Missouri House of Representatives
2004
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Legislation Sponsored by Rep. J. C. Kuessner

COSPONSOR
HB777
Changes the name of Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University.
HCS HB 777 -- (LR# 2533L.03P)
Third Read and defeated (H)
AYES: 73
NOES: 83
PRESENT: 3

HB896
Establishes the Missouri State Park Board.
HB896 -- (LR# 3302L.01I)
CORRECTIONS AND STATE INSTITUTIONS
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB985
Revises the statutes regarding the practice of real estate.
Approved HCS HB 985 -- (LR# 3563L.03T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB989
Authorizes the conveyance of various parcels of state property.
Approved SCS HB 1071, 801, 1275 & 989 -- (LR# 3682S.03T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB996
Changes various statutes relating to annual school bus inspections, regulation of low-speed vehicles, sales of abandoned property by the City of Kansas City, all-terrain vehicles, and bumper heights.
Approved SCS HB 996 AND HB 1142 AND HCS HB 1201 AND HB 1489 -- (LR# 3208S.04T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1049
Revises the statutes on vessels by increasing the fees for numbering certificates, requiring certain coves to be idle no-wake coves, and by creating a fund for the State Water Patrol.
HB1049 -- (LR# 2950L.04I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1063
Makes various changes to the powers and authority of the State Water Patrol.
HB1063 -- (LR# 3421L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
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)
HB1073
Creates the crime of unlawful distribution of prescription medication without a prescription in school.
HB1073 -- (LR# 3458L.02I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1091
Requires a countywide election after a favorable municipal election to approve gambling boats in cities located within a county.
HB1091 -- (LR# 3763L.01I)
ELECTIONS
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1095
Allows members of the State Highway Patrol to become candidates for and members/directors of school boards.
HB1095 -- (LR# 3745L.01I)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1102
Amends certain policies with regard to the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) testing.
HB1102 -- (LR# 4006L.01I)
EDUCATION
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1119
Revises various statutes relating to motor vehicles, driver's licenses, emergency vehicles, child restraints, manufactured homes, failure to stop at weigh stations, and rail passenger cars.
HCS HB 1105, 1062, 1111, 1113 & 1119 -- (LR# 3535L.06C)
HCS Reported Do Pass (H)
HB1139
Revises the statutes relating to tax credits for the adoption of special needs children.
HB1139 -- (LR# 3320L.01I)
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1151
Prohibits individuals from engaging or participating in human cloning.
HB1151 -- (LR# 2865L.01I)
HEALTH CARE POLICY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1179
Allows the surcharge collected in criminal cases for biometric verification systems to also be used for housing and custody expenses and to maintain the biometric verification system.
Approved HCS HB 1179 -- (LR# 3842L.02T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1183
Authorizes the creation of the County Law Enforcement Restitution Fund and revises the statute on probation conditions to include restitution to that fund and restorative justice methods.
HB1183 -- (LR# 4051L.01P)
SENATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TOURISM, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Public Hearing Held (S)
HB1194
Prohibits locating billboards for adult cabarets or sexually oriented businesses within one mile of any state highway and prohibits persons under 21 years of age from installing them.
HB1194 -- (LR# 3498L.01I)
TOURISM AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1215
Revises the crime of escape from commitment.
Approved SCS HCS HB 1215 -- (LR# 4139L.03T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1229
Limits the liability of watercraft outfitters.
HB1229 -- (LR# 4054L.01I)
JUDICIARY
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1271
Creates a minimum pay scale for certain corrections personnel.
HB1271 -- (LR# 4092L.01I)
CORRECTIONS AND STATE INSTITUTIONS
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1279
Allows hand fishing for catfish and carp in June and July.
HB1279 -- (LR# 4191L.02I)
CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1307
Includes unborn children in the definition of "children" who are eligible to participate in the Children's Health Insurance Program.
HB1307 -- (LR# 3410L.01I)
Referred: Health Care Policy (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)
HB1374
Allows for the "Respect Life" special license plate, creates the Alternative to Abortion Support Fund, and establishes the Respect Life Commission.
HB1374 -- (LR# 4031L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1376
Revises various statutes relating to controlled substances.
HB1376 -- (LR# 4433L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1380
Removes the multiplier for the proration factor for career ladder entitlement under the school foundation formula.
HCS HB 1380 -- (LR# 3537L.02C)
Laid Over (H)
HB1385
Creates the crime of abuse of authority over a child.
HB1385 -- (LR# 4069L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1390
Requires persons committed to a county jail who are convicted to pay the cost per diem for each day they were in the county jail.
HB1390 -- (LR# 4081L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1391
Revises the crimes of escape from commitment and escape or attempted escape from custody to include detained, held, or committed sexually violent predators.
HB1391 -- (LR# 4179L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1392
Requires the State Highway Patrol to maintain a one page web site on the Internet which includes links to all sex offender registry web sites maintained by any county in the state.
HB1392 -- (LR# 4340L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1393
Creates a $1 surcharge in criminal cases payable to the sheriff for expenses of maintaining a web site of registered sex offenders and requires the sheriff to establish and maintain the web site.
HB1393 -- (LR# 4341L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1394
Revises the statutes relating to sex offender registration to allow the chief law enforcement official of a county to charge fees for registration and changes in registration.
HB1394 -- (LR# 4278L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1428
Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.
HB1428 -- (LR# 3712L.01I)
Referred: Judiciary (H)
HB1429
Increases the Medicaid reimbursement for health care providers over the next five fiscal years.
HB1429 -- (LR# 4480L.01I)
Referred: Budget (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)
HB1433
Authorizes the creation of a watershed improvement district in the Upper White River Basin or any county of the third classification.
Approved HS HCS HB 1433 -- (LR# 3112L.05T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1438
Designates various portions of highways as memorials.
Approved SCS HB 1029 AND HB 1438 AND HB 1610 -- (LR# 3793S.02T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1442
Designates the "Thomas G. Tucker, Jr. Memorial Highway."
Approved HB1442 -- (LR# 4418L.01T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1454
Authorizes the conveyance of various state property.
Approved SCS HB 1613 AND HB 1445 AND HB 1454 AND HB 1462 AND -- (LR# 4726S.02T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1459
Requires all television stations in the state to provide real-time captioning of all local news, weather, and sports programming by January 1, 2006.
HB1459 -- (LR# 4431L.01I)
COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY, AND TECHNOLOGY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1470
Revises various statutes relating to stealing, tampering, and receiving stolen property.
HB1470 -- (LR# 4490L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1474
Specifies that state contracts for services require that only United States citizens or federally authorized persons be employed.
HB1474 -- (LR# 4540L.01I)
JOB CREATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1480
Creates the Police Chiefs' and Officers' Annuity and Healthcare Fund.
HCS HB 1480 -- (LR# 3616L.06C)
HCS Reported Do Pass (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)
HB1489
Changes various statutes relating to annual school bus inspections, regulation of low-speed vehicles, sales of abandoned property by the City of Kansas City, all-terrain vehicles, and bumper heights.
Approved SCS HB 996 AND HB 1142 AND HCS HB 1201 AND HB 1489 -- (LR# 3208S.04T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1492
Directs 25% of any tobacco settlement moneys received by this state to be used to create various incentives for rural Missouri.
HB1492 -- (LR# 4448L.01I)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1499
Provides medical insurance benefits for certain Department of Transporation and State Highway Patrol retirees.
HB1499 -- (LR# 4441L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1558
Establishes a health benefit purchasing cooperative pilot project.
HB1558 -- (LR# 4252L.01I)
Referred: Financial Services (H)
HB1561
Increases the county administrative services fee from 3% to 5% in counties of the third classification.
HB1561 -- (LR# 3878L.01I)
Referred: Local Government (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

HB1567
Specifies procedures for gravel removal by noncommercial operators on privately owned land.
HB1567 -- (LR# 4658L.01I)
CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1571
Requires semiannual payments of real and personal property taxes.
HB1571 -- (LR# 3815L.01I)
Referred: Local Government (H)
HB1572
Requires the Office of Administration to implement the Oversight Review Committee's recommendations on Minority Business Enterprises and Women's Business Enterprises not domiciled in Missouri.
HB1572 -- (LR# 4573L.02I)
Reported Do Pass-Placed on Third Read Consent Calendar (S)
HB1582
Revises statutes relating to special license plates, delinquent registrations, annual registration fees, trailer registration fees, license tabs and window stickers, and reissuance of license plates.
HB1582 -- (LR# 4737L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1583
Revises statutes relating to motor vehicle licensing and establishes new statutes relating to special license plates.
HB1583 -- (LR# 4738L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1604
Modifies the requirements for securing a cotton lien for nonpayment of an assessment.
HB1604 -- (LR# 4815L.01I)
SENATE AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, PARKS AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Public Hearing Held (S)
HB1605
Modifies the definition of "qualified employment" for purposes of nursing student loan programs to include employment at hospitals in areas of need.
HB1605 -- (LR# 4692L.01I)
Referred: Health Care Policy (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)
HB1708
Creates the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund and provides for contribution designations to the fund on income tax returns.
HB1708 -- (LR# 4996L.01I)
Referred: Tax Policy (H)
HB1745
Requires a valid, current driver's license if used for voter identification purposes.
HB1745 -- (LR# 5048L.01I)
ELECTIONS
Hearing Scheduled, Bill Not Heard (H)
HJR57
Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting reduction of the Children's Health Insurance Program coverage without two-thirds legislative majority.
HJR57 -- (LR# 5015L.01I)
Referred: Rules (H)

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