanning facilities
   LR: 1934S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 482-Ridgeway

SB 483 - Rupp - Revises Missouri's annual financial reporting law to correspond with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model regulations
   LR: 2099S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 483-Rupp

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
   LR: 2184S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 484-Rupp

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
   LR: 2185S.01T    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 485-Pearce

SB 486 - Green - Grants employees of any public body the right to form and join labor organizations
   LR: 2071S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 486-Green, et al

SB 487 - Stouffer - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council
   LR: 2159S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 487-Stouffer

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
   LR: 2172S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 488-Vogel

SB 489 - Dempsey - Allows cities to impose license taxes upon hotels and motels
   LR: 2095S.03I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 489-Dempsey

SB 490 - Wilson - Amends various provisions of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
   LR: 2087S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 490-Wilson and Nodler

SB 491 - Mayer - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as "unaccredited" for two successive years
   LR: 1786S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 491-Mayer

SB 492 - Mayer - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration
   LR: 1824S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 492-Mayer

SB 493 - Mayer - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program
   LR: 1803S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 493-Mayer

SB 494 - Griesheimer - Allows certain counties to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund interoperable emergency communications
   LR: 2120S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 494-Griesheimer

SB 495 - Griesheimer - Modifies various provisions relating to employment security
   LR: 2121L.05C    HCS SCS SB 495
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 495-Griesheimer

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
   LR: 2149S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 496-Cunningham

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
   LR: 2142S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 497-Cunningham

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
   LR: 2150S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 498-Cunningham

SB 499 - Cunningham - Requires public higher education institutions to annually report on steps taken to ensure intellectual diversity
   LR: 2132S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 499-Cunningham

SB 500 - Cunningham - Requires school districts to allow parents to withhold permission for students to participate in school-sponsored clubs and extracurricular activities
   LR: 2131S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 500-Cunningham

SB 501 - Cunningham - Limits increases in assessed value of residential real property until transfer of ownership
   LR: 2111S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 501-Cunningham

SB 502 - Cunningham - Establishes procedures for the evaluation of student credits when a student transfers to a public school from another educational setting
   LR: 2154S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 502-Cunningham

SB 503 - Cunningham - Allows two or more adjacent school districts to share a superintendent under certain circumstances
   LR: 2140S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 503-Cunningham

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
   LR: 2147S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 504-Cunningham

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
   LR: 2152S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 505-Cunningham

SB 506 - Callahan - Creates fire sprinkler business regulations
   LR: 2153S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 506-Callahan

SB 507 - Callahan - Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax
   LR: 1671S.01P    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 507-Callahan

SB 508 - Bray - Modifies provisions of law regarding metropolitan zoological parks and museum districts
   LR: 2222S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 508-Bray, et al

SB 509 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians
   LR: 2179S.02C    SCS SB 509
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 509-Scott

SB 510 - Lager - Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities
   LR: 1055S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 510-Lager

SB 511 - Nodler - Provides for a community-based developmental disability provider tax
   LR: 2114S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 511-Nodler

SB 512 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri local government employees' retirement system (LAGERS)
   LR: 2171S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 512-Dempsey

SB 513 - Dempsey - Modifies the filing requirements for certain real estate broker liens and requires builders to offer to install sprinklers in some instances
   LR: 2221S.02T    CCS SB 513
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 513-Dempsey

SB 514 - Dempsey - Creates the Legislative Budget Office and modifies duties of various joint committees of the General Assembly
   LR: 2156S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 514-Dempsey

SB 515 - Cunningham - Revises the conditions under which school districts may suspend or terminate teacher and administrator contracts in certain school districts
   LR: 2180S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 515-Cunningham

SB 516 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to education personnel
   LR: 2151S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 516-Cunningham

SB 517 - Lembke - Enacts guidelines and criteria for transparency in quality of health care services
   LR: 2186L.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 517-Lembke

SB 518 - Lembke - Requires a study of crediting unused sick leave to St. Louis police officers' retirement
   LR: 2237S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 518-Lembke

SB 519 - Shields - Repeals and reduces certain committees and commissions and sets a sunset date for other committees and commissions
   LR: 2094S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 519-Shields

SB 520 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for students in primary grades
   LR: 2215S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 520-Wright-Jones

SB 521 - Wright-Jones - Creates physical education requirements for sixth through twelfth graders
   LR: 2211S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 521-Wright-Jones

SB 522 - Stouffer - Amends several provisions of law relating to the regulation of commercial drivers' licenses
   LR: 2214S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 522-Stouffer

SB 523 - Bartle - Establishes advance voting and modifes voter identification requirements
   LR: 1274S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 523-Bartle

SB 524 - Griesheimer - Creates a state and local sales and use tax exemption for certain printed products
   LR: 2224S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 524-Griesheimer

SB 525 - Griesheimer - Modifies the law with respect to certain off-highway vehicles (ATVs and recreational off-highway vehicles)
   LR: 2155S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SB 525-Griesheimer

SCR 22 - Bray - Urges Congress to enact the United States Health Insurance Act sponsored by U.S. Representative John Conyers
   LR: 1894S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S Offered--SCR 22-Bray, et al

SJR 5 - Schmitt - Requires all charter county assessors, except the Jackson County Assessor, to be elected
   LR: 0905S.02T    SCS SJR 5
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SJR 8 - Shoemyer - Allows Missourians to practice hand-fishing in the waters of the state
   LR: 0955S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

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
   LR: 2162S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SJR 15-Cunningham

SJR 16 - Lager - Prohibits the imposition of any state or local income tax after January 1, 2024
   LR: 1056S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SJR 16-Lager

SJR 17 - Lembke - Prohibits public funds to be used for abortion services, human cloning, or prohibited human research
   LR: 2218S.01I    
2/25/2009 -- S First Read--SJR 17-Lembke