Senate Summaries on House Bills

HB 1 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money to the Board of Fund Commissioners
HB 2 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
HB 3 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Higher Education
HB 4 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Revenue and Department of Transportation
HB 5 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Office of Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of Public Safety
HB 6 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Natural Resources, and Department of Conservation
HB 7 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses and distributions of the departments of Economic Development,Insurance, Financial Institutions,Professional Registration,Labor and Industrial Relations
HB 8 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Public Safety
HB 9 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Corrections
HB 10 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the Department of Mental Health, Board of Public Buildings, and Department of Health and Senior Services
HB 11 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, and distributions of the Department of Social Services
HB 12 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of statewide elected officials, the Judiciary, Office of the State Public Defender, and General Assembly
HB 13 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for real property leases and related services
HB 14 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for several departments and offices of state government,for the purchase of equipment,payment of claims for refunds,for persons,firms and corporations
HB 15 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for the several departments and offices of state government, and for payment of various claims for refunds, for persons, firms and corporations
HB 17 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for capital improvement and other purposes as provided in Article IV, Section 28
HB 21 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for supplemental purposes for various departments and offices of state government
HB 22 - (Truly Agreed) - Appropriates money for capital improvement projects, for grants, refunds and distributions, planning, expenses, and to transfer money among certain funds.
HB 30 - Modifies provisions relating to substance abuse of applicants and recipients of state benefits
HB 46 - Modifies provisions regarding informed consent for abortions
HB 62 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to crime
HB 64 - Modifies provisions of state income tax law
HB 65 - Allows rural empowerment zones to exist in any county with 18,000 or fewer residents and prohibits more than two rural empowerment zones in any county
HB 69 - Allows adoption resource centers to participate in the children in crisis tax credit program
HB 82 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions of law authorizing an income tax exemption for certain retirement benefits and creates a six year phased-in income tax exemption for military retirement income
HB 83 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions of law regarding travel clubs
HB 86 - Modifies provisions regarding the imposition of the corporate franchise tax
HB 89 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires vehicles to yield the right-of-way to all pedestrians and bicyclists crossing in a crosswalk on a city or neighborhood street in Kansas City
HB 91 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates various highways and bridges within the state of Missouri
HB 93 - (Truly Agreed) - Exempts tractors used in tractor parades from certain width, length, height and license plate display regulations under certain circumstances
HB 96 - Modifies provisions relating to school safety and protection measures
HB 103 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to public safety
HB 111 - (Truly Agreed) - Provides funeral establishments with immunity from liability with regard to disposal of unclaimed veterans' cremated remains
HB 116 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the laws regarding the crime of assualt of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer and the crime of tampering with a judicial officer
HB 124 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the scope and duration of the Joint Committee on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, and Homeland Security
HB 128 - Requires public bodies to use the traditional name of any holiday that such body observes or recognizes and designates December 25th of every year as Christmas
HB 132 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to liquor control
HB 148 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to county collectors and the collection of taxes
HB 152 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires persons arrest for certain offenses to provide a biological sample for DNA profiling analysis
HB 154 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to placement of children
HB 156 - Modifies provisions relating to health care services
HB 170 - Modifies the law regarding duties of business owners or operators to guard against criminal acts and lowers the age for concealed carry applications
HB 171 - (Truly Agreed) - Excuses tenant from paying rent when his or her residence is destroyed by an act of God or other natural or man-made disaster, provided the tenant was not the cause of the disaster
HB 177 - (Truly Agreed) - Gives the judge presiding in certain sexual offense cases discretion to disclose information regarding the defendant, which could be used to identify the victim, to avoid protecting the defendant's identity
HB 187 - Modifies various laws regarding the Secretary of State, municipal courts, paternity records, landlord-tenant issues, child custody, child support, court fees, reports, organization, costs, procedures, and records and division of developmental disabilities contracts.
HB 191 - (Truly Agreed) - Creates various tax incentives for job development
HB 205 - (Truly Agreed) - Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in this state that have not been tested, certified, and marked as meeting certain performance standards
HB 210 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows a retired state employee to request that contributions to the state employees charitable campaign be withheld from their monthly benefit
HB 214 - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri local government employees' retirement system (LAGERS)
HB 217 - Requires a school board to provide a reason to a parent or guardian for the refusal to admit a student from an unaccredited school district
HB 218 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the eligibility rules for health insurance coverage under the Missouri Health Insurance Pool
HB 228 - Modifies requirements pertaining to initiative and referendum petitions and requires taxing authorities to submit tax reduction proposals to a vote of the people upon petition
HB 229 - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance
HB 231 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires group health insurance policies issued to employers not covered by the federal COBRA law to provide terminated employees continuation coverage rights in the same manner as provided by the federal COBRA law
HB 234 - Modifies procedures for detaching territory from a public water supply district
HB 236 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires school districts to adopt policies to allow students with a disability to participate in graduation ceremonies with their graduating class
HB 237 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to courts
HB 238 - Allows the consolidation of the report of the Judicial Finance Commission with any annual report prepared by the Supreme Court or the Office of State Court Administrator
HB 239 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies laws regarding the management of funds by the University of Missouri board of curators, charities, trustees of certain irrevocable trusts, and personal representatives and conservators of estates
HB 242 - Allows school boards to adopt a four-day school week instead of a five-day school week
HB 246 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies laws regarding surface mining and sand and gravel removal
HB 247 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to review of advanced practice registered nurses by collaborating physicians and the definition of eligible student for the nursing student loan program
HB 248 - Authorizes an income tax dependency exemption deduction for a taxpayer for the taxable year in which a stillborn child was born if the child would otherwise have been a member of the taxpayer's household
HB 250 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions pertaining to horseback riding on public land and the state soil and water conservation program
HB 251 - (Truly Agreed) - Specifies that any return on savings given by a cooperative association to its members for the purchase of milk products will not be a violation of the Unfair Milk Sales Practices Act
HB 253 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows motorcycle headlamps to be wired to modulate either the upper beam or the lower beam from its maximum intensity to a lesser intensity if certain modulation standards are met
HB 255 - Removes the Director of the Forms Management Unit as a voting member of the State Records Commission and replaces him or her with the Commissioner of the Office of Administration
HB 257 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows Lincoln county, after meeting the required assessed valuation, to become a second class county upon a vote of the governing body to change classifications
HB 258 - Modifies the prevailing and tipped employee wage rate
HB 259 - Modifies Missouri’s prompt pay statute with respect to the payment of health insurance claims
HB 265 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to teacher and school retirement systems
HB 269 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies laws relating to certificates of ownership
HB 272 - (Truly Agreed) - Establishes the Alzheimer's State Plan Task Force
HB 273 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows the personal representative of an estate to submit documentation other than vouchers to the court as evidence of expenditures on behalf of the estate
HB 278 - Allows mobility motor vehicle dealers to purchase new motor vehicles and equip them for retail sale as mobility motor vehicles under certain conditions
HB 281 - Modifies the laws regarding motor vehicle dealerships as they relate to manufacturer-authorized warranty work and repair
HB 282 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property in Jasper County, known as the Joplin Regional Center, to Missouri Southern State University
HB 283 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes nonprofit sewer companies to provide domestic water services in certain areas
HB 286 - Modifies provisions relating to infection incident rates reporting and control
HB 287 - Classifies sawmills and planing mills as agricultural and horticultural property instead of commercial property for property tax purposes
HB 289 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to special education due process hearings
HB 294 - Requires courts to adopt certain procedures in cases where a landlord sues a tenant for unpaid rent and possession
HB 299 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes the cap on appropriations of nonresident entertainer and athlete tax revenues to the Missouri Arts Council
HB 306 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the board of directors of a lake area business district to enter into an agreement with the Department of Revenue to collect transient guest tax revenues
HB 310 - Modifies certain liquor control provisions pertaining to wholesalers
HB 316 - Modifies provisions regarding public meetings and records, commonly known as the "Sunshine Law"
HB 320 - Authorizes a tax credit for storm shelter construction
HB 326 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to certain mental health professionals
HB 354 - Modifies the law regarding public-private partnerships and authorizes the Governor to convey state property for the new Mississippi River Bridge project
HB 358 - Designates the bridge over the Gasconade River on State Highway 17 in Pulaski County as the "WWII Okinawa Veterans Memorial Bridge" and designates a portion of Interstate 435 as the "Lamar Hunt Memorial Highway"
HB 359 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes certain statutory restrictions on the current design-build highway project process to allow the state highways and transportation commission to enter into more design-build highway project contracts
HB 361 - (Truly Agreed) - Prohibits the Department of Revenue from amending its driver's license application procedures in order to comply with the federal REAL ID Act
HB 373 - (Truly Agreed) - Creates the GED Revolving Fund for the payment and expenses related to GED test administration
HB 376 - Modifies various provisions relating to political subdivisions
HB 381 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires Department of Revenue to implement new procedures for awarding fee office contracts
HB 382 - (Truly Agreed) - Regulates residential mortgage brokers and loan originators
HB 384 - Modifies various provisions relating to criminal offenses and criminal procedure
HB 390 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the law relating to unauthorized aliens and employment safety programs
HB 395 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to long-term care facilities
HB 397 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and the Police Retirement System of Kansas City
HB 400 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows certain veterans to park in metered parking spaces for free if approved by local government
HB 426 - Creates the Large Carnivore Act which regulates the possession and care of certain non-native big cats and bears
HB 427 - (Truly Agreed) - Enacts various provisions related to veterans, military members, and their families
HB 459 - Imposes a gross receipts tax on certain ambulance service providers
HB 481 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies laws regarding courts, judicial proceedings, and other provisions
HB 482 - Allows municipal courts to create a fund to be used to pay for appointing attorneys for certain indigent defendants
HB 485 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies the membership and quorum requirements for the Seismic Safety Commission
HB 488 - Modifies procedures for the lapse of a school district that has been classified as unaccredited for two successive years
HB 490 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies requirements for public career-technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program
HB 495 - Modifies telecommunications provisions relating to carrier of last resort obligations, exchange access rates, and emergency phone service
HB 506 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation declaring the first week of March as Math, Engineering, Technology and Science Week
HB 509 - Requires school districts to adopt nutritional standards for food and beverages and adopt physical education programs
HB 525 - (Truly Agreed) - Codifies into law the five regional Autism projects currently serving persons with Autism
HB 537 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the Governor to convey a parcel of real property to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project
HB 540 - Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums, automobile club memberships, home and auto security plans, and other similar products with respect to certain loan transactions
HB 544 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal, establishes the Joint Committee on Recovery Accountability and Transparency, and requires the Office of Administration to provide legislators a key to the Capitol dome
HB 546 - Allows drug court commissioners to serve as family court commissioners
HB 553 - Creates a tax credit equal to the sales tax paid on motor vehicles manufactured and sold in this state
HB 568 - Requires voter registration information to be made available to applicants for resident hunting and fishing permits
HB 575 - Modifies various economic development programs
HB 577 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulations of insurance
HB 580 - (Truly Agreed) - Provides additional workers' compensation benefits for public safety workers killed in the line of duty
HB 593 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes certain limitations on investments made by boards of trustees of police and firemen's retirement systems
HB 599 - Makes certain previously-exempted electric cooperatives henceforth subject to rate regulation under the Public Service Commission
HB 620 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions of law relating to bingo
HB 622 - Provides that a perpetrator's identifying information cannot be redacted from court records in certain sexual offense cases
HB 631 - Modifies the Missouri Teaching Fellows Program and requires school districts to pay registered professional nurses on the same salary schedule as teachers
HB 644 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires operators of salvage pool or salvage disposal sales, rather than sellers, who sell nonrepairable vehicles to foreign residents to complete certain statutory duties
HB 652 - (Truly Agreed) - Defines the terms "certified mail" and "certified mail with return receipt requested" for the purposes of Missouri statutes where these terms are used
HB 657 - Modifies provisions relating to boat docks
HB 658 - Creates a tax credit for qualifying milk production
HB 659 - Allows the State Board of Education to make modifications to a Special Administrative Board that is governing a lapsed school district
HB 661 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions pertaining to programs administered by the Department of Natural Resources
HB 667 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes the 12-month grace period that newly elected sheriffs are allowed in order to become a licensed peace officer in order to execute police powers beginning January 1, 2010
HB 668 - Modifies various provisions relating to firearms and the use of deadly force
HB 678 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates May 1 of each year as "Silver Star Families of America Day" to honor the wounded members of the United States armed forces
HB 681 - Modifies the manner in which vacancies are filled for statewide offices and the office of United States Senator
HB 682 - (Truly Agreed) - Creates an exception for the 2008-2009 school year for the number of school days to be made up due to inclement weather
HB 683 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies several provisions of law relating to transportation
HB 685 - (Truly Agreed) - Specifies that the Highway Patrol does not have to notify or be accompanied by the county sheriff when it serves certain search warrants
HB 698 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies signage requirements for certain donation receptacles
HB 709 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to voter notification cards
HB 716 - (Truly Agreed) - Adds provisions related to newborns and newborn screenings
HB 734 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions pertaining to energy and water polllution
HB 736 - Requires phone companies to provide call location information to law enforcement in emergency situations
HB 740 - (Truly Agreed) - Extends the expiration date of various federal reimbursement allowances from 2009 to 2011.
HB 744 - Creates two separate funds within the state treasury to receive and retain funds provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
HB 745 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the Commissioner of Administration to give new generation processing entities preference when purchasing commodities and tangible personal property
HB 747 - (Truly Agreed) - Specifies that in order for a person to be guilty of the crime of sexual contact with a prisoner or offender, the prisoner or offender must be confined in a jail, prison, or correctional facility
HB 751 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to the Missouri Propane Education and Research Council
HB 752 - (Truly Agreed) - Eliminates the position of Transportation Inspector General for the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight and modifies the law regarding the leadership of the Highways and Transportation Commission
HB 795 - Establishes the Small Business Get Off My Back Act
HB 802 - (Truly Agreed) - Implements new median family income eligibility thresholds for persons living in owner-occupied units and rental units for purposes of receiving assistance under the Neighborhood Assistance Act
HB 807 - Designates the Missouri River as the official state waterway
HB 811 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires applicants for licensing as a dietitian to have a current registration with the Commission on Dietetic Registration
HB 812 - Repeals certain statutes regarding the board of cosmetology and the board of barber examiners which are no longer used and updates certain statutory references
HB 826 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows the Department of Mental Health to contract with county jails to confine sexually violent predators who are civilly committed
HB 836 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires certain notices to occupants of residential property in cases of foreclosure before the new owner may bring an action seeking possession of the property
HB 842 - (Truly Agreed) - Defines certain boat docks as real property for the purposes of real estate appraisers and modifies the definition of "commercial real estate" as it is used in licensing real estate brokers and agents
HB 844 - Allows members of the Missouri National Guard to be granted leave under certain circumstances
HB 845 - Adds interference with lawful fishing to the activities for which courts are allowed to award damages for expenditures incurred by an individual when interference has occurred
HB 859 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires communities to file one copy of any technical code adopted with the clerk's office to be available to the public, rather than three copies
HB 861 - (Truly Agreed) - Allows the Adjutant General to assign the number of assistant adjutants general that are authorized by National Guard Bureau rules and regulations rather than limiting the number to two
HB 863 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires courts to accommodate child witnesses in certain judicial proceedings in several ways
HB 866 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires the destruction of certain complaints made by sexually violent predators against certain licensed professionals
HB 867 - (Truly Agreed) - Designates a portion of U. S. Highway 36 in DeKalb County as the "CW2 Matthew G. Kelley Memorial Highway"
HB 883 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies provisions relating to the State Treasurer and expands eligibility for the Treasurer's linked deposit loan program
HB 895 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the Governor to convey all interest in an easement across state property located in Macon County to certain private property owners for obtaining access to their property
HB 909 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the Governor to convey various state properties
HB 914 - (Truly Agreed) - Removes a provision requiring the circuit court to approve the Director of Finance's appointment of a liquidating agent for a failed bank
HB 915 - Modifies provisions relating to licensed grain dealers
HB 918 - (Truly Agreed) - Authorizes the Governor to convey state property known as the Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center to the University of Missouri-Columbia
HB 919 - (Truly Agreed) - Permits associations to provide group health insurance policies to sole-proprietorships and self-employed individuals
HB 922 - (Truly Agreed) - Requires each school district to adopt a policy on allergy prevention and response
HB 928 - Designates a portion of State Highway 100 located in Franklin Count as the "Veterans Memorial Highway"
HB 947 - Modifies disability retirement provisions of the Police Retirement System of St. Louis and provisions regarding retirement benefits of certain members of the Police Retirement System of Kansas City
HB 952 - Establishes the Independence Day Sales Tax Holiday
HB 958 - Modifies provisions of law regarding taxation
HB 978 - Modifies provisions relating to the environment
HB 1075 - (Truly Agreed) - Modifies various provisions relating to unemployment compensation
HCR 4 - Encourages dog training programs and kennel clubs to provide training and education for community pet owners that result in dogs being "Canine Good Citizens"
HCR 5 - (Truly Agreed) - Disapproves the Missouri Citizens' Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials salary recommendations
HCR 10 - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 27, 2009 for the State of the State message from Governor Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon
HCR 11 - Joint Session in the Hall of the House of Representatives at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 28, 2009, for the State of the Judiciary message, from Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith
HCR 13 - Claims sovereignty for the states under the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution for all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government under the Constitution
HCR 16 - Strongly urges Congress to reject any asylum, containment, transport, imprisonment, or state medical care of any suspected terrorists released from United States operated foreign prisons
HCR 22 - Strongly urges the United States Air Force to select Whiteman Air Force Base as the permanent headquarters for the new Global Strike Command
HJR 10 - Proposes constitutional amendments modifying the procedures for selection of nonpartisan judges and provisions relating to judicial commissions
HJR 11 - Proposes a constitutional amendment reaffirming a citizen's right to free expression of religion
HJR 15 - (Truly Agreed) - Exempts real property used by certain former prisoners of war as a homestead from property tax
HJR 17 - Delays repayment to the Budget Reserve Fund
HJR 23 - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits
HJR 32 - Proposes a constitutional amendment creating the Fifth State Building Bond and Interest Fund
HJR 36 - Proposes a constitutional amendment to replace state income taxes, corporate and bank franchise taxes, and sales and use taxes, with a statewide tax on the sale, use, or consumption of retail sales and taxable services
HJR 37 - Requires voting by secret ballot for elections and employee representation