Senate Action for 4/14/2014

SB 491 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to criminal law
   LR: 4153H.07T    HCS SS SCS SB 491
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read
4/14/2014 -- Referred H Judiciary Committee

SB 500 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions of law relating to qualified spousal trusts, and no-contest clauses and mediation provisions in wills and trusts
   LR: 4194S.02T    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 504 - Munzlinger - Requires state agencies to post proposed rules, summaries, and fiscal notes on their websites
   LR: 4146H.03T    HCS SB 504
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Government Oversight and Accountability Committee

SB 509 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to income taxes
   LR: 4324S.18T    SS#3 SCS SBs 509 & 496
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 510 - Kraus - Redefines "misconduct" and "good cause" for the purposes of disqualification from unemployment benefits
   LR: 4444S.04T    SS SCS SB 510
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

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    
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Downsizing State Government Committee
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

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
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 538 - Keaveny - Modifies provisions relating to state funding for education
   LR: 4497S.04P    SS SB 538
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 550 - Sater - Provides that public employees are ineligible for retirement benefits if found guilty of certain crimes
   LR: 4212S.03C    SCS SB 550
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 566 - Sifton - 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: 4294S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 567 - Chappelle-Nadal - Modifies provisions relating to public health
   LR: 4341H.06T    HCS SCS SB 567
4/14/2014 -- HCS Reported Do Pass H Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities Committee
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 578 - Kraus - Modifies the membership of the county political party committees in Jackson County
   LR: 4445S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 609 - Parson - Modifies applicability of electronic communication of insurance documents to other provisions of law
   LR: 4744S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 617 - Rupp - Establishes rights of insurers to present reservation of rights to insured without breaching insurance contract, to defend against loss prior to garnishment, and to refuse to enter contracts to limit recovery
   LR: 4628S.02C    SCS SB 617
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 634 - Parson - Modifies the title insurance law with respect to the performance of escrow, settlement, or closing services by title insurers, agencies, and agents
   LR: 4746S.02C    SCS SB 634
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 638 - Romine - Raises the cap on issuance of certain benevolent tax credits
   LR: 4975S.03P    SCS SBs 638 & 647
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 642 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to proposed surface mining operations
   LR: 4971S.05T    SCS SB 642
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 643 - Sifton - Modifies provisions regarding the publishing of the Missouri statutes by the Revisor of Statutes
   LR: 4989H.03T    HCS SCS SB 643
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 655 - Kraus - Modifies provisions relating to property
   LR: 4143H.04T    HCS SB 655
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 659 - Wallingford - Modifies provisions of law regarding the scope of practice and licensing procedures for advanced practice registered nurses
   LR: 4738S.06C    SCS SB 659
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 671 - Sater - Extends the equine activity liability waiver to livestock activities
   LR: 5030S.04I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 673 - Kehoe - Modifies the duration of unemployment compensation, the method to pay federal advances, and raises the fund trigger causing contribution rate reductions
   LR: 4923S.03T    SS SB 673
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 675 - Kehoe - Allows political subdivisions to assign operation of a retirement plan to the Missouri Local Government Employees' Retirement system
   LR: 5089S.02T    SCS SB 675
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee

SB 681 - Curls - Provides a process for the Parole Board to review the case histories of offenders serving more than 15 years in prison and recommend clemency or allow release on parole
   LR: 4893S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

SB 689 - Schmitt - Expands the types of packages in which malt liquor may be sold pursuant to a permit for the sale of malt liquor in the original package
   LR: 4795S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 690 - Wasson - Specifies that a Greene County emergency telephone service board is not a political subdivision unless the county commissioners adopt an order reclassifying the board as such
   LR: 4811S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 695 - Keaveny - Authorizes the addition of a child by modifying an existing administrative child support order
   LR: 5101S.01P    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 701 - Lager - Modifies provisions relating to school superintendents, school accountability report cards, career and technical education, and creates the Farm-to-School Program
   LR: 5130S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 706 - Cunningham - Prohibits bad faith assertions of patent infringement
   LR: 5306S.05T    SS SCS SB 706
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 717 - Brown - Modifies provisions of law relating to persons engaged in hair braiding, the practice of pharmacy, and licensure of federally employed pharmacists and hospital pharmacies
   LR: 5284H.02C    SB 717
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 718 - Richard - Allows for volunteer labor on public works projects
   LR: 5367S.01P    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Workforce Development & Workplace Safety Committee
4/14/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 719 - Kehoe - Modifies the laws relating to school purchases
   LR: 5270S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 724 - Parson - Modifies the law relating to the filing of fraudulent financing statements with the Secretary of State and real property documents with recorders of deeds
   LR: 4885S.03I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 729 - Romine - Modifies provisions relating to taxation and economic development
   LR: 5108S.07T    CCS SCS SB 729
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 734 - Cunningham - Allows members of electric cooperatives to participate in certain meetings by mail or electronic means
   LR: 5481S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 754 - Sater - Modifies provisions relating to health care
   LR: 5477S.08T    CCS HCS SS#2 SB 754
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 755 - Wallingford - Creates the Missouri Electrical Industry Licensing Board and licensure requirements for a statewide electrical contractor's license
   LR: 5410S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 762 - Schaefer - Limits the release of data collected by automobile event data recorders
   LR: 5559S.02C    SCS SB 762
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 766 - Keaveny - Modifies portions of the Uniform Commercial Code relating to secured transactions
   LR: 5465S.01P    
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent
4/14/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Rules Committee - Consent

SB 767 - Schmitt - Allows the creation of a voluntary registry of persons with health-related ailments to assist individuals in case of a disaster or emergency
   LR: 5590S.04T    SS SCS SB 767
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Crime Prevention & Public Safety Committee

SB 769 - Pearce - Requires health benefit plans cover diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders
   LR: 5560S.02C    SCS SB 769
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 774 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to tax increment financing
   LR: 5385H.09C    HCS#2 SS SCS SB 774
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 782 - Romine - Allows an individual with certification from the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence to obtain teacher certification in elementary education
   LR: 5634S.02T    SS SB 782
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Elementary and Secondary Education Committee

SB 785 - Kehoe - Expands one time temporary boating safety identification card opportunity to include Missouri residents
   LR: 5604S.03T    SCS SB 785
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 786 - Schmitt - Modifies provisions relating to intoxicating liquor manufactured for personal or family use and licenses to sell liquor on boats
   LR: 5119H.03C    HCS SB 786
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 787 - Justus - Creates the Capital Sentencing Procedures and Protocols Commission
   LR: 5551S.04C    SCS SBs 787 & 804
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 794 - Chappelle-Nadal - Allows certain financial institutions to transfer fiduciary obligations and modifies the law relating to insurance producers and holding companies
   LR: 5668H.02T    HCS SB 794
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 795 - Lager - Modifies the prohibition on a quality rating system for early childhood education that is not established through Missouri statute
   LR: 5702S.02P    SS SB 795
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 809 - Wasson - Modifies provisions of law regarding licensing of architects, professional engineers, professional land surveyors, and professional landscape architects
   LR: 4517H.08T    HCS SCS SB 809
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 812 - Parson - Requires the Department of Economic Development to open an office in Israel
   LR: 5734S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read
4/14/2014 -- Referred H General Laws Committee

SB 818 - Kehoe - Expands allowable uses for aviation trust fund moneys and modifies requirements for specified limited uses
   LR: 5719S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 819 - Wallingford - Enacts multiple provisions to protect the use of student data and teacher data
   LR: 5666S.04C    SCS SB 819
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 824 - Dixon - Modifies provisions relating to prosecutors, political subdivisions, law enforcement, courts, and funerals
   LR: 5840H.09C    HCS SCS SB 824
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 830 - Parson - Provides that defendants in tort actions shall only be held severally liable and not jointly
   LR: 5609S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 836 - Munzlinger - Allows the Governor to convey certain state properties
   LR: 5845S.03C    SCS SBs 836 & 800
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 841 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to alternative nicotine or vapor products
   LR: 5875S.05T    SS SCS SB 841
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 842 - Parson - Modifies the authority of the Director of the Department of Revenue to conduct diesel fuel inspections
   LR: 5856S.02T    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 848 - LeVota - Requires the Department of Higher Education to establish a reimbursement procedure through the A+ Program for a student's portion of fees for dual credit courses
   LR: 5814S.02C    SCS SB 848
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 854 - Wasson - Modifies provisions relating to prosecutors, political subdivisions, law enforcement, courts and funerals
   LR: 4302H.05C    HCS SCS SB 854
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 859 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to agriculture
   LR: 6014H.03C    HCS SB 859
4/14/2014 -- Referred H Agriculture Policy Committee

SB 860 - Cunningham - Modifies provisions relating to taxation
   LR: 5906S.05T    CCS HCS SS SB 860
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 866 - Wasson - Preempts local laws that would modify current law governing the manner in which traditional installment loan lenders are allowed to make loans
   LR: 5808S.02T    SS SB 866
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 875 - Sater - Modifies the notice required to public assistance recipients regarding appeals of adverse actions
   LR: 6047S.02C    SCS SB 875
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 887 - Schaefer - Requires each public institution of higher education to annually report the institution's administrative costs as a percent of its operating budget
   LR: 6057S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 890 - Kehoe - Creates a rule for determining proper venue in cases alleging a tort in which the plaintiff was first injured in connection with any railroad operations outside the state of Missouri
   LR: 6035S.01T    
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 891 - Kehoe - Repeals provisions of law mandating that a funeral procession be identified by an identifying insignia
   LR: 5930S.02P    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 892 - Kraus - Changes the presidential primary election date from February to March
   LR: 6133S.02T    SCS SB 892
4/14/2014 -- H Second Read

SB 919 - Justus - Modifies the time after which a person may bring a civil action under the Human Rights Act
   LR: 6218S.01I    
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

SB 966 - Lager - Modifies the law relating to the ethical behavior of public officials and lobbyists
   LR: 6083S.02I    
4/14/2014 -- SS S offered (Lager)--(6083S.03F)
4/14/2014 -- SA 1 to SS S offered (Holsman)--(6083S03.01S)
4/14/2014 -- Point of order - Taken under advisement

SB 992 - Dempsey - Creates the State Capitol Complex Subcommittee of the Board of Public Buildings
   LR: 5807H.02C    HCS SB 992
4/14/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 1081 - McCaherty - Creates the Paperless Documents and Forms Act
   LR: 4207H.02T    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/14/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1090 - McCaherty - Allows any Department of Corrections employee who has accrued overtime hours to use those hours as compensatory leave time
   LR: 4206H.04T    HCS HB 1090
4/14/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1144 - White - Prohibits the Missouri Housing Development Commission from requiring a prevailing hourly wage to be paid to a contractor on a project for a housing tax credit if it is in a Governor-declared disaster area
   LR: 4237H.01P    
4/14/2014 -- S First Read--HB 1144-White, et al

HB 1192 - Miller - Modifies the abortion parental consent provision and add protections for alternatives to abortion agencies
   LR: 4105S.06C    SCS HCS HB 1192
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1238 - Hinson - Modifies various provisions of law regarding court costs
   LR: 5154S.02T    SCS HB 1238
4/14/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee (5154S.02C)

HB 1245 - Hampton - Repeals duplicative versions of statutes
   LR: 4436L.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
4/14/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
4/14/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1295 - Koenig - Creates a business income deduction, reduces the rate of tax on corporate income, and reduces the frequency certain employers must file withholding taxes
   LR: 4669S.07C    SCS HCS HB 1295
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HRB 1299 - Flanigan - Codifies a number of executive branch agency reorganizations that were done by executive order
   LR: 4765S.03T    SCS HCS HRB 1299
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/14/2014 -- Committee Vote Reconsidered
4/14/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee (4765S.03C)

HB 1307 - Elmer - Amends the current waiting period for having an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours
   LR: 5074S.03T    SCS HCS HBs 1307 & 1313
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1374 - Cox - Prohibits bad faith assertions of patent infringement
   LR: 4473S.03C    SCS HCS HB 1374
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1495 - Torpey - Creates a new program for disbursing grants through Early Stage Business Development Corporations
   LR: 5283S.10F    SS#2 SCS HB 1495
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1501 - Zerr - Modifies provisions relating to tax incentives
   LR: 5266H.03P    HCS HB 1501
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1539 - Kelley - Modifies provisions related to law enforcement officers, self defense, and firearms
   LR: 5330S.02C    SCS HB 1539
4/14/2014 -- S First Read--HB 1539-Kelley (127), et al

HB 1775 - Colona - Requires the St. Louis County Bar Association to consult with the 21st Circuit and county police chief to improve the safety and method of entering the county courthouse and justice center
   LR: 5097L.01P    
4/14/2014 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

HB 1791 - Fitzwater - Allows the Governor to convey certain state properties
   LR: 5836S.02T    SCS HB 1791
4/14/2014 -- Removed S Consent Calendar
4/14/2014 -- Committee Vote Reconsidered
4/14/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee (5836S.02C)
4/14/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted (5836S.02C)

HB 1918 - Dugger - Modifies provisions relating to foreign ownership of agricultural land
   LR: 6155H.03P    HCS HB 1918
4/14/2014 -- S First Read--HCS for HB 1918

HB 2029 - Cierpiot - Extends a sales tax exemption for replacement parts to aircraft
   LR: 6264H.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HCR 29 - Scharnhorst - Requests a federal balanced budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and requests the U.S. Congress to submit the proposed Amendment to the states for ratification
   LR: 5982L.01I    
4/14/2014 -- S First Read--HCR 29-Scharnhorst

HJR 47 - Cox - Proposes a constitutional amendment specifying that general law may require a person to provide government-issued photo identification in order to vote in person in an election
   LR: 4459H.02P    HCS HJR 47
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee

HJR 72 - Richardson - Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the Governor from reducing any payment of public debt and requiring notification to the General Assembly when he or she makes specified payment changes of appropriations
   LR: 5412H.01T    
4/14/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability & Fiscal Oversight Committee