Senate Action for 2/28/2012

SB 440 - Engler - Subjects 383 malpractice associations to stricter surplus and solvency regulations
   LR: 4161S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Recessed S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 565 - Schaaf - Modifies the membership of the Missouri Health Insurance Pool
   LR: 4703S.02P    SCS SB 565
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (4703S.02C)

SB 568 - Parson - Modifies various provisions relating to transportation
   LR: 4756S.11T    CCS HCS SB 568
2/28/2012 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 616 - Wasson - Requires homeowner insurance companies to offer sinkhole coverage
   LR: 5056S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 619 - Richard - Modifies Missouri's valued policy statute to cover all perils covered under a policy rather than just loss caused by fire
   LR: 5035S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 620 - Rupp - Modifies various provisions related to health and life insurance
   LR: 4661L.04C    HCS SB 620
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 622 - Cunningham - Requires a health carrier that provides coverage for prescription eye drops to cover a refill without regard to a restriction for an early refill if it is authorized by the prescribing health care provider
   LR: 4993S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 634 - Pearce - Requires insurer to provide coverage for eating disorders
   LR: 5055S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 648 - Dempsey - Modifies law on temporary instruction permits, towing companies, and use of ignition interlock devices by drunk drivers
   LR: 4676L.05C    HCS SCS SB 648
2/28/2012 -- SCS S adopted
2/28/2012 -- Perfected

SB 655 - Green - Creates the Higher Education Capital Fund to provide matching funds to public colleges and universities for capital projects under certain circumstances
   LR: 4680L.03C    HCS SCS SB 655
2/28/2012 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered & adopted (Schaefer)--(4680S02.05S)
2/28/2012 -- SCS, as amended, S adopted
2/28/2012 -- Perfected

SB 657 - Rupp - Provides for the conscience rights of all individuals who provide medical services
   LR: 5256S.02C    SCS SB 657
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (5256S.02C)

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    
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass (w/SCA#1) S General Laws Committee - (5282S01.01S)

SB 682 - Dempsey - Requires that certain pain management techniques be performed by licensed physicians
   LR: 4808H.05T    HCS SS SCS SB 682
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (4808S.03C)

SB 697 - Wasson - Expands the civil immunity provided to insurers for furnishing information related to insurance fraud investigations
   LR: 5474S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee - (5474S.03C)

SB 711 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to adoption
   LR: 5423L.04C    HCS SCS SB 711
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee - (5423S.02C)

SB 742 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to health care including credentialing of health care professionals, medical records and pharmacy
   LR: 5590L.07C    HCS SS SB 742
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Health, Mental Health, Seniors and Families Committee

SB 744 - Wright-Jones - Requires video camera surveillance of public spaces within the State Capitol building and authorizes private security within the State Capitol
   LR: 5600S.03C    SCS SB 744
2/28/2012 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee - (5600S.03C)

SB 806 - Cunningham - Modifies the teacher tenure systems
   LR: 5825S.06P    SS#2 SCS SB 806
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 845 - Keaveny - Allows a city that adopts or has already adopted a local option economic development sales tax to increase the number of members on the economic development tax board
   LR: 5970S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 845-Keaveny

SB 846 - Engler - Modifies provisions of landlord and tenant law as they relate to bed bugs
   LR: 6001S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 846-Engler

SB 847 - Rupp - Designates a portion of Highway 64/40 in St. Charles County as the "Darrell B Roegner Memorial Highway"
   LR: 5989S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 847-Rupp and Dempsey

SB 848 - Rupp - Modifies numerous provisions of law that specify the application of a particular interest rate
   LR: 6018S.02I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 848-Rupp and Kehoe

SB 849 - Purgason - Modifies provisions relating to solid waste management
   LR: 5874S.02I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 849-Purgason

SB 850 - Purgason - Prohibits sterilization and disposition of seized or confiscated animals until the outcome of charges against the animals' owner have been determined
   LR: 5713S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 850-Purgason

SB 851 - Crowell - Bars legislators from lobbying and serving on boards commissions and committees for two years after leaving office
   LR: 6017S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 851-Crowell

SB 852 - Crowell - Places newly hired St. Louis City firemen into a new retirement system if the city adopts such a new system
   LR: 6019S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 852-Crowell

SB 853 - Crowell - Removes St. Louis City firemen hired after August 28, 2012 from the current retirement system and places them in a new system
   LR: 6020S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 853-Crowell

SB 854 - Mayer - Modifies provisions relating to home- and community-based care
   LR: 5977L.04C    HCS SS SB 854
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 854-Mayer

SB 855 - Schaaf - Modifies the eligibility requirements for food stamps assistance as it relates to ineligible immigrants
   LR: 6033S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--SB 855-Schaaf

SCR 20 - Rupp - Authorizes the Department of Economic Development to approve certain investments under the New Markets Development Program
   LR: 4626S.02I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 21 - Pearce - Urges Congress to support greater domestic development of North American sources of oil and approve the Keystone XL pipeline project
   LR: 5516S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 24 - Stouffer - Urges the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to rescind its newly published rule regarding hours of service and refrain from adopting regulations concerning sleep apnea and other measures affecting the trucking industry
   LR: 5986S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 50 - Curls - Increases the amount of time for repaying the Budget Reserve Fund, when funds from the Budget Reserve Fund are appropriated due to a disaster, or the Governor's reduction of the state's expenditures
   LR: 5594S.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Appropriations Committee
2/28/2012 -- Voted Do Pass S Appropriations Committee

HB 1441 - Fisher - Modifies various workers' compensation and unemployment compensation provisions
   LR: 5000L.01P    
2/28/2012 -- S First Read--HB 1441-Fisher

HCR 8 - Guernsey - Disapproves the new values for agricultural and horticultural property filed by the State Tax Commission
   LR: 5020L.01I    
2/28/2012 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee