Senate Action for 2/1/2012

SB 444 - Stouffer - Repeals a provision of law that requires MoDOT to submit to binding arbitration in negligence actions and allows the commission to delegate to designated hearing examiners the authority to conduct hearings and render final decisions
   LR: 4314S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 483 - Rupp - Creates the Early High School Graduation Scholarship Program for public high school students who graduate from high school early
   LR: 4258S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 504 - Wright-Jones - Requires official motor vehicle inspection and emission stations to have liability insurance to cover any possible damages to a vehicle during an inspection
   LR: 4406S.01P    
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Transportation Committee

SB 557 - Brown - Modifies the law with respect to the issuance of certificates of titles
   LR: 4558L.02C    HCS SB 557
2/1/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation Committee

SB 562 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to the transfer of property by certain state universities
   LR: 4560L.03T    HCS SCS SB 562
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 563 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to higher education
   LR: 4408L.04T    HCS SCS SB 563
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Cancelled S Education Committee

SB 570 - Kraus - Requires that only one license plate be issued for all motor vehicles instead of the current two plates
   LR: 4736S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 575 - Dixon - Allows Greene County to enact nuisance abatement ordinances
   LR: 4649S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Cancelled S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 592 - Lager - Modifies the law relating to the Missouri Human Rights Act and employment discrimination
   LR: 4933L.07C    HCS SS SCS SB 592
2/1/2012 -- Taken up for Perfection
2/1/2012 -- SA 3 to SCS S withdrawn
2/1/2012 -- SS for SCS S offered (Lager)--(4933S.05F)
2/1/2012 -- SA 1 to SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Chappelle-Nadal)--(4933S05.01S)
2/1/2012 -- SS for SCS, as amended, S adopted
2/1/2012 -- Perfected

SB 607 - Stouffer - Establishes procedure for resetting billboards during periods of highway construction
   LR: 4942S.04T    SS SB 607
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 611 - Lembke - Modifies various provisions relating to the regulation of transportation
   LR: 4983S.03S    CCS SB 611
2/1/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation Committee

SB 727 - Schaaf - Creates a child care subsidy pilot program for parents to continue to receive subsidies while sharing in the costs of the benefits by enacting the Low-Wage Trap Elimination Act
   LR: 5619S.05P    SS SB 727
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 727-Schaaf

SB 728 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to the Veterans' Commission and veterans' affairs
   LR: 5599S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 728-Pearce

SB 729 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to county purchases
   LR: 5641S.03T    SCS SB 729
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 729-Schaefer

SB 730 - Schaefer - Allows Boone County to adopt regulations to control the minimum standards of occupancy for residential units and to develop a program for licensing and inspecting the units
   LR: 5642S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 730-Schaefer

SB 731 - Brown - Establishes procedures to follow in child custody and visitation cases for military personnel
   LR: 5232S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 731-Brown

SB 732 - Curls - Makes the punishment for trafficking cocaine the same regardless of whether the substance is powder or crack
   LR: 5384S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 732-Curls

SB 733 - Richard - Revises statutes concerning the Missouri Science and Reinvestment Act and related statutes
   LR: 5568S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 733-Richard, et al

SB 734 - Richard - Establishes the Missouri Works Training Program
   LR: 5595S.01I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 734-Richard

SB 735 - Nieves - Allows students to enroll in another school district or charter school for purposes of attending virtual courses or programs
   LR: 4190S.03I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 735-Nieves and Engler

SB 736 - Engler - Exempts St. Francois County from a requirement that certain amounts of money from the county's special road and bridge tax be spent in certain areas
   LR: 4528S.01T    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 736-Engler

SB 737 - Engler - Restricts the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from including certain data from neglected children and delinquent children in the aggregate data of a school district
   LR: 5520S.03I    
2/1/2012 -- S First Read--SB 737-Engler