Senate Action for 3/2/2010

SB 583 - Champion - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of insurance
   LR: 3574L.07T    HCS SCS SB 583
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 606 - Stouffer - Adds comprehensive day services as a covered service under MO HealthNet
   LR: 3412S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 630 - Cunningham - Modifies various provisions pertaining to manufactured homes
   LR: 3142S.05T    SCS SB 630
3/2/2010 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
3/2/2010 -- Perfected
3/2/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 643 - Keaveny - Allows the City of St. Louis to control its police force without state intervention
   LR: 3356S.08C    SCS SB 643
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 649 - Days - Requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation designating March 12th as "Girl Scout Day"
   LR: 3207S.01T    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 668 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to impose a transient guest tax
   LR: 3084S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 669 - Justus - Allows the City of Grandview to seek voter approval for a sales tax to fund public safety improvements
   LR: 3085S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 675 - Wright-Jones - Allows the City of St. Louis to control its police force without state intervention through passage of an ordinance
   LR: 3416S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Cancelled S General Laws Committee

SB 676 - Wright-Jones - Establishes a prostate cancer pilot program to provide screening, referral services, treatment and outreach
   LR: 3314S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 677 - Bray - Repeals a portion of the law that provides certain utilities the opportunity to apply for alternate rate schedules in certain circumstances
   LR: 3531S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 684 - Rupp - Modifies provision relating to foreign adoption orders and embryo transfers
   LR: 3335L.02C    HCS SB 684
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 698 - Griesheimer - Requires certain incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies to reduce intrastate switched exchange access rates
   LR: 3189S.04C    SCS SB 698
3/2/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee (3189S.04C)

SB 721 - Nodler - Modifies provisions relating to required travel club assets
   LR: 3192S.03P    SCS SB 721
3/2/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee (3192S.03C)

SB 735 - Cunningham - Requires public libraries to adopt policies on the placement of books and other materials that are obscene or pornographic for minors
   LR: 3323S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 745 - Bray - Creates a statewide energy code for new building construction and renovation
   LR: 4337S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 753 - Dempsey - Allows county commissions to invest cemetery trust funds in certificates of deposit
   LR: 4340S.01T    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 754 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions related to cemeteries, the licensing of certain professions, death certificates, public assistance programs, and various other provisions
   LR: 3900S.09T    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 754
3/2/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 767 - Bartle - Removes the restriction on certain counties using a court fee for courtroom renovation and technology
   LR: 3056S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 771 - Scott - Modifies provisions relating to financial institutions offering bids to become the official county depositary
   LR: 4347S.01T    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 772 - Scott - Removes the minimum time for holding investments in the Missouri Higher Education Savings Program
   LR: 3986S.02T    SCS SB 772
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 774 - Lembke - Creates additional measures intended to increase safety at the Department of Mental Health
   LR: 4370S.02T    SCS SB 774
3/2/2010 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
3/2/2010 -- Perfected
3/2/2010 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee

SB 785 - Schaefer - Requires certain telephone companies to reduce intrastate exchange access fees and dedicates funding in the Universal Service Fund to replace lost revenue
   LR: 4188S.02I    
3/2/2010 -- Motion to vote bill do pass failed S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 786 - Rupp - Requires health benefit plans to provide orally administered anticancer medications on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered anticancer medications
   LR: 4398S.02P    SS SB 786
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 793 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to abortion
   LR: 4230S.08T    SS SCS SB 793
3/2/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 804 - Schmitt - Establishes each February 14th as Epilepsy Awareness Day
   LR: 3730S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 812 - Schmitt - Creates various specialty license plates and modifies the administrative process for issuing and developing specialty license plates
   LR: 4027L.03C    HCS SCS SBs 812, 752 & 909
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 818 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the initiative and referendum process
   LR: 4633S.02C    SCS SB 818
3/2/2010 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 834 - Rupp - Establishes a procedure for the voluntary liquidation and dissolution of domestic stock insurance companies
   LR: 4599S.03T    SCS SB 834
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 841 - Schmitt - Designates various stretches of highways after deceased individuals
   LR: 4311S.03P    SCS SBs 841, 657 & 751
3/2/2010 -- H First Read

SB 842 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions relating to public assistance programs administered by the state
   LR: 4653S.07T    CCS HCS SCS SBs 842, 799 & 809
3/2/2010 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 855 - Schaefer - Allows the State Registrar to issue heritage birth or marriage certificates celebrating the unique heritage of Missouri citizens
   LR: 4018S.04P    SCS SB 855
3/2/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee (4018S.04C)

SB 861 - Dempsey - Requires accreditation for noninvasive vascular laboratories
   LR: 4646S.02I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 877 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to child support
   LR: 4712S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee (Consent)

SB 878 - Lembke - Allows debts owed to ambulance service providers to be collected from income tax refunds and lottery winnings of patients
   LR: 4691S.02C    SCS SB 878
3/2/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee (4691S.02C)

SB 902 - Nodler - Requires nonresidents to maintain financial responsibility which conforms to the requirements of the laws of the nonresident's state of residence
   LR: 4888S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee (4888S.03C)

SB 908 - Green - Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council
   LR: 4991S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 929 - Lager - Makes it lawful for Caldwell County to enter into a contract with private corporations engaged in delivering water at wholesale for domestic consumption
   LR: 4858S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee (Consent)

SB 933 - Dempsey - Requires chiropractors to be reimbursed under MO HealthNet for providing services currently covered and within the scope of chiropractic practice
   LR: 4891S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 945 - Bray - Modifies provisions relating to court actions by the Department of Mental Health and to taxation
   LR: 5006L.03C    HCS SB 945
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 948 - Crowell - Enacts provisions relating to an individual's right to participate in a health care system
   LR: 5098S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 972 - Dempsey - Enacts provisions relating to documents and materials for health insurance enrollees
   LR: 5146S.02I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 979 - Rupp - Requires long-term care insurance rates to be approved by the Director of the Department of Insurance as a condition of issuance of such policies within Missouri
   LR: 5161S.02P    SCS SB 979
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 983 - Bray - Creates the Missouri Energy Efficiency Performance Standard
   LR: 5145S.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 985 - Goodman - Modifies certain requirements about identification information in certain court pleadings, liens, notices of garnishment, and writs of sequestration
   LR: 5186S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee (Consent)

SB 1001 - Griesheimer - Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation setting apart the first week of May as "Local Government Week" in Missouri
   LR: 5231S.01P    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee (Consent)

SCR 47 - Engler - Authorizes employment of an independent certified public accountant to perform an audit on the State Auditor's Office
   LR: 4965S.02I    
3/2/2010 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
3/2/2010 -- Reported from S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee to Floor

HCR 38 - Icet - Urgently requests the United States Congress to cease and desist from imposing unfunded mandates on the states
   LR: 4507L.01I    
3/2/2010 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee