February 2, 2009, House Activity Register

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Daily Activity Register
For Activities Recorded on February 2, 2009

HB111 --- Sponsor: Day, David (148) --- CoSponsor: Brown, Dan (149)

Allows unclaimed remains of veterans to be collected by a veterans' service organization for the purpose of internment in a veterans' cemetery under certain circumstances

SCS HCS HB 111 -- (LR# 0668S- 04T)

Committee: Rules - Pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f) (H)
Rules - Executive Session Completed (H)
Rules - Voted Do Pass - Consent (H)
Rules - Reported Do Pass Consent (H)

HB191 --- Sponsor: Flook, Tim (034) --- CoSponsor: Smith, Jason (150)

Eliminates the cap for tax credits issued under the Missouri Quality Jobs Program

SS#2 SCS HCS HB 191 -- (LR# 0837S- 11T)

Committee: Rules - Pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f) (H)
Rules - Executive Session Completed (H)
Rules - Voted Do Pass (H)
Rules - Reported Do Pass (H)

HB486 --- Sponsor: Pratt, Bryan (055)

Prohibits insurers from assigning a percentage of fault to a party based solely upon the fact that the party was operating a motorcycle in an otherwise legal manner

HB 0486 -- (LR# 1077L- 01I)

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HB487 --- Sponsor: Pratt, Bryan (055)

Creates the crimes of assault of an employee of a mass transit system while in the scope of his or her duties in the first, second, and third degree

HB 0487 -- (LR# 1508L- 01I)

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HB488 --- Sponsor: Schad, Rodney (115) --- CoSponsor: Scharnhorst, Dwight (093)

Changes the laws regarding the restructuring of an unaccredited school district

SCS HB 488 -- (LR# 1081S- 02C)

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HB489 --- Sponsor: Schad, Rodney (115) --- CoSponsor: Scharnhorst, Dwight (093)

Allows for the reopening of a closed child abuse or neglect report if new evidence is reported to or discovered by the department and a new investigation is to be conducted

HB 0489 -- (LR# 1169L- 01I)

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HB490 --- Sponsor: Schad, Rodney (115) --- CoSponsor: Wallace, Maynard (143)

Allows all public vocational and technical schools to participate in the A+ Schools Program without stipulations

HB 0490 -- (LR# 1080L- 01T)

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HB491 --- Sponsor: Schad, Rodney (115) --- CoSponsor: Jones, Kenny (117)

Allows persons employed by elected officials or members of the General Assembly to use accrued annual leave to extend their service time for retirement purposes

HB 0491 -- (LR# 1368L- 02I)

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HB492 --- Sponsor: Webber, Stephen (023) --- CoSponsor: Kander, Jason (044)

Requires Missouri state employees to be compensated an amount equal to the difference between their military compensation and their state salary when their military leave of absence exceeds 120 hours

HB 0492 -- (LR# 0285L- 01I)

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HB493 --- Sponsor: Scavuzzo, Luke (124) --- CoSponsor: Shively, Tom (008)

Changes the laws regarding a detachment from a public water supply district

HB 0493 -- (LR# 1199L- 01I)

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HB494 --- Sponsor: Nasheed, Jamilah (060) --- CoSponsor: Morris, James (058)

Increases the excise tax on cigarettes from 17 cents to 33 cents per pack of 20 cigarettes to be deposited into the General Revenue Fund less a 3% collection fee

HB 0494 -- (LR# 0880L- 02I)

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HB495 --- Sponsor: Parson, Michael L. (133) --- CoSponsor: Walsh, Regina (069)

Changes the laws regarding local exchange telecommunications carriers

SCS HCS HB 495 -- (LR# 1386S- 05C)

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HB496 --- Sponsor: Lipke, Scott A. (157)

Changes the controlled substance classification of all methamphetamine precursor drugs from Schedule IV and Schedule V to Schedule III, requiring a physician's prescription

HCS HB 496, 615 & 623 -- (LR# 1466L- 02C)

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HB497 --- Sponsor: Ervin, Doug (035) --- CoSponsor: Cox, Stanley (118)

Establishes requirements for transparency of health care information and patient safety

HCS HB 497 -- (LR# 1260L- 08C)

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HB498 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. (019) --- CoSponsor: Emery, Edgar G. H. (126)

Establishes the Full-time Mother Scholarship Bonus Program to provide an education scholarship for tuition and books for any mother who has chosen to stay home to raise a child 15 years of age or younger

HB 0498 -- (LR# 0886L- 01I)

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HB499 --- Sponsor: Zimmerman, Jake (083) --- CoSponsor: Colona, Mike (067)

Changes the laws regarding the use of paper ballots at elections

HB 0499 -- (LR# 1035L- 01I)

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HB500 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. (019) --- CoSponsor: Schoeller, Shane (139)

Requires any employer convicted of hiring illegal aliens to execute a surety bond and repay the value of any state-administered or subsidized tax credit, tax abatement, or loan

HB 0500 -- (LR# 1378L- 01I)

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HB501 --- Sponsor: Scharnhorst, Dwight (093) --- CoSponsor: Tilley, Steven (106)

Requires the Division of Special Education to develop a program to provide ombudsman services to children and families regarding special education programs and services

HB 0501 -- (LR# 0080L- 02I)

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HB502 --- Sponsor: Scharnhorst, Dwight (093) --- CoSponsor: Storch, Rachel (064)

Requires all self-service displays that dispense tobacco products to be located in tobacco specialty stores

HB 0502 -- (LR# 1075L- 01I)

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HB503 --- Sponsor: Smith, Joe (014) --- CoSponsor: Nolte, Jerry (033)

Requires Missouri state employees to be compensated an amount equal to the difference between their military compensation and their state salary when called up for certain active military duty

HB 0503 -- (LR# 0177L- 02I)

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HB504 --- Sponsor: Kander, Jason (044) --- CoSponsor: Webber, Stephen (023)

Requires all court orders regarding child custody or visitation issued or modified while either party is in active military service and deployed out-of-state to be temporary in nature

HB 0504 -- (LR# 0903L- 01I)

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HB505 --- Sponsor: Kander, Jason (044) --- CoSponsor: Webber, Stephen (023)

Prohibits new lenders of unsecured loans of $500 or less, commonly known as payday loans, from operating a business within one mile of the main entrance to a military base

HB 0505 -- (LR# 1013L- 01I)

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HB506 --- Sponsor: Funderburk, Doug (012) --- CoSponsor: Tilley, Steven (106)

Requires the Governor to issue an annual proclamation designating the third week of March as "Math, Engineering, Technology and Science (METS) Week"

SCS HB 506 -- (LR# 1384S- 02T)

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HB507 --- Sponsor: Yates, Brian David (056) --- CoSponsor: Kraus, Will (048)

Authorizes a tax credit for equity investments in technology-based early stage Missouri companies and removes the annual limit on tax credit issuance for the Quality Jobs Program

HB 0507 -- (LR# 1189L- 01I)

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HB508 --- Sponsor: Kuessner, J. C. (152) --- CoSponsor: Harris, Belinda (110)

Requires medical malpractice insurers to establish premiums based on the average medical malpractice judgment awarded by county during the previous calendar year

HB 0508 -- (LR# 1063L- 01I)

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HB509 --- Sponsor: Stream, Rick (094) --- CoSponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047)

Requires all school districts to have physical education programs

HCS HB 509 -- (LR# 1506L- 03P)

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HB510 --- Sponsor: Hoskins, Denny (121) --- CoSponsor: Largent, Scott (120)

Establishes requirements for private jails and brings them under the same guidelines and penalties as county and city jails

HB 0510 -- (LR# 1288L- 02I)

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HB511 --- Sponsor: Dusenberg, Gary (054) --- CoSponsor: Fisher, Barney (125)

Expands the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer, emergency personnel, or probation and parole officer in the first, second, or third degree to include highway workers in construction or work zones

HB 0511 -- (LR# 1289L- 01I)

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HB512 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne (155) --- CoSponsor: Dusenberg, Gary (054)

Adds specialists, certain charitable health care referral networks, professional corporations of a physician, and other professionals for whom the State Legal Expense Fund is available for certain claims

HB 0512 -- (LR# 1259L- 01I)

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HB513 --- Sponsor: Wells, Don (147) --- CoSponsor: Wasson, Jay (141)

Changes the laws regarding pharmacies and pharmacists

HB 0513 -- (LR# 1379L- 01I)

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HB514 --- Sponsor: Wells, Don (147) --- CoSponsor: Wasson, Jay (141)

Adopts the Nurse Licensure Compact

HB 0514 -- (LR# 1525L- 01I)

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HB515 --- Sponsor: Kingery, Gayle (154) --- CoSponsor: Dixon, Bob (140)

Requires that at least one but no more than two persons be appointed to the University of Missouri Board of Curators from each Congressional district

HB 0515 -- (LR# 1509L- 01I)

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HB516 --- Sponsor: Hummel, Jacob (108) --- CoSponsor: Carter, Chris (061)

Removes health care providers from the mandatory exclusion from jury duty and allows the court to excuse a health care provider from jury service at the court's discretion

HB 0516 -- (LR# 0557L- 01I)

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HB517 --- Sponsor: Hummel, Jacob (108)

Specifies that the sales tax for the operation of public safety departments and the funding for local parks in St. Louis City cannot be diverted to tax increment financing projects

HB 0517 -- (LR# 0714L- 01I)

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HB518 --- Sponsor: Lampe, Sara (138) --- CoSponsor: Norr, Charlie (137)

Changes the laws regarding bullying in schools

HB 0518 -- (LR# 1126L- 01I)

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HB519 --- Sponsor: Storch, Rachel (064) --- CoSponsor: Stream, Rick (094)

Requires all health insurance carriers or health benefit plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders

HB 0519 -- (LR# 0961L- 01I)

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HB520 --- Sponsor: Oxford, Jeanette Mott (059) --- CoSponsor: Brown, Steve (073)

Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies (CARE) Act which allows hospitals and health care facilities to provide emergency contraception to sexual assault victims

HB 0520 -- (LR# 1124L- 01I)

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HB521 --- Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff (102)

Prohibits a school district from scheduling a day or a half day off of school within five weekdays of Veterans Day unless the district also schedules Veterans Day as a day off

HB 0521 -- (LR# 0304L- 01I)

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HB522 --- Sponsor: Fisher, Barney (125) --- CoSponsor: Richard, Ron (129)

Changes the laws regarding workers' compensation and the Second Injury Fund

HCS HB 522 -- (LR# 0760L- 04C)

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HB523 --- Sponsor: Oxford, Jeanette Mott (059) --- CoSponsor: Walsh, Regina (069)

Establishes lower permissible and desirable class sizes for school districts in St. Louis City and St. Louis County

HB 0523 -- (LR# 1145L- 01I)

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HB524 --- Sponsor: Oxford, Jeanette Mott (059) --- CoSponsor: Walsh, Regina (069)

Prohibits lenders from imposing a fine, fee, or penalty for prepaying a loan and repeals the provision allowing a prepayment fee to be charged on a second mortgage loan

HB 0524 -- (LR# 1148L- 01I)

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HB525 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn (131)

Requires the Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish programs and services for individuals diagnosed with autism jointly with families, regional councils, and a newly established committee

HCS HB 525 -- (LR# 1398L- 03T)

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HB526 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Oxford, Jeanette Mott (059)

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop and produce "The Parents' Bill of Rights" for parent students who have an individualized education plan

HB 0526 -- (LR# 1397L- 01I)

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HB527 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Grill, Jason (032)

Establishes the Mentally Retarded and Developmental Type Disability Care Provider Tax Credit Program which authorizes a tax credit for donations to providers who assist these individuals

HB 0527 -- (LR# 1221L- 01I)

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HB528 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn (131)

Changes the income tax credits available for certain individuals for the costs of modifications to a home in order for it to be accessible for a disabled person or senior citizen who resides with them

HB 0528 -- (LR# 1163L- 01I)

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HB529 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Schaaf, Robert (028)

Increases the membership of the MO HealthNet Oversight Committee by adding one licensed mental health professional who cares for participants

HB 0529 -- (LR# 1100L- 01I)

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HB530 --- Sponsor: Grisamore, Jeff (047) --- CoSponsor: Storch, Rachel (064)

Adds comprehensive day rehabilitation services beginning soon after trauma for individuals with disabling impairments to the list of services covered under the MO HealthNet Program

HB 0530 -- (LR# 1220L- 01I)

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HB531 --- Sponsor: Yates, Brian David (056) --- CoSponsor: Zimmerman, Jake (083)

Prohibits life insurers from taking underwriting actions or charging different rates based upon a person's past or future lawful travel destinations with certain exceptions

HB 0531 -- (LR# 1570L- 01I)

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HB532 --- Sponsor: Kraus, Will (048) --- CoSponsor: Yates, Brian David (056)

Gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to persons reporting suspected child abuse to the proper authorities of a medical institution, school facility, or public or private agency

HB 0532 -- (LR# 0271L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB533 --- Sponsor: Koenig, Andrew (088) --- CoSponsor: Funderburk, Doug (012)

Specifies that no pharmacy can be required to perform, assist, recommend, refer to, or participate in any act or service resulting in an abortion and it will be immune from liability for refusing to do so

HB 0533 -- (LR# 1401L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB534 --- Sponsor: Koenig, Andrew (088) --- CoSponsor: Brown, Dan (149)

Requires the local offices and resident hunting and fishing permit vendors of the Department of Conservation to make a voter registration application form available to a resident permit applicant

HB 0534 -- (LR# 1381L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB535 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Schoeller, Shane (139)

Authorizes one additional circuit court judge position in the 31st Judicial Circuit in Greene County

HB 0535 -- (LR# 1188L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB536 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Lampe, Sara (138)

Authorizes the licensure of prescribing psychologists

HCS HB 536 -- (LR# 1246L- 02C)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB537 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Faith, Sally A. (015)

Authorizes the Governor to convey state property to the Highways and Transportation Commission for the new Mississippi River Bridge project

HB 0537 -- (LR# 1458L- 01T)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB538 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Burlison, Eric (136)

Grants immunity to certain entities and their employees against suits brought by an individual who engaged in uncompensated work or community service as part of a deferred prosecution agreement

HB 0538 -- (LR# 1555L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB539 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Schieffer, Ed (011)

Allows all residents of the United States to attend salvage pool or salvage disposal sales rather than just licensed salvage dealers and changes the laws regarding the title of certain salvage motor vehicles

HB 0539 -- (LR# 1467L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB540 --- Sponsor: Jones, Timothy W. (089)

Allows for the sale of deficiency waiver addendums and other similar products purchased as part of a loan transaction with collateral at the borrower's option under certain circumstances

HCS HB 540 -- (LR# 1604L- 03P)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB541 --- Sponsor: Kraus, Will (048) --- CoSponsor: Yates, Brian David (056)

Specifies that any fine collected for a red light violation by an entity utilizing an automated photo red light enforcement system must be given to the local school district where the infraction occurred

HB 0541 -- (LR# 1308L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB542 --- Sponsor: Walsh, Regina (069) --- CoSponsor: Hoskins, Theodore (080)

Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to recalculate the state school aid for the Riverview Gardens School District to correct an error

HCS HB 542 -- (LR# 1529L- 04C)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB543 --- Sponsor: Kelly, Chris (024) --- CoSponsor: Still, Mary (025)

Allows voters to cast advance ballots

HB 0543 -- (LR# 0550L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB544 --- Sponsor: Smith, Jason (150) --- CoSponsor: Tilley, Steven (106)

Requires the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to maintain the Missouri Accountability Portal as established in Executive Order 07-24

SCS HB 544 -- (LR# 0733S- 02T)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB545 --- Sponsor: Smith, Jason (150) --- CoSponsor: Tilley, Steven (106)

Increases the deductions for personal and dependency exemptions

HB 0545 -- (LR# 1377L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB546 --- Sponsor: Smith, Jason (150) --- CoSponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P. (128)

Allows a drug court commissioner to also serve as a family court commissioner without any additional compensation under certain circumstances

HB 0546 -- (LR# 1427L- 01P)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB547 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob (140) --- CoSponsor: Nieves, Brian D. (098)

Authorizes an income tax credit for donations to public school foundations

HB 0547 -- (LR# 1468L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB548 --- Sponsor: Salva, Ray (051)

Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax for the promotion of tourism

HB 0548 -- (LR# 1499L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB549 --- Sponsor: Bruns, Mark J. (113) --- CoSponsor: Nolte, Jerry (033)

Allows the executive officer of any public safety agency to enter into a mutual-aid agreement for recipocal emergency aid and specifies that the Department of Public Safety will administer the state system

HB 0549 -- (LR# 1382L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB550 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn (131)

Creates a civil penalty and a cause of action for damages for coerced subcutaneous implantation of an identification device

HCS HB 550 -- (LR# 1069L- 03C)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB551 --- Sponsor: Schaaf, Robert (028)

Changes the deadline for voter registration from the fourth Wednesday prior to an election to the second Wednesday prior to an election

HB 0551 -- (LR# 1523L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB552 --- Sponsor: Jones, Tishaura (063) --- CoSponsor: El-Amin, Talibdin (057)

Allows St. Louis City to control its police force without state intervention by passing an ordinance

HB 0552 -- (LR# 0643L- 02I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB553 --- Sponsor: Spreng, Michael (076) --- CoSponsor: Hughes, Leonard (042)

Authorizes a tax credit equal to 100% of the state sales tax paid on any motor vehicle assembled and purchased in Missouri

HCS HB 553 -- (LR# 1307L- 02P)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB554 --- Sponsor: Emery, Edgar G. H. (126) --- CoSponsor: Jones, Kenny (117)

Allows electrical corporations to charge for services based on the costs of certain construction work in progess and establishes the Missouri Clean and Renewable Energy Construction Act

HCS HB 554 -- (LR# 1194L- 03C)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB555 --- Sponsor: Smith, Joe (014) --- CoSponsor: Atkins, Bert (075)

Changes the laws regarding the Hero at Home Program

HB 0555 -- (LR# 0187L- 02I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB556 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005)

Allows real property owners in the counties of Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, and DeKalb to petition for the creation of an exhibition center and recreational facility district

HB 0556 -- (LR# 1613L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB557 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Wallace, Maynard (143)

Establishes the Unfunded Mandate Act which requires taxation of all real property owned or occupied in Missouri by the federal government unless the state receives federal funds unencumbered by mandates

HB 0557 -- (LR# 1065L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB558 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Pace, Sharon (070)

Requires foreign corporations to comply with the laws of the State of Missouri when conducting a business transaction with a company located in this state

HB 0558 -- (LR# 1067L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB559 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Bivins, Walt (097)

Establishes the Protecting Missouri Citizens' Rights Act and the Guest Worker Program regarding illegal aliens

HB 0559 -- (LR# 1071L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB560 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Funderburk, Doug (012)

Requires persons reporting violations or suspected violations of law to provide certain information and penalizes persons who habitually make false allegations against the same person or entity

HB 0560 -- (LR# 1064L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HB561 --- Sponsor: Guest, Jim (005) --- CoSponsor: Funderburk, Doug (012)

Establishes procedures for the use of electronic gold currency by the State of Missouri and its political subdivisions

HB 0561 -- (LR# 1367L- 01I)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HJR22 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. (019) --- CoSponsor: Koenig, Andrew (088)

Proposes a constitutional amendment eliminating the personal property tax and limiting the tax on real property to no more than 1% of the property's true value

HJR0022 -- (LR# 0731L- 01I)

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HJR23 --- Sponsor: Icet, Allen (084) --- CoSponsor: Stream, Rick (094)

Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting appropriations in any fiscal year from exceeding certain limits

HCS HJR 23 -- (LR# 1214 - 03P)

Introduced and Read First Time (H)

HR193 --- Sponsor: Tilley, Steven (106)

House Ethics Committee Rules of Procedure

HR 0193 -- (LR# 1513L- 01I)

Adopted (H)

AYES: 158
NOES: 0

HR311 --- Sponsor: Jones, Timothy W. (089)