As I stand in Your presence, in this beautiful hall of honor, my heart is filled with admiration and appreciation for the men and women who have occupied this place throughout history to represent the people of the great State of Missouri.

I pray Your divine wisdom, Your unbiased judgment and Your gracious love into each of these who have chosen to give a portion of their very valuable life to the service of the citizens of our state.

May they draw from Your fountain of knowledge and from Your storehouse of fair play, as they administer and create legislation that governs our state.

Bless those whose families have been separated because of their service and grant them Your loving protection.

Father, instill in all of us respect, honor, and a love for life and liberty that w ill allow us to serve with pride and dignity at all levels of local, state, and national government.

This day may Your presence fill this room and may this great body set aside personal agendas, pet projects, political bias and handle the affairs of our state in a prudent manner.

In these days of concern for our state and national economic welfare, let us not operate in fear, but help us to put on the shield of faith and to face the challenges before us with a determination that we will succeed and prosper, because we operate not in our strength, but under Your providential and divine order.

The Speaker appointed the following to act as Honorary Pages for the Day, to serve without compensation: Orlando Hodges, Whitney Paul, Kristin Sanocki, Sam Meeks, Cameron Sullivan, Thomas Tobinson and Ellen Matheny.

The Journal of the twenty-fourth day was approved as printed by the following vote:

AYES: 145

Allen	Atkins	Aull	Biermann	Bivins
Brandom	Brown 30	Brown 50	Brown 149	Bruns
Burlison	Calloway	Carter	Casey	Chappelle-Nadal
Colona	Corcoran	Cox	Cunningham	Curls
Davis	Day	Deeken	Denison	Dethrow
Dieckhaus	Diehl	Dixon	Dougherty	Dugger
Dusenberg	El-Amin	Emery	Englund	Ervin
Faith	Fallert	Fischer 107	Fisher 125	Flanigan
Flook	Frame	Franz	Funderburk	Gatschenberger
Grill	Grisamore	Guernsey	Guest	Harris
Hobbs	Hodges	Holsman	Hoskins 80	Hoskins 121
Hummel	Icet	Jones 63	Jones 89	Jones 117
Kander	Keeney	Kingery	Kirkton	Koenig
Komo	Kratky	Kraus	Kuessner	Lair
Lampe	Largent	Leara	LeBlanc	Liese
Lipke	McClanahan	McDonald	McGhee	McNary
McNeil	Meiners	Molendorp	Morris	Munzlinger
Nance	Nasheed	Nieves	Norr	Pace
Parkinson	Parson	Pollock	Pratt	Quinn
Riddle	Rucker	Ruzicka	Salva	Sander
Sater	Scavuzzo	Schad	Scharnhorst	Schieffer
Schlottach	Schoeller	Schoemehl	Schupp	Self
Shively	Silvey	Skaggs	Smith 14	Smith 150
Spreng	Stevenson	Still	Storch	Stream
Sutherland	Swinger	Thomson	Tilley	Todd
Tracy	Viebrock	Vogt	Wallace	Walsh
Walton Gray	Wasson	Webb	Wells	Weter
Wildberger	Wilson 119	Wilson 130	Wood	Wright
Yaeger	Yates	Zerr	Zimmerman	Mr Speaker

NOES: 008

Bringer	Brown 73	Hughes	Low	Oxford
Talboy	Webber	Witte

PRESENT: 000

ABSENT WITH LEAVE: 010

Burnett	Cooper	Kelly	LeVota	Loehner
Meadows	Nolte	Roorda	Ruestman	Schaaf

HB 242, with HCS, relating to a four-day school week, was taken up by Representative Kingery.

Representative Jones (89) raised a point of order that House Amendment No. 1 is not germane and goes beyond the scope of the bill.

Representative Wilson (130) raised a point of order that House Amendment No. 2 is not germane to the bill.

The following House Concurrent Resolutions were referred to the Committee indicated:

HCR 29 - Special Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Transportation Funding

HB 288 - Special Standing Committee on Workforce Development and Workplace Safety

HB 354 - Special Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Transportation Funding

HB 787 - Special Standing Committee on Workforce Development and Workplace Safety

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred HB 69, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass by Consent, and pursuant to Rule 25(32)(f) be referred to the Committee on Rules.

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Rules, to which was referred HB 287, begs leave to report it has examined the same and recommends that it Do Pass.

The following House Joint Resolution was read the first time and copies ordered printed:

HJR 30, introduced by Representatives Aull, Lampe, Roorda, Kuessner, Englund, Witte, Yaeger, Quinn, Frame, Schoemehl, Storch, Hodges, Schupp, Scavuzzo, Brown (50), Fallert, Fischer (107), Holsman, Wallace, Talboy, Liese and Komo, relating to bonded indebtedness of school districts.

HB 815, introduced by Representatives Meadows, Dixon and Kuessner, relating to modification of penalties.

HB 816, introduced by Representatives Meadows, Fallert, Yaeger, Frame, Atkins, Roorda, Walsh and Webber, relating to prohibited acts on excursion gambling boats.

HB 817, introduced by Representative Storch, relating to low-profit limited liability companies.

HB 818, introduced by Representative Aull, relating to school violence prevention.

HB 819, introduced by Representatives Cooper, Denison, Kraus, Jones (117), Guernsey, Allen, Roorda, Storch, Zerr, Jones (63) and Bruns, relating to public access to defibrillators.

HB 820, introduced by Representatives Fischer (107), Roorda, Fallert, LeVota, Corcoran, Komo and Casey, relating to the law enforcement safety fund.

HB 821, introduced by Representatives Cooper, Pollock and Schad, relating to county courts in first class counties.

HB 822, introduced by Representative Skaggs, relating to a surcharge in criminal cases.

HB 823, introduced by Representative Skaggs, relating to insurance credit scoring.

HB 825, introduced by Representatives Jones (89), Walsh, Scharnhorst, Icet, Koenig, Leara, Roorda, Pollock, McNary, Atkins and Parkinson, relating to storm water management fees.

HB 826, introduced by Representatives Brown (149), McGhee, Tilley, LeVota, Wildberger and Lair, relating to sexually violent predators.

HB 827, introduced by Representative El-Amin, relating to a tax credit for certain taxpayers who participate in the child initiative program.

HB 828, introduced by Representative Roorda, relating to proposed ordinances in cities of the third classification.

HB 829, introduced by Representatives Nolte, Nance, Silvey and Atkins, relating to educational facilities.

HB 830, introduced by Representative Lipke, relating to assessing costs in cases which are dismissed prior to a plea or finding of guilt.

HB 831, introduced by Representatives Molendorp and Tilley, relating to community-based health maintenance organizations.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCR 17.

WHEREAS, the Council of State Governments is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which forecasts policy trends for the community of states, commonwealths, and territories on a national and regional basis; and

WHEREAS, the Council of State Governments serves executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government through leadership education, research, and information services; and

WHEREAS, the Council of State Governments currently comprises four regions, including the Eastern Region, Midwestern Region, Southern Region, and Western Region; and

WHEREAS, the state of Missouri is currently a member of the Southern Region of the Council of State Governments; and

WHEREAS, the council's unique structure focuses on the needs and special concerns of the four regions of the United States; and

WHEREAS, as a member of the Southern Region of the Council of State Governments, the state of Missouri has been honored to work with the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia; and

WHEREAS, since the state of Missouri is physically located in the center of the United States in the region commonly known as the "Midwest", it would be more appropriate for the state to be a member of the Midwestern Region of the Council of State Governments:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the Missouri Senate, Ninety-fifth General Assembly, First Regular Session, the House of Representatives concurring therein, hereby petition the Council of State Governments to remove the State of Missouri's membership from the Southern Region of the Council and place this state's membership into the Midwestern Council of State Governments; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for Governor Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, President of the Council of State Governments; Senator Bart Davis of Idaho, Chair of the Council of State Governments; Colleen Cousineau, Executive Director of the Southern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments; and Michael H. McCabe, Director of the Midwestern Region of the Council of State Governments.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SS SCS SB 1, entitled:

An act to repeal sections 208.010, 436.005, 436.007, 436.011, 436.015, 436.021, 436.027, 436.031, 436.035, 436.038, 436.041, 436.045, 436.048, 436.051, 436.053, 436.055, 436.061, 436.063, 436.065, 436.067, 436.069, and 436.071, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof thirty-five new sections relating to preneed funeral contracts, with penalty provisions.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SB 26, entitled:

An act to repeal section 578.255, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to alcohol beverage vaporizers.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SBs 36 & 112, entitled:

An act to repeal sections 559.115, 566.030, and 566.060, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the penalties for certain forcible sexual offenses committed against children, with penalty provisions.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SB 100, entitled:

An act to repeal section 260.750, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the transportation of radioactive waste.

Mr. Speaker: I am instructed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has taken up and passed SCS SB 313, entitled:

An act to amend chapter 30, RSMo, by adding thereto three new sections relating to the receipt of federal economic stimulus funds, with an emergency clause.

I hereby remove Representative Jacob Hummel from the Special Standing Committee on Workforce Development and Workplace Safety and appoint Representative Jamilah Nasheed to the Special Standing Committee on Workforce Development and Workplace Safety.

The following members' presence was noted: Cooper, Kelly, Loehner, Meadows, Nolte, Ruestman and Schaaf.

On motion of Representative Tilley, the House adjourned until 4:00 p.m., Monday, February 23, 2009.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, Hearing Room 7 upon adjournment or 2:00 p.m., whichever is later.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, Hearing Room 7 upon adjournment or 2:00 p.m., whichever is later.

Thursday, February 26, 2009, Hearing Room 7 upon adjournment or 2:00 p.m., whichever is later.

Pursuant to Section 610.022.2 relating to closed meetings and Section 610.021(3) relating