Senate Action for 2/11/2014

SB 488 - Lager - Bars members of the General Assembly from acting as paid political consultants and imposes a two year cooling off period before members may become lobbyists
   LR: 4585S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 498 - Schaefer - Modifies provisions relating to health insurance
   LR: 4428H.06C    HCS SS SB 498
2/11/2014 -- SS S offered & adopted (Schaefer)--(4428S.03F)
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 507 - Dixon - Modifies the gubernatorial appointment process for acting directors and the process for filling vacancies in certain state public offices
   LR: 4496H.06C    HCS SS SB 507
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 508 - Parson - Modifies various provisions relating to health insurance
   LR: 4357H.05T    HCS SB 508
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 509 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to income taxes
   LR: 4324S.18T    SS#3 SCS SBs 509 & 496
2/11/2014 -- SA 1 to SCS S offered (LeVota)--(4324S04.18S)
2/11/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 519 - Sater - Amends the current waiting period for having an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours
   LR: 4423S.03I    
2/11/2014 -- Reported from S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee to Floor

SB 523 - Emery - Prohibits school districts from requiring a student to use an identification device that uses radio frequency identification technology to transmit certain information
   LR: 4075S.01T    
2/11/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SB 526 - Cunningham - Requires the Division of Workers' Compensation to develop and maintain a workers' compensation claims database
   LR: 4280S.02P    SCS SB 526
2/11/2014 -- SCS S adopted
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 527 - Wallingford - Designates each March 27th as "Medical Radiation Safety Awareness Day"
   LR: 4405S.01T    
2/11/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee
2/11/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S General Laws Committee - Consent vote adopted

SB 531 - Nasheed - Modifies the minimum wage laws
   LR: 4259S.03I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 532 - Nasheed - Modifies provisions relating to educational and medical consent provided by relative caregivers
   LR: 4160S.03T    SS SCS SB 532
2/11/2014 -- SS for SCS S offered & adopted (Nasheed)--(4160S.03F)
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 537 - Parson - Modifies insurance holding company regulation and expands the power of the director of the department of insurance to examine insurance holding company systems
   LR: 4576S.03P    SS SB 537
2/11/2014 -- Reported from S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee to Floor

SB 554 - Cunningham - Requires state agencies, public schools and colleges, and political subdivisions to use the traditional names of holidays
   LR: 4363S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 556 - Nasheed - Creates reporting requirements for lost or stolen firearms, expands the list of crimes that are eligible for expungement, and creates a gun buyback pilot program
   LR: 4606S.02I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 564 - Chappelle-Nadal - Requires long-term care facilities to be encouraged to institute policies facilitating familial involvement in the well-being and support of its residents
   LR: 4330S.02P    SCS SB 564
2/11/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee (4330S.02C)

SB 565 - Nasheed - Requires firearm owners to report the loss or theft of a firearm to a local law enforcement agency
   LR: 4306S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S General Laws Committee

SB 567 - Chappelle-Nadal - Modifies provisions relating to public health
   LR: 4341H.06T    HCS SCS SB 567
2/11/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee (4341S.03C)

SB 599 - Kraus - Restricts the storage and use as evidence of data collected through automated license plate reader systems by government entities
   LR: 4725S.05P    SS SCS SB 599
2/11/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee (4725S.03C)

SB 606 - Dixon - Repeals provisions which require persons who solicit on behalf of prepaid legal services to be licensed as an insurance agent
   LR: 4575H.02T    HCS SB 606
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 610 - Parson - Extends consumer protections against predatory business practices by contractors to owners of commercial properties
   LR: 4740S.01T    
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 613 - Nieves - Modifies provisions relating to firearms
   LR: 4538S.04RP    SCS SB 613
2/11/2014 -- SA 1 to SA 2 to SCS S offered & adopted (Holsman)--(4538S04.27S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 2 to SCS, as amended, S adopted
2/11/2014 -- SA 3 to SCS S offered & adopted (Lager)--(4538S04.15S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 4 to SCS S offered & adopted (Schaaf)--(4538S04.14S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 5 to SCS S offered (Nasheed)--(4538S04.24S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 1 to SA 5 to SCS S offered & adopted (Sifton)--(4538S04.28S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 5 to SCS, as amended, S adopted
2/11/2014 -- SA 6 to SCS S offered & defeated (Sifton)--(4538S04.23S)
2/11/2014 -- SA 7 to SCS S offered & defeated (Sifton)--(4538S04.17S)
2/11/2014 -- SCS, as amended, adopted
2/11/2014 -- Perfected

SB 641 - Emery - Modifies the definition of ultimate user under the controlled substances chapter to include a person's immediate family regardless of whether they live in the same household
   LR: 4962S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 642 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to proposed surface mining operations
   LR: 4971S.05T    SCS SB 642
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 649 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to right-of-way of political subdivisions
   LR: 5009S.02T    
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read
2/11/2014 -- Referred H Utilities Committee

SB 650 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to wireless communications infrastructure deployment
   LR: 5012S.03T    SS SCS SB 650
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read
2/11/2014 -- Referred H Utilities Committee

SB 651 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to communications services
   LR: 5010S.02T    SCS SB 651
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read
2/11/2014 -- Referred H Utilities Committee

SB 652 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to utility access to railroad right-of-way
   LR: 5008S.01P    
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read
2/11/2014 -- Referred H Utilities Committee

SB 653 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to municipal utility poles
   LR: 5011H.10T    HCS SS SCS SB 653
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read
2/11/2014 -- Referred H Utilities Committee

SB 656 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to firearms and corporate security advisors
   LR: 5082S.04T    CCS HCS SB 656
2/11/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S General Laws Committee

SB 660 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health care
   LR: 4997H.04C    HCS SB 660
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 663 - Munzlinger - Requires health benefit plans to establish equal out of pocket costs for covered oral and intravenously administered chemotherapy medications
   LR: 5122S.02C    SCS SB 663
2/11/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee (5122S.02C)

SB 667 - Schmitt - Modifies the gubernatorial appointment process for acting directors and members of boards and commissions
   LR: 4555S.03P    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 668 - Silvey - Requires health benefit plans to establish equal out of pocket costs for covered oral and intravenously administered chemotherapy medications
   LR: 5155S.02T    SS SB 668
2/11/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 678 - Curls - Modifies provisions relating to lead licensing
   LR: 4895S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee

SB 692 - Wasson - Regulates contracts between insurers and providers of optometric and ophthalmic services
   LR: 4297S.05P    SS SB 692
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 694 - Cunningham - Modifies the law relating to payday loans
   LR: 5157H.03T    HCS SS SB 694
2/11/2014 -- Reported from S Financial and Governmental Organizations and Elections Committee to Floor

SB 720 - Justus - Adds new requirements for state-funded child care providers
   LR: 5336S.03P    SS SCS SB 720
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Seniors, Families and Pensions Committee

SB 741 - Parson - Authorizes gaming establishment to provide lines of credit
   LR: 5408S.03T    SS SB 741
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee

SB 855 - Schaefer - Allows fire protection district boards to meet without public notice in order to authorize the disbursement of funds for the deployment of certain emergency task forces
   LR: 5969S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- S First Read--SB 855-Schaefer

SB 856 - Emery - Requires the State Board of Education to classify the public schools of the state as either unaccredited, provisionally accredited, accredited, or accredited with distinction
   LR: 5976S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- S First Read--SB 856-Emery

SCR 27 - Keaveny - Requires the Oversight Division of the Committee on Legislative Research to study the costs of death penalty cases
   LR: 5528S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 29 - Wallingford - Establishes a Juvenile Justice Task Force
   LR: 5630S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SCR 31 - Parson - Urges the United States Congress and the President of the United States to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program
   LR: 5610S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 30 - Dixon - Modifies the gubernatorial appointment process
   LR: 4234H.04C    HCS SJR 30
2/11/2014 -- H Second Read

SJR 42 - Schmitt - Establishes a permanent Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to review the promulgation of rules by state agencies
   LR: 5282L.01I    
2/11/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SJR 49 - Cunningham - Requires the development of a Veterans Lottery Ticket with proceeds going to the Veterans' Commission Capital Improvements Trust Fund
   LR: 5882S.01I    
2/11/2014 -- S First Read--SJR 49-Cunningham

SR 1168 - Parson - Urges the United States Department of Justice to investigate the price increase of propane, the price disparity of propane among storage facilities, and the supply shortage of propane available to consumers
   LR: 5652S.02I    
2/11/2014 -- S adopted