Missouri House of Representatives
2004
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Legislation Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Harris
SPONSOR
HB870
Revises the Sunshine Law to include public meetings using various electronic formats.
HB870 -- (LR# 3226L.01I)
JUDICIARY
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1068
Authorizes the Commissioner of the Office of Administration to use reverse auction procedures.
HB1068 -- (LR# 3200L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1428
Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.
HB1428 -- (LR# 3712L.01I)
Referred: Judiciary (H)
HB1430
Increases, from 12% to 24% annually, the interest charges that health insurers may be assessed for late payment of claims and shortens the time within which insurers must respond to filed claims.
HB1430 -- (LR# 4481L.01I)
Referred: Financial Services (H)
HB1725
Expands the notification rights of crime victims and witnesses.
HB1725 -- (LR# 5036L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1727
Creates the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund and provides for contribution designations to the fund on income tax returns.
HB1727 -- (LR# 5002L.01I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
HB1749
Authorizes a research and development tax credit for certain businesses.
HB1749 -- (LR# 5058L.01I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
HB1751
Establishes the Missouri State Workers' Compensation Council.
HB1751 -- (LR# 4998L.01I)
Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety (H)
HB1752
Authorizes an enterprise zone in the City of Columbia.
HB1752 -- (LR# 2546L.01I)
Referred: Job Creation and Economic Development (H)
HJR31
Proposes a constitutional amendment allowing the construction of toll roads and facilities.
HJR31 -- (LR# 2518L.02I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Public Hearing Held (H)
COSPONSOR
HB779
Establishes the Public Service Accountability Act.
HB779 -- (LR# 2597L.01I)
Referred: Communications, Energy and Technology (H)
HB786
Requires certain sexual offenders ordered to participate in treatment to successfully complete that treatment and to follow all directives of the treatment program provider.
HB786 -- (LR# 2761L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB787
Repeals the Board of Probation and Parole's authority to convert consecutive sentences to concurrent and clarifies that a convicted person is sentenced according to the law at the time of sentencing.
HB787 -- (LR# 2747L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB855
Requires health insurers to treat mental health services in the same manner as other medical services.
Approved SS SCS HCS HB 855 -- (LR# 3284S.14T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB857
Authorizes the construction and maintenance of toll road facilities, contingent upon passage of a constitutional amendment.
HB857 -- (LR# 3407L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB881
Authorizes an income tax deduction for any income received by active duty military service personnel in a combat zone.
HB881 -- (LR# 2982L.01I)
Reported Do Pass (H)
HB966
Revises the definition of "motor vehicle" as it relates to motor vehicle time sales.
HB966 -- (LR# 2872L.01I)
Referred: Transportation and Motor Vehicles (H)
HB1030
Makes it a crime for a railroad corporation or its employees to interfere with medical treatment or first aid to an injured employee or to discipline or threaten an injured employee for seeking aid.
HB1030 -- (LR# 3194L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1061
Requires that eligible state employees be paid for overtime hours worked unless the employee requests compensatory time off at the applicable overtime rate.
HB1061 -- (LR# 3247L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1125
Requires that eligible state employees be paid for overtime hours worked unless the employee requests compensatory time off at the applicable overtime rate.
HB1125 -- (LR# 3095L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1127
Modifies the formula used for determining health insurance premium costs for state employees in the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan.
HB1127 -- (LR# 3250L.01I)
Referred: Financial Services (H)
HB1149
Designates a bridge over a portion of Interstate 44 in Phelps County as the "Trooper Mike L. Newton Memorial Bridge."
Approved HB1149 -- (LR# 3506L.01T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1189
Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a program to inspect and evaluate indoor air quality in schools.
HB1189 -- (LR# 3983L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HB1211
Revises the statutes relating to employees and employment security.
Approved SS#2 SCS HS HCS HB 1268 & 1211 -- (LR# 4224S.18T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1222
Provides additional health insurance coverage for clinical trials for cancer treatment by adding phase I and II to the currently covered phase III and IV clinical trials.
HB1222 -- (LR# 3866L.01I)
Referred: Financial Services (H)
HB1270
Authorizes the Comissioner of the Office of Administration to use reverse auction procedures.
HB1270 -- (LR# 3856L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1338
Regulates travel and vacation clubs.
SCS HCS HB 1338 -- (LR# 3949S.04C)
SENATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TOURISM, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Executive Session Held (S)
HB1362
Authorizes county planning commissions to accept additional forms of security for improvements made to subdivisions in unincorporated areas.
Approved HB1362 -- (LR# 3808L.01T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1376
Revises various statutes relating to controlled substances.
HB1376 -- (LR# 4433L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1429
Increases the Medicaid reimbursement for health care providers over the next five fiscal years.
HB1429 -- (LR# 4480L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1481
Revises the Adoption Awareness Law by allowing the establishment of an advertising campaign to recruit adoptive and foster parents.
HB1481 -- (LR# 3326L.03I)
Referred: Children and Families (H)
HB1517
Provides that students who are expelled for acts of violence not be counted as drop-outs for accreditation purposes for the Missouri School Improvement Program.
HB1517 -- (LR# 4630L.01I)
EDUCATION
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1521
Makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person based on sexual orientation.
HB1521 -- (LR# 2558L.01I)
Referred: Judiciary (H)
HB1537
Increases gaming fees and tax rates for higher education funding.
HB1537 -- (LR# 4250L.02I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
HB1563
Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.
HS HCS HB 1477 & 1563 -- (LR# 3864L.07P)
SENATE AGING, FAMILIES, MENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Executive Session Held (S)
SCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1570
Restricts the ability of health insurers to change the diagnosis and treatment codes entered by providers, prohibits insurers from charging providers to participate, and requires advance notice of fee changes.
HB1570 -- (LR# 4052L.01I)
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1580
Revises the statutes relating to prevailing wages on public works.
HB1580 -- (LR# 3531L.02I)
Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety (H)
HB1587
Removes certain exemptions in the telemarketing no-call list.
HB1587 -- (LR# 3596L.01I)
Referred: Communications, Energy and Technology (H)
HB1589
Authorizes the issuance of certain revenue bonds by the University of Missouri.
HB1589 -- (LR# 4507L.02I)
Referred: Special Committee on Bonding Authority (H)
HB1637
Revises the statutes relating to sexual misconduct in the second and third degree by adding an alternative element of being in a public place in the presence of another person or persons.
HB1637 -- (LR# 3667L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1639
Makes certain diseases an occupational disability for workers' compensation coverage of peace officers.
HB1639 -- (LR# 4091L.01I)
Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety (H)
HB1640
Revises workers' compensation benefits.
HB1640 -- (LR# 3248L.01I)
Referred: Workforce Development and Workplace Safety (H)
HB1641
Coordinates the benefits for the federal Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.
HB1641 -- (LR# 4860L.01I)
Referred: Senior Security (H)
HB1657
Establishes the Women's Right to Know Act to raise public awareness about the existence and availability of emergency contraception.
HB1657 -- (LR# 4607L.01I)
Referred: Children and Families (H)
HB1684
Authorizes a tax credit for taxpayers installing qualified net metering units.
HB1684 -- (LR# 4908L.01I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
HB1715
Designates the "Korean War Veterans Association Memorial Highway."
HB1715 -- (LR# 4949L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1726
Requires the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted the original criminal case to represent the state in any court hearing to determine probation, parole, or other alternative sentencing.
HB1726 -- (LR# 5037L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HJR27
Proposes a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to hunt, fish, and harvest game.
HJR27 -- (LR# 2565L.01I)
CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HJR30
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.
HJR30 -- (LR# 2435L.01I)
Referred: Judiciary (H)
HJR34
Proposes a constitutional amendment allowing the construction of toll road facilities.
HJR34 -- (LR# 3361L.01I)
Referred: Transportation and Motor Vehicles (H)
HJR44
Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow school districts to pass bond issues by a simple majority vote.
HJR44 -- (LR# 3278L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HJR53
Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of gaming devices by nonprofit veterans' organizations.
HJR53 -- (LR# 2785L.01I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
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Last Updated November 4, 2004 at 11:21 am