Missouri House of Representatives
2004
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Legislation Sponsored by Rep. Brian D. Nieves
SPONSOR
HB1337
States that English is the official state language.
HB1337 -- (LR# 4010L.01I)
Reported Do Pass (H)
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

HB799
Allows covenant marriages in Missouri.
HB799 -- (LR# 2460L.02I)
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB898
Establishes the Prescription Drug Repository Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide prescription drugs to low-income Missouri residents.
SCS HCS HB 898 -- (LR# 2719S.04C)
Placed on Informal Calendar (S)
HB911
Requires the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.
HB911 -- (LR# 2770L.03I)
Referred: Special Committee on General Laws
HB969
Establishes guidelines for corporate income tax on intangible property.
HB969 -- (LR# 3592L.01P)
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND FISCAL OVERSIGHT
Hearing Scheduled Bill Not Heard (S)
HB978
Establishes the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board to serve as a liaison between state agencies and small businesses.
Approved CCS#3 SS HS HCS HB 978 -- (LR# 3116S.10T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB979
Revises the resisting arrest statute to include detentions or stops.
HB979 -- (LR# 3740L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB991
Requires police departments in St. Louis County to obtain the personnel records of any applicant before hiring that person as a police officer.
HB991 -- (LR# 3238L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1040
Establishes policies for education accountability.
SCS HCS HB 1040 AND HCS HB 1041 -- (LR# 3701S.08C)
Laid Over (H)
MOTION REFUSING TO ADOPT SCS AS AMENDED, AND
REQUESTING THE SENATE TO RECEDE OR GRANT
CONFERENCE,PENDING

HB1041
Revises various statutes relating to teachers and other school personnel.
HCS HB 1041 -- (LR# 3702L.02C)
SENATE EDUCATION
Executive Session Held (S)
SCS HCS HB 1040 AND HCS HB 1041 VOTED DO PASS
SEE HB 1040

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)
HB1084
Authorizes customer-specific pricing for DS-1 related retail telecommunications services.
HB1084 -- (LR# 3751L.01I)
COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY, AND TECHNOLOGY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1108
Allows for a special license plate for members of the National Rifle Association.
HB1108 -- (LR# 3527L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1118
Revises various statutes relating to commercial driver's licenses including school bus endorsements, driving privileges, certain traffic-related violations, out-of-services orders, and sentencing.
SCS HCS HB 1118 -- (LR# 3438S.10C)
Placed on Informal Calendar (S)
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)
HB1135
Prohibits the display of adult entertainment films in the sight of children in vehicles.
HB1135 -- (LR# 3541L.01I)
Referred: Transportation and Motor Vehicles (H)
HB1151
Prohibits individuals from engaging or participating in human cloning.
HB1151 -- (LR# 2865L.01I)
HEALTH CARE POLICY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1160
Authorizes a tax credit of up to $2,000 to offset the costs of treating PKU and related diseases.
SCS HB 1160 -- (LR# 4049S.02C)
Placed on Informal Calendar (S)
HB1174
Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health service system.
HB1174 -- (LR# 3955L.02I)
HEALTH CARE POLICY
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

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
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

HB1272
Establishes the Missouri Catalog of Assistance Programs to serve as the state's single repository of information on public assistance programs.
HB1272 -- (LR# 3644L.01I)
JOB CREATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1280
Provides for the staggering of commercial motor vehicle registrations.
HCS HB 1280 -- (LR# 3993L.02C)
SENATE TRANSPORTATION
Executive Session Held (S)
SCS HCS HB 928 AND HCS HB 1123 AND HCS HB 1280
VOTED DO PASS. SEE HB 928

HB1290
Authorizes income tax check-off boxes for certain chronic illness charities.
Approved SCS HS HCS HB 1290 -- (LR# 3857S.11T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1293
Revises various statutes relating to special needs child adoption tax credits, pregnancy resource centers, alternatives to abortions, and the Respect Life Commission.
HB1293 -- (LR# 3938L.01I)
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1296
Allows the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to issue provisional and temporary physical therapist licenses.
HB1296 -- (LR# 3876L.01I)
Referred: Professional Registration & Licensing (H)
HB1302
Modifies the calculation for the Medicaid per diem reimbursement rate for nursing homes.
HB1302 -- (LR# 3492L.02I)
Reported Do Pass (H)
HB1304
Revises various statutes relating to claims for damages and the payment of these claims.
Vetoed CCS SS#2 SS SCS HS HCS HB 1304 -- (LR# 3380S.19T)
Veto override failed (G)
AYES: 97
NOES: 62

HB1305
Creates notice provisions, reporting requirements, public market rates, and presumptions for the Department of Insurance and entities providing medical malpractice and professional negligence insurance.
CCS SCS HCS HB 1305 -- (LR# 4174L.10S)
Third Read and Passed (H)
AYES: 130
NOES: 26

HB1324
Authorizes a transient guest tax for tourism in the City of Pacific.
HB1324 -- (LR# 3340L.02I)
TAX POLICY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1329
Allows the court to impound the vehicle or vehicles owned by a person convicted of driving while intoxicated or with excessive blood alcohol content.
HB1329 -- (LR# 2525L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1331
Relates to public school facilities and outside use.
HB1331 -- (LR# 4229L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HB1363
Requires the Secretary of State to acquire, operate, and maintain an archival office in St. Louis.
Approved HCS HB 1363 -- (LR# 4022L.03T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1367
Establishes the Missouri Homestead Preservation Act.
HB1367 -- (LR# 4176L.01I)
SENIOR SECURITY
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

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)
HB1386
Revises the statute on persistent and predatory sexual offenders.
HB1386 -- (LR# 4071L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1387
Adds pornography and obscenity offenses to the list of offenses for which a person must register as a sexual offender.
HB1387 -- (LR# 4072L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1388
Changes failing to register as a sex offender from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony for the first offense and a class D felony to a class C felony for the second or subsequent offense.
HB1388 -- (LR# 4073L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1389
Makes it a crime for a sexual offender to establish residency within 1,000 feet of a public or private school or child care facility.
HB1389 -- (LR# 4074L.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)
HB1397
Establishes an advisory committee for workers' compensation.
HB1397 -- (LR# 4370L.02I)
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1402
Revises the statutes relating to the Sunshine Law.
HB1402 -- (LR# 4476L.01I)
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON GENERAL LAWS
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1403
Creates additional regulations for amusement rides and rock climbing walls.
Approved SCS HCS HB 1403 -- (LR# 3907S.06T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1435
Establishes the Tax Donation Act.
HB1435 -- (LR# 4206L.01I)
TAX POLICY
Public Hearing Held (H)
HB1444
Repeals the current requirement for legislative committees to have resolutions passed authorizing visits to state institutions.
Approved HB1444 -- (LR# 4504L.01T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1453
Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.
Approved CCS SS SCS HS HCS HB 1453 -- (LR# 2427L.15T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1479
Prohibits St. Louis City from requiring peace officers to live within the city limits after they have been employed as a peace officer for four consecutive years.
HB1479 -- (LR# 4472L.01I)
CRIME PREVENTION AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1480
Creates the Police Chiefs' and Officers' Annuity and Healthcare Fund.
HCS HB 1480 -- (LR# 3616L.06C)
HCS Reported Do Pass (H)
HB1496
Allows local school boards to exempt themselves from the Prevailing Wage Law by a majority vote of the board.
HB1496 -- (LR# 4465L.01I)
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1498
Allows certain private vocational and technical schools to receive A+ reimbursements.
HB1498 -- (LR# 4577L.01I)
EDUCATION
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO NOT 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

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)
HB1585
Revises the crime of assault of a law enforcement officer or emergency personnel in the second and third degree.
HB1585 -- (LR# 4346L.01I)
Referred: Crime Prevention and Public Safety (H)
HB1599
Establishes the Joint Committee on Government Accountability to make a continuing study and analysis of inefficiencies in state government.
Approved SCS HS HB 1599 -- (LR# 4678S.03T)
Delivered to Secretary of State
HB1629
Requires passenger seat belts on every school bus beginning with the 2004-2005 school year and creates the School Bus Seat Belt Fund to help school districts pay for the seat belts.
HB1629 -- (LR# 4795L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HB1661
Provides that members of the School for the Deaf Board of Advisors be appointed by the Commissioner of Education.
HB1661 -- (LR# 4024L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HB1666
Allows for a special license plate for supporters of the American Heart Association with the "Go Red For Women" emblem.
HB1666 -- (LR# 4926L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO PASS

HB1667
Designates the "Mel Hancock Freeway."
HB1667 -- (LR# 4907L.01I)
TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES
Executive Session Held (H)
VOTED DO NOT PASS

HB1670
Provides lifetime hunting and fishing licenses to military personnel who served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and all war veterans who are Missouri residents.
HB1670 -- (LR# 3517L.01I)
HOMELAND SECURITY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
Executive Session Held (H)
HCS VOTED DO PASS

HB1671
Authorizes the president of any public university in this state to present financial commitments on behalf of the university to fund an endowed life sciences research chair academic position.
HCS HB 1671 -- (LR# 4197L.04C)
HCS Reported Do Pass (H)
HB1702
Authorizes a tax credit for contributions to nonprofit educational assistance programs.
HCS HB 1702 -- (LR# 4997L.02C)
HCS Reported Do Pass (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

HB1719
Suspends the motor vehicle emissions inspection program.
HCS HB 1181 & 1719 -- (LR# 3930L.02P)
Referred: Budget (H)
HB1722
Requires the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design.
HB1722 -- (LR# 5031L.01I)
Referred: Education (H)
HJR47
Proposes a constitutional amendment establishing marriage as only between a man and a woman.
HS HCS HJR 39,38,42 & 47 -- (LR# 2555L.04P)
Placed on Informal Calendar (S)
SA 2, SSA 1/SA 2 AND SA 1 TO SSA 1/SA 2 PENDING

HJR50
Proposes a constitutional amendment requiring the election of all supreme court, courts of appeal, circuit court, and associate circuit judges.
HJR50 -- (LR# 2575L.01I)
RULES
Public Hearing Held (H)
HJR51
Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting any state court from imposing any tax or toll road fee or requiring the General Assembly to do so.
HJR51 -- (LR# 4397L.01I)
Referred: Transportation and Motor Vehicles (H)
HJR52
Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the General Assembly from removing certain statutory termination dates absent a two-thirds vote.
HJR52 -- (LR# 4047L.02I)
Referred: Judiciary (H)
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