Senate Action for 4/9/2014

SB 491 - Justus - Modifies provisions relating to criminal law
   LR: 4153H.07T    HCS SS SCS SB 491
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/9/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 493 - Pearce - Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education
   LR: 4627S.13T    CCS HCS SCS SBs 493, 485, 495, 516, 534, 545, 595, 616 & 624
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Elementary and Secondary Education 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    
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 503 - Schaaf - Exempts users of enclosed three wheel vehicles that contain manufacturer-installed seat belts with shoulder restraints from the requirement to wear helmets
   LR: 4257S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 575 - Dixon - Modifies and repeals a number of existing, expired or obsolete committees as well as creating the new Joint Committee on the Justice System
   LR: 4166H.06T    HCS SS SB 575
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/9/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 601 - Holsman - Reauthorizes a deduction for energy efficiency audits and projects for tax years 2014 to 2020
   LR: 4371S.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Utilities Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Utilities Committee

SB 610 - Parson - Extends consumer protections against predatory business practices by contractors to owners of commercial properties
   LR: 4740S.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Reported Do Pass H Insurance Policy Committee
4/9/2014 -- Referred to H Rules Committee

SB 614 - Dixon - Modifies the county description of Jefferson County in provisions of law which allow the county to prosecute certain violations in a county municipal court and provisions of law regarding judicial personnel
   LR: 4247H.02C    HCS SB 614
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee

SB 615 - Dixon - Modifies provisions of law relating to court costs, civil fines, the Sunshine Law, immunity for law enforcement officers, judgeships, the crime of disarming of a peace officer, and court procedure
   LR: 4248S.06T    CCS HCS SB 615
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee

SB 621 - Dixon - Modifies various provisions of law regarding the publication of the statutes, garnishments, criminal procedure, judicial resources, court surcharges, law enforcement liability, and crime prevention
   LR: 4246S.08T    CCS#2 HCS SB 621
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee

SB 695 - Keaveny - Authorizes the addition of a child by modifying an existing administrative child support order
   LR: 5101S.01P    
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 706 - Cunningham - Prohibits bad faith assertions of patent infringement
   LR: 5306S.05T    SS SCS SB 706
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 716 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to public health
   LR: 5335S.09T    CCS#2 HCS SCS SB 716
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Health Care Policy Committee

SB 766 - Keaveny - Modifies portions of the Uniform Commercial Code relating to secured transactions
   LR: 5465S.01P    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted H Judiciary Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass H Judiciary Committee - Consent

SB 774 - Dempsey - Modifies provisions relating to tax increment financing
   LR: 5385H.09C    HCS#2 SS SCS SB 774
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

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
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 812 - Parson - Requires the Department of Economic Development to open an office in Israel
   LR: 5734S.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 815 - Pearce - Modifies the duties of the State Board of Education and requires the board to promulgate rules regarding student data accessibility
   LR: 5623S.06C    SCS SB 815
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

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    
4/9/2014 -- Perfected
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee

SB 892 - Kraus - Changes the presidential primary election date from February to March
   LR: 6133S.02T    SCS SB 892
4/9/2014 -- Reported Truly Perfected S Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
4/9/2014 -- Referred S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 920 - Munzlinger - Allows the Department of Agriculture's Weights, Measures and Consumer Protection Division to inspect certain additional devices used for fueling vehicles
   LR: 5905S.02I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

SB 954 - Cunningham - Requires lienholders to release liens on motor vehicles and trailers by electronic means upon satisfaction of the lien
   LR: 6245S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 962 - Justus - Bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
   LR: 6261S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Progress and Development Committee

SB 970 - Kehoe - Modifies measurement standards and tax rates for compressed and liquefied natural gas as a motor fuel
   LR: 6273S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

SB 981 - Schaefer - Modifies the law relating to state contracting
   LR: 6256S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Scheduled But Not Heard S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

SB 991 - Kraus - Provides procedures for law enforcement officers in nine counties on the Kansas-Missouri border that respond to lawful requests for aid in any of the nine specified counties
   LR: 6258S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

SCR 42 - LeVota - Urges commitment to people with cognitive disabilities to obtain technology and information access
   LR: 6507S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- S Offered

SJR 25 - Lager - Grants the General Assembly the power to limit by statute jury awards of noneconomic damages
   LR: 4582S.01I    
4/9/2014 -- SS S offered (Lager)--(4582S.03F)
4/9/2014 -- SA 2 to SS S offered (Lager)--(4582S03.12S)
4/9/2014 -- SA 1 to SA 2 to SS S offered (Lager)--(4582S03.16S)
4/9/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar

HB 1081 - McCaherty - Creates the Paperless Documents and Forms Act
   LR: 4207H.02T    
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

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
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1132 - Engler - Modifies provisions relating to certain benevolent tax credits
   LR: 4546S.02T    SCS HB 1132
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1173 - Burlison - Establishes a statutory cause of action, replacing the common law action, for damages against a health care provider for personal injury arising out of the rendering of or failure to render health services
   LR: 4634L.01P    
4/9/2014 -- SA 1 S offered (Keaveny)--(4634L01.13S)
4/9/2014 -- Bill Placed on Informal Calendar
4/9/2014 -- SA 1 to SA 1 S offered (Keaveny)--(4634L01.17S)
4/9/2014 -- Point of order - Taken under advisement

HB 1181 - Redmon - Codifies a number of executive branch agency reorganizations that were done by executive order
   LR: 4434L.02P    HCS HB 1181
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Cancelled S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1190 - Kelley - Establishes the "Facilitating Business Rapid Response to State Declared Disasters Act" and requires the Department of Transportation to issue emergency utility response following a disaster where utility service has been disrupted
   LR: 4671S.02T    SCS HB 1190
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

HB 1206 - Wilson - Removes the expiration date on the authority of certain public higher education institutions to transfer real property, except in fee simple, without General Assembly authorization
   LR: 4710H.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Education Committee - Consent vote adopted

HRB 1298 - Flanigan - Repeals a number of expired, obsolete, and ineffective statutes
   LR: 4783L.03T    HCS HRB 1298
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and 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
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1359 - Flanigan - Authorizes the Missouri State Capitol Commission and the Office of Administration to enter into contracts for events held at the State Capitol and the Missouri State Penitentiary historic site
   LR: 5368H.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1389 - Thomson - Grants the Coordinating Board for Higher Education responsibility to enter into agreements for interstate reciprocity regarding the delivery of postsecondary distance education
   LR: 4863L.03T    HCS HB 1389
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Education Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Education Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1390 - Thomson - Modifies provisions relating to higher education
   LR: 5049S.05C    SCS HB 1390
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Education Committee

HB 1391 - Hurst - Guarantees the right to conduct and participate in rodeos
   LR: 5215H.02P    HCS HB 1391
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1412 - Phillips - 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: 5204H.02T    HCS HB 1412
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1426 - Diehl - Allows counties to create a voluntary registry of individuals with health related ailments for emergency purposes
   LR: 4481H.02T    HCS HB 1426
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1435 - Johnson - Creates a sales and use tax exemption for specified farm products sold at farmers' markets
   LR: 5439H.01P    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1459 - Lauer - Authorizes the Innovation Campus Tax Credit
   LR: 5167H.02T    HCS HB 1459
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government 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
4/9/2014 -- SCS Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee (5283S.04C)

HB 1496 - Reiboldt - Repeals a provision relating to beef commodity merchandising program fees
   LR: 5027H.01P    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Agriculture, Food Production and Outdoor Resources Committee

HB 1501 - Zerr - Modifies provisions relating to tax incentives
   LR: 5266H.03P    HCS HB 1501
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1504 - Zerr - Exempts certain taxes from deposit into the special allocation fund under tax increment financing
   LR: 5461H.05T    CCS SS SCS HB 1504
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Cancelled S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1557 - Hinson - Specifies violations based only on automated traffic enforcement systems shall have no driver's license points assessed, allows heavy trucks to drive in all left-hand lanes of Missouri highways, requires MODOT to issue emergency utility response permits following a disaster
   LR: 5581H.02P    HCS HB 1557
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

HB 1602 - Engler - Authorizes the conveyance of property owned by the State of Missouri to the City of Farmington
   LR: 5091L.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1633 - Franklin - Allows the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to hold reverse auctions for the purchase of certain commodities
   LR: 5377H.01P    
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1651 - Fraker - Allows members of electric cooperatives to participate in certain meetings by mail or electronic means
   LR: 5647H.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1693 - Barnes - Establishes a process for taking savings bonds as unclaimed property
   LR: 5760H.01T    
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HB 1729 - Jones - Requires the Department of Economic Development to open an office in Israel
   LR: 5605H.02P    HCS HB 1729
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee

HB 1791 - Fitzwater - Allows the Governor to convey certain state properties
   LR: 5836S.02T    SCS HB 1791
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Voted Do Pass S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee
4/9/2014 -- Motion to pass bill as consent taken by S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee - Consent vote adopted

HB 1861 - Brown - Modifies provisions relating to public assistance
   LR: 6045S.04C    SCS HCS HBs 1861 & 1864
4/9/2014 -- Hearing Conducted S Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee

HJR 68 - Hinson - Imposes a temporary three-quarters of one cent sales and use tax for transportation purposes
   LR: 5302S.05T    SS HJR 68
4/9/2014 -- S First Read--HJR 68-Hinson and Schatz