SCS/HCS/HB 464 - This act eliminates, combines, and revises certain state boards, commissions, committees, and councils. GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL ON DISABILITY
(Section 8.650, 37.735, 37.740, 37.745, 162.1000, 286.001, 286.005, 286.200, 286.205, 286.210)
This act codifies the assignment of the Governor's Council on Disability to the Office of Administration from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
WORKERS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
(Section 8.900)
This act eliminates the Workers Memorial Committee, which was to organize a design competition for a memorial on the grounds of the capitol.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON WETLANDS
(Section 21.475)
This act eliminates the Joint Committee on Wetlands.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON COUNTY SALARIES
(Section 21.780)
This act eliminates the Joint Committee on County Salaries, which is required to review county salaries every ten years.
MISSOURI COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMISSION
(Sections 26.600, 26.603, 26.605, 26.607, 26.609, 26.611, 26.614, 620.580, 620.582, 620.584, 620.586, 620.588, 620.590, 620.592)
This act codifies the assignment of the Missouri Community Service Commission to the Department of Economic Development. Also, currently, the Missouri Community Service Commission is required to have at least fifteen, but no more than twenty-five voting members. This act reduces the total possible number of voting members to nineteen.
MULTISTATE TAX COMPACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(Sections 32.250, 32.260)
This act eliminates the Multistate Tax Compact Advisory Committee.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARK
(Section 90.101)
Despite other laws to the contrary, this provision authorizes the board of commissioners of Tower Grove Park to adjust the size of its membership with the approval of a majority of the board members.
MISSOURI STATE EMPLOYEES' VOLUNTARY LIFE INSURANCE COMMISSION
(Sections 105.1006, 105.1010, 105.1012)
This act allows the Commissioner of Administration to administer the Missouri State Employees Voluntary Life Insurance Fund and eliminates the five member Missouri State Employees Voluntary Life Insurance Commission that previously administered the fund.
MISSOURI HEAD INJURY ADVISORY COUNCIL
(Sections 162.1000, 190.176, 192.735, 192.737, 192.739, 192.742, 192.745, 199.001, 199.003, 199.007, 199.009, 199.010, 199.029, 199.031, 199.037, 199.039, 199.041, 199.043, 199.051, 304.028)
This act changes the name of the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council to the Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council and codifies the transfer of the Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council to the Department of Health and Senior Services. The act provides for the decrease of members of the council from twenty-five to fifteen and eliminates the legislative members of the council. Meetings of the full council shall be held four times a year or at the call of the council chairperson.
This act prescribes some additional duties for the department, including promulgating rules to prescribe policies or standards which affect charging and funding of adult brain injury rehabilitation services and reasonable rules relative to the implementation of participant rights for those using rehabilitation services. The department shall also promulgate rules to create a reasonable standard means test to be applied to all programs and services funded by the department. The administration of the renamed Brain Injury Fund is also transferred to the department. This act also provides that services provided by the department shall be directed toward preparation for education or vocational achievement, independent living, and community participation.
These sections are similar to SB 908 (2010).
JOINT COMMITTEE ON URBAN VOLUNTARY SCHOOL TRANSFER PROGRAMS
(Section 162.1060)
This act eliminates the Joint Committee on Urban Voluntary School Transfer Programs.
MISSOURI STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
(Sections 192.350, 192.352, 192.355)
This act eliminates the Missouri State Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management within the Department of Health and Senior Services.
MISSOURI ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION TRUST BOARD
(Section 166.200, 166.201, 166.203, 166.205, 166.207, 166.209, 166.212, 166.215, 166.218, 166.220, 166.222, 166.225, 166.228, 166.231, 166.233, 166.235, 166.237, 166.240, 166.242)
This act repeals the Missouri Access to Higher Education Trust and the ten member board of directors established to govern the trust. The trust was authorized to contract with individuals to provide for the advance payment of tuition for beneficiaries to attend any of the state institutions of higher education.
MO RX PLAN ADVISORY COMMISSION
(Sections 208.175, 208.792)
This act eliminates the MO Rx Plan Advisory Commission, which provided advice on the benefit design and operational policy of the Missouri Rx plan. The Drug Utilization Review Board is given the power to provide advice on guidelines, policies, and procedures of the Missouri Rx plan.
MO HEALTHNET OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
(Sections 208.195, 208.955)
This act eliminates the advisory committee appointed by the director of the Division of Family Services to provide technical advice regarding medical care for public assistance recipients and makes the MO Healthnet Oversight Committee serve as the medical care advisory committee to the Medicaid director.
The act also modifies the membership of the MO Healthnet Oversight Committee.
COORDINATING COUNCIL ON SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION
(Section 208.275)
This act reduces the number of members of the Coordinating Council on Special Transportation within the Department of Transportation by eliminating the four legislative members of the council. The council shall expire on December 31, 2014.
MISSOURI CHILDREN'S SERVICES COMMISSION
(Sections 210.101, 210.105)
This act modifies the membership of the Missouri Children's Services Commission. One of the two judges on the commission, and four of the legislative members are eliminated. Representatives from the departments of higher education and corrections are added to the commission.
This act also establishes a 18-member Missouri Task Force on Prematurity and Infant Mortality within the Children's Services Commission to seek evidence-based and cost-effective approaches to reduce Missouri's preterm birth and infant mortality rates. The task force shall also issue findings and propose to the appropriate public and private organizations goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics designed to reduce prematurity and infant mortality in Missouri, including recommendations on public policy for consideration during the next appropriate session of the general assembly. On or before December 31, 2013, the task force shall submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly with their findings.
Six of the 18 members shall be members of the General Assembly with two members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, one by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, two by the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and one by the Minority Leader of the Senate. The task force shall meet initially by October 15, 2011, and at least quarterly thereafter.
The task force shall expire January 1, 2015, or upon the submission of a final report, whichever is earlier.
This provision is similar to a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 562 (2011).
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE COMPACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(Sections 260.372, 260.705, 260.720, 260.725, 260.735)
The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Advisory Committee is eliminated and the Hazardous Waste Management Commission within the Department of Natural Resources will assume the duties of the committee.
MOTORCYCLE SAFETY PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(Section 302.136)
This act eliminates the Motorcycle Safety Program Advisory Committee which was established in the Department of Public Safety to assist in the development and implementation of the motorcycle safety program.
MISSOURI FIRE EDUCATION TRUST FUND BOARD, MISSOURI FIRE EDUCATION COMMISSION, AND MISSOURI FIRE SAFETY ADVISORY BOARD
(Section 320.094, 320.205)
This act eliminates the seven member Missouri Fire Education Trust Board that administered the Missouri Fire Education Trust Fund. The act also eliminates the requirement that money be distributed to the Fire Education Trust Fund from the Fire Education Fund, before money in the Fire Education Fund can be appropriated to the Division of Fire Safety.
The act also eliminates the six member Missouri Fire Safety Advisory Board who advised the State Fire Marshal.
The act adds four members to the Missouri Fire Education Commission and renames it the Missouri Fire Safety Education/Advisory Commission. This new commission shall administer the Missouri Fire Education Trust Fund.
BOARD OF LICENSED PRIVATE FIRE INVESTIGATOR EXAMINERS AND BOARD OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EXAMINERS
(Sections 324.600, 342.603, 324.606, 324.608, 324.612, 324.615, 324. 618, 324.621, 324.624, 324.627, 324.630, 324.635, 324.1100, 324.1102, 324.1103, 324.1104, 324.1106, 324.1108, 324.1110, 324.1112, 324.1114, 324.1116, 324.1118, 324.1120, 324.1122, 324.1124, 324.1128, 324.1130, 324.1132, 324.1134, 324.1136, 324.1138, 324.1140 and 324.1144)
This act eliminates the Board of Licensed Private Fire Investigator Examiners and the Board of Private Investigator Examiners. The new Board of Private Investigator and Private Fire Investigator Examiners will carry out the duties and powers of these boards. The new board's responsibilities with regard to fire investigators will not take effect until the governor appoints the fire investigator members and the appointments are confirmed by the senate. The members serving on the Board of Private Investigator Examiners shall continue to serve on the new board and the new board will have two additional members who have been actively engaged in private fire investigations for the previous five years.
The act also requires private fire investigator agencies to be licensed by the board and merges the two board's licensing statutes.
The act modifies the requirements for licensing as a private fire investigator. Applicants for licensing as a private fire investigator will not be required to successfully complete a course of training and pass a written examination, instead the applicant would provide evidence that they are certified as a fire investigator by the division of fire safety. The act also adds an exemption from licensing for fire instructors certified by the division of fire safety while the instructor is providing instruction, unless that instruction includes conducting an on-site investigation.
The act repeals the provision of law that requires the board of private investigator examiners to license individuals who are qualified to train private investigators.
DENTAL BOARD AND BOARD OF REGISTRATION FOR THE HEALING ARTS
(Sections 332.021 and 334.120)
Currently, the Governor is required to choose members of the Missouri Dental Board and the state Board of Registration for the Healing Arts from lists of names submitted by the director of the Division of Professional Registration. When the member to be appointed to the board is a dentist or doctor, this act requires that the lists include the names of dentists or doctors recommend to the director by the Missouri Dental Association, the Missouri State Medical Association, or the Missouri Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, as the case may be. The act specifies that these lists are public records available for inspection and copying.
MISSOURI BOARD OF NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS
(Sections 344.060, 344.105, 344.108, 660.010)
Currently, the director of the Department of Health and Senior Services appoints the members of the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators. This act gives the governor the authority to appoint the members of the Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
This act also removes language requiring information in the request for retired or inactive status to be given under oath.
STATE BANKING AND SAVINGS AND LOAN BOARD
(Sections 361.070, 361.092, 361.093, 361.094, 361.095, 361.096, 361.097, 361.098, 361.105, 362.040, 362.105, 362.111, 362.325, 369.014, 369.024, 369.144, 369.159, 369.294, 369.299, 369.304, 369.309, 369.314, 369.319, 369.329, 371.060, 371.090, 371.240)
This act combines the State Banking Board and the State Savings and Loan Commission into the State Banking and Savings and Loan Board. This board will have five members, one attorney, two members with at least five years of bank management experience, one member with at least five years of experience managing a savings and loan association, and one member not involved in the administration of a financial institution. The members shall serve six year terms.
The hearing and appeal procedures for determinations dealing with savings and loan associations will be governed by the hearing and appeal process as it currently exists for state banks.
SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FAIRNESS BOARD
(Sections 536.310, 536.312)
This act allows the small business regulatory fairness board to hire a one-half full-time and a full-time equivalent employee for clerical support and for a professional position subject to appropriation. Those individuals shall be charged with numerous clerical and administrative tasks in support of the board as are enumerated in the act.
The board may use other appropriated funds for Internet upkeep, information technology, covering mileage costs for members, paying for publications, and outreach costs.
This provision is similar to SB 182 (2011), HB 1101 (2009), and HB 182 (2010).
MISSOURI SEED CAPITAL INVESTMENT BOARD
(Sections 620.638, 620.641, 620.644, 620.647, 620.650, 620.653)
This act eliminates the Missouri Seed Capital Investment Board and transfers its duties to the Missouri Technology Corporation.
SUICIDE PREVENTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(Sections 630.910, 630.915, 632.020)
This act eliminates the Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee within the Department of Mental Health and the requirement that the Department of Mental Health seek funding to participate in the National Violent Death Reporting System. The Missouri Advisory Council for Comprehensive Psychiatric Services is given the responsibility to provide oversight for suicide prevention activities.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON LEAD POISONING
(Section 701.302)
This act eliminates the Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning which was required to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on ways to eliminate and screen for lead poisoning, among other recommendations.
This act is similar to SCS/SB 388 (2011), SB 244 (2011), and SCS/SBs 991 & 645 (2010).
EMILY KALMER