Senate Action for 1/30/2013

SB 3 - Rupp - Creates the Early High School Graduation Scholarship Program for public high school students who graduate from high school early
   LR: 0286S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee

SB 5 - Lager - Modifies several provisions regarding tax credits and the corporate income tax
   LR: 0291S.05I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 7 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to school accreditation for failing school districts
   LR: 0157S.03P    SCS SB 7
1/30/2013 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Education Committee (0157S.03C)

SB 9 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
   LR: 0234S.11T    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 9
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

SB 10 - Schmitt - Creates a tax credit to attract amateur sporting events to the state
   LR: 0269S.03T    SCS SBs 10 & 25
1/30/2013 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules Committee
1/30/2013 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 12 - Schaefer - Modifies various laws relating to judicial procedures
   LR: 0184H.04C    HCS SB 12
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 16 - Munzlinger - Exempts farm work performed by children under 16 from certain child labor requirements
   LR: 0112S.01T    
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee - Consent

SB 20 - Dixon - Modifies provisions of law regarding certain benevolent tax credits
   LR: 0063H.10T    HCS SS SCS SBs 20, 15 & 19
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 21 - Dixon - Provides the Supreme Court with the ability to transfer circuit and associate judge positions from one circuit to another
   LR: 0205S.02I    
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 22 - Dixon - Grants the authority to redraw the circuit and appellate judicial districts to the Supreme Court
   LR: 0209S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 29 - Brown - Requires authorization for certain labor unions to use dues and fees to make political contributions and requires consent for withholding earnings from paychecks
   LR: 0308S.08T    SS SCS SB 29
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 32 - Lamping - Modifies the low-income housing and historic preservation tax credit programs and requires any increase in revenue to be applied to a decrease in the individual income tax rate
   LR: 0228S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 44 - Dixon - Allows circuit courts that reimburse the state for the salaries of family court commissioners to charge up to a twenty dollar surcharge for cases
   LR: 0054S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 45 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to the prosecuting attorneys' retirement, judicial positions, DWI courts, and information management products for governmental agencies
   LR: 0055H.05C    HCS SCS SB 45
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 46 - Parson - Creates state and local sales and use tax exemptions for data storage centers and allows municipalities to enter into loan agreements, or sell, lease, or mortgage municipal property for a technology business facility project
   LR: 0374S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 47 - Lamping - Adds to the list of legal guardians of a child who may receive subsidies
   LR: 0204S.03T    SCS SB 47
1/30/2013 -- SCS S adopted
1/30/2013 -- Perfected

SB 48 - Lamping - Modifies provisions relating to the prohibition of racial considerations in adoption proceedings
   LR: 0098S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Taken up for Perfection
1/30/2013 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 81 - Schaefer - Gives the courts discretion to award attorney's fees to prevailing parties in civil actions where civil rights have been violated
   LR: 0318S.02I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 113 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
   LR: 0795S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 120 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions relating to tax credits and tax incentives
   LR: 0722S.15P    SS SCS SB 120
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SB 122 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions regarding the Sunshine Law
   LR: 0796S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 236 - Parson - Provides that a Highway Patrol fund include money for the maintenance of Highway Patrol vehicles, watercraft, and aircraft and be used for the maintenance of such items
   LR: 1356S.01T    
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 236-Parson

SB 237 - Emery - Exempts certain telecommunications companies from Public Service Commission price caps
   LR: 1304S.01T    
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 237-Emery

SB 238 - Emery - Bars employers from requiring employees to engage in or cease engaging in certain labor practices
   LR: 0936S.03I    
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 238-Emery

SB 239 - Emery - Prohibits school districts from requiring a student to use certain radio frequency identification devices and extends authorization for teacher certification based on American Board for Certification of Teacher Exellence certification
   LR: 1339S.02C    SCS SB 239
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 239-Emery

SB 240 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to ratemaking for gas corporations
   LR: 1297S.02T    SCS SB 240
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 240-Lager

SB 241 - Lager - Creates the Uniform Wireless Communications Infrastructure Deployment Act and modifies provisions relating to utility right-of-way
   LR: 0957S.07P    SS SCS SB 241
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 241-Lager

SB 242 - Kehoe - Modifies the law relating to the sale or provision of certain commodities by certain school officials of seven- director districts that are located in a first class county
   LR: 0310S.01P    
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 242-Kehoe

SB 243 - Brown - Makes second degree sexual misconduct a class D felony if the offender was incarcerated in a Department of Corrections facility at the time of the crime
   LR: 1250S.01I    
1/30/2013 -- S First Read--SB 243-Brown