Senate Action for 1/17/2012

SB 435 - Crowell - Requires authorization for certain labor unions to use dues and fees to make political contributions and bars them from withholding earnings from paychecks
   LR: 4228S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 438 - Mayer - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 4296S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 439 - Mayer - Modifies the law relating to the prevailing wage
   LR: 4295S.03C    SCS SB 439
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 442 - Stouffer - Establishes photo identification requirements for voting
   LR: 4292S.02C    SCS SB 442
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 464 - Schaaf - Prohibits the establishment and operation of health insurance exchanges in Missouri unless certain criteria are met
   LR: 4313S.03T    SS SB 464
1/17/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 465 - Schaaf - Allows Buchanan County and cities, towns, or villages within Buchanan County to establish a theater, cultural arts, and entertainment district
   LR: 4297S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 486 - Wright-Jones - Modifies law relating to voter registration and election offenses
   LR: 4411S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 514 - Crowell - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 4223S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S General Laws Committee

SB 520 - Schaaf - Requires a candidate who forms a committee to designate the office to which the candidate is seeking nomination or election
   LR: 4359S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 544 - Chappelle-Nadal - Licenses clinical laboratory personnel
   LR: 4109S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Cancelled S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee

SB 547 - Purgason - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 4371S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 553 - Brown - Requires authorization for certain labor unions to use dues and fees to make political contributions and bars them from withholding earnings from paychecks
   LR: 4559S.02C    SCS SBs 553 & 435
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 560 - Ridgeway - Prohibits the establishment and operation of health insurance exchanges in Missouri unless certain criteria are met
   LR: 4473S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 572 - Dempsey - Modifies the law relating to workers' compensation
   LR: 4124S.10T    SS SCS SB 572
1/17/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee (4124S.06C)

SB 590 - Kraus - Modifies the law relating to unlawfully present aliens
   LR: 4556S.02I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 596 - Brown - Modifies the law relating to prevailing wage and project labor agreements
   LR: 4925S.02C    SCS SB 596
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 660 - Schmitt - Requires Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company to transition into a private mutual insurance company by January 1, 2013, and requires it to transfer $127 million of its surplus to General Revenue
   LR: 5367S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 660-Schmitt and Rupp

SB 661 - Schmitt - Creates a phased-in individual income tax deduction for business income and reduces the corporate income tax rate over a five-year period
   LR: 5177S.03C    SCS SB 661
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 661-Schmitt

SB 662 - Schmitt - Requires all tax credit programs created on or after August 28, 2012 to comply with the Tax Credit Accountability Act of 2004
   LR: 5223S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 662-Schmitt

SB 663 - Chappelle-Nadal - Establishes Boulevard Brewery Company and Saint Louis Brewery, Inc. as the official breweries of the state
   LR: 5354S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 663-Chappelle-Nadal

SB 664 - Chappelle-Nadal - Enacts a statewide smoking ban
   LR: 4867S.02I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 664-Chappelle-Nadal

SB 665 - Stouffer - Authorizes the Governor to transfer certain pieces of real estate located throughout the state of Missouri
   LR: 5370S.05T    CCS SS SB 665
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 665-Stouffer

SB 666 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to the Large Carnivore Act and creates the Nonhuman Primate Act
   LR: 4032S.08C    SCS SB 666
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 666-Keaveny

SB 667 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to design professionals, school social workers, real estate appraising, and residential construction
   LR: 5327L.05C    HCS SB 667
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 667-Wasson

SB 668 - Lembke - Modifies several provisions of law concerning taxation, the composition of county sport complex authorities, fire protection district regulations, and real estate appraiser licensing
   LR: 5365L.02C    HCS SB 668
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 668-Lembke

SB 669 - Lembke - Modifies the retirement plans for judges, statewide elected officials, and members of the General Assembly who first take office after January 1, 2013
   LR: 5183S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 669-Lembke

SB 670 - Green - Allows debtors facing nonjudicial foreclosure to chose mediation or judicial foreclosure as alternatives
   LR: 4594S.02I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 670-Green

SB 671 - Parson - Modifies provisions relating to elections
   LR: 5044L.08C    HCS SCS SB 671
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 671-Parson

SB 672 - Brown - Modifies higher education course credit requirements and healthcare-related professional licensure requirements for members of the armed forces
   LR: 5233S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 672-Brown

SB 673 - Brown - Modifies law regarding motor vehicle licensing and driver's licenses
   LR: 5037L.07C    HCS SCS SB 673
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 673-Brown

SB 674 - Schaaf - Requires insured to only pay usual and customary retail price of a prescription drug where the retail price is less than the applicable copayment
   LR: 5368S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 674-Schaaf

SB 675 - Crowell - Repeals the renter's portion of the Missouri property tax credit
   LR: 4647S.02C    SCS SB 675
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 675-Crowell

SB 676 - Nieves - Specifies how courts may rule in contractual disputes involving the law of other countries and jurisdictional issues involving other countries
   LR: 5282S.01I    
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 676-Nieves

SB 677 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to school accreditation for failing school districts
   LR: 5303S.06P    SS SCS SB 677
1/17/2012 -- S First Read--SB 677-Pearce

SJR 29 - Lamping - Requires the legislative session to end in late March rather than mid-May, beginning with the 98th General Assembly
   LR: 4436S.02I    
1/17/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

HCR 1 - Jones - Joint Session to receive the State of the State address
   LR: 4028L.01I    
1/17/2012 -- H conferees appointed: (CORRECTED) Fraker, Redmon, Lauer, McGhee, Cookson, Loehner, Denison, Swinger, Harris, Lampe, Schupp, McCann Beatty