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On this Monday, this beginning of the week, Holy God, we praise Thy Name. For the good in our lives and our families, for the gifts Your generosity has deigned us, and for the work we are about to undertake for our state, we thank You.

May this week open for us joy in people and events, and a sense of accomplishment in what we undertake. Rain or shine, fast or feast, plenty or poverty, You are in us, with us, above us and between us. Continue to reign in these humble hearts, wherever these Your representatives find themselves this week. Amen.

The Journal of the seventeenth day was approved as printed by the following vote:

AYES: 153

Aull	Baker 123	Baker 25	Barnitz	Bean
Bearden	Behnen	Bivins	Black	Bowman
Boykins	Bringer	Brown 30	Brown 50	Bruns
Burnett	Byrd	Chappelle-Nadal	Casey	Chinn
Cooper 120	Cooper 158	Corcoran	Cunningham 145	Cunningham 86
Curls	Darrough	Daus	Davis	Day
Deeken	Dempsey	Denison	Dethrow	Dixon
Donnelly	Dusenberg	El-Amin	Emery	Ervin
Faith	Fares	Fisher	Flook	Franz
Fraser	George	Guest	Harris 110	Harris 23
Haywood	Henke	Hobbs	Hoskins	Hubbard
Hughes	Icet	Jackson	Johnson 47	Johnson 61
Johnson 90	Jolly	Jones	Kelly	Kingery
Kratky	Kraus	Kuessner	Lager	Lampe
Lembke	Liese	Lipke	Loehner	Low 39
Lowe 44	Marsh	May	McGhee	Meiners
Moore	Munzlinger	Muschany	Myers	Nance
Nieves	Nolte	Oxford	Page	Parker
Parson	Pearce	Phillips	Pollock	Portwood
Pratt	Quinn	Rector	Richard	Roark
Robb	Robinson	Roorda	Rucker	Ruestman
Rupp	Salva	Sander	Sater	Schaaf
Schad	Schlottach	Schneider	Schoemehl	Selby
Self	Shoemyer	Skaggs	Smith 118	Smith 14
Spreng	Stefanick	Stevenson	St. Onge	Storch
Sutherland	Swinger	Threlkeld	Tilley	Viebrock
Villa	Vogt	Wagner	Wallace	Walsh
Walton	Wasson	Wells	Weter	Whorton
Wildberger	Wilson 119	Wilson 130	Witte	Wood
Wright-Jones	Wright 137	Wright 159	Yaeger	Yates
Young	Zweifel	Mr Speaker

NOES: 000

PRESENT: 000

ABSENT WITH LEAVE: 009

Avery	Bland	Brooks	Cooper 155	Dougherty
Goodman	Hunter	LeVota	Meadows

VACANCIES: 001

HB 466, introduced by Representatives Wilson (130), Ruestman, Brown (30), Stevenson, Daus, Weter, Jackson and Page, relating to impounding vehicles.

HB 467, introduced by Representative Storch, relating to expenditures by lobbyists.

HB 468, introduced by Representatives Richard, Jetton, Hobbs, Myers, Munzlinger, Spreng, Cooper (120), Portwood, Schneider, Cunningham (145), Kuessner, Kratky, Yates, Lager, Wasson, Stefanick, Harris (23), Rector, Barnitz, Roark, Lembke, Bringer, Schlottach, Robinson, Henke, Jackson, Guest, Johnson (47), Nieves, McGhee, Byrd, Ruestman, Wilson (130), Stevenson, Flook, Bowman, Weter, Wood, Hunter, Pearce, Self, Pollock, May, Salva, Casey, Swinger, Kraus, Rupp, Chappelle-Nadal, Sater, Ervin, Page, Whorton, Dixon, Fisher, Dempsey, Brown (50), Roorda, Zweifel, Smith (118), Parker, Behnen, Icet, Dusenberg, Brown (30), Tilley, Witte, Moore and Cunningham (86), relating to the state treasurer.

HB 469, introduced by Representatives Sater, Darrough, Page, Wildberger, Wilson (119) and Denison, relating to motor vehicle warranties.

HB 471, introduced by Representative Hunter, relating to wholesale distributors of prescription drugs.

HB 472, introduced by Representatives Sander, Phillips, Lowe (44), Harris (110), Chinn, Hobbs and Moore, relating to captioning of electronic video instructional materials.

HB 473, introduced by Representative Yates, relating to pupil residency waiver requests.

HB 474, introduced by Representatives Yates and Wilson (130), relating to right of intervention by insurers in certain civil actions.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri, including the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974 and sections 26.500 through 26.540, RSMo, I hereby transmit Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 2005, by Executive Order 05-10, providing for the transfer of in-home service programs from the Department of Social Services and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to the Department of Health and Senior Services.

WHEREAS, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is authorized pursuant to Article IX of the Missouri Constitution and created pursuant to Chapter 161.020, RSMo; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services is created pursuant to Article IV, Section 37 of the Missouri Constitution and Chapter 660.010, RSMo; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Health and Senior Services is created pursuant to Chapter 192.005, RSMo; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education currently provides personal attendant care to individuals with severe physical disabilities to enable them to live more independently through the Personal Assistance Services Program; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Services currently provides access to health care for low-income elderly and disabled individuals through the Medicaid Program; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Health and Senior Services provides support services to help seniors and adults with disabilities maintain their independence and safety; and

WHEREAS, the transfer of in-home care programs and services to one state department would better serve the state’s elderly and disabled clients; and

WHEREAS, consolidation of these services would increase efficiencies and eliminate duplication of efforts; and

WHEREAS, I am committed to integrating executive branch operations to improve the way the state delivers services.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Matt Blunt, Governor of the State of Missouri, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the State of Missouri, including Article IV, Section 12, Missouri Constitution, Chapter 26, RSMo, and the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974, hereby order the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Missouri Department of Social Services, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to cooperate to:

1. Develop mechanisms and processes necessary to effectively transfer in-home services programs that serve the elderly and disabled individuals to the Department of Health and Senior Services;

2. Transfer all authority, powers, duties, functions, records, personnel, property, contracts, budgets, matters pending, and other pertinent vestiges of the in-home services programs to the Department of Health and Senior Services, by Type I transfer, as defined under the Reorganization Act of 1974; and

3. Take the steps necessary to maintain compliance with federal requirements, so as not to jeopardize federal financial participation with this consolidation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson, on this 3^rd day of February, 2005.

The following members’ presence was noted: Bland, Sanders Brooks, Hunter and Meadows.

On motion of Representative Dempsey, the House adjourned until 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 8, 2005.

This may be a long hearing as committee intends to hear all testimony at this time.